Public Events Sponsored by the France Chicago Center

October 2

4:00 pm
KPTC 106
5720 S. Ellis

Public Lecture

Serge Haroche (Collège de France, ENS)

"Counting Photons without Destroying Them: An Ideal Measurement of Light"

Professor Haroche—whose visit to Chicago is made possible with major support from the France Chicago Center - is the Fames Franck Institute Distinguished Visitor for 2007.

October 5

4:00 pm
SSRB, #302
1126 E. 59th St.
Chicago

Modern France Workshop

John Hight
(PhD Candidate in History, University of Chicago)

"Identity Revolutions: Defending, Losing, and Reconstructing Elite Male Identities during the French Socio-Political Disruptions of 1815, 1830, and 1848"

October 8

1:30 pm
KPTC, #206
5720 S. Ellis
Chicago

Seminar

Serge Haroche
(Collège de France, ENS)

"Exploring the Quantum Dynamics of Atoms and Photons in Cavities (I): Entanglement, Complementarity and Quantum Logic"

Professor Haroche - whose visit to Chicago is made possible with major support from the France Chicago Center - is the Fames Franck Institute Distinguished Visitor for 2007.

October 9

1:30 pm
GCIS, #123
929 E. 57th St
Chicago

Seminar

Serge Haroche
(Collège de France, ENS)

"Exploring the Quantum Dynamics of Atoms and Photons in Cavities (II): Entanglement, Schrodinger Cat States and Decoherence"

Professor Haroche - whose visit to Chicago is made possible with major support from the France Chicago Center - is the Fames Franck Institute Distinguished Visitor for 2007.

October 10

6:15 pm
Alliance Française 54 W.
Chicago Ave.
Chicago.

Public Lecture

Edouard Bard
(College de France)

"Studying Past Climates to See the Future"

This 40-minute talk will be followed by a few comments by Raymond Pierrehumbert (Professor of Geophysical Sciences at the Univesity of Chicago) on "Climates in the next 1000 years." These talks will be followed by a Q&A moderated by Prof. Pierrehumbert, and then a reception.

Edouard Bard's visit to Chicago is made possible by the France Chicago Center, with the support from the Florence Gould Foundation.

Lunch will be provided. RSVP to fcc@uchicago.edu

October 12

12 noon
Room C
Law School
1111 E. 60th St.

Joint session of the Modern France and Crime & Punishment Workshops

Laurent Mucchielli
(Director of the Centre de recherche sociologique sur le droit et les institutions pénales at the CNRS)

"The French Riots of Fall 2005"

October 12

1:30 pm
HGS 101
5734 S. Ellis.

"High Latitude and Tropical Records of Rapid Climate Changes" (part I)

Edouard Bard's Visit to Chicago is made possible by the France Chicago Center, with the support from the Florence Gould Foundation.

October 12

9:45 am to 5:15 pm Haskell Hall Room 315 5836 S. Greenwood

Conference

Regards Croisés: Crossing Cultural Boundaries (Day 1)

With papers presented and discussion led by: Claire C. Mitatre, Sarah Luna, Elise Prébin, Kabir Tambar, Eli Thorkelson, Monika Heinz, Joe Grim Feinberg, Robin Valenza, Miguel-Angel Rodriguez, Elayne Oliphant, and Anna Poujeau.

October 13

9:15 am to 11:30 am
Haskell Hall,
Room 315
5836 S. Greenwood

Conference

Regards Croisés: Crossing Cultural Boundaries (Day 2)

With papers given and discussion led by: Michèle Baussant, Lisa Simeone, and Pauline Guedj.

October 19

1:30 pm
HGS
Room 101
5734 S. Ellis.

Seminar

Edouard Bard
(College de France)

"High Latitude and Tropical Records of Rapid Climate Changes" (part II)

Edouard Bard's Visit to Chicago is made possible by the France Chicago Center, with the support from the Florence Gould Foundation.

October 19

10:00 am – 4:00 pm
Harper Mem.
Room 140
1116 E. 59th St.

Conference

Reflexions on Common Sense

10:00 am   Vincent Descombes (Centre Raymond Aron, EHESS) speaking on "Three Definitions of What Philosophers have Meant by 'Common Sense'"

11:00 am   John Greco (Saint Louis University) speaking on "Common Sense in Thomas Reid"

12:00 noon   Lunch

1:30 pm   Roger Pouivet (Université de Nancy) speaking on "Epistemic Circles, Common Sense, and Epistemic Virtues"

2:30 pm   Thomas Pavel (University of Chicago) speaking on "How to Listen to Literature"

3:30 pm   General Discussion

October 22

12:00 noon
Pick Hall,
room 506
5828 S. University

Joint meeting of the Medieval Studies Workshop and the Political Science Workshop

Cary Nederman
(Political Science, Texas A&M)

"Christine de Pizan and Jean Gerson on the Body Politic: The Limits of Intellectual Influence?"

Poet/translators Keith and Rosmarie Waldrop will read from their translations of French authors including Jabès, Anne-Marie Albiach, Emmanuel Hocquard and Jacques Roubaud. Chicago graduate student Mireille Dobrzynski will read the original French texts. The bilingual reading will be followed by Q&A and a reception.

Rosmarie Waldrop is a contemporary American poet, translator and publisher. Born in Germany, she has lived in the United States since 1958. She has lived in Providence, Rhode Island since the late 1960s. Waldrop is Coeditor and Publisher with her husband Keith Waldrop of Burning Deck Press, as well as the author or coauthor (as of 2006) of 17 books of poetry, two novels, and three books of criticism. Rosmarie Waldrop has given readings and published in many parts of Europe as well as the U.S. She has received numerous awards and fellowships and was made a Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres by the French government. She was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2006.

Keith Waldrop is the author of numerous books of poetry and prose, and has translated the work of Claude Royet-Journoud, Anne-Marie Albiach, and Edmond Jabès, among others. A recent translation is Charles Baudelaire's Les Fleurs du Mal (2006). He lives in Providence, Rhode Island, and teaches at Brown University. The French government has named him Chevalier des arts et des lettres.

November 6

12:00 pm
Wieboldt 207
1050 E. 59th St.

Lunch Time Lecture

Lunch will be provided. RSVP to fcc@uchicago.edu

Bernard Lahire
(ENS, Groupe de Recherche sur la Socialisation, CNRS)

"From the Habitus to an Individual Heritage of Dispositions. Towards a Sociology at the Level of the Individual"

November 6, 2007 through March 23, 2008

Smart Museum of Art
5550 South Greenwood

Art Exhibition

Looking and Listening in Nineteenth-Century France

Audiences in different eras look at art and listen to music in dramatically different ways. The experience of looking or listening is not historically constant, but rather varies with social settings, technologies, and trends. During the nineteenth century, the habits and fashions associated with looking and listening changed rapidly. The proliferation of mechanically reproduced images (and later, recorded sound); the rise of museums, galleries, and concert halls; and the burgeoning science of psychology all transformed how people encountered the arts. Further, they altered how artists sought to capture the attention of their viewers and listeners. Incorporating a mix of works from the Smart Museum's collection and selected loans, this exhibition combines prints, paintings, drawings, sculptures, as well as music from nineteenth-century France. Looking and Listening cuts to the heart of debates about art and its function, and examines just what it is that attracts and secures an audience’s attention in visual and musical works.

Curators: Martha Ward, Associate Professor of Art History at the University of Chicago, and Anne Leonard, Smart Museum Curator and Mellon Program Coordinator.

This exhibition is the culmination of an advanced University of Chicago Art History course taught by the curators in Spring 2007.

Looking and Listening in Nineteenth-Century France

Consider how technological advances and shifting notions of consciousness shaped the experience of art and music in nineteenth-century France. Join exhibition curators and moderators Martha Ward, Chair of the Art History Department at the University of Chicago, and Anne Leonard, Smart Museum Curator and Mellon Program Coordinator, for a lively, illustrated panel discussion featuring University of Chicago students who contributed to the "Looking and Listening in Nineteenth-Century France" exhibition and catalogue. During a reception following the discussion, enjoy a selection of French cabaret music performed by Claudia Hommel of the Jazz Fauré Project.

November 16

4:00 pm
SSRB, #302
1126 E. 59th St

Modern France Workshop

Françoise Lavocat
(Professeur de littérature comparée, Université de Paris VII - Denis Diderot)

"Récits de Catastrophes: mythe, histoire, fiction"

November 18

3:00 pm
International House
1414 E. 59th St.

Cabaret Concert

Ticket prices are $10 in advance, $15 at the door, and $7 for students. VIP reserved cabaret seating (with complimentary wine) is $35. A cash bar and optional French bistro goodies complete this delightful afternoon! Tickets and group sales can be purchased by calling 773-509-9360.

Jazz Fauré Project

Following a sold-out album release concert at Chicago's legendary HotHouse, The Jazz Fauré Project will be performed during an afternoon celebration of French culture and art. The hit songs of 19th century French composer Gabriel Fauré are being given the velvet treatment-from swing to bossa, wistful ballad to blues. Seventeen masterpieces have been arranged by Dennis Luxion and Bobby Schiff for 21st century jazz quartet and two singers. The concert will feature six of the artists from the album- singers Sean Harris and Paris-born Claudia Hommel, Bobby Schiff on piano, Jerry DiMuzio on flute, clarinet, soprano and tenor saxophone, Jim Cox on bass, and Tim Davis on drums.

French Consul to Chicago, Jean-Baptiste Main de Boissière, will continue his musical moonlighting with a cameo performance of Fauré selections, George Lepauw at the piano.

This concert is part of the International House Global Voices Arts Program, co-presented by the Alliance Française de Chicago, the France Chicago Center (University of Chicago), and the Smart Museum in conjunction with the exhibit "Looking and Listening in 19th century France".

November 30

4:00 pm
SSRB, #302
1126 E. 59th St

Modern France Workshop

Lauren Silvers
(PhD Candidate, Comparative Literature, University of Chicago)

"Psychological Knowledge and the Emergence of the Reading Subject in the Symbolist Literary Era."