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April 1
7:00 pm
Max Palevsky Cinema
Ida Noyes Hall
1212 E. 59th St
$5 admission
$26 Spring quarter pass
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Film Screening
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CHILDREN OF PARADISE
Marcel Carné, 1945 • 190m
One of the most celebrated films in the
history of French cinema, this lushly romantic work has been called the
French Gone With the Wind, and is one of the great triumphs
of Occupation-era filmmaking. Set in Paris in the 1840s, it tells the
epic tale of Garance (Arletty), an actress and woman of the world, and
the men who love her, among them the mime Baptiste (unforgettably
portrayed by Jean-Louis Barrault) and the actor Lemaître (Pierre
Brasseur). The dazzlingly literate script, which explores the themes of
life and art, dreams and reality, was written by the greatscreenwriter
Jacques Prévert. In French with English subtitles.
35mm print.
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April 3
12:00
Harper West Tower, #M311
1116 E. 59th St.
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Open Planning
Session
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This is an informal gathering of faculty and
students who wish to plan for next year’s Modern France Workshop
session. Box lunches will be served. Please send an email to fcc@uchicago.edu 24 hours in
advance is your planning to attend.
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April 4
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Lunch Lecture
Lunch will be provided, please rsvp to fcc@uchicago.edu
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JENNIFER WILD
(Committee on Cinema and Media Studies, University of Chicago,)
"’Ohi, hoho, bang, bang:’ The Cinematic
Ballistics of the Avant-Garde in France"
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April 4
4:00 pm
Wieboldt, #408
1050 E. 59th St.
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Modern France Workshop
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ELENA RUSSO
(Johns Hopkins University)
"The Sly and the Coy Mistress: Style and
Manner from Fenelon to Diderot"
(For a copy of the paper, or to be placed on
the Modern France Workshop mailing list, please contact Dana Currier at
dcurrier@uchicago.edu.)
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April 5
9:30 am-6:00 pm
Cobb Hall, #307
5811 S. Ellis Ave.
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Conference
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ALTERNATIVE
NON-FICTION: ESSAY FILMS, HYBRIDS AND EXPERIMENTAL DOCUMENTARIES
9:30 AM: Coffee (Cobb 310)
Panel 1 (10:00 – 11:00
AM)
“Depicting Realism in Experimental Non-Fiction Film” (Cobb 307), with Ohad
Landesman (NYU) and Ted
Barron (UC-Irvine).
Panel 2 (11:15 – 12:45
AM)
“The Poetics of the Essay Film” (Cobb 307), with Christian Roy
(U Sherbrooke, Quebec), David Foster (U Alberta) and
Szu-Han Ho (SAIC).
12:45 – 2:00pm Lunch Break
Panel 3 (2:00 - 3:30 PM)
“Non-Fiction Play and Performance” (Cobb 307) with Elizabeth
Marquis (U Toronto), Aysegul Koc (Ryerson)
and Lisa Zaher (U of C).
Panel 4 (3:45 – 4:45 PM)
“Politics of the Essay Film,” with Paige Sarlin
(Brown) and Marianna Martin (U of C).
Keynote Address (5:30):
"Godard and the Essay." Richard Neer, David B. and
Clara E. Stern Professor of Humanities, Art History, University of
Chicago
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April 5
7:30 pm
Cobb Hall,
Room 307
5811 S. Ellis Ave.
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Film Screening |
IN PRAISE OF LOVE
(Jean-Luc Godard, 2001, 108 min.)
A mesmerizing and lyrical meditation on
love, and the role history and memory play in shaping human
consciousness, past and present. Structured in two parts, the film
opens in Paris, where Edgar is attempting to develop a film about love.
During the casting process he discovers a woman that he's sure he's met
before. In the second part, Edgar interviews an elderly couple - former
Resistance fighters - only to find that their memories are being bought
up for a Hollywood film.
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April 7
3:00 screening
4:15 lecture
3:00 pm
Harper 130
1116 E. 59th St.
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Film Screening followed by a
Discussion
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MARCH FOR EQUALITY
AGAINST RACISM
Abdellali Hajjat, 1983 (In French, no
subtitles)
Immediately following the screening, there
will be a discussion (in French and in English) led by its director, Abdellali
Hajjat, a PhD candidate at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en
Sciences Sociales
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April 8
12:00 noon
Wieboldt #207
1050 E. 59th St.
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Lunch Lecture
Lunch will be provided, please rsvp to fcc@ùchicago.edu
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KRISTIAN FEIGELSON
(Université de Paris III)
"Paris: La Ville Hybride"
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April 8
7:00 pm
Max Palevsky Cinema
Ida Noyes Hall
1212 E. 59th St
$5 admission
$26 Spring quarter pass
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Film
Screening
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BEAUTY AND THE BEAST
Jean Cocteau, 1946 • 96m
A romantic classic and one of the most
deservedly popular French films of all time. It’s an enchanting and
elegant adaptation of the classic fairy tale. A traveling merchant
happens upon the castle of a hideously ugly beast (Jean Marais) with
magical powers. When the beast sentences the merchant to death, his
beautiful daughter (Josette Day) agrees to take his place. The lonely,
tormented, beast initially disgusts her, but over time she gradually
comes to feel love for him, and that love eventually transforms him.
Disney stole many of Cocteau’s brilliantly inventive touches for its
animated version of the same story. In French with English
subtitles. 35mm Print
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April 9
4:30 pm
3rd Floor Lecture Hall
Swift Hall
1025 E. 58th St
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Public Lecture
Reception to follow
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MICHEL ZINK
(Collège de France)
"Author and Authority in the Middle
Ages"
Professor Zink’s visit to Chicago is
made possible with the support from the Florence Gould Foundation.
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April 10
2:00 – 5:45 pm
Fulton Recital Hall
Goodspeed Hall
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Conference
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WOMEN ON THE VERGE: MEDEA AND OTHER EXILES OF THE
TRAGIC STAGE (day 1)
With Papers and presentations by Albrecht
Koschorke (University of Konstanz), Barbara Vinken
(University of Munich), and David Wray (University of
Chicago)
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April 11
10:00 am -5:30 pm
Classics 110
1010 E. 59th St.
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Conference
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WOMEN ON THE VERGE:
MEDEA AND OTHER EXILES OF THE TRAGIC STAGE (day 2)
With papers and presentations by Glenn
Most (University of Chicago) Edith Hall
(University of London), Frauke Berndt (University of
Chicago), Juliane Vogel (University of Konstanz), Françoise
Meltzer (University of Chicago), and Christiane Frey
(University of Chicago)
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April 11
9:30 am -5:00 pm
Rosenwald #405
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Conference
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(CE) QUE LA
POÉSIE RACONTE, OR (WHAT) POETRY NARRATES
Coffee (9-9:30)
Welcome and introductions
(9:30-9:45) by Daisy Delogu (University of Chicago)
Opening remarks
(9:45-10:45)
by Michel Zink (Collège de France)
Session I (11:00-12:30),
with Elizabeth
Poe (Tulane University) and H. Justin Steinberg
(University of Chicago)
Session II (2:00-4:00)
with Kevin
Brownlee, (University of Pennsylvania), David Hult
(University of California, Berkeley), and Nancy Freeman
Regalado (New York University)
Round-table discussion
(4:15-5:00) with Claudio Giunta (Studi letterari
linguistici e filologici, Università degli studi di Trento), Alison
James (Department of Romance Languages and Literatures,
University of Chicago), Mark Payne (Department of
Classics, University of Chicago), and Eleanora Stoppino
(Department of French and Italian, University of Illinois,
Urbana-Champagne)
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April 12
10:00 am -5:30 pm
Classics 110
1010 E. 59th St.
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Conference
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WOMEN ON THE VERGE:
MEDEA AND OTHER EXILES OF THE TRAGIC STAGE (day 3)
With papers and presentations by Yvonne
Wübben (Freie Universität Berlin), Robert
Buch (University of Chicago), Sladja Blazan
(Hulboldt Univeristy), David Levin (University of
Chicago), and Pamela, Pascoe
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April 15
12 noon – 1: 20
John Hope Franklin Room
(SSRB, #224)
1126 E. 59th St. |
Lunch-Lecture
A light lunch will be provided, please
reserve a spot by notifying fcc@uchicago.edu
at least 24 hours in advance.
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MICHELLE ZANCARINI-FOURNEL
(University of Lyon)
"De 1968 aux rebellions urbaines:
Quelles traces du passé colonial de la France?"
Part
of the “RETOUR SUR MAI 68” series
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April 15
7:00 PM
Max Palevsky Cinema
Ida Noyes Hall
1212 E. 59th St
$5 admission
$26 Spring quarter pass
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Film Screening
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LES VISITEURS DU SOIR
Marcel Carné, 1942 • 90m
This antifascist parable is based on a
medieval French legend: “And so in the beautiful month of May, 1485,
the Devil sent on earth two of his creatures in order to drive the
human beings to despair.” Two wandering minstrels arrive at a wedding
banquet, sent by the Devil to corrupt and destroy mankind. But the
plans go awry when one of them falls in love with his intended victim.
Like a fairy tale come to life, it’s a lavish, beautifully stylized
film. Jacques Prevert wrote the script and Arletty, who was so
memorable as Garance in Children of Paradise, stars. In French
with English subtitles. 35mm Print
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April 16
3:30 pm
Classics 21
1010 E. 59th St
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Public Lecture
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JOHN SCHEID
(Collège de France)
"Plutarch's Roman Questions"
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April 17
4:30-6:30 pm
Cobb 107
5811 S. Ellis |
Workshop Style discussion
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MICHELLE ZANCARINI-FOURNEL
(University of Lyon)
"A Historical Approach to the Study
of Urban Rebellion: France, 1971-2005"
Discussion
will be based on Professor Zancarini- Fournel's paper, an electronic
copy of which can be obtained by sending a request to fcc@uchicago.edu.
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April 18
12:00 – 2:30 pm
Wieboldt 206
1050 E. 59th St
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Symposium
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FICTION AS A TEST OF
HISTORY
Featuring Emmanuel Bouju
(University of Rennes-II, Director of the “Groupe phi”—a research group
in historical and comparative poetics
With the participation of Alison
James (University of
Chicago), speaking on “Escape and Engagement: History in the Works of
Georges Perec”; Robert Buch (University of Chicago)
speaking on “Ekphrasis and Iconoclasm. Battle painting and writing in
W.G. Sebald and Claude Simon”; and Emmanuel Bouju
(Université de Rennes II) speaking on ”Fiction as a Test of
History – Claude Simon and Imre Kertész”
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April 18
4:00 pm
Wieboldt, #408
1050 E. 59th St.
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Modern France Workshop
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COLIN JONES
(Queen Mary University)
“How Not To Laugh in the French
Enlightenment: The Saint-Aubin Livre de Caricatures”
(For a copy of the paper, or to be placed on
the Modern France Workshop
mailing list, please contact Dana Currier at dcurrier@uchicago.edu.)
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April 21
6:00 pm
Stuart 102
1116 E. 59th St.
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Film Screening With Discussion to follow
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GRANDS SOIRS ET PETITS MATINS
Wlliam Klein, 1978, 83 m.
Mai 68 au Quartier Latin. Filmé
caméra au poing, ce document est le plus précieux, le
plus juste et le plus troublant sur l'esprit de mai 68.
Assemblées, débats improvisés, bagarres de rues,
palabres, utopie en marche, résignation, malentendus... (in
French, no subtitles)
Part
of the “RETOUR SUR MAI 68” series
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April 22
7:00 PM
Max Palevsky Cinema
Ida Noyes Hall
1212 E. 59th St
$5 admission
$26 Spring quarter pass
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Film Screening
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JOUR DE FÊTE
Jacques Tati, 1949 • 79m.
Among the most important talents to emerge
in the postwar period is the
great actor/director/comedian Jacques Tati. In this, Tati’s first
feature, he stars as a bicycle-riding mailman in a quaint, provincial
village in central France. While watching a newsreel at a Bastille Day
fair, he seizes on the bright idea of modernizing the post office to
conform with American-style standards of speed, efficiency, and
mechanization. Influenced by Chaplin and Keaton, the humor, which
includes some brilliant slapstick, is mostly visual; the mood, however,
is oddly melancholic, and the plot is fresh and surprising. In
French with English subtitles. 35mm Archival Print
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April 22
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Application Deadline
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FELLOWSHIPS AND
TRAVEL GRANTS
offered by the France Chicago Center.
Six (6) $1000 François Furet Travel
Grants
One (1) $4000 Summer Research Fellowship
One (1) $14,000 Sciences Po Fellowship
For more information, or to apply, click here.
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April 25
12:00 - 1:20
Wieboldt #206
1050 E. 59th St.
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Lunch Lecture
Lunch will be provided, please rsvp to fcc@uchicago.edu
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SOPHIE RABAU
(Université de Paris 3)
"Homère en France à
l'âge classique, entre allégorie et fiction"
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April 25
10 am – 5:00 pm
University of Chicago
Center in Paris
6 rue Thomas Mann
75013 Paris
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Conference
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"JAZZ ENCOUNTERS:
MUSICAL SPACES IN BETWEEN THE VISUAL AND THE AURAL"
With the participation of the the Jazz
Faure Project, Laurent Cugny (Observatoire Musical
Français, Université Paris IV), Riccardo del Fra
(Chef de département jazz, CNSMDP), Fabian Holt
(Associate Professor of Music, University of Roskilde, Denmark), Catherine
Parsonage (Centre for Jazz Studies UK, Leeds College of
Music), and Goffredo Plastino (Reader in
Ethnomusicology, Newcastle University, UK)
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April 25
10:00 pm
La Nouvelle Athènes
9, place Pigalle
75009 Paris
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Concert
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JAZZ FAURÉ
PROJECT
The Jazz Fauré Project brings the
luscious turn-of-the-century art songs by Gabriel Fauré into the
medium of jazz and popular song. Understated, elegant, rich and
welcoming, this mixture will appeal to the discriminating palates of
jazz, cabaret and classical lovers alike.
More information at http:www.jazzfaure.com
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April 27
6:00 pm
Stuart Hall
Room 102
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Film Screening |
SOCIOLOGY IS A
MARTIAL ART
Pierre Carles, 2001 • 140m
Pierre Bourdieu has often called sociology a
martial art, a means of self-defense. Basically, you use it to defend
yourself, without having the right to use if for unfair attacks."
His forty books and countless articles represent probably the most
brilliant and fruitful renovation and application of social science in
our era. A "committed" thinker in the vein of Foucault, his work is
concerned with elucidating the processes of symbolic violence and
cultural domination in various areas of social life. In French
with English subtitles.
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April 29
7:00 pm
Doc Films
Max Palevsky Cinema
Ida Noyes Hall
1212 E. 59th St.
Admission $5
$26 Spring quarter pass
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Film Screening
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DOUCE
Claude Autant-Lara, 1943 • 104m
One of France’s most respected directors in
the 1940s, Autant-Lara was later rejected by the Cahiers
school, and is neglected today because of his right-wing politics. Douce,
considered his masterpiece by admirers, tells of the titular heroine, a
young socialite in love with a family servant, who in turn loves Irene,
Douce’s governess and the object of Douce’s widowed father’s
affections. Autant-Lara directs this class-based romantic tragedy with
typical eloquence, leading The Reader to compare it with Welles’ Magnificent
Ambersons “both thematically and in its deep-focus exploration of
interior space.” In French with English subtitles. 35mm
Archival Print
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April 30
12:00 pm – 1:20 pm
Wieboldt 207
1050 E. 59th St.
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Literary Lunch
Lunch will be provided, please rsvp to fcc@uchicago.edu
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OLIVIER ROLIN
Novelist
Olivier Rolin will be reading from his recent books and talking
informally about his work. Olivier Rolin has published works in
fiction
and non-fiction and has written for the French daily Liberation and for the
weekly magazine Nouvel
Observateur. He is an
editor for the French publisher Le Seuil and for the magazine Le Meilleur
des mondes. Mr. Rolin won
the Prix Femina for his book Port-Soudan, published by Le
Seuil in 1994, and
Tigre en papier (Seuil,
1992) was
nominated for the 2003 Goncourt prize.
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May 2
4:00 pm
Wieboldt 207
1050 E. 59th St
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Public Lecture
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ANNIE COHEN-SOLAL
(Professor of American Studies at the University of Caen, Visiting Arts
Professor at New York University)
“Jean-Paul
Sartre and May ‘68”
Click here to see
Professor
Cohen-Solal's biography.
Part
of the "RETOUR SUR MAI 68" series
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May 3
9:300 am – 6:00
Social Sciences, #122
1126 E. 59th St.
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Conference
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THE POLITICS OF
DISPLAY: AMERICA’S PAST IN THREE DIMENSIONS
A conference in honor of Neil Harris
With Particiaption of Hanna Holborn
Gray (President
Emerita of the University, Distinguished Service Professor Emerita,
Department of History), Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett,
(Department of Performance Studies, New York University), Annie
Cohen-Solal, (Université de Caen and École des
Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris), Nicholas
Yablon (Department of American Studies, University of Iowa), Thomas
Hines, (Professor of History, Emeritus, UCLA), Daniel
Bluestone (School of Architecture, University of Virginia), Michele
H. Bogart (Department of Art, Stony Brook University), Sally
M. Promey (Yale University), and T. Jackson Lears
(Professor of History, Rutgers University)
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May 5
4:00 pm
Cobb 307
5811 S. Ellis
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Public Lecture
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KRISTIN ROSS
(NYU)
"Art is What Makes Life More
Interesting than Art: May '68 and Militant Cinema"
Immediately following the lecture there
will be a roundtable discussion
with the participation of Jennifer Wild (Cinema and
Media Studies, University of Chicago), Tamara Chaplin,
(History, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign), Maggie Flinn (French and Cinema
Studies, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign), and Leora
Auslander (History, University of Chicago).
Part
of the “RETOUR SUR MAI 68” series
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May 6
7:00 pm
Doc Films
Max Palevsky Cinema
Ida Noyes Hall
1212 E. 59th St.
Admission $5
$26 Spring quarter pass
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Film Screening
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GOUPI MAINS ROUGES
Jacques Becker, 1943 • 104m
From Jacques Becker, renowned director of
such classics as Casque
d’Or, Touchez Pas Au Grisbi, and Le Trou, Goupi
mains rouge is a sordid tale of interfamilial murder. A damning
critique of the French country aristocracy, and by extension, Vichy
France, Goupi tells the story of a naïve young city clerk who
visits his relatives in the country, only to stumble upon the murder of
a wicked Goupi woman, the stroke of the paterfamilias, and the mad dash
for the family fortune that follows. Becker’s second film is his first
major achievement, a striking stylistic departure from the “tradition
of quality.” In French with English subtitles. 35mm Archival
Print
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May 9
4:00 pm
Wieboldt, #408
1050 E. 59th St.
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Modern France Workshop
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DANIEL SHERMAN
(University of U Wisconsin at Milwaukee)
“French Primitivism and the Ends
of
Empire, 1945-1975”
(For a copy of the paper, or to be placed on
the Modern France Workshop
mailing list, please contact Dana Currier at dcurrier@uchicago.edu.)
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May 12
12:00 pm – 1:20 pm
First Floor Conference Room
5733 S. University
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Lunch Lecture
Lunch will be provided, please rsvp to fcc@uchicago.edu
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TAMARA CHAPLIN
(University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana)
"'Orgasm
Without Limits:' May '68 and the French Sexual Revolution"
Part
of the “RETOUR SUR MAI 68” series
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May 13
7:00 pm
Doc Films
Max Palevsky Cinema
Ida Noyes Hall
1212 E. 59th St.
Admission $5
$26 Spring quarter pass
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Film Screening
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LE CIEL EST À
VOUS
Jean Grémillon, 1944 • 105m
Often considered Grémillon’s best
film, it was released during a
politically chaotic time in France (spring 1944) and unfortunately got
lost in the shuffle and never achieved the success it deserved. The
strongly feminist narrative tells the story of a female pilot who,
supported by husband, attempts to break the world solo flying record
for women. This film has been called “beautiful” and Grémillon
has been praised (by Dave Kehr) for the “perfection” of his musicianly
technique. Le Ciel est à vous is also said to have been an
important influence on the neorealist movement coming to the fore in
this period. In French with English subtitles. 16mm Archival
Print.
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May 16
4:00 pm
Wieboldt, #408
1050 E. 59th St.
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Modern France Workshop
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CAROLINE WEBER
(Bernard College)
“What Marie Antoinette Wore to the
Revolution”
(For a copy of the paper, or to be placed on
the Modern France Workshop
mailing list, please contact Dana Currier at dcurrier@uchicago.edu.)
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May 20
7:00 pm
Doc Films
Max Palevsky Cinema
Ida Noyes Hall
1212 E. 59th St.
Admission $5
$26 Spring quarter pass
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Film Screening
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LES DAMES DU BOIS DE
BOULOGNE
Robert Bresson, 1945 • 84m
This modernized version of Diderot’s Jacques
le Fataliste is one of Bresson’s earliest and most accessible
works. A society woman (Maria Casares) betrayed by her lover (Paul
Bernard) wreaks vengeance on him by conniving to have him marry a
prostitute (Elina Labourdette). It’s more conventional than Bresson’s
later works – unlike many of the films to come, it includes
professional actors, a musical score, stylized interiors, and dramatic,
high contrastvisuals. But one can also glimpse the austerity and
minimalism that later became his hallmarks. Screenplay co-written by
Bresson and Jean Cocteau. In French with English subtitles.
35mm Archival Print
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May 23-24
University of Chicago Center in Paris
6, rue Thomas Mann
75013 Paris
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Conference
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FREUD IN THE
TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY
Organized by Jan Goldstein (University of Chicago, Dept. of History),
with the participation of:
- Elisabeth Roudinesco
(Université de Paris VII)
- Roland Gori
(Université d’Aix-Marseille)
- Yoram Yovell
(Institute for the Study of Affective Neuroscience, University of
Haifa; psychoanalyst),
- Andreas Mayerv (Max Planck
Institute for the History of Science, Berlin),
- Dana Birksted-Breen
(Psychoanalyst in London; Editor, International Journal of
Psychoanalysis)
- Jean-Jacques Tyszler
(Association lacanienne internationale)
- John Forrester
(History and Philosophy of Science, Cambridge University)
- Jacqueline Carroy
(EHESS; Director of the Centre Alexandre Koyré)
- Paul-Laurent Assoun
(Université de Paris-7 Denis Diderot)
- Joel Whitebook
(Columbia University Center for Psychoanalytic Training and Research;
psychoanalyst in New York)
- Francoise Meltzer
(Comparative Literature and Romance Languages and Civilizations,
University of Chicago)
- Eric Santner
(Germanic Studies, University of Chicago)
- Julia Kristeva
(Université Paris VII - Denis Diderot)
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May 23
4:00 pm
Wieboldt, #408
1050 E. 59th St.
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Modern France Workshop
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SARA HUME
(PhD Candidate, Department of History)
"Transnational Regionalism: The
Politics and Practices of Alsatian Folk Costume, 1871-2007."
(For a copy of the paper, or to be placed on
the Modern France Workshop
mailing list, please contact Dana Currier at dcurrier@uchicago.edu.)
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May 27
7:00 pm
Doc Films
Max Palevsky Cinema
Ida Noyes Hall
1212 E. 59th St.
Admission $5
$26 Spring quarter pass
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Film Screening
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LE SILENCE DE LA MER
Jean-Pierre Melville, 1949 • 88m
Jean-Pierre Melville’s debut film, and
arguably his best, Le
Silence de la Mer adapts Vercors’ iconic Resistance novella about
a German officer who is billeted with a Frenchman and his niece. The
two take a vow of silence, but are nonetheless riveted by the officer,
who each evening warms himself by the fire and shares his ideals. Silence
was an enormous influence on Bresson and the French New Wave, ushering
in an era of independent, low-budget films that were marked as much by
their stylish inventiveness as by their subtlety and humanity. In
French with English subtitles. 35mm Archival Print
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May 30
12:00 – 1:20 pm
Harper 284
1050 E. 59th St.
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Lunch lecture
Lunch will be provided, please rsvp to fcc@uchicago.edu
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PATRICK DANDREY
(University of Paris 1)
TBA
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May 30
1:30 pm Department of Geophysical Sciences
Hinds Laboratory
5734 S. Ellis
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Seminar
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FRANCIS ALBAREDE
(Ecole Normale Supérieure
de Lyon)
"Reconciling Mars
Surface Observations with SNC Chronology"
A
former student of Claude Allegre, Professor Albarede is the author of
several books, and is
the 2008 recipient of the Goldschmidt medal of the Geochemical
Society. More information at: (http://perso.ens-lyon.fr/francis.albarede/)
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May 30
3:00-5:15
Ida Noyes Hall
1212 E. 59th St.
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Conference
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CONFERENCE IN HONOR
OF BILL SEWELL’S RETIREMENT (day 1)
Opening Panel: Logics of History
Keith Baker (Stanford
University), Geoff Eley (Univeristy of Michigan), Lynn
Hunt (UCLA), William Ready (Duke
University), and Joan Scott (University of
Pennsylvania)
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May 31
9:30-6:15
Ida Noyes Hall
1212 E. 59th St.
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Conference
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CONFERENCE IN HONOR
OF BILL SEWELL’S RETIREMENT (day 2)
Comparison Panel (10:00 -
12:00 noon), with the participation of Nicola Beisel
(Northwestern University), Neil Brenner (NYU), Cora
Goldstein (California State at Long Beach), Manu Goswami
(NYU).
French History Panel
(1:00 –
3:00 pm), with the participation of Christine Haynes
(UNC Charlotte), Jennifer Heuer (UMass Amherst), Tessie
Liu (Northwestern University), Allan Tulchin,
(Shippensburg University).
Social Transformation Panel
(3:15 – 5:15 pm), with the participation of Belinda Davis
(Rutgers University), Deborah Gould (University of
Pittsburgh), Grace Huang (St. Lawrence University),
and Inchoon Kim (Yonsei University, Korea).
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June 3
7:00 pm
Doc Films
Max Palevsky Cinema
Ida Noyes Hall
1212 E. 59th St.
Admission $5
$26 Spring quarter pass
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Film Screening
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LES PARENTS TERRIBLES
Jean Cocteau, 1948 • 105m
When a young man announces his marriage, it
distresses his neurotically
overprotective mother, who fears she will lose him. This hilarious dark
comedy about a dysfunctional family is rarely screened and not very
well-known in this country. But it’s not only among Cocteau’s very best
films, it’s among the greatest French films of its era. Originally
written as a play, it’s set almost entirely in two cramped apartments.
Jonathan Rosenbaum pointed to this film as “an illustration of the
paradox that accentuating the theatrical aspects of theater on screen
makes them quintessentially cinematic.” In French with English
subtitles. 35mm
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June 6
4:00 pm
Wieboldt, #408
1050 E. 59th St.
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Modern France Workshop
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KENDRA DRISCHLER
(PhD Candidate, Department of Comparative Literature)
"Sartre's Theory of Emotion as a
Novelistic Approach."
(For a copy of the paper, or to be placed on
the Modern France Workshop
mailing list, please contact Dana Currier at dcurrier@uchicago.edu.)
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June 6
10: am local time
University of Chicago Center in Paris
6, rue Thomas Mann
75013 Paris
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Conference
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LE CARCÉRAL, SÉCURITÉ, AND BEYOND: RETHINKING
MICHEL FOUCAULT’S 1978-1979 COLLÈGE DE FRANCE LECTURES
organized by Bernard E. Harcourt (University
of Chicago) and Andrew Dilts (University of Chicago)
The purpose of this conference is to
explore new readings of the Cours and of Discipline and Punish with an
eye toward developing better understandings and more powerful critiques
of our current punishment practices, as well as social and political
institutions implicated in the carceral form.
with the participation of Laurent
Bonelli
(Université Paris-X Nanterre), Guy Casadamont
(Université Paris-X Nanterre), Alessandro Dal Lago
(Università of Genoa), Andrew Dilts
(University of Chicago), Bernard Harcourt (University
of Chicago), Paolo Napoli (EHESS, Università
of Roma), Pasquale Pasquino (New York University,
CNRS), and Mariana Valverde (University of Toronto).
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June 27-28
10:00-5:30 pm University of Chicago Center
in Paris
6, rue Thomas Mann
75013 Paris
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Conference
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LA LETTRE À
D’ALEMBERT SUR LES SPECTACLES DE ROUSSEAU À L’OCCASION DES 250
ANS DE SA PUBLICATION
Organized by Max Blechman
(University of Chicago,
Dept of Philosophy), Blaise Bachofen
(Université de Cergy-Pontoise) and Bruno Bernardi
(Collège International de Philosophie).
With the participation of Miguel
Abensour, Blaise Bachofen,
Bruno Bernardi, Max Blechman, André Charrak, Florent
Guénard, Barbara de Negroni, Francine Markovits, David Munnich,
Jean-Luc Nancy, Jean-Francois Perrin, Gabrielle Radica, and Jacques
Rancière.
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