Public Events Sponsored by the France Chicago Center

April 1

7:00 pm
Max Palevsky Cinema
Ida Noyes Hall
1212 E. 59th St

$5 admission
$26 Spring quarter pass

Film Screening

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.

April 3

12:00
Harper West Tower, #M311
1116 E. 59th St.

Open Planning Session

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.

April 4

Lunch Lecture

Lunch will be provided, please rsvp to fcc@uchicago.edu

JENNIFER WILD
(Committee on Cinema and Media Studies, University of Chicago,)

"’Ohi, hoho, bang, bang:’ The Cinematic Ballistics of the Avant-Garde in France"

April 4

4:00 pm
Wieboldt, #408
1050 E. 59th St.

Modern France Workshop

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.)

April 5

9:30 am-6:00 pm
Cobb Hall, #307
5811 S. Ellis Ave.

Conference

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

April 5

7:30 pm
Cobb Hall,
Room 307
5811 S. Ellis Ave.

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.

April 7

3:00 screening
4:15 lecture
3:00 pm
Harper 130
1116 E. 59th St.

Film Screening followed by a Discussion

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

April 8

12:00 noon
Wieboldt #207
1050 E. 59th St.

Lunch will be provided, please rsvp to fcc@ùchicago.edu

"Paris: La Ville Hybride"

April 8

7:00 pm
Max Palevsky Cinema
Ida Noyes Hall
1212 E. 59th St

$5 admission
$26 Spring quarter pass

Film Screening

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

April 9

4:30 pm
3rd Floor Lecture Hall
Swift Hall
1025 E. 58th St

Public Lecture

Reception to follow

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.

April 10

2:00 – 5:45 pm
Fulton Recital Hall
Goodspeed Hall

Conference

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)

April 11

10:00 am -5:30 pm
Classics 110
1010 E. 59th St.

Conference

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)

April 11

9:30 am -5:00 pm
Rosenwald #405

Conference

(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)

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

A light lunch will be provided, please reserve a spot by notifying fcc@uchicago.edu at least 24 hours in advance.

Part of the “RETOUR SUR MAI 68” series

April 15

7:00 PM
Max Palevsky Cinema
Ida Noyes Hall
1212 E. 59th St

$5 admission
$26 Spring quarter pass

Film Screening

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

April 16

3:30 pm
Classics 21
1010 E. 59th St

Public Lecture

JOHN SCHEID

(Collège de France)

"Plutarch's Roman Questions"

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.

April 18

12:00 – 2:30 pm
Wieboldt 206
1050 E. 59th St

Symposium

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”

April 18

4:00 pm
Wieboldt, #408
1050 E. 59th St.

Modern France Workshop

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.)

April 21

6:00 pm
Stuart 102
1116 E. 59th St.

Film Screening With Discussion to follow

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

April 22

7:00 PM
Max Palevsky Cinema
Ida Noyes Hall
1212 E. 59th St

$5 admission
$26 Spring quarter pass

Film Screening

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

April 22

Application Deadline

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.

April 25

12:00 - 1:20
Wieboldt #206
1050 E. 59th St.

Lunch Lecture

Lunch will be provided, please rsvp to fcc@uchicago.edu

SOPHIE RABAU
(Université de Paris 3)

"Homère en France à l'âge classique, entre allégorie et fiction"

April 25

10 am – 5:00 pm
University of Chicago
Center in Paris
6 rue Thomas Mann
75013 Paris

Conference

"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)

April 25

10:00 pm
La Nouvelle Athènes
9, place Pigalle
75009 Paris

Concert

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

April 27

6:00 pm
Stuart Hall
Room 102

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.

April 29

7:00 pm
Doc Films
Max Palevsky Cinema
Ida Noyes Hall
1212 E. 59th St.

Admission $5
$26 Spring quarter pass

Film Screening

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

April 30

12:00 pm – 1:20 pm
Wieboldt 207
1050 E. 59th St.

Literary Lunch

Lunch will be provided, please rsvp to fcc@uchicago.edu

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.

May 2

4:00 pm
Wieboldt 207
1050 E. 59th St

Public Lecture

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”

Part of the "RETOUR SUR MAI 68" series

May 3

9:300 am – 6:00
Social Sciences, #122
1126 E. 59th St.

Conference

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)

May 5

4:00 pm
Cobb 307
5811 S. Ellis

Public Lecture

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

May 6

7:00 pm
Doc Films
Max Palevsky Cinema
Ida Noyes Hall
1212 E. 59th St.

Admission $5
$26 Spring quarter pass

Film Screening

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

May 9

4:00 pm
Wieboldt, #408
1050 E. 59th St.

Modern France Workshop

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.)

May 12

12:00 pm – 1:20 pm
First Floor Conference Room
5733 S. University

Lunch Lecture

Lunch will be provided, please rsvp to fcc@uchicago.edu

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

May 13

7:00 pm
Doc Films
Max Palevsky Cinema
Ida Noyes Hall
1212 E. 59th St.

Admission $5
$26 Spring quarter pass

Film Screening

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.

May 16

4:00 pm
Wieboldt, #408
1050 E. 59th St.

Modern France Workshop

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.)

May 20

7:00 pm
Doc Films
Max Palevsky Cinema
Ida Noyes Hall
1212 E. 59th St.

Admission $5
$26 Spring quarter pass

Film Screening

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

May 23-24

University of Chicago Center in Paris
6, rue Thomas Mann
75013 Paris

Conference

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)

May 23

4:00 pm
Wieboldt, #408
1050 E. 59th St.

Modern France Workshop

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.)

May 27

7:00 pm

Doc Films
Max Palevsky Cinema
Ida Noyes Hall
1212 E. 59th St.

Admission $5
$26 Spring quarter pass

Film Screening

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

May 30

12:00 – 1:20 pm
Harper 284
1050 E. 59th St.

Lunch lecture

Lunch will be provided, please rsvp to fcc@uchicago.edu

PATRICK DANDREY
(University of Paris 1)

TBA

May 30

1:30 pm Department of Geophysical Sciences
Hinds Laboratory
5734 S. Ellis

Seminar

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/)

May 30

3:00-5:15
Ida Noyes Hall
1212 E. 59th St.

Conference

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)

May 31

9:30-6:15
Ida Noyes Hall
1212 E. 59th St.

Conference

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).

June 3

7:00 pm
Doc Films
Max Palevsky Cinema
Ida Noyes Hall
1212 E. 59th St.

Admission $5
$26 Spring quarter pass

Film Screening

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

June 6

4:00 pm
Wieboldt, #408
1050 E. 59th St.

Modern France Workshop

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.)

June 6

10: am local time
University of Chicago Center in Paris
6, rue Thomas Mann
75013 Paris

Conference

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).

June 27-28

10:00-5:30 pm University of Chicago Center in Paris
6, rue Thomas Mann
75013 Paris

Conference

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.