Two events with Alain Fleischer, artist and founder-director of Le Fresnoy school of art

Tuesday, Sept. 11 - 11:30 am
204-A East Duke Building

Le Fresnoy, Studio National des Arts Contemporains:
A Utopia Made Real

Presentation in English on the history and the artistic and pedagogic stakes of the one-of-a-kind institution of Le Fresnoy.

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Wednesday, Sept. 12 - 12:00 pm
240 John Hope Franklin Center

The Image: Between the Instant and Time

Exploration in English of Alain Fleischer's artistic work as a filmmaker and photograper.

This lecture is part of the Wednesdays At The Center series coordinated by the Franklin Humanities Institute and the John Hope Franklin Center for Interdisciplinary and International Studies. Lunch will be served starting at 11:45; please arrive early so the lecture can promptly start at noon.

These events are co-sponsored by the Visual Studies Initiative.

Sunday, Sept. 23 - 8:00 pm
Richard White Auditorium, East Campus

Nuremberg: The Nazis Facing Their Crimes
(dir. Christian Delage, 2006, 90 min, France, in English, German, Russian, French with English subtitles/narrated in English by Christopher Plummer, B/W, DVD)

Screening will be followed by Q&A with the director.

Director Christian Delage’s documentary, Nuremberg, reconstructs the International Military Tribunal at Nuremberg, Germany, using rare footage from the National Archives (including newsreels shot by John Ford). The film, narrated by Christopher Plummer, also includes contemporary interviews with survivors and former prosecutors.

“[The film] is gripping from its very first moments, when we watch rare footage of Hermann Göring, Rudolf Hess, Julius Streicher, Albert Speer, and others entering the dock and taking their seats. From there we're immersed in a quiet, procedural drama of such monumentality that it threatens to burst the confines of the room. And when the commandant of Auschwitz is asked if he killed two million Jews, and he answers, simply, Yes, it has a cumulative impact beyond description. A story we think we have seen, but haven't.” – Jacob Burns, Film Center

This event is co-sponsored by the Film/Video/Digital Program, the Visual Studies Initiative, the Department of Art, Art History and Visual Studies, the Center for Documentary Studies, the Department of Romance Studies, the Department of History and the Duke Human Rights Center.

Wednesday, Oct. 3 - 4:30 pm
305 Languages Bldg.

Hélène Merlin-Kajman :
Les femmes et le féminin dans les Maximes de La Rochefoucauld

Event in French

A historian and sociologist, Hélène Merlin-Kajman teaches French Literature at the Université Paris III-Sorbonne Nouvelle. This lecture, open to the public, is part of Professor Michèle Longino's seminar on the Classical Age and the Law of Genre.

This event is organized by the Department of Romance Studies.

Two events with author Evelyne Bloch-Dano:

Thursday, Oct. 25 - 12:00 pm
130-132 John Hope Franklin Center

Translation luncheon

Bilingual conversation with author Evelyne Bloch-Dano and Professor Alice Kaplan on the issues encountered in translating Madame Proust.

A light lunch will be provided - please RSVP to cmryman@duke.edu by October 22.

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Please note new time!

Thursday, Oct. 25 - 6:30 pm
130-132 John Hope Franklin Center

A Portrait of Marcel Proust's Mother

A light dinner will be provided - please RSVP to cmryman@duke.edu by October 22.

Evelyne Bloch-Dano is the author of the recent biography Madame Proust. Her work captures the life and times of Marcel Proust’s mother, from her German-Jewish background and her marriage to a Catholic grocer’s son to her lifelong worries about her son’s sexuality, health problems, and talent. As well as offering intimate glimpses of the Prousts’ daily life, Madame Proust also uses the family as a way to explore the larger culture of fin-de-siècle France, including high society, spa culture, Jewish assimilation, and the Dreyfus affair. Throughout, Bloch-Dano offers sensitive readings of Proust’s work, drawing out the countless interconnections between his mother, his life, and his magnum opus. Event in English.
[Book description based on Powell's Books website]

These events are organized with support from the Alliance Française of Raleigh/Durham/Chapel Hill. Evelyne Bloch-Dano's US tour has been organized by the General Delegation of the Alliance Française of Paris in the United States.
Other co-sponsors for these events include the Department of Romance Studies, the Center for Jewish Studies, the Program in Literature and the Department of History at Duke University.