January (Marian Hobson, Michel Jeanneret)
February (VideoFresnoy exhibit, Rada Ivekovic)
March (African Cinema Week, Richard Philcox, Maryse Condé, Marie-Célie Agnant, Christian Chesnot)
April (Jean-Marie Gleize, Dinah Ribard, Emmanuel Hocquard/Rosmarie Waldrop)
January 2006
Thursday, January 19 - 7:30 pm
Breedlove Room, Perkins Library
Marian Hobson:
Diderot, the (w)hole of History
This lecture in English discusses the limits to what we know about Diderot’s life and activity: what sort of investigations could in the future make the limits less severe? And it asks whether these limits are particular to Diderot or rather inherent to history.
Marian Hobson is a professor at Queen Mary College, University of London, and a much-respected eighteenth-century scholar, author notably of The Object of Art : the theory of illusion in eighteenth-century France , but also a book on Derrida: Jacques Derrida : opening lines.
Sponsored by the Department of Romance Studies, the Center for French and Francophone Studies, the Duke in France program, and the Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies.
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Marian Hobson
Denis Diderot (1713-1784)
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Breedlove Room, Perkins Library
Michel Jeanneret:
Rêver l’auteur: Pourquoi les biographies d’écrivain ?
Lecture in French. Michel Jeanneret, professor of 16th and 17th century French literature at the Université de Genève, has written several well-known books in 16th-century studies, including:
La Lettre perdue : écriture et folie dans l’oeuvre de Nerval
Eros rebelle : littérature et dissidence à l’âge classique
Le Défi des signes : Rabelais et la crise de l’interprétation à la Renaissance
Des mets et des mots : banquets et propos de table à la Renaissance
Sponsored by the Department of Romance Studies, the Center for French and Francophone Studies, the Duke in France program, and the Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies.
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Michel Jeanneret
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February
Video art exhibit - To Be Confirmed
Friday, February 17 - 12:00 pm
Upper East Side, East Campus Union
Rada Ivekovic:
Partitions of States and Minds
Lecture in English by Rada Ivekovic, Philosopher, indologist, writer. Ivekovic left Zagreb, Croatia, where she had been Chair of Asian philosophies at the Philosophy Department of the local University, in 1991. She currently lives and works in Paris, University of Paris-8 (St. Denis), Department of Philosophy. Recent publications include:
Orients: Critique de la raison postmoderne, Paris 1992; Benares. Ein Essay aus Indien, Graz 1993;
La Croatie depuis l'effondrement de la Yougoslavie; L'opposition non-nationaliste (ed.), Paris 1994;
Le sexe de la philosophie;
Jean-François Lyotard et le féminin, Paris 1997;
Autopsie des Balkans;
Ein psycho-politischer Essay, Graz 2001;
Transeuropeennes 19/20, 2001: special issue ed. by R. Ivekovic: "Partitions: Divided Countries, Separated Cities" (bilingual English/French).
This lecture is organized by the Program in Literature. |
 Rada Ivekovic |
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March (Month of Francophonie)
Friday, March 3 - 10:00 am
Upper East Side, East Campus Union
Richard Philcox:
Translating Frantz Fanon: Retrieving a Lost Voice
Lecture in English. Richard Philcox is the translator of many important works including a new translation of Fanon's The Wretched of the Earth, as well as the works of Maryse Condé. He has also lectured on the question of translation.
This lecture is organized by the Program in Literature. |
 Richard Philcox |
Friday, March 3 - 2:30 pm
Nelson Music Room, East Duke Bldg.
Maryse Condé:
The Middle Passage: Literary Encounters of the French Caribbean
Lecture in English. Maryse Condé has taught French at various levels in Guadeloupe, France and in West Africa. She is the author of numerous plays and novels including Heremakhonon and Ségou. Since the mid-seventies, she has established her pre-eminent position among contemporary Caribbean writers. Since then, she has published regularly while continuing an academic career which brought her to UC Berkeley, the University of Virginia, the University of Maryland, and Harvard before going to Columbia in 1995. At Columbia, she chaired the Center for French and Francophone Studies from its foundation in 1997 to 2002. Maryse Condé's novels have been translated into English, German, Dutch, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese and Japanese.
This lecture is organized by the Program in Literature.
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 Maryse Condé
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African Cinema Week (March 22-27), click here.
Thursday, March 23 - 5:00 pm
230/232 John Hope Franklin Center
Marie-Célie Agnant:
Lecture/Reading
Lecture in English. Born in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Marie-Célie Agnant has lived in Montreal for the past thirty years. She has published two novels, La Dot de Sara (1995, finalist for the Prix Desjardins) and Le Livre d'Emma (2001), as well as several books for young readers, a volume of poetry, and a collection of short stories, Le Silence comme le sang (1997, finalist for the Prix du Gouverneur général). In the last five years, Agnant has lectured in Africa, Canada, the U.S., Latin America, Europe, and the Caribbean.
This lecture is organized in collaboration with the Center for Canadian Studies. |
 Marie-Célie Agnant |
Wednesday, March 29 - 12:00 pm
240 John Hope Franklin Center
Christian Chesnot:
Iraq: Towards Federalized Chaos or a State under Iranian Influence?
Lecture in English. Christian Chesnot is currently a journalist for the foreign desk of France Inter (radio). He was for some years a correspondent in Jordan for various radio stations and newspapers, and has written several books on the Middle-East, including on Palestine, Iraq, and his experience as a hostage in Iraq last year (along with co-hostage Georges Malbrunot).
This lecture is part of the Wednesdays At The Center series coordinated by the Franklin Humanities Institute. Lunch will be served starting at 11:45; please arrive early so the lecture can promptly start at noon. |
 Christian Chesnot |
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April
Thursday, April 6 - 5:00 pm
Breedlove Room, Perkins Library
Jean-Marie Gleize:
Autour des gestes littéralistes
dans les pratiques post-poétiques en France aujourd'hui - fin XXe et XXIe siècles (volumes Seghers, Al Dante et Seuil)
Lecture in French by Jean-Marie Gleize, writer and Professor of Modern and Contemporary Literature at the Ecole Normale Supérieure in Lyon. He is also the founder and editor of the journal Nioques, which publishes post-poetic, experimental, hard-to-classify verbal objects.
With support from the Cultural Services of the French Embassy. |
 Jean-Marie Gleize
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Dinah Ribard:
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Three lectures in French and English by Dinah Ribard, professor at Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales. She is a scholar on the literary status of philosophers, but also works on the history of disciplines (knowledge and its transmission) and the history of work (trades, occupations, vocations, organization of work) in the 17th-19th centuries. |
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Emmanuel Hocquard / Rosmarie Waldrop - Details to come
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