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Events at the Center - Spring 2007

Please find below a list of upcoming events sponsored or co-sponsored by The Center for French and Francophone Studies. All events are free and open to the public. Free parking is available after 4:00 pm at Pickens lot, across from the building on Trent Drive. Parking vouchers for the Medical Center Garages (on Erwin Road or Trent Drive) also available. Contact: Marion Monson at 668-1938 or email marion.monson at duke.edu.

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January 2007

Films: Forbidden Games and Night and Fog (1/29)
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Monday, Jan. 22 - 1:30 pm
John Hope Franklin Center, Room 240

Jean Plantu:
Editorial in Caricatures

Editorial cartoonist Jean “Plantu” Plantureux, whose art has illustrated the front page of “Le Monde” since 1985, discusses and demonstrates the French tradition of political cartoons in a program organized in collaboration with the Alliance Française of Raleigh-Durham-Chapel Hill. Local news caricature artists will also participate in this interactive intervention.

Event in English.

February 2007

Films: Army of Shadows (2/5), Lacombe Lucien (2/12), A Self-Made Hero (2/19), Don't Look Now... We're Being Shot At (2/26)
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March 2007

Wednesday, March 28 - 12:00 pm
John Hope Franklin Center, Room 240

Hervé Kempf
How the rich wreck the planet

Lecture in English by journalist and environmental editor of Le Monde.
We live in a time in History that poses a radically new challenge to the human species: for the first time, its prodigious dynamism is confronted to the limits of the biosphere and threatens its own future. We need to collectively find ways to re-direct this human energy and drive for progress if we want future generations to have a chance to survive, but a greedy and predatory ruling class, blinded by its pseudo-realism, is bent on amassing ever more wealth, ignoring the consequences such as the degradation of the living conditions for the majority of people and the loss of public liberties. The ecological crisis cannot be solved without addressing the intertwined social crisis. Today, the wealthy are threatening the planet.

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.