French & Francophone Studies Calendar - Past Events for this Academic Year

CMRS Opening Reception

-- submitted by Karen Burgess (cmrs@humnet.ucla.edu)

"Revenge in the 17th Century; State Passions and Private Reasons" a lecture by Professor Eric Mechoulan

Eric Mechoulan Professor of French at the University of Montreal

entitled

"Revenge in the 17th Century; State Passions and Private Reasons"

Refreshments will be served.

-- submitted by Emily Ardito Gittings (gittings@humnet.ucla.edu)

"La rêverie anthropologique sur les origines de Marivaux à Rousseau"

cordially invites you to a lecture by

René Démoris Professor Emeritus at the University of Paris-III (Sorbonne Nouvelle)

entitled

"La rêverie anthropologique sur les origines de Marivaux à Rousseau"

René Démoris is a specialist of the Enlightenment (with special emphasis on the novel) and the visual arts. His publications include Le silence de Manon (1995); Folies romanesques au Siècle des Lumières (editor with Henri Lafon, 1998); Les fausses confidences de Marivaux : l'être et le paraître (1991); Le Roman à la première personne: du classicisme aux Lumières (1975). His books on the visual arts include La Peinture en procès: L’invention de la critique d’art au Siècle des Lumières (with Florence Ferran, 2001); and Chardin, la chair et l'objet (1991, 1999).

Refreshments will be served

-- submitted by Emily Ardito Gittings (gittings@humnet.ucla.edu)

"La rêverie anthropologique sur les origines de Marivaux à Rousseau" a lecture by René Démoris

cordially invites you to a lecture by

René Démoris Professor Emeritus at the University of Paris-III (Sorbonne Nouvelle)

entitled

"La rêverie anthropologique sur les origines de Marivaux à Rousseau"

René Démoris is a specialist of the Enlightenment (with special emphasis on the novel) and the visual arts. His publications include Le silence de Manon (1995); Folies romanesques au Siècle des Lumières (editor with Henri Lafon, 1998); Les fausses confidences de Marivaux : l'être et le paraître (1991); Le Roman à la première personne: du classicisme aux Lumières (1975). His books on the visual arts include La Peinture en procès: L’invention de la critique d’art au Siècle des Lumières (with Florence Ferran, 2001); and Chardin, la chair et l'objet (1991, 1999).

Refreshments will be served

-- submitted by Emily Ardito Gittings (gittings@humnet.ucla.edu)

"Irony and Deconstruction" a lecture by Professor Marian Hobson (University of London, Getty Center)

invites you to a lecture by

Professor Marian Hobson (University of London, Getty Center)

entitled

"Irony and Deconstruction"

Tuesday, November 27, 2001 4:00 p.m.

236 Royce Hall

A Fellow of the British Academy, Professor Hobson is a specialist of European Enlightenment and contemporary literary theory and criticism. She has published on literature, painting, architecture, aesthetics, neo- colonialism, violence, and gender studies, as well as on a number of authors such as Diderot, Rousseau, Goldoni, Oscar Becker, Jabes, Barthes, Lacan and Derrida, among others. She is currently translating Derrida's Le Problème de genèse dans la philosophie de Husserl for the University of Chicago Press. Her most recent publication is Jacques Derrida, Opening Lines (London, Routledge, 1998).

This lecture is free and open to the public

-- submitted by Emily Ardito Gittings (gittings@humnet.ucla.edu)

The Dinner Game

proudly presents the second movie of the 2001-2002 series

"The Dinner Game"

In French with English subtitles

Wednesday, November 28, 2001, 7:30pm

UCLA James Bridges Theater, Melnitz Hall

Starring: Jacques Villeret, Thierry Lhermitte, Francis Huster, Alexandra Vandernoot, Daniel Prevost, Catherine Frot

Free and Open to the Public

Synopsis: Every Wednesday night a few guys have a meal together. There is a game coupled with the meal: each one of them has to bring an "idiot". The game consists of making the idiots talk about their ideas and passions so that the hosts can have a good laugh. At the end they choose the "idiot of the evening". One of the hosts invites his idiot home so they can go to the dinner together, but unfortunately, he gets a severe pain in his back due to an accident that day and can't go to the "meal of idiots". Even worse, the idiot tries to help him all the time. Naturally he does everything wrong and aggravates every situation.

-- submitted by Emily Ardito Gittings (gittings@humnet.ucla.edu)

Daniel Maximin, le poète (Table ronde)

-- submitted by Emily Ardito Gittings (gittings@humnet.ucla.edu)

Daniel Maximin, le poète (Table ronde)

Né à la Guadeloupe, Daniel Maximin fait des études de lettres et de sciences humaines à la Sorbonne. Il a enseigné à l'Institut d'Etudes Sociales à Paris et a été professeur de lettres à Orly. De 1980 à 1989, il est directeur littéraire aux Éditions Présence Africaine et produit l'émission "Antipodes" sur France-Culture. En 1989, il est nommé Directeur régional des affaires culturelles en Guadeloupe. En 1997, il est chargé de la mission interministérielle pour le 150ème anniversaire de l'abolition de l'esclavage. Il travaille aujourd’hui au ministère de l’Education. Parmi ses romans: L'Isolé soleil (Seuil, 1981, traduit en anglais), Soufrières (Seuil, 1987), L'Ile et une nuit (Seuil, 1995) et en poésie: L'Invention des Désirades (Présence Africaine, 2000).

-- submitted by Emily Ardito Gittings (gittings@humnet.ucla.edu)

Lisa Duggan talk - THE NEW HOMONORMATIVTY - this Thursday

Andrew Sullivan and his cohort of "mainstream" gay writers (collected on the website of the Independent Gay Forum) do not constitute simply a single issue, assimilationist lobby at the conservative end of the spectrum of lgbt/q politics. These writers provide sexual equality rhetoric for the antiegalitarian, undemocratic project of neoliberalism. They are collectively producing a New Homonormativity that is seriously at odds with any and all progressive political agendas. This lecture examines the gender, economic, racial and nationalist arguments and antics of this cohort of influential writers.

This Thursday (Jan 10) 4pm in Kinsey 355 Free and open to the public.

-- submitted by Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Studies (lgbs@humnet.ucla.edu)

For more information, see http://www.humnet.ucla.edu/humnet/lgbts/duggan.htm

"Criminal Lovers"

proudly presents the third movie of the 2001-2002 series

"Criminal Lovers"

In French with English subtitles

Wednesday, January 23, 2002, 7:30pm

UCLA James Bridges Theater, Melnitz Hall

Free and Open to the Public

Synopsis: Once upon a time in a Paris suburb there lived a teenage girl named Alice. A pretty girl who like to play games. Games of seduction. Games of violence. One day Alice decided to kill Said, a handsome and cocky classmate. But she couldn't possibly do it alone. So Alice manipulated her naive friend Luc into committing the cold-blooded crime as proof of his true love for her. It wasn't as easy as Alice had expected. Murder can be messy and so tiresome. Alice thought she had carefully planned everything. But a life of true crime can be filled with so many difficulties.

-- submitted by Emily Ardito Gittings (gittings@humnet.ucla.edu)

Musica Humana: UCLA Early Music Collective

Medieval and Renaissance vocal music is inextricably linked with its notation: from the transcendent abstractions of the rhythmic proportions isorhythmic motet to the moveable type of early music printing, early modern song has both been contained in and transcended the vehicle of writing. But notation is only on half of the music‹the spaces provided by early modern composers through unwritten performance practice, such as the singerly practice of "false music," invite a modern en-voicing of these signs and symbols.

Spanning from the late fifteenth century to the late sixteenth century, this concert explores the medieval and renaissance vocal music both as musical objects of cultural exchange and as windows into another world. Featuring works by Power, Dunstable, Ockeghem, Josquin, Obrecht, Willaert, Morales, and Victoria, as well as others, this concert will also include projected visuals to accompany the performance.

The performing group Music Humana was created three years ago by the graduate students of the UCLA Musicology Department, and the group has continued to perform together embracing undergraduate students from both the music and the musicology departments. Musica Humana¹s goal is provide an exciting environment for performers and audience alike to explore the rich and varied ways in which all musical activities shape and express people and their cultures. With a combination of music and readings, Musica Humana¹s previous concerts have explored the many sonic worlds of the Renaissance, including that of sixteenth-century dance with the Los Angeles-based dance group, Danzando.

-- submitted by Kate Goodyear (goodyear@humnet.ucla.edu)

For more information, contact goodyear@humnet.ucla.edu

"Walter Benjamin's Friendships: A Biographical Exploration"

ALEX GELLEY (UCI)

Thursday, January 31, 2002 Royce Hall, Room 306, 4:00 PM

as part of the Seminar on Jewish Hermeneutics and Philosophy

Cosponsors: Center for Medieval & Renaissance Studies, Department of Near Eastern Languages & Cultures, Department of Germanic Languages, Center for European and Russian Studies

-- submitted by spitzer (spitzer@humnet.ucla.edu)

"Venus Beauté"

"Venus Beauté"

In French with English subtitles

Wednesday, February 13, 2002, 7:30pm

UCLA James Bridges Theater, Melnitz Hall Free and Open to the Public

Synopsis: The film is set in and around a contemporary Parisian beauty spa and gives us an intimate look into the lives and ephemeral truths of a quartet of strong, smart women. Angèle, a ravishing, sexy woman in her early 40s whose guilt and anguish over having caused permanent harm to a loved one is offset by a hedonistic and reckless series of one night stands; Marie, an exceptionally beautiful woman whose guileless innocence brings happiness to an enigmatic widower; Samantha, a cherubic, defiant young flirt who substitutes sexuality for companionship; and the spa's confident matriarch Nadine who, at some earlier time in her life, might have been just like Angèle, lonely but ambitious, talented but without the self- confidence to be successful. Starring the renowned actress Nathalie Baye "Venus Beauty Institute" is also a major breakthrough for the luminous young actress Audrey Tautou.

please check our website: www.humnet.ucla.edu/french/cinema

-- submitted by Emily Ardito Gittings (gittings@humnet.ucla.edu)

"Language, Performativity and Desire in the Works of Bernard-Marie Koltès" a lecture by Doris Kolesch

The Department of French and Francophone Studies

Cordially invites you to attend a lecture by

Doris Kolesch Institut fuer Theaterwissenschaft der FU Berlin

Entitled

"Language, Performativity and Desire in the Works of Bernard-Marie Koltès"

Wednesday, February 20, 2002

4:30pm

236 Royce

Dr. Doris Kolesch is an Associate professor at the department of theater and performance studies at the Free University of Berlin. She studied Romance Literatures, Comparative Literature and Philosophy in Mainz, Germany and Paris, France (where she studied in the classes of Jacques Derrida at the Ecole Normale Supérieure and Julia Kristeva, Université Paris VIII). She is a member of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Arts & Sciences and has received various prizes for her outstanding research, p.ex. the Heinz-Maier-Leibniz-Price from the German Foundation for the Arts & Sciences for outstanding young researchers and the essay-prize of the federation of theater research. She has published widely on topics concerning the theory and aesthetics of literature and theater. One of her current research projects focuses on performativity, voice, gender and media.

Refreshments will be served.

-- submitted by Emily Ardito Gittings (gittings@humnet.ucla.edu)

Le jour où j'ai découvert Victor Hugo (The Day I Discovered Victor Hugo)

The French Cultural Services, The Department of French and Francophone Studies and the James S. Coleman Center for African Studies present a film from Mali: Le jour où j'ai découvert Victor Hugo (The Day I Discovered Victor Hugo)

Martine Lancelot, Video, 52 min., 1997, subtitled

at 5pm - video screening

at 6pm - roundtable discussion

at 7pm - courtyard reception with African food

Dominic Thomas, Moderator

Laurent Devèze, Dultural Attache Allen Roberts, Professor Hans-Jürgen Lüsebrink, Professor Ghislaine Lydon, Professor

Admission is free and open to the public

-- submitted by eric gans (gans@humnet.ucla.edu)

"Towards an Anthropological Humanism?" - a conference

Since the paroxysm of WWII, the most egregiously unequal institutions—colonialism, apartheid, de jure racial and sexual discrimination—have been sharply criticized, and in some cases successfully circumscribed. We now appear to be on the threshold of a “post-millennial” era where the moral imperative of human equality no longer dictates obvious solutions.

As citizens of the emerging global culture of this era, we need to account for both the phenomena of sacrifice and victimization that have dominated most of our history and the “categorical imperative” of moral reciprocity that defines us as human.

Our conference seeks to engage a dialogue between Generative Anthropology, which emphasizes the common humanity of our global culture, and Postcolonial Studies, which views this culture from the perspective of those whose place within it is the most problematic. The events of September 11 only make the necessity for this dialogue all the more apparent.

Limited seating available, no reservations required. Parking is available in Lot 5 of the UCLA Campus. The kiosk entrance is at Hilgard and Wyton Avenues. The parking fee is $6. For further information, please visit our website at http://www.humnet.ucla.edu/humnet/cmcs or contact Kathy Sanchez at ksanchez@humnet.ucla.edu or (310) 825-9581.

-- submitted by Kathy Sanchez (ksanchez@humnet.ucla.edu)

For more information, see http://www.humnet.ucla.edu/humnet/cmcs

"Transferts culturels: Approches d'un champ de recherche interculturel en études françaises" (18e - 20e siècles)

cordially invites you to a lecture (in French) by

HANS-JÜRGEN LÜSEBRINK

entitled

Transferts culturels: Approches d'un champ de recherche interculturel en études françaises (18e-20e siècles)

Thursday, March 7, 2002 4:30 p.m. 236 Royce Hall

Hans-Jürgen Lüsebrink, Visiting Professor at the Department of French and Francophone Studies at UCLA during this term, is Professor for French Cultural Studies and Intercultural Communication at the University of Saarbrücken in Germany. He is director of the interdisciplinary Doctoral School on Intercultural Communication at the University of Saarbrücken funded by the German Research Council (DFG), Co- Director of the Integrated Franco-German Study Program “Etudes transfrontalières franco-allemandes” (Licence/Maitrise, DEA/Diplom) of the universities of Metz and Saarbrücken. In 2001 he received the Diefenbaker Award of the Canadian Research Council. He has a Ph.D in History (1984) from the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (Paris) and a Habilitation Thesis in Romance Philology (1987) from the University of Bayreuth (Germany). Fields of specialization: Francophone Literatures and Cultures outside of Europe (esp. Africa and Quebec); Literary and Cultural History of the 18th Century; Intermediality (theory and historical analysis); Cultural Theory and Intercultural Communication.

Recent books: Einführung in die Landeskunde Frankreichs (‘Introduction to French Cultural Studies’), Stuttgart 2000; (dir., with Papa Samba Diop): Littératures et Sociétés Africaines. Regards comparatistes et perspectives interculturelles. Mélanges offerts à János Riesz à l’occasion de son soixantième anniversaire. Tübingen 2001; La Conquête de l‘Espace Public Colonial. Prises de parole et formes de participation d‘écrivains et d‘intellectuels africains dans la presse coloniale (1884-1960). Frankfurt/M., 2002 (in print); Edmond de Nevers: Lettres de Berlin et d’autres villes d’Europe (1888-92). Édition critique, avec une préface. Québec 2002 (in print); (ed. with Robert Dion): Ecrire en langue étrangère. Interférences de langue et de culture dans le monde francophone. Québec, 2002 (in print).

Refreshments will be served

-- submitted by Benay Furtivo (furtivo@humnet.ucla.edu)

"Forty Years Later: The Algerian Diaspora in France, 1962-2002"

AZOUZ BEGAG (French-Algerian novelist and Researcher at the CNRS)

entitled "Forty Years Later: The Algerian Diaspora in France, 1962-2002"

to take place Thursday March 14, 2002 at 4:00 pm in 236 Royce Hall.

Refreshment will be provided.

-- submitted by Benay Furtivo (furtivo@humnet.ucla.edu)

A Lecture on the French Thinker PIERRE BOURDIEU

with

PROFESSEUR LAHOUARI ADDI, Professor at the Institut d’Etudes Politiques, Université Lyon 2, France

“The Dimensions of Bourdieu’s Sociology: from Anthropology in Algeria to Sociology in France”

and

LAURENT DEVÈZE, Cultural Attaché, French Consulate, Los Angeles

“Hommage à Bourdieu”

Wednesday April 10, 2002 at 4:30 pm in 236 Royce Hall.

REFRESHMENTS WILL BE SERVED

-- submitted by Benay Furtivo (furtivo@humnet.ucla.edu)

A Lecture by CLAUDE IMBERT

CLAUDE IMBERT, Visiting Professor, University of California, Davis

entitled

DELACROIX REVISITÉ: UN AUTRE COUP D'OEIL SUR “LE PEINTRE DE LA VIE MODERNE”

Wednesday, April 17, 2002 at 4:30 pm in 236 Royce Hall.

REFRESHMENTS WILL BE SERVED

-- submitted by Benay Furtivo (furtivo@humnet.ucla.edu)

"Rumor and Contemporary Legend: An Outline of the French Approach"

“RUMOR AND CONTEMPORARY LEGEND: AN OUTLINE OF THE FRENCH APPROACH”

Véronique CAMPION-VINCENT (formerly of Maison des sciences de l'homme, Paris)

Using examples culled from her research on Organ Theft narratives, and cancer causing Cell Phones, Campion- Vincent, one of France's foremost specialists on Urban Legend, will explore the specificities of the French approaches to the study of Rumor and Contemporary Legend.

Véronique Campion Vincent is a writer specialized in sociological approaches of urban rumors and legends, their evolution and reception. Among her many publications are La légende des vols d'organes (Les Belles Lettres, 1997) and Légendes urbaines. Rumeurs d'aujourd'hui (with J.-B. Renard) (Payot, 1992) and the forthcoming De source sûre. Nouvelles légendes urbaines. Paris, Payot (co-authored with Jean-Bruno Renard), 2002. She has also written Images du Dahomey. Un royaume africain lors de sa conquête.

Monday April 22, 2002 3:00 pm 236 Royce Hall Refreshments will be served

Co-Sponsored by THE SCANDINAVIAN SECTION, DEPARTMENT OF FRENCH & FRANCOPHONE STUDIES, AND THE ORAL TRADITIONS STUDIES PROGRAM

-- submitted by Benay Furtivo (furtivo@humnet.ucla.edu)

"Faat-Kine"

"Faat-Kine"

in French with English subtitles

Wednesday April 24, 2002, 7:30 pm. UCLA James Bridges Theater, Melnitz Hall Free and Open to the Public

Synopsis: Chic, sexy, single and a working mother, the title heroine is born that same year that Senegal wins independence. In other words, both are thoroughly liberated, although males in Dakar seem a little slow to realize it about Faat-Kine. Especially the different fathers of her two children, each of whom betrayed her in turn. Even her own father wanted to kill her when she was born, for the crime of not being a son. When Faat-Kine gets an entry-level job in a gas station, she weathers the inevitable sexual discrimination and innuendos to prove herself, climbing the ladder of promotions. She will settle for nothing less that becoming the manager of a multinational oil company.

Please check out website: www.humnet.ucla.edu/french/cinema Click on NEXT MOVIE

-- submitted by Benay Furtivo (furtivo@humnet.ucla.edu)

"Jacques Derrida: The Last and Least of the Jews"

With Gil Anidjar (Columbia University.), Robert Gibbs (University of Toronto), Dana Hollander (Michigan State University), Moshe Idel (Hebrew University), Joshua Kates (St. Johns College), Eric Santner (University of Chicago), Elisabeth Weber (UC Santa Barbara), Samuel Weber (Northwestern University)

Sunday, April 28th, 2002, 2:30 - 7:30 Covel Commons: The Grand Horizon Room, Salon A UCLA

Jacques Derrida is one of the most famous and influential philosophers of our times. At the same time he is arguably a centrally Jewish philosopher, not only biographically, but as one whose ideas cannot be understood exclusively within a Greek framework of thinking. Derrida was born in El-Biar, Algeria in 1930 and grew up there with a strong sense both of being a Jew and of being persecuted for his Jewishness. He has referred to himself, somewhat cryptically, as "the last and the least of the Jews," and as a "Marrano." In an essay on the great Jewish Egyptian writer Edmond Jabès, Derrida comments on "the difficulty of being a Jew, which coincides with the difficulty of writing; for Judaism and writing are but the same waiting, the same hope, the same depletion."

Please join us for a discussion with Professor Derrida on the Jewish themes that have become ever more present in his work in recent years. This symposium is the first half of a two day conference on the Impact of Jewish Thought on European Culture, which will continue the following day with sessions on Franz Rosenzweig.

After initial Remarks by Professor Derrida, a group of his readers will present their Responses to the role of "the Jewish Question" in deconstruction and philosophy. This will be followed by an open discussion, focused on two of Derrida's recent essays on Jewish issues, "Avowing -- The Impossible" and "Abraham, the Other," which are attached here. Finally, the Symposium will end with a reception and screening of the recent film by Safaa Fathy, Derrida's Elsewhere, which takes up the role of religion and Jewish culture in his life and ideas. A schedule and parking information is below.

2:30 - 2:40 Kenneth Reinhard, Director UCLA Center for Jewish Studies Introductory Remarks

2:45 - 3:15 Jacques Derrida, Director of Studies at the École des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (Paris), Professor of Comparative Literature, UC Irvine, Remarks

3:15 - 5:45 Responses to Derrida's "Abraham, the Other" and "Avowing - The Impossible" and Comments by Professor Derrida

Gil Anidjar (Columbia University.), Robert Gibbs (University of Toronto) Dana Hollander (Michigan State University), Moshe Idel (Hebrew University) Joshua Kates (St. Johns College), Eric Santner (University of Chicago) Elisabeth Weber (UC Santa Barbara), Samuel Weber (Northwestern University)

5:45 - 6:30 Reception

6:30 - 7:30 Screening of Derrida's Elsewhere (1999, 52 minutes)

PARKING DIRECTIONS

Parking permits may be purchased at Lot 4. Enter campus at Westwood Plaza from Sunset Blvd. and proceed straight ahead to the information kiosk in front of the underground parking structure. You may purchase your permit ($6) from the attendant, who can direct you to the Sunset Village parking structure, where parking for the conference will be.

Once parked in Sunset Village, take the elevator in the southwest corner of the parking garage to the Lobby (L) level. Once on the L Level, the Covel Commons building will be directly in front of you.

Turn RIGHT and walk along the outside of the Covel Commons building. Turn LEFT at the corner of the building and proceed to the entrance. There will be signs directing you to the Derrida symposium.

Here is a link to a map of campus that shows Covel Commons and the Sunset Village parking structure: http://www.ucla.edu/map/sectors/northwest.html

-- submitted by Susan Spitzer (spitzer@humnet.ucla.edu)

Franz Rosenzweig and Political Thoelogy: Universalism, Particularism, Exceptionalism"

Monday, April 29th, 2002 Royce 306 UCLA

9:00 - 12:00 Session One "Opening the Question: Franz Rosenzweig and Political Theology"

Peter Eli Gordon (Harvard University) Dana Hollander (Michigan State University) Moshe Idel (Hebrew University) David Myers (UCLA)

1:30 - 4:30 Session Two: "Unscientific Conclusions: Between Present and Eternity"

Giorgio Agamben (University of Verona) Gil Anidjar (Columbia University) Robert Gibbs (University of Toronto) Kenneth Reinhard (UCLA) Eric Santner (University of Chicago)

7:00 Keynote Address Peter Eli Gordon Department of History, Harvard University "Rosenzweig's Nietzschean Judaism"

Franz Rosenzweig (1886-1929) is both one of the most famous and least read figures of 20th century European and North American Judaism. Besides his masterpiece, The Star of Redemption, largely written on aerograms to his mother from the trenches of WWI, Rosenzweig wrote several shorter essays and books, collaborated with Martin Buber on a monumental new translation of the Bible (as well as a radical theory of translation), and founded the Freie Juedische Lehrhaus in Frankfurt. Although he has long been revered as a great Jewish thinker, few people until recently have actually read his central work, The Star of Redemption (1921), with the attentiveness that it demanded. Increasingly, however, Rosenzweig has become the focus of intensive study in universities and seminaries, and these re-encounters have often been fruitful in unexpected and timely ways. Rosenzweig's thought has already had a great impact on a variety of disciplines, including philosophy, theology, the critical study of religion, psychoanalysis, education, and Jewish-Christian dialogue, and new implications and connections are constantly emerging. Rosenzweig's thought is both traditional in its reliance on classical Jewish texts and commentaries, and radical in its application of those concepts to a reinterpretation of human experience and possibility. Like many of his intellectual friends and relatives in Germany at the turn of the century, Rosenzweig considered converting to Christianity, as the more "rational" religion and the historical fulfillment of the Jewish revelation; but instead Rosenzweig forged a new path by returning to the texts and practices of Judaism and comparing them to those of Christianity and Islam. In the particulars of Rabbinic Jewish thought, Rosenzweig found the basis of a fundamental philosophy and ethico-political practice that would extend to embrace all people in its universal vision of redemption.

-- submitted by Susan Spitzer (spitzer@humnet.ucla.edu)

The Department of Musicology Graduate Students Society present Distinguished Lecture Series 2000-2001

-- submitted by Kate Goodyear (goodyear@humnet.ucla.edu)

For more information, contact lmusca@ucla.edu

Lyn@humnet.ucla.edu

The 5th Annual SCALAR Symposium

Wednesday, May 15th, 2002

Dr. Liz Hamp-Lyons Chair Professor of English, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University

Assessing writing across the curriculum: First language and second language competence

-- submitted by Lyn Repath-Martos (lyn@humnet.ucla.edu)

For more information, contact greenb@ucla.edu

"L'Algerie a Travers l'Amnesie et la Memoire" - A lecture by SORAYA TLATLI

"L'Algerie a Travers l'Amnesie et la Memoire"

(This lecture will be given in French)

Date: Wednesday, May 15th 2002

Time: 4:30pm

Place: 236 Royce Hall

-- submitted by Cyndia Soloway (soloway@humnet.ucla.edu)

CALL FOR PAPERS

Dean Pauline Yu has allocated funding for a graduate seminar to be taught by English or Language and Literature faculty on a topic of general interest to advanced graduate students in the humanities. The course is an opportunity for graduate students to take a seminar on current conceptual trends in literary and cultural studies. The format will be as follows:

A cross-listed graduate seminar (e.g. M295) that would carry 5 units of credit.

Prerequisite: the 200-level (or equivalent) first- year "methods" or theory course in the student's department.

Permission of instructor. Enrollment is by application from the student, and the instructor will consult with department chairs or directors of graduate study before admitting a student.

Visiting lecturers: Funds are available to invite up to four outside speakers, for a 2 or 3-day visit each, to participate in the seminar/workshop and to give a public lecture on the general theme of the course.

Graduate Student Researcher: Funds are also available to hire a part-time research assistant to help with organization and planning

We are calling for proposals from interested faculty for a course to be taught in Spring 2003. The seminar may count as one class toward the instructor’s annual course load. A committee made up of department chairs and/or directors of graduate study will select the course proposal for 2002-03. DEADLINE FOR APPLICATIONS: 20 May 2002

Please send proposals to Françoise Lionnet, Chair, Dept. of French and Francophone Studies, 212 Royce Hall, Mail Code 155003

-- submitted by Benay Furtivo (furtivo@humnet.ucla.edu)

New Light on the Egyptian Historian al-Jabarti (1753-1825) and His Work ‘Aja’ib al-Athar (1688-1821)

-- submitted by Michael Fishbein (fishbein@humnet.ucla.edu)

The End of Travel

Moderator: Malina Stefanovska, Associate Professor, UCLA

Participants:

Andrea Loselle, Associate Professor, UCLA "The Art of Seeing Double: Baudrillard's Travel Medium"

John Culbert, Visiting Asst. Professor, UC Irvine "Horizon of Encounter: Eugène Fromentin's Algerian Narratives"

Georges Van Den Abbeele, Professor, UC Davis "Oceans Into Bramble": Exile and Return in Viet-Kieu Literature"

Wednesday May 29, 2002

2:00 - 5:00 pm

306 Royce Hall

Refreshments will be served.

-- submitted by Cyndia Soloway (soloway@humnet.ucla.edu)

French & Francophone Studies: The Spring Graduate Colloquium

Scheduled Speakers:

Zara Bennett "Esquisse d'un nouveau geste baroque"

Lauren Brown "Silence et Chaos: en attendant la prochaine étape de la littérature antillaise"

Friday, May 31 2002 at 3:00 pm

236 Royce Hall

Refreshments will be served

-- submitted by Cyndia Soloway (soloway@humnet.ucla.edu)