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



		French & Francophone Studies Calendar - Past Events for this Academic Year You may also wish to view current events 10/25/05 (Tues) COMPARATIVE LITERATURE LECTURE SERIES, #1 - RANJI KHANNA AND NATALIE MELAS 4:00PM In 306 Royce Hall DEPARTMENT OF COMPARATIVE LITERATURE LECTURE SERIES “WHAT IS COMPARATIVE LITERATURE?” First Lecture in the Series Co-Sponsored by Dept. of French & Francophone Studies RANJI KHANNA (Duke University) “Algeria Cuts” and NATALIE MELAS (Cornell University) “Equivalence” The lecture takes place on 10/25/05 at 4:00 pm in 306 Royce Hall. RANJANA KHANNA received her PhD in Women's Studies at the University of York, U.K., and is currently Associate Professor of English, the Literature Program, and Women’s Studies at Duke University. She is the author of Dark Continents: Psychoanalysis and Colonialism (Duke University Press, 2003). She has published on a variety of subjects ranging from feminism, film, autobiography, new configurations of Area Studies in the post-Cold War era, torture and terrorism, and psychoanalysis. Her talk is taken from her forthcoming book Algeria Cuts: Women and Representation, 1830 to the Present (Stanford University Press, 2006). Her current work in progress is a book manuscript tentatively titled “Asylum: The Concept and the Practice.” NATALIE MELAS received her Ph.D. in Comparative Literature (English, French, Ancient Greek) from UC Berkeley and is currently Associate Professor of Comparative Literature at Cornell University. Her areas of interest include transcultural theory (between postcolonialism and globalism), the politics of disciplinary histories, cultural comparison, postcolonial neo-formalism, turn-of- the-century English literature, Anglophone and especially Francophone Caribbean literature and theory, modern reconfigurations of antiquity, Homer. She has published essays on the fate of the humanities in the contemporary university, on incommensurability, on Joseph Conrad, and on French Caribbean Literature. Her talk is taken from her forthcoming book, All the Difference in the World: Postcoloniality and the Ends of Comparison (Stanford University Press, 2006). -- submitted by Benay Furtivo (webcalendar@humnet.ucla.edu) 10/26/05 (Wed) “THE POINT OF COMPARISON: REFLECTIONS ON A COMPARATIVE POSTCOLONIAL STUDIES”, a lecture by PROF. DAVID MURPHY 4:30PM In 306 Royce Hall UCLA DEPARTMENT OF FRENCH & FRANCOPHONE STUDIES presents a Lecture by PROF. DAVID MURPHY (University of Stirling) entitled “THE POINT OF COMPARISON: REFLECTIONS ON A COMPARATIVE POSTCOLONIAL STUDIES” Wednesday October 26, 2005 306 Royce Hall Herbert Morris Seminar Room 4:30 pm -- submitted by Benay Furtivo (webcalendar@humnet.ucla.edu) 10/27/05 (Thur) “HAITI'S WATERS: SYMBOLIC REPRESENTATIONS AND ECOCRITICAL INTERPRETATIONS”, a lecture by Richard Watts 4:30PM In 236 Royce Hall UCLA DEPARTMENT OF FRENCH & FRANCOPHONE STUDIES Presents a Lecture by PROF. RICHARD WATTS (Tulane University) entitled “HAITI'S WATERS: SYMBOLIC REPRESENTATIONS AND ECOCRITICAL INTERPRETATIONS” to be held on Thursday, October 27, 2005 at 4:30 pm in 236 Royce Hall, French Seminar Room -- submitted by Benay Furtivo (webcalendar@humnet.ucla.edu) 11/2/05 (Wed) "THINKING WITH LITERATURE", a lecture by Peggy Kamuf 5:00PM In 306 Royce Hall Department of Comparative Literature Lecture Series 2005— 2006 “WHAT IS COMPARATIVE LITERATURE?” Second Lecture in the Series PEGGY KAMUF (Marion Frances Chevalier Professor of French and Comparative Literature - University of Southern California) “THINKING WITH LITERATURE” This lecture takes place on Tuesday November 2, 2005 at 5:00 pm in the Morris Seminar Room 306 Royce Hall. Peggy Kamuf's books have dealt with 17th and 18th-century French fiction (Fictions of Feminine Desire: Disclosures of Heloise, 1982), the theory of the signature in Derrida, Rousseau, Baudelaire, Virginia Woolf (Signature Pieces: On the Institution of Authorship, 1988) and the institutionalization of literary studies in France from the Revolution to 1914 (The Division of Literature, or the University in Deconstruction, 1997). She has also published numerous essays in feminist anthologies (on Foucault, Derrida, Cixous) and on literary theory. Many of these essays are collected in her Book of Addresses (2004). She is the editor of two collections of essays by Derrida: A Derrida Reader: Between the Blinds (1991) and Without Alibi (2002), as well as a special journal issue on Jean-Luc Nancy. She is an active translator, principally of texts by Derrida, but also by Nancy and Serge Leclaire. In 1995, she received the Raubenheimer Distinguished Faculty Award, in 1998 she was invited to teach at the Centre d'Études Féminines at the Université de Paris VIII, and in 2002 she was the invited senior fellow at the Society for the Humanities, Cornell. Her research concerns deconstructive literary theory, which she also pursues through her interest in American literature. -- submitted by Benay Furtivo (webcalendar@humnet.ucla.edu) 11/18/05 (Fri) through 11/19/05 (Sat) THIS WEEKEND: The 2005 Los Angeles Queer Studies Conference: QUEER SCAPES: Body Space Sexuality 9:00AM until 6:00PM In Rocye Hall The Los Angeles Queer Studies Conference 2005 QUEER SCAPES: BODY SPACE SEXUALITY Friday, November 18, 2005 at USC / the ONE National Gay and Lesbian Archives Saturday, November 19, 2005 at UCLA Keynote speakers: Jacqui Alexander, David Eng, Alma Lopez, Michael Lucey, Catherine Opie Plenary session: New Directions in Queer Latino/a Studies, with Luz Calvo, Licia Fiol-Matta, Richard T. Rodriguez, and Sandra Soto. Panel presentations by 50 graduate student and faculty scholars For further information, please see http://www.humnet.ucla.edu/humnet/lgbts/LAQSC.html Organized by the UCLA Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Studies Program and the USC Center for Feminist Research -- submitted by LGBT Studies Program (lgbs@humanities.ucla.edu) For more information, see http://www.humnet.ucla.edu/humnet/lgbts/LAQSC.html 1/13/06 (Fri) A Lecture by Professor Anne Lake Prescott 1:00PM In 236 Royce Hall, French Seminar Room How Marguerite de Navarre Became “a Right Englishwoman” Professor Prescott is a specialist in the English Renaissance and in the Anglo-French relations, she is the author of French Poets and the English Renaissance and Imagining Rabelais in the English Renaissance (Yale UP, 1998); she has also published (with Hugh Maclean) a revised Norton Spenser; co-edited, with Patrick Cheney, Approaches to Teaching Shorter Elizabethan Poetry (MLA, 2000); and co-edited, with Betty Travitsky, Female and Male Voices in Early Modern England (Columbia 2000) and the Ashgate series of facsimile editions of early modern texts by modern women. She is currently working on David in the Renaissance and on Renaissance almanacs and calendars. Professor Prescott has taught at Barnard since 1961 and at Columbia since 1979. Friday, January 13, 2006 236 Royce Hall French Seminar Room, 1pm -- submitted by Danielle (danielle@humanities.ucla.edu) For more information, contact danielle@humnet.ucla.edu 2/2/06 (Thur) through 2/ Department of French and Francophone Studies presents the third Modernist Search Candidate Job Talk 5:00PM In Royce 236 The department of French and Francophone Studies presents the third and final Modernist Search Job Canididate, Laure Murat. The title of of her paper is "La tante, le policier et l’écrivain: Sur une figure balzacienne dans les archives de la police.” The talk will be held on Thursday, February 2nd in Royce 236 at 5pm. -- submitted by Danielle (danielle@humanities.ucla.edu) For more information, contact danielle@humnet.ucla.edu 2/2/06 (Thur) Cercle Francophone First French Film Festival: "Deux Visions de Paris/Two Visions of Paris" 6:30PM In Royce Hall 362 The Cercle Francophone announces its first French Film Festival: "Deux visions de Paris / Two visions of Paris" February 2, 2006 "Les nuits de la pleine lune" ( Full Moon in Paris) de/ by Eric Rohmer February 3, 2006 "Subway" de / by Luc Besson. Both screenings will be held in Royce Hall 362 at 6:30PM. It is free and open to the public. The movies are in French with English subtitles. -- submitted by Danielle (danielle@humanities.ucla.edu) For more information, contact danielle@humnet.ucla.edu 3/4/06 (Sat) THE SOCIAL HISTORY OF ART - A SYMPOSIUM IN HONOR OF PROFESSOR AL BOIME 8:30AM until 5:30PM In Royce Hall 314 Saturday, March 4, 2006 UCLA Royce Hall 314 "The Social History of Art: A Symposium in honor of Professor Al Boime MORNING SESSION (8:30-12:30) Reconsidering the ‘Social’: Art History, Marxism and the New Left Professor Michael Orwicz, Department of Art and Art History, University of Connecticut Seating the Republic: Jacques-Louis David and the Invention of Revolutionary Architecture Professor & Dean Anthony Vidler, School of Architecture, Cooper Union, New York The French Academy and Engraving in the Nineteenth Century Professor Susanne Anderson-Riedel, Department of Art and Art History, University of New Mexico Géricault in the Hands of the New Conservatives Professor Nicos Hadjinicolaou, Institute of Mediterranean Studies, Crete Gambetta & the Arts: An Aesthetic of ‘Opportunism’ Dr. Michel Melot, Ministry of Culture, France AFTERNOON SESSION (1:30 – 5:30 PM) Authorized and Unauthorized: The Systematic Record of the Image in France before 1900 George McKee, Library Services, SUNY Binghamton Culture, Class and Gender: Fannia Cohn, Roberta Fansler and The Metropolitan Museum’s Worker’s Education Program Professor Frances Pohl, Department of Art and Art History, Pomona College From iPod to Iraq Professor David Kunzle, UCLA Department of Art History Sounds of Paradise: Hawai'i and the American Musical Imagination Professor Charles Garrett, Department of Musicology, University of Michigan Professor Al Boime received his Ph.D. from Columbia University, has been a UCLA faculty member since 1978. He teaches the Social History of Modern Art. His pedagogical imperative is the training and stimulation of the mind to independent thought through exposure to the visual products of inventive human beings unafraid of unrestricted openness to experience. He believes that an understanding of imagery will show that we are not yet too fallen and depraved to be able to reform the world in the name of suffering humanity. The Social History of Art is cosponsored by the UCLA Departments of Architecture and Urban Design, Art, Art History, French and Francophone, and History; the Centers for Jewish Studies and 17th & 18th Century Studies; Friends of Art History; History/Art History; Yitzhak Rabin Hillel Center for Jewish Life at UCLA; UCLA Humanities Division; and individual donors. Parking is available in Structure 2, at the Hilgard & Westholme campus entrance, $8.00/car. Details on the program schedule will be posted on the web: www.humnet.ucla.edu/humnet/arthist/ArtHistoryHome.html -- submitted by Heather Gould (gould@humanities.ucla.edu) For more information, contact gould@humnet.ucla.edu 4/27/06 (Thur) through 4/ CDH Roundtable Meeting-French & Francophone Studies 12:00PM In CDH Conference Room Public Policy Building 1023 SAVE THE DATE! Please join us for a discussion with Dr. Kimberly Jansma from French and Francophone Studies. More information to follow. -- submitted by Kathy Forero (kforero@humanities.ucla.edu) For more information, see http://www.french.ucla.edu/ 6/1/06 (Thur) Cercle Francophone presents "Rhinoceros" by Eugene Ionesco 7:00PM In Moore 100 The Cercle Francophone, French club, invites you to the only performance of: RHINOCEROS by Eugene Ionesco. Thursday, June 1st, 7:00PM in Moore 100 Play of the theater of Avant-garde, a comedy and absurd play questioning all ideas about conformism and individuality. In short it is a play about us, all of us. It is free and open to everyone. Parking is available ($8) -- submitted by Danielle (danielle@humanities.ucla.edu) For more information, contact danielle@humnet.ucla.edu 9/29/06 (Fri) The Anecdote: Interdisciplinary Perspectives 1:00PM until 5:30PM In 236 Royce Hall The Department of French and Francophone Studies THE ANECDOTE: INTERDISCIPLINARY PERSPECTIVES Friday, September 29, 1-5:30 pm 306 Royce Hall A Conference organized by Andrea Loselle and Malina Stefanovska Session I: 1 pm- 3:30 pm Tom Conley, Abbott Lawrence Lowell Professor, Department of Romance Languages and Literatures, Harvard University "Anecdote and Antidote: Montaigne on Dissemblance" Marcel Hénaff, Department of Literature and Department of Political Science, UC San Diego "The Anecdotal: Detail and Truth" Helen Deutsch, Department of English Literature, UCLA "Boswell, Johnson, and Anecdotal Intimacy" Respondent: Malina Stefanovska, Department of French and Francophone Studies, UCLA Break Session II: 3:30 pm- 5:30 pm John McCumber, Department of Germanic Languages, UCLA "To Be Is To Be An Anecdote: Hegel And The Therapeutic Absolute" Andrea Loselle, Department of French and Francophone Studies, UCLA « Anecdotal Clutter in Eugène Atget’s Intérieurs Parisiens. » Respondent: Dominique Jullien, Department of French and Italian, UC Santa Barbara Reception -- submitted by Danielle (danielle@humanities.ucla.edu) For more information, contact clennon@humnet.ucla.edu 10/27/06 (Fri) through 10/ Faïza Guène Lecture 12:00PM until 1:00PM In Royce Hall 236 The daughter of Algerian immigrants, Faïza Guene, a writer and aspiring filmmaker, grew up in Les Courtillieres, one of Paris' large public housing projects in the northeastern suburbs. She attends the University of Saint Denis and has just completed her first short film. Her first novel, Kiffe Kiffe Demain (Kiffe Kiffe Tomorrow) recounts the life of Doria, a 15 year-old Muslim girl who lives in a housing project outside Paris. The book was published in France in August 2004 when she was 19 and was an instant hit. It has been translated into 26 languages -- submitted by Laura Clennon (clennon@humanities.ucla.edu) For more information, contact clennon@humnet.ucla.edu 10/30/06 (Mon) through 10/ Bruce Bégout Lecture 12:00PM until 1:00PM In Royce Hall 236 Bruce Bégout « Los Angeles, ville provisoire. La capitale du XXème siècle ? » French philosopher and professor Bruce Bégout will present the book he’s currently working on : a philosophical analysis of the city of Los Angeles as an archetype of the 20th Century urbanism viewed through three great technological revolutions : the car, the image industry (television and cinema) and computer science. -- submitted by Laura Clennon (clennon@humanities.ucla.edu) For more information, contact clennon@humnet.ucla.edu 10/20/06 (Fri) through 10/21/06 (Sat) Los Angeles Queer Studies Conference 2006 1:00PM until 6:00PM In Royce Hall Los Angeles Queer Studies Conference 2006 October 20-21, 2006 Royce Hall Free to the public! The conference has been organized by the UCLA Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Studies Program. The conference is cosponsored by the following UCLA divisions, centers, institutes, and departments: the Graduate Division, the Division of Humanities, the Division of Social Sciences, the Center for Performance Studies, the Center for the Study of Women, the Williams Institute on Sexual Orientation Law and Public Policy, and the departments of Anthropology, Art History, Chicana and Chicano Studies, Comparative Literature, English, Film, TV, and Digital Media, French and Francophone Studies, Musicology, Spanish and Portuguese, and Theater. -- submitted by Courtney D. Johnson (lgbs@humanities.ucla.edu) For more information, see http://www.humnet.ucla.edu/humnet/lgbts/LAQSC06.html 10/27/06 (Fri) Screening of Ma 6T va crack-er and Q&A with director Jean-Francois Richet 8:00PM until 10:00PM In James Bridges Theater The Department of French and Francophone Studies, Unifrance, and the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs present the Fourth Edition of On-Set with French Cinema at UCLA. On-Set with French Cinema allows students studying film in the United States the opportunity to attend master classes with leading French film artists. As part of the series, the following film will be shown for UCLA students and faculty, followed by a Q&A with the film’s director: Friday, October 27, 2006 “Ma 6T va crack-er” Directed by Jean-François Richet 8 pm film screening followed by a Q&A with Jean-François Richet James Bridges Theater, UCLA -- submitted by Laura Clennon (clennon@humanities.ucla.edu) For more information, contact clennon@humnet.ucla.edu 11/1/06 (Wed) Christel Trouvé Brown-Bag Lecture 12:00PM In Royce Hall 236 Christel Trouvé “A Typology of French Internment Camps, 1938-1946” Wednesday, November 1, 2006 Royce Hall 236 12 pm Free and open to the public -- submitted by Laura Clennon (clennon@humanities.ucla.edu) For more information, contact clennon@humnet.ucla.edu 11/2/06 (Thur) Simon Gikandi Lecture 4:30PM until 7:00PM In 314 Royce Hall Simon Gikandi (Princeton University) "LOOKING BACK ON COSMOPOLITANISM” November 2, 2006 4:30pm 314 Royce Hall Simon Gikandi is Professor of English at Princeton University. He graduated with a first class degree in literature from the University of Nairobi, was a British Council Scholar at the University of Edinburgh, and received his Ph.D in English from Northwestern University. His major Fields of Research and Teaching are the Anglophone Literatures and Cultures of Africa, India, the Caribbean, and Postcolonial Britain, the “Black” Atlantic and the African Diaspora. He also has a special interest in the relation between literature and the production of knowledge and the history of English as a field of study. He is the recipient of numerous awards from organizations such as the American Council of Learned Societies, the Mellon Foundation, and the Guggenheim Fellowship. His many books include Reading the African Novel, Reading Chinua Achebe, Writing in Limbo: Modernism and Caribbean Literature, Maps of Englishness: Writing Identity in the Culture of Colonialism, and Ngugi wa Thiong'o. He is the general editor of The Encyclopedia of African Literature and co-editor of The Cambridge History of African and Caribbean Literature. He is currently completing a book on the relation between slavery and the culture of taste. This lecture is co-sponsored by the Departments of Comparative Literature and French and Francophone Studies -- submitted by Courtney Klipp (klipp@humanities.ucla.edu) 11/3/06 (Fri) City of Lost Children screening followed by Q&A with director Jean-Pierre Jeunet 7:30PM until 10:00PM In James Bridges Theater The Department of French and Francophone Studies, Unifrance, and the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs present the Fourth Edition of On-Set with French Cinema at UCLA. On-Set with French Cinema allows students studying film in the United States the opportunity to attend master classes with leading French film artists. As part of the series, the following films will be shown for UCLA students and faculty, followed by a Q&A with the film’s director: Friday, November 3, 2006 “City of Lost Children" Directed by Jean-Pierre Jeunet and Marc Caro 7:30 screening followed by a Q&A with Jean-Pierre Jeunet James Bridges Theater, UCLA -- submitted by Laura Clennon (clennon@humanities.ucla.edu) For more information, contact clennon@humnet.ucla.edu 11/16/06 (Thur) France Today 12:00PM until 1:00PM In Royce Hall 314 France Today: A conversation between French Consul Philippe Larrieu and Dominic Thomas, Chair of the French and Francophone Studies Department Thursday, November 16 12 pm Royce Hall 314 -- submitted by Laura Clennon (clennon@humnet.ucla.edu@humanities.ucla.edu) For more information, contact clennon@humnet.ucla.edu 1/24/07 (Wed) "Le Couperet" Screening and Q&A with director Costa Gavras 8:00PM In James Bridges Theater The Department of French and Francophone Studies, Unifrance, and the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs present the Fourth Edition of On-Set with French Cinema at UCLA. On-Set with French Cinema allows students studying film in the United States the opportunity to attend master classes with leading French film artists. As part of the series, the following film will be shown for UCLA students and faculty, followed by a Q&A with the film’s director: Wednesday, January 24, 2007 "Le Couperet" Directed by Costa Gavras 8 pm film screening followed by a Q&A with Costa Gavras James Bridges Theater, UCLA -- submitted by Laura Clennon (clennon@humnet.ucla.edu@humanities.ucla.edu) For more information, contact clennon@humnet.ucla.edu 2/2/07 (Fri) Arif Dirlik Seminar: "Global Modernity and the Global South" 4:00PM until 6:00PM In Royce Hall 236 Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship in the Humanities Program Announces the upcoming seminar by: Arif Dirlik “Global Modernity and the Global South” Friday, February 2, 2007 4-6 pm Royce Hall 236 Arif Dirlik is Knight Professor of Social Science and Professor of History and Anthropology at the University of Oregon. The seminar discussion will be based on two articles, “Global South: Predicament and Promise” and “Conceptual Field(s) of Globality,” available on the Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship website at www.humnet.ucla.edu/mellon. Please read the articles in advance of the seminar. -- submitted by Laura Clennon (clennon@humnet.ucla.edu@humanities.ucla.edu) For more information, contact clennon@humnet.ucla.edu 2/6/07 (Tues) Jeff Sacks Lecture - "Idioms of Mourning: Mahmoud Darwish and Edmond Amran El-Maleh" 5:00PM until 7:00PM In Royce Hall 306 The UCLA Departments of French and Francophone Studies and Comparative Literature present Jeff Sacks Columbia University "Idioms of Mourning: Mahmoud Darwish and Edmond Amran El-Maleh" Tuesday, February 6, 2007 5 pm Royce Hall 306 -- submitted by Laura Clennon (clennon@humnet.ucla.edu@humanities.ucla.edu) For more information, contact clennon@humnet.ucla.edu 2/12/07 (Mon) Maya Boutaghou Lecture - "Between History and Memory: Emergent Voices of Femininity in Zaynab (1914) by Muhammad Husayn al Haykal and Les Alouettes naives (1967) by Assia Djebar" 5:00PM until 7:00PM In Royce Hall 314 UCLA Departments of French and Francophone Studies and Comparative Literature present Maya Boutaghou University of Gabes "Between History and Memory: Emergent Voices of Femininity in Zaynab (1914) by Muhammad Husayn al Haykal and Les Alouettes naives (1967) by Assia Djebar" -- submitted by Laura Clennon (clennon@humnet.ucla.edu@humanities.ucla.edu) For more information, contact clennon@humnet.ucla.edu 2/26/07 (Mon) Nouri Gana Lecture -- "Melancholy Acts: Reclaiming Arabness in Contemporary Arab Literature and Culture" 5:00PM until 7:00PM In Royce Hall 314 UCLA DEPARTMENTS OF FRENCH & FRANCOPHONE STUDIES AND COMPARATIVE LITERATURE Present NOURI GANA University of Michigan, Dearborn “Melancholy Acts: Reclaiming Arabness in Contemporary Arab Literature and Culture” Monday, February 26, 2007 5:00 pm 314 Royce Hall -- submitted by Laura Clennon (clennon@humnet.ucla.edu@humanities.ucla.edu) For more information, contact clennon@humnet.ucla.edu 3/12/07 (Mon) Mellon Seminar by Alessandra Di Maio -- "Black Italia: Contemporary Migrant Writers from Africa" 4:00PM until 6:00PM In Royce Hall 236 The Mellon Fellowship in the Humanities presents Alessandra Di Maio "Black Italia: Contemporary Migrant Writers from Africa" Monday, March 12 4:00 pm Royce Hall 236 Those who plan to attend the seminar should contact Laura Clennon at clennon@humnet.ucla.edu for the seminar reading. -- submitted by Laura Clennon (clennon@humnet.ucla.edu@humanities.ucla.edu) For more information, contact clennon@humnet.ucla.edu 5/7/07 (Mon) Yasmina Khadra 5:00PM until 7:00PM In Royce Hall 236 The Department of French and Francophone Studies presents Yasmina Khadra The Algerian novelist Yasmina Khadra will discuss his work Monday, May 7, 2007 5 pm Royce Hall 236 -- submitted by Laura Clennon (clennon@humnet.ucla.edu@humanities.ucla.edu) For more information, contact clennon@humnet.ucla.edu 5/16/07 (Wed) Shu Lea Cheang's "Fresh Kill" 7:00PM until 9:30PM In James Bridges Theater, 1409 Melnitz Hall UCLA Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowships in the Humanities Conference "Migration, Empire, and Transformation" presents Shu Lea Cheang's "Fresh Kill" Film Screening followed by Artist's Reflections and Q&A with Director Shu Lea Cheang Wednesday, May 16, 2007 James Bridges Theater, 1409 Melnitz Hall 7:00 pm "Fresh Kill" tells the story of two young lesbian parents (Sarita Choudhury of MISSISSIPPI MASALA and Erin McMurtry) who get caught up in a global exchange of industrial waste via contaminated sushi. The place is New York and the time is now. Raw fish lips are the rage on trendy menus across Manhattan. A ghost barge, bearing nuclear refuse, circles the planet in search of a willing port. Household pets start to glow ominously and then disappear altogether. The sky opens up and snows soap flakes. People start speaking in tongues. The crisis escalates when a multinational corporation is implicated and the couple's infant daughter mysteriously vanishes. After uncovering censored information, a group of young New Yorkers makes an unlikely alliance with activists in the developing world and strikes back. Visit http://humnet.ucla.edu/mellon for more information This event is sponsored by the Dean, College of Letters and Sciences, and the Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowships in the Humanities -- submitted by Laura Clennon (clennon@humnet.ucla.edu@humanities.ucla.edu) For more information, contact clennon@humnet.ucla.edu 5/21/07 (Mon) Francis Higginson Lecture -- "The Francophone African Crime Novel" 4:30PM until 6:00PM In Royce Hall 236 The Department of French and Francophone Studies presents Francis Higginson Bryn Mawr College "The Francophone African Crime Novel" Monday, May 21, 2007 4:30 pm Royce Hall 236 -- submitted by Laura Clennon (clennon@humnet.ucla.edu@humanities.ucla.edu) For more information, contact clennon@humnet.ucla.edu 5/24/07 (Thur) Danielle Marx-Scouras Lecture -- "Rock the Hexagon" 4:30PM until 6:00PM In Royce Hall 236 The UCLA Department of French and Francophone Studies presents Danielle Marx-Scouras Ohio State University "Rock the Hexagon" Thursday, May 24, 2007 4:30 pm Royce Hall 236 -- submitted by Laura Clennon (clennon@humnet.ucla.edu@humanities.ucla.edu) For more information, contact clennon@humnet.ucla.edu 10/24/07 (Wed) Azouz Begag Lecture: "Equal Opportunities in France Today" 4:30PM In Royce Hall 306 The UCLA Department of French and Francophone Studies Presents a lecture by Azouz Begag French Minister for Equal Opportunities, 2005-07 “Equal Opportunities in France Today” Wednesday, October 24, 2007 Royce Hall 306 4:30 pm -- submitted by Laura Clennon (clennon@humnet.ucla.edu@humanities.ucla.edu) For more information, contact clennon@humnet.ucla.edu 11/7/07 (Wed) Master Class with Francis Veber 4:00PM In Dodd Hall 147 The UCLA Department of French and Francophone Studies presents Master Class with Francis Veber Director of Le Placard and Le Dîner des cons Wednesday, November 7, 2007 Dodd Hall 147 4:00 pm -- submitted by Laura Clennon (clennon@humnet.ucla.edu@humanities.ucla.edu) For more information, contact clennon@humnet.ucla.edu 11/19/07 (Mon) Peter Hallward Lecture -- "Haiti 2004: Coup d'etat or coup de grace?" 4:00PM In Faculty Center Hacienda Room The UCLA Department of French and Francophone Studies presents Peter Hallward (Middlesex University) "Haiti 2004: Coup d'etat or coup de grace?" Monday, November 19, 2007 Faculty Center Hacienda Room 4:00 pm Co-sponsored by the UCLA English Department -- submitted by Laura Clennon (clennon@humnet.ucla.edu@humanities.ucla.edu) For more information, contact clennon@humnet.ucla.edu 11/28/07 (Wed) CMRS Roundtable: "The Song of Roland and the Leges Barbarorum" 12:00PM until 1:00PM In Royce 306 Dr. Leena Löfstedt discusses the Song of Roland. Different commentaries of the Song of Roland invoke Germanic tribal laws to explain the protagonists' behavior, but these tribal laws are neither identified nor quoted. Since several of the tribal laws (Leges Barbarorum) that could have been known by Charlemagne, and the author(s) of the Song of Roland alike, exist in modern editions, a more explicit comparison is possible. And it adds a new dimension to the Song of Roland, maybe explaining some of the minstrel's commercial success. -- submitted by Brett Landenberger (cmrs@humanities.ucla.edu) 11/28/07 (Wed) Helene Desmeestre 2:00PM In Bunche Hall 3211 Le cercle francophone and the Department of French and Francophone Studies present a lecture by Helene Desmeestre "The Contribution of French immigration to the development of L.A." Wednesday, November 28, 2007 Bunche Hall 3211 2:00 pm -- submitted by Laura Clennon (clennon@humanities.ucla.edu) For more information, contact clennon@humnet.ucla.edu 1/25/08 (Fri) through 1/ "Reading Chrétien de Troyes (New Directions)" 1:00PM until 3:00PM In Royce 306 This roundtable will bring together a small group of medievalists who are working collaboratively on a book on Chrétien de Troyes, the foremost author of the French Middle Ages. The corpus of texts attributed to him has been the object of the earliest and longest medieval criticism. Just as Chrétien worked within networks of exchange, this project starts from the premise of collaboration and interdisciplinarity, each scholar from her own theoretical and intellectual perspective, but in a collective effort to understand the larger cultural, historical, and literary moment of the second half of the twelfth century. Participants will include Professors Virginie Greene (Harvard University), Sarah Kay (Princeton University), Sharon Kinoshita (University of California, Santa Cruz), Peggy McCracken (University of Michigan-Ann Arbor), and Zrinka Stahuljak (University of California-Los Angeles). -- submitted by Brett Landenberger (cmrs@humanities.ucla.edu) 1/15/08 (Tues) Julija Sukys Lecture 4:30PM In Royce Hall 236 The UCLA Department of French and Francophone Studies presents Julija Sukys "Postcard from Dachau: A Librarian in the Land of the Dead" Tuesday, January, 15, 2008 4:30 pm Royce Hall 236 -- submitted by Laura Clennon (clennon@humnet.ucla.edu@humanities.ucla.edu) For more information, contact clennon@humnet.ucla.edu 1/25/08 (Fri) "Reading Chrétien de Troyes (New Directions)" 1:00PM until 3:00PM In Royce 306 This roundtable will bring together a small group of medievalists who are working collaboratively on a book on Chrétien de Troyes, the foremost author of the French Middle Ages. The corpus of texts attributed to him has been the object of the earliest and longest medieval criticism. Just as Chrétien worked within networks of exchange, this project starts from the premise of collaboration and interdisciplinarity, each scholar from her own theoretical and intellectual perspective, but in a collective effort to understand the larger cultural, historical, and literary moment of the second half of the twelfth century. Participants will include Professors Virginie Greene (Harvard University), Sarah Kay (Princeton University), Sharon Kinoshita (University of California, Santa Cruz), Peggy McCracken (University of Michigan-Ann Arbor), and Zrinka Stahuljak (University of California-Los Angeles). -- submitted by Brett Landenberger (cmrs@humanities.ucla.edu)

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