FLORENCE GOULD EVENT : Land of Refuge, Land of ExileThe
Center for French Civilization and Culture
TERRE D’ACCUEIL,
TERRE D’EXIL A FLORENCE GOULD EVENT When
France fell to the Germans in 1940, a number of French writers, intellectuals
and artists fled France and found refuge in the U.S. mostly in New York and on
the East Coast. Some worked for the U.S. government, some militated for Free
France, most continued their creative work. Many of the French were happy
during the American exile, others were deeply disturbed in this country. All
longed for France to be free again. Among those who spent the war years here
are St.John Perse, André Masson, Simone Weil, André Breton, André Maurois,
Claude Lévi-Strauss, Antoine de Saint-Exupéry,
THURSDAY, APRIL 16 7 – 9
p.m. OPENING
REMARKS, Tom Bishop, ,
New York University; Olivier Corpet,
IMEC KEYNOTE:
EMMANUELLE LOYER, Sciences-Po, Planète
sans visa. Histoire d'un exil de guerre JEFFREY
MEHLMAN, Boston University, Saint-John Perse at
NYU: Legacies of Briand FRIDAY, APRIL 17 JEAN-JACQUES LEBEL, Paris, An Exiled Kid in N.Y.C During the
Second World War MARTICA SAWIN, Art historian, “Painting
is a Wager” Reciprocal Transformations During the American
Years of André Masson VINCENT DEBAENE, Columbia University, Claude Lévi-Strauss
in New York 5 – 7 p.m. LAURE ADLER, Paris, Simone Weil : l'exil un déracinement ANNIE COHEN-SOLAL, New York University, Autour de Dolorès
Vanetti, un personnage inconnu et incontournable PHILIPPE ROGER, CNRS; EHESS, “Je reviens”: Découverte de
l’Amérique ou retour des stereotypes 8 – 9:15 p.m. Auditorium, Room 102, 19 University Place
(between 8th St. & Washington Square) PERFORMANCE OLIVIER PY, ACTOR, DIRECTOR, DIRECTOR OF THE THÉÂTRE
NATIONAL DE L’ODÉON- A DRAMATIC
READING of a text on Simone Weil by
Laure Adler SATURDAY, APRIL 18 2:30 – 5:30 p.m. MARK POLIZZOTTI, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, The Soluble Fish Out of Water: Breton's American Journey JUDITH FRIEDLANDER, Hunter College, CUNY, The École Libre des Hautes Études at the New School for Social Research JEANINE PLOTTEL, Hunter College, CUNY, The American Exile of Henry
Bernstein, André Maurois and Jules Romains CAROL RIGOLOT, Princeton University, Dateline New York:
French Exiles and the Press A CONFERENCE DIRECTED BY TOM BISHOP, NYU In English and
French For information, contact La Maison française, 212-998 8750 This Conference is
made possible by the generous principal support of the Florence Gould
Foundation, with additional support from the Cultural
Services of the French Embassy and the Fribourg Family Foundation 
In cooperation with the exhibition
organized by The New York Public Library and IMEC “Between Collaboration and Resistance: French Literary Life Under Nazi
Occupation” April 3 - July 25, 5th
Ave. & 42nd Street, and the conference by the same title on
April 3.Between Collaboration and Resistance
documents the tumultuous, often dangerous challenges faced by writers
and other public intellectuals in Nazi-controlled France. Personal correspondence, photographs,
manuscripts, books, and posters--most displayed for the first time in the
United States—illustrate the contrasting, sometimes complex response from
writers such as Gide, Sartre, and Céline to the country's defeat and the Vichy
regime “Publishing in Exile: German-language
Literature in the U.S. in the 1940s” organized by the Goethe-Institut NY &
the Leo Baeck Institute, will be on view April 23-June 28 at |
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