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Fall 2004 Events

Lecture

CHRISTIAN BIET
Professor of Theater Studies, Université de Paris-Nanterre; Visiting professor, NYU; author of Droit et littérature sous ’Ancien Régime; Les Miroirs du soleil

Représenter l’horreur: le spectacle t le sang, début XVIIe siècle / début XXIe siècle

Lecture

PAUL COHEN
Maître de conférences, Université de Paris-VIII

Excavating the Origins of French: The Politics of Historical
Philology in Early Modern France

Reading - CANCELLED

JEAN – JACQUES SCHUHL
Novelist; author of Rose poussière; Telex n.1; Ingrid aven (Prix Goncourt)

Lecture de textes

Lecture

PATRICIA MAINARDI
Professor and Chair of Art History; Graduate Center, CUNY; author of Husbands, ives, and Lovers; The End of the Salon; Art and Politics of the Second Empire

Husbands, Wives, and Lovers: Marriage nd Its Discontents in Nineteenth-Century France

Lecture

LOIC WACQUANT
Professor of Sociology and Anthropology, New School University; author of Prisons of Poverty; Deadly Symbiosis: Race and the Rise of Neoliberal Penality

Punish the Poor: Correctional Aberrations in France

Roundtables

PERSPECTIVES ON STORYTELLING
10:00 a.m. – Noon
Storytelling across the Disciplines
Felice Aull, NYU, Medicine; Jerome Bruner, NYU, Law; Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett, NYU, Performance Studies; Linda Gordon, NYU, History; Fr. Joseph Koterski, S.J., Fordham, Philosophy; Robin Nagle, NYU, Draper Program; Kay Turner, NYU, Performance Studies; Timmie (E.B.) Vitz, NYU, French

2:00 – 4:00 p.m.
Storytellers in Performance
Mark Franko, Columbia, Visiting Professor; Kyra Gaunt, NYU, Music; Peggy Pettitt-Tissier, Performer, Tisch School of the Arts; Steve Zeitlin, Director, City Lore; Lea Thau, Director, The Moth

Storytelling in Performance Workshop sponsored by the NYU Humanities Council; co-directors: Timmie Vitz (French), Nancy F. Regalado (French), Martha Hodes (History)

Cinema

FRANCE ON FILM
Sponsored by La Maison Française and the Institute of French tudies

$3 with NYU i.d.; $5 all others. In French with English subtitles Friday, October 1 – 7:00 p.m.
La Confusion des genres
Ilan Duran Cohen; 2000; DVD; 94 min.; with Pascal Greggory, Nathalie ichard

This Tournées program was made possible with the support of the Cultural Services of the French Embassy and the Ministry of Culture CNC).

Lecture

ELIETTE ABECASSIS
Novelist; author of Qumran; La Répudiée; Mon ère; Clandestin; La Dernière Tribu; essayist; author of Petite Métaphysique du meurtre

Le Roman en France: problèmes t perspectives

Lecture

MARC ABELES
Anthropologist, CNRS; visiting professor, NYU; author of La Vie quotidienne au Parlement européen; Les Nouveaux Riches. Un Ethnologue dans la Silicon Valley

The New 25 State Europe: Politics in a Transnational Age

Roundtable Screening

GUY DEBORD: Ten Years Later

2:00 – 4:00 p.m.
Denis Hollier, NYU (moderator)
Vincent Kaufmann, Université e Saint-Gall
Anthony Vidler, Cooper Union
Thomas Y. Levin, Princeton
Tom McDonough, Binghampton

Screenings: Two Films by Guy Debord

4:30 – 6:30 p.m.
La Société du spectacle
(1973 VHS, 90 min.) Presented by Thomas Levin

7:00 – 9:00 p.m.
In Girum imus nocte et consumimur igni
(1978 VHS, 80 min.) Presented by Vincent Kaufmann

Lecture

SALLY PRICE & RICHARD RICE
Anthropologists; College of William and Mary; authors of The Root of Roots: Or, How Afro-American Anthropology Got Its Start; Maroon Arts; Equatoria

Martinique through Different Eyes: Michel Leiris, Romare Bearden, and Ourselves

Lecture -- CANCELLED

HELENE CIXOUS
Essayist; novelist; author of Les Rêveries de la femme auvage; Le jour où je n’étais pas là; laywright; author of Tambours sur la digue; Rouen, la trentième uit de mars 31

The Book That I Didn’t Write

Conference

DERRIDA CONFERENCE CANCELLED

Lecture

MATEI VISNIEC
Playwright, poet, journalist; author of Le dernier Godot; La emme comme champ de bataille dans la guerre en Bosnie; L’Histoire du communisme racontée aux malades mentaux

Une Aventure francophone – entre littérature, héâtre et politique

Lecture

JOSE KAGABO
Historian, Centre d’études africaines, EHESS ; author of L’Islam et le Swahili au Rwanda

France and Rwanda: The Debates over Genocide

Lecture

JULIA KRISTEVA
Writer, philosopher, psychoanalyst; author of Le Génie féminin, .1 Hannah Arendt; t.2 Melanie Klein, t.3 Colette; Le Temps sensible: Proust et l’expérience littéraire

Narration in Literature and Psychoanalysis

Lecture

YVES HERSANT
Director, Groupe de recherches sur l’Europe, EHESS; visiting professor, NYU; author of La Métaphore baroque; Europes; Italies

La Nudité et le nu

Cinema

FRANCE ON FILM
Sponsored by La Maison Française and the Institute of French Studies

$3 with NYU i.d.; $5 all others. In French with English subtitles Friday, October 29 – 7:00 p.m.
Son Frère
Patrice Chéreau; 2002; DVD; 95 min.; with Bruno Todeschini, Eric Caravaca

This Tournées program was made possible with the support of the Cultural Services of the French Embassy and the Ministry of Culture CNC).

Exhibition

Contacts de civilisations: la Martinique de Michel Leiris

Photographs by Pierre Verger, Denise Colomb, Jean-Luc Laguarigue,David Damoison, and others.

Curator: Dominique Taffin, Conservateur en chef du patrimoine; Directrice des Archives départementales e la Martinique

Lecture

DOUNIA BOUZAR
Anthropologist, Ministère de la Justice; member of the Conseil rançais du Culte Musulman; author of L’une voilée, l’autre pas; Monsieur Islam n’existe pas

Les Musulmans et la laïcité française

Cinema

On Set with French Cinema: CLAIRE DENIS

Filmmaker: Chocolat; I Can’t Sleep; Nénette and Boni; Trouble Every Day; Friday Night

Discussion with the director following screening of Beau Travail
(1999, 90 min., in French with English subtitles)

Free admission; priority with NYU i.d.

Conference

The Lost Banlieues of the Republic? Friday, November 5 9:30 a.m. 1:00 p.m.

Opening Remarks:
Edward Berenson (NYU), Frédéric Viguier (NYU)
I. Troubled Banlieues or Banlieues in Trouble? (De)Constructing a Social Problem
Philippe Bernard (Le Monde), a Construction médiatique des banlieues; Sylvie Tissot (Université de Strasbourg), Le « quartier sensible » dans la politique de la ville; Christian opalov (CNRS, EHESS), Lexiques de la stigmatisation rbaine;
Moderator: Martin Schain (NYU) Friday, November 5 2:30 to 5:30 p.m.

II. Les BanlieuesSpeak: ip Hop, Graffitti,and Cultural Expressions of Resistance
Screening: On n’est pas des marques de vélo
(2002, 89 min., in French with English subtitles)
Jean-Pierre Thorn (documentary ilmmaker), Hip-Hop et résistance culturelle en banlieues; oderator: Frédéric Viguier; iscussants: Ink 76 and Sonic (graffitti artists) Saturday, November 6 10:00 a.m. o 1:00 p.m.

III. Working-Class Identity and Immigration: he Rising Significance of Ethnicity, Religion, and Gender in les Banlieues
Dounia Bouzar (Ministère e la Justice), Français-e-s ET Musulman-e-s. Vivre une ouble appartenance hier et aujourd’hui; Nacira uénif-Souilamas (Université de Paris-13), Aux arges de la société française : « indigène », « immigrés », « garçons arabes raquo;; Gérard Mauger (CNRS), Le onde des bandes et ses transformations depuis les années 1970.
Moderator: Aristide Zolberg (New School) Discussant: Ruth Horowitz NYU) Saturday, November 6 2:30 to :15 p.m.

IV. New Causes, New Militants
Safia Lebdi (Vice President, Mouvement Ni utes ni Soumises), Le Mouvement « Ni Putes ni Soumises » Olivier asclet (Université de Paris -5), Le Rendez-vous manqué e la gauche et des cités Saturday, November 6 4:30 to :30 p.m.

V. What Happened to the Alliance of he “People” and the Left? Comparing France
and the United States
Round Table with Dick Howard (SUNY Stony Brook), Tony Judt (NYU), and conference participants. Moderator: Edward Berenson

Lecture

MING TIAMPO
Art Historian, Carleton University; co-curator of Grey Art Gallery Exhibition Electrifying Art: Atsuko Tanaka, 1954-1968

Around the World in 80 Exhibitions: Internationalism and Cultural Translation in Art Informel and Gutai

Lecture

JACQUES MISTRAL
Economist; Financial Counselor to the French Embassy

BERNARD SPITZ
Economist; founder, BSC Conseil ; Senior Advisor (1988-91) to Prime Minister Michel Rocard; author of Etat d’urgence: réformer ou bdiquer, le choix français

Reforming the Welfare State? The French Case

Conference

GEORGE SAND: Families and Communities - Familles et Communautés Friday, November 12 9:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m.

Claudie Bernard, Families and communities in Post-Revolutionary France; Philippe égnier, Morale privée et morale sociale, famille selon le sang; et famille selon l’esprit: G. and à la lumière des débats saint-simoniens; Michelle Perrot, La Famille, lieu de mémoire sandien; Anne-Marie aron, Histoire de ma vie: ou la famille imaginaire Friday, November 12 2:00 to 6:00 p.m.

Christine Planté, Ici, ailleurs: les Couperies,Lettres ’un voyageur, Histoire de ma vie; Evelyne Ender, cènes d’enfance: l’invention de la famille chez George Sand; Béatrice idier, Familles de musiciens;Lucienne Frappier-Mazur, Le Rêve communautaire au théâtre; Ruth A. Spencer, Sand and Chopin in Majorca: Music and Slides from the Winter of 1838-39 Saturday, November 13 9:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m.

Aimée Boutin, Characters nd Communities in the 1830’s: The Case of Indiana, and Valentine; Isabelle Naginski, Familles d’élection. Rituel et initiation dans Horace et La Comtesse de Rudolstadt; Dominique Jullien, George Sand à côté d’Eugène ue; Anne McCall, Fonctions et famille et dysfonction narrative dans Les Lettres à Marcie Saturday, November 13 2:00 to 5:00 p.m.

Michèle Riot-Sarcey, L’Indépassable amille, de l’errance sans tabou au réalisme politique, de Lélia agrave; 1848; Martine Reid, Huis los: La Famille des Germandre; Françoise assardier-Kenney, The Evolution of the Idea of Community: from Jacques to Valvèdre;
David A. Powell, Communities in Confrontation

Lecture

GILBERT MICHLIN
Author of Aucun intérêt au point de vue national

Of No Interest to the Nation: A Jewish Family in France 1925 – 1945

Lecture -- CANCELLED

DANIEL MESGUICH
Director; actor; professor, Conservatoire National Supérieure L’Art Dramatique de Paris; former director, Théâtre National de Lille

Transmettre le théâtre

Lecture

MARK FRANKO
Dancer, choreographer, professor of dance and performance studies, University of California, Santa Cruz; author of The Work of Dance; Acting in the Past

Power, Force, and Mourning in French Court Ballet

Conference

WHAT’S NEW IN FRANCE’S RECENT HEALTH CARE REFORM ?

Ecole Libre des Hautes Etudes and Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service Colloquium, NYU; co-sponsors: French Ministry of Health (Department of European and International Affairs); French-American oundation; La Maison Française of NYU;
Center for European Studies, NYU; International Health Policy Research

Reservations required: wagner.events@nyu.edu or 212-998-7546

Location: The Puck Building, 2nd Floor, 79 Lafayette St. (at Houston)

9:00 a.m. Registration
9:15 a.m. Introduction

Session 1 - 9:30 to 11:00 a.m.

Moderator: Rene I. Jahiel Ecole Libre des Hautes Etudes; International Health Policy Research)
Victor G. Rodwin (NYU), The Douste-Blazy Reform: Should it be of Interest to U.S. Policymakers? Claude Le Pen (University of Paris IX – Dauphine), State-Led Managed Care in France. Will it Work? Jean de Kervasdoué (Centre National des Arts et Métiers; former Director of Hospitals, French Ministry of Health) The Crisis of the French Health System: What Next?

Session 2 - 11:30 a.m. - 1:00 p.m.

Moderator: Victor G. Rodwin
European Discussants: Dov Chernichovsky (Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel);
Michel Grignon (CREDES, Paris); Pierre-Jean Lancry (Haut Conseil sur l’Avenir de l’Assurance Maladie)
American Discussants: Lawrence Brown Columbia University, Department of Health Policy and Management); Michael K. Gusmano (International Longevity Center,USA and Columbia University); René I. Jahiel; Martin Schain (NYU)

Lecture

CHRISTINE FAURE
Directrice de recherche, CNRS; Centre de Recherches Politiques de la Sorbonne,
Université de Paris-I; editor, Des Manuscrits de Sieyès, 773-1799

Sieyès, Rousseau, Spinoza et la théorie du contrat

Theater

ALGERIAN WHITE: The Language of the Dead

A staged adaptation of Assia Djebar’s Algerian White, performed in English by KAREN McLAUGHLIN

Reservations required: 212-998-8750.
Tickets: $ 20; $ 10 with NYU i.d.

Exhibition

Contacts de civilizations: la Martinique e Michel Leiris

Photographs by Pierre Verger, Denise Colomb, Jean-Luc de Laguarigue, David Damoison, and others.

Presented by the Conseil Général de la Martinique, Archives épartementales. Curator: Dominique Taffin