Fall 2009

EDUCO Information Session

September 24, 4:00 pm, CIPA room 105 Trimble Hall

Learn more about Emory's semester and year-long program in Paris! For further information, contact Prof. Elissa Marder at 404-727-6431

Constellation: Of Comparative Literature and the New Humanities Conference

October 16 - 18, Details

Guest Speakers include Profs. Peggy Kamuf, Thomas Keenan and Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak
October 16 and 17, 2:30-5:30, White Hall 208: Two-Day Roundtable Discussion with Geoffrey Bennington, Peggy Kamuf, Thomas Keenan and Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak
October 17, 10:45-12:45, White Hall 101: Special Emory Session: Interdisciplinarity and the Humanities featuring Elizabeth Goodstein, Andrew J. Mitchell and Laurie L. Patton

Sponsored by Comparative Literature with cosponsorship by the Hightower Fund, Department of French and Italian, Department of Spanish and Portuguese, Fox Center for Humanistic Inquiry, Institute of Liberal Arts, English Department and Graduate Division of Religion.

Dr. Cécile Dolisane Ebossè

2009-2010 Fulbright Scholar at Emory University
L’Université de Yaoundé I and l’Ecole normale supérieure, Cameroon

« Les féminismes dans le cinéma africain francophone »
“Feminisms in Francophone African Cinema“

Thursday, November 5, 2009 - 4:15 – 5 :30pm - Callaway C202

Prof. Kevin Newmark

Department of Romance Languages, Boston College

November 12 Lecture, 4:30pm, White Hall 103
“Who Needs Poetry? Baudelaire, Benjamin, and the Modernity of ‘Le Cygne’”

November 13 Seminar, 12:00pm, Callaway N106
"The Prose in Baudelaire's Poetry"

Organized by the Graduate Speaker’s Committee of the Department of Comparative Literature. Sponsored by the Departments of Comparative Literature, French and Italian, Spanish and Portuguese, and the Institute for the Liberal Arts (ILA).

Please find a calendar of humanities events at http://www.chi.emory.edu/calendar/index.html

Past Events

Spring 2009

Ecrire sans frontières 2009 Essay Writing Competition

The Department of French and Italian is pleased to announce the Essay Writing Competition for the 2008-2009 academic year. This competition is open to all undergraduate students studying French at Emory. Awards will be presented for the best essays written in French in two categories: students enrolled in beginning level (100-200) French classes, and advanced students enrolled in upper level (300-400) French classes. All essays must be original. Deadline for submission is March 31, 2009. For further information contact Dr. Lilia Coropceanu (lcoropc@emory.edu).

Le Club de français

Table française: Every Wednesday at Dooley's Den, 3:00 to 5:00 pm. Venez causer avec nous!

French Films, Callaway C202, 7:00 pm
January 29: De battre mon coeur s'est arrêté
February 12: Chocolat
February 26: La Double vie de Véronique
March 26: *Film Canceled*
April 2: Madame Bovary
April 9: Hiroshima mon amour
April 23: Au hasard Balthazar
Light refreshments and discussion will follow. For information please LL Jenny Davis or Robyn Banton

Circolo Italiano

Italian Films, Anthropology 303, 6:00 pm
February 17: Mio fratello e figlio unico, introduced by Anastasia Valecce
March 3: I Cento passi, introduced by Domenico Crudo
March 24: Il Postino, introduced by Gabriella Gangi
April 14: Nuovo Cinema Paradiso, introduced by Andrea Maizzi

Philippe Van Haute

February 23 Lecture, 4:15 pm, White Hall 110
“Between Disposition, Trauma and History: How Oedipal Was Dora?”

February 25 Seminar, 1:00 to 3:00 pm, Callaway N106
“Lacan Reads Hamlet: Between Psychoanalysis and Phenomenology”

Professor Van Haute is Professor of Philosophical Anthropology at the University of Nijmegen (The Netherlands) and has been president of the Belgian School of Psychoanalysis since 2005. His research and teaching focus on philosophical anthropology, with a special emphasis on the relation between psychoanalysis and philosophy in the development of a psychoanalytically inspired clinical anthropology. He is particularly interested in the role of psychopathology in the understanding of human beings (patho-analysis of existence), the philosophical significance of (theories of) psychotherapy, in the epistemological status of nosographic taxa and how the philosophical tradition (especially phenomenology) has dealt with psychopathology. In this context he is currently preparing a book on Freud’s ‘Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality’.

Sponsored by Comparative Literature with cosponsorship by the Psychoanalytic Studies Program and the Department of French and Italian.

Luce Irigaray Symposium

February 27 and 28, Details
Keynote, "Are the Lips a Grave?", Prof. Lynne Huffer
February 27, 6:00 pm, Few Hall Multipurpose Room
Symposium, February 28, 9:30-5:00, Few Hall Multipurpose Room

Sponsored by the Psychoanalytic Studies Program with cosponsorship by the Department of French and Italian.

Valère Novarina

February 27, 1:00, White Hall 208
Screening of Raphaël O’Byrne’s Ce dont on ne peut parler, c’est cela qu’il faut dire (What Cannot Be Spoken Is What Must Be Said, 2002, 60 min.)
Introduction by the author, Q&A with him following the documentary.

March 2, 5:30, Schwartz Center Theater Lab
A dynamic and jostling performance full of wit and subversion: A staged reading in English and in French of texts by Valère Novarina, staged by Valéry Warnotte of Paris, France, with Théâtre du Rêve actors Chris Kayser and Park Krausen and Emory Theater Studies students. Followed by a discussion and reception with the author and artists.

March 3, 4:15, White Hall 205
Presentation by Valère Novarina, in French only.

March 4, 11:00-1:00, Dobbs University Center room 363
Round Table with Valère Novarina, Valèry Warnotte and Théâtre du Rêve artists about Théâtre du Rêve’s 2010 production of a piece by Novarina. Guests welcome to drop in.

Valère Novarina is one of France's leading playwrights, whose works are regularly produced for the Festival d'Avignon, the Festival d'Automne, and internationally. He is also stage director, painter and photographer, he began writing plays as a child, then studied philosophy, philology and theatre history at the Sorbonne in Paris. He has published until today about 32 plays. Novarina places the actor at the center of his theatre works and the whole drama in his mouth: “The actor,” the writer says, “does not walk into the theatre, the actor moves forward with the theatre between his teeth.”

These events, free of charge and open to the general public, are sponsored by the Emory University Departments of French and Italian, Comparative Literature and Theater Studies; Emory College Center for Creativity & Arts; the Hightower Funds and French Cultural Services. Organized by Amin Erfani. For further information, contact aerfani@learnlink.emory.edu.

Events Celebrating the Publication of
The Letters of Samuel Beckett, Volume 1, 1929-1940

The first of four volumes of Samuel Beckett's letters, the edition is an international project, affiliated with the Graduate School of Emory University and published by Cambridge University Press.

"Fundamental Sounds: The Early Letters of Samuel Beckett"
Readings by Edward Albee, Salman Rushdie, Brenda Bynum and Robert Shaw Smith
March 17, 8:00 pm, Glenn Memorial Auditorium.

A Creativity Conversation with Edward Albee and Rosemary Magee
March 18, 3:00 PM; Center for Ethics Commons, Room 102, Emory University Center for Ethics, 1531 Dickey Drive.

Emory co-sponsors for these events: The Graduate School; The Hightower Fund; Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library; The Office of the Provost, Luminaries Series; the Creativity and Arts Strategic Initiative; the Emory College Center for Creativity & Arts; the Departments of Comparative Literature, Creative Writing, English, French and Italian; Irish Studies and Theater Studies.

Beckett Film Marathon
March 19, 4:00 to 10:00 pm, White Hall 110
4:00 pm Krapp's Last Tape
5:30 pm Rockaby
6:00 pm En Attendant Godot
9:00 pm Not I
9:30 pm Play

Flora Glenn Candler Concert Series: Lionheart with Vega String Quartet
with Phil Kline's composition John the Revelator, which sets passages from Samuel Beckett's novel The Unnamable, to music.
March 20, 8:00 pm, Schwartz Center, Emerson Concert Hall.

Prof. Lawrence Schehr

"Houellebecq’s Emasculations"
March 20, 2:00 pm
Callaway C202

Lawrence Schehr is Professor of French, Comparative Literature, Gender and Women’s Studies, Jewish Studies and Theory at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Prof. Schehr has published a number of books on nineteenth- and twentieth-century literature, including Parts of an Andrology: On Representations of Men's Bodies, Rendering French Realism, Alcibiades at the Door: Gay Discourses in French Literature, The Shock of Men: Homosexual Hermeneutics and French Writing, and Flaubert and Sons: Readings of Flaubert, Zola, and Proust. He has two books coming out this year: Subversions of Realism and French Post-Modern Masculinity: From Neuromatrices to Seropositivity, as well as a co-edited volume of Yale French Studies, "Turns to the Right?". He is also the co-editor of several volumes, including Articulations of Difference: Gender Studies and Writing in French, as well as an anthology, French Food (Routledge) and an issue of Yale French Studies dedicated to the work of Jean-François Lyotard. Prof. Schehr is also the editor-in-chief of the journal Contemporary French Civilization.

" A tu per tu con..."
Prof. Alessandro Veneziani presents: "Anche la matematica ha un cuore / Even Mathematics Has a Heart"

March 30, 7:00pm, Miller Ward House
Presentation in English with Q&A in English and Italian

Alessandro Veneziani is Associate Professor of Mathematics and Computer Science at Emory University. Since 1994, Prof. Veneziani has devoted his research to mathematical and numerical modeling of blood flow problems. He is one of the founding members of the laboratory of Modeling and Scientific Computing (MOX), a centre for the application of mathematics to real and industrial problems. In this framework, he has been PI or Co-PI in different projects on Haemodynamics and Industrial fluid dynamics. He has worked on the design of Arena competition swimsuits, Ducati motorbikes and Brembo brakes. He has received the SIAM 2004 Outstanding Paper Prize and the 2007 Sacchi Landriani International Prize.

Prof. Lydie Moudileno

"La Francophonie désavouée"
April 2, 4:15 pm
Callaway C202

Lydie Moudileno is Professor of French and Francophone studies at the University of Pennsylvania. Prof. Moudileno's research interests include Francophone literatures of the Caribbean and Sub-Saharan Africa. She is the author of L'Ecrivain antillais au miroir de sa littérature; Littératures africaines: 1980-1990; and Maryse Condé, une nomade inconvenante, co-edited with Madeleine Cottenet-Hage. While she keeps a strong interest in the literature from the Caribbean, her most recent publications have focused on African fiction, with a guest-edited volume of Présence Francophone on representations of the African body entitled “L’Exposition postcoloniale,” and her third book Parades Postcoloniales (2007).

Prof. Daniel Desormeaux

"Toussaint Louverture"
April 15, 1:00-2:30 pm
Callaway C202

Professor Desormeaux is currently an Associate Professor of French at the University of Kentucky and soon to begin an appointment in Francophone literature at the University of Chicago. Born in Haiti, Desormeaux is a native speaker of both Creole and French. Prof. Desormeaux also happens to be a graduate from the Emory French Doctoral Program. Desormeaux’s work on the original version of Toussaint Louverture’s memoirs in Creole has earned him an NEH research fellowship to publish the definitive edition of the memoirs.

Le Colloque Sous-Gradué Français

Mercredi, le 22 avril, 2009 à 4:15h; C202 Callaway
 
Le Concours d’écriture—Premier Prix
Alexandra K. Morrison :« De la réalité à l’art et de l’art à la réalité »

Corporalités: Du Moyen Âge au Classicisme
Jennifer Lee : « Le roman de Tristan et Iseut : Le poison ou le philtre d’amour ? »
Jennifer L. Nelson: « Le Langage du sang dans Le Cid »
 
Modernités en question
RebeccaWessell : « L’économie de la vie »
Shifali Baliga , «‘I know its entire history’: An Exploration of History via Oral and Written Literary Traditions »

Fall 2008

Fatou Diome

Lecture d'extraits de ses livres La Préférence nationale, Le Ventre de l'Atlantique et Inassouvies, nos vies et discussion
November 11 at 4:15
Callaway C202

Prof. Herman Parret

"Roland Barthes : 'La saveur' dans les trois cours de Collège de France"
November 18 at 4:15
Callaway C202

Prof. Peggy Kamuf

“Bowing to Necessity in Your Idiom”
November 20, 3:15-5:00
White Hall 101

Graduate seminar: “Cixous and the Work of Countersignature”
November 21, 1:00-3:00
Callaway C202

Dr. Mark Epstein

Thursday, November 20
Lecture on Psychoanalysis and Buddhism

Friday, November 21
Brownbag Lunch

Sponsored by the Psychoanalytic Studies Program

2007-2008

Marie NDiaye

The novelist and playwright Marie NDiaye was invited by the Graduate Students of the French and Italian Department at Emory in April 2008, in collaboration with the School of Modern Languages at Georgia Institute of Technology and the French Consulate of Atlanta. In addition to two presentations by Marie NDiaye of her novels and her theatrical writings, the events included a round-table on her work as well as a public reading, in French, of her most recent play in collaboration with the Theater Studies at Emory. Marie NDiaye was so generous as to provide us with the manuscript of her newest play, entitled La Règle, which had not yet been sent for production or publication. The recording of Marie NDiaye’s conference on theater, entitled “La Cruauté a une adresse” and presented at Emory on April 16th 2008, is available on this webpage. The events around Marie NDiaye’s visit to Atlanta were organized by Stephanie Boulard, Amin Erfani and Olivia Choplin.

Audio of Conference - "La Cruauté a une adresse"