SPRING EVENTS
January 23-31: Quebec Film Series, co-sponsored by The Center for Canadian Studies, The Program in Arts of the Moving Image. All screenings at 7 pm in the Griffith Theater in the Bryan Center. January 23: Incendies. Denis Villeneuve. 2010. January 30: Les Amours Imaginaires (Heartbeats). Xavier Dolan. 2010. January 31: Route 132. Louis Bélanger. 2010.
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February 27: “The Haiti Memory Project: Oral History and the Digital Humanities as Post-Disaster Response.” Talk by Claire Payton, New York University graduate student, on the Haiti Memory Project, an online oral history archive documenting the lives of earthquake survivors. Noon, Haiti Lab, Bay 4, Smith Warehouse. A light lunch will be served.
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March 16-18: Visit of legendary Haitian dancer Jean-Leon Destine, one of the founders of the folkloric dance movement. He will visit classes and offer several dance demonstrations, accompanied by two master Haitian drummers.
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March 23: Roundtable on “Freedom Papers: An Atlantic Odyssey in the Age of Emancipation” by Rebecca Scott and Jean Hébrard. This deeply-researched and riveting new book tells the story of generations of a family in the Atlantic World, from West Africa to Haiti and Cuba, to New Orleans, Mexico, France, and 20th-century Belgium. Emily Clark of Tulane University and Cécile Vidal of the École des hautes études en sciences sociales will offer comments on the book, followed by a Q & A with the authors. 4 pm, Garage, Franklin Humanities Institute, Bay 4, Smith Warehouse. The event will be followed by a reception and book signing.
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March 28th: Reflections on the 2011 Women’s World Cup with Jennifer Doyle. Noon, Garage, Franklin Humanities Institute, Bay 4, Smith Warehouse. A light lunch will be served. Doyle is the author of the blog From A Left Wing, and a leading commentator on gender, sexuality, and global soccer. She will discuss her experiences of the 2011 World Cup in France and share her thoughts on the future of women’s soccer.
Other events:
Date TBA: Visit of Collette Fellous, French-Tunisian writer best known for her autobiographical fiction (e.g. Avenue de France, 2001) exploring the Tunisian diaspora in France. She also produces the French radio program “Carnet nomade” for France Culture. Her upcoming novel Un Amour de frère (Gallimard) will appear this fall.
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September 9: Opening of the piece “Haiti: History Embedded in Amber,” at the Franklin Humanities Institute. The catalogue for the piece was produced with support from the Center for French and Francophone Studies.
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September 5 – October 3: Tournées, the 2011 French Film Festival at Duke. Screenings Monday evenings at 8 pm in the Griffith Film Theater inside the Bryan University Center on West campus.
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October 5: “The Colonies Pay Back: Culture and Corruption in Franco-African Relations,” a roundtable with Philippe Bernard of Le Monde, Stephen Smith, and Achille Mbembe. 12:30-2:00 pm in the Franklin Humanities Institute Garage, Bay 4, Smith Warehouse.
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October 7: Stanislas Dehaene, “Reading in the Brain.” 12 pm in Perkins 217. Prof. Dehaene’s talk outlines a “neuro-cultural” approach to reading that has been featured on NPR and a host of other media venues.
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October 18: Historian Rebecca Spang, author of the award-winning The Invention of the Restaurant. “The Death of the Signature: Money and Authorship in the Time of the French Revolution.” 5 pm in the Franklin Humanities Institute Garage, Bay 4, Smith Warehouse.
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October 19: Screening of Hors-la-Loi, (“Outside the Law”) a recent drama about the Algerian War of Independence, with a post-screening discussion on representations of decolonization with Achille Mbembe, Visiting Professor of Romance Studies. The free screening is at 8 pm in the Griffith Theater in the Bryan Center.
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October 26: Screening of La Danse (“The Dance”), a documentary about the Paris Opera. There will be a post-screening discussion with Tom Rankin of the Center for Documentary Studies. The free screening takes place at 7 pm in the Griffith Theater in the Bryan Center.
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October 27: Azouz Begag and Alec Hargreaves, “Contemporary France, Changing France.” The CFFS is co-sponsoring the event with the Department of Foreign Languages and the Department of Religious Studies at Elon University in Elon, North Carolina. The talk will take place in Elon’s Whitley Auditorium at 6 pm.
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November 9: Dominique Rabaté, “Puissance et impuissance de l’individu: Le cas de Marie NDiaye.” 5 pm in the Franklin Humanities Institute Garage, Bay 4, Smith Warehouse.
November 10: Dominique Rabaté, “Writing Memory Today.” 5 pm in the Gothic Reading Room, Perkins Library.
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November 15: “France After the DSK Affair,” a roundtable with Michel Giraud (CNRS), Achille Mbembe, Anne-Gaelle Saliot, and Geraldine Smith. Noon in the Garage, FHI, Bay 4, Smith Warehouse.