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La literature fantastique
April 27, 2005
A lecture entitled La littérature fantastique was presented April 27, 2005 in 424 Hodges Hall by Pascal Durand. A native of Belgium and a professor at the University of Liege (Belgium), Pascal Durand is an expert on the Belgian founded genre littérature fantastique. This lecture was co-sponsored by the Communauté Wallonie-Bruxelles.
France in an Expanding Europe
April 22, 2005
A one-day conference was held at the French House on the LSU campus addressing the role of France in an expanding European Union. Two plenary addresses and one keynote speech were delivered, followed by a round table discussion during the 3 hour event. Wayne Parent, Associate Dean of the College of Arts and Science at LSU delivered the opening address. The keynote speech and the plenary addresses were as follows: Which Frontiers for the European Union? A Problem of Ethics and Economics by Michel Herland, Université des Antilles et de la Guyane, La Francophonie and EU Expansion: Does Linguistic Solidarity Matter for the Mass Public? by Leonard Ray, LSU, and Economic Challenges in an Expanding Europe: the French Case by Eric Horent, Baton Rouge Community College.
Visit of François and Danièle Pitavy
April 6-7, 2005
A two-day lecture series was organized by the Center for French and Francophone Studies, along with the College of Arts and Sciences, the Department of French Studies, the Department of English, the Comparative Literature Program, the Alliance Française, and the French Embassy in Washington. Danièle Pitavy-Souques, a specialist of Southern and Canadian women writers, presented her lecture Eudora Welty: Language and Politics Wednesday, April 6th, and François Pitavy, a specialist of Southern literature, presented his lecture William Faulkner’s Reception in France: The Making of a French Faulkner Thursday, April 7th. The lecture series was concluded with a small reception at the French House.
Visit of Claude Darbellay
March 15-16, 2004
Claude Darbellay, Swiss author, essayist, and professor, visited LSU from March 15-16, 2004. He gave two conferences concerning the problems of francophone literatures, particularly in the context of French-speaking Switzerland. The first conference was entitled Littérature: le cinquième point cardinal, l'expérience suisse romande, and the second conference was entitled Pour ceux qui ont de la littérature une vision plurielle. Mr. Jeurg Bono, the Consulate General of Switzerland in Houston, attended the second conference. A lively round-table discussion followed both lectures. Mr. Darbellay’s visit was concluded with a small reception in his honor.
L’énonciation des lieux/Le lieu de l’énonciation
April 15-18, 2004
An international symposium was held at Lod & Carol Cook Conference Center and Hotel and at Hill Memorial Library from April 15-18, 2004. This conference was organized in the framework of the research activities program of the Center and of the Montreal research team Le Soi et l'autre: L'énonciation de l'identité dans les contextes interculturels. This symposium explored how place related to the understanding of the literary and artistic sensibility of North American French speaking communities in the past thirty years and compares these communities with other Francophone groups throughout the world.
Journées Francophones
April 19-20, 2004
A two-day festival exploring and highlighting francophone literature and culture took place on the LSU campus from April 19-20, 2004. The festival focused on Canadian and Caribbean literature and culture. The program consisted of a series of public lectures and class interventions.
Beyond the Islands: Extending the Meaning of Caribbean Cultures
April 22-24, 2004
An international conference entitled, Beyond the Islands: Extending the Meaning of Caribbean Cultures, was held at the Lod & Carol Cook Conference Center and Hotel from April 22-24, 2004. This interdisciplinary conference served as the inaugurating event for the newly created Program in Louisiana and Caribbean Studies at LSU. The conference was co-sponsored by the Center for French and Francophone Studies and the Comparative Literature Program. For further information on this conference and program, please consult the Program in Louisiana and Caribbean Studies website (just click)
Spring 2002
Congolese Filmmaker Mweze Ngangura: Conference and Seminar on African Film
March 3-9, 2002
Congolese filmmaker Mweze Ngangura visited our campus and conducted a weeklong series of conferences and seminars on African film. The conference was very successful. Mweze Ngangura was well received by not only members of the university community, but by members of the community-at-large as well. In fact, Mweze Ngangura was given the keys to the City of Baton Rouge and was named Honorary Mayor by Mayor-President Bobby Simpson on March 7, 2002.
Seminar on Semiotics:
March 25-28, 2002
A week-long series of seminars on semiotics was given by Jacques Fontanille from the University of Limoges in France.
Fall 2002
Victor Hugo: Les Années d'exil 1851-1870
November 14-15, 2002
A two day colloquium was held on our campus titled: Victor Hugo: Les Années d'exil. The colloquium was organized by Dr. Nathaniel Wing of the Department of French Studies at LSU and was made possible with the support of the Center, as well as by a generous donation from the Services Culturels of the French Government. The colloquium was a tremendous success. The panel consisted of renowned Hugo scholars and critics. The panel members were Michel Pierssens, Université de Montréal, Patrick Besnier, Université du Maine, Danièle Gasiglia-Laster, writer and critic, Arnaud Laster, Université de Paris-III, and Stephen Murphy, Université de Rennes-II.
Spring 2003
Francophone Film Festival
April 7-11, 2003
The Ciné-Club Francophone and the CFFS held a successful 5-day film festival on the LSU campus April 7-11, 2003. Carole Salmon and Moussa Sow, doctoral candidates at LSU and co-founders of the Ciné-Club Francophone, organized an impressive program of films, each of which was followed by a round table discussion lead by a distinguished member of the Francophone film community. Invited paneleists included Jean-Marie Teno, film-maker and producer for Cameroon, Mamadou Mbengue, Senegalese actor, Sada Niang, professor of French and Film, Victoria University (Canada), Alexie Tcheuyap, professor of French and Film, Calgary University (Canada), and Eric Dayre, professor of Comminication, University of Paris III-Sorbonne Nouvelle.
Contact of Cultures: The Haitian Factor in the Louisiana Purchase and Beyond
January 31, 2003
A symposium focusing on the Haitian influence of the Louisiana Purchase was organized by Dr. Joyce Jackson of the Department of Geography and Anthropology at LSU and was co-sponsored by the Center. This symposium explored the little known impact that the Haitian Revolution had on Napoleon's decision to sell Louisiana. These issues were explored through the interdisciplinary perspectives of history, culture, religion, literature, and art. The symposium speakers and their topics were as follows:
Maximilien Laroche
Université de Laval
Professor of Comparative Literature
Topic: Haitian History and the Haitian Novel: Socio-Political Development and Readership
Edouard Duval-Carrié
Artist
Topic: Revolution sous les Tropiques and Other Works
Alfred Hunt
State University of New York-Purchase
Professor of History
Topic: The Haitian Revolution and the Louisiana Purchase: A Reappraisal
Elizabeth McAlister
Wesleyan University
Assistant Professor of Religion
Topic: Haitian Rara: Resistance Ritual and Its Louisiana Association
Spring 1997
April in Baton Rouge:
This project was organized in cooperation with the Department of French & Italian and the School of Music. It featured several lectures and a Poetry and Music Evening. The lectures presented were the following:
"L'Evolution de la poésie française depuis 1950" by Jean-Michel Maulpoix, Professor at the Ecole Normale Supérieure of Fontenay Saint-Cloud
"Un Américain en Algérie: autour de James Blue" by Jean Pélégri, author and playwright
"L'Energie du désespoir" by Michel Deguy, Professor at the Université de Paris VII, poet and philosopher
The Poetry and Music evening featured a poetry reading in French, with English translation, by Michel Deguy and the following music:
"Etudes for Harp", composed by Stephen David Beck, interpreted by Ann Benjamin
"Pour saluer Michel Deguy", by Stephen David Beck
Fall 1997-Spring 1998
"Ecriture créative et roman policier":
This lecture, co-sponsored by the Center and the Department of French & Italian, featured Patrick Raynal, editor in chief of Gallimard's collection "Série Noir" and screenwriter.
"Maitres et serviteurs" (Painters and Patrons):
This bi-lingual lecture, co-sponsored by the Center and the French and Italian Department, was presented by Pierre Michon, the author of such works as "Les vies minuscules" (1984), "Maîtres et serviteurs" (1990) or "Rimbaud et fils" (1992).
"Le Théâtre des paroles":
This lecture, co-sponsored by the Center, the Department of French and Italian and the Cultural Services of the French Embassy, was presented by Valère Novarina, a playwright, author of such works as "L'Atelier volant" or "Le Discours aux animaux"
"Women in movies":
This colloquium was organized in cooperation with the Depatment of Women's and Gender Studies and featured movies by three renowned women filmmakers: Assia Djebar, Yvonne Rainer and Trinh Minh-Ha. Each movie was free and open to the public and a discussion with the director followed. The following movies were shown:
o "Surname Viet Given Name Nam" and "A Tale of Love" by Trinh Minh-Ha, an author, a Professor and a movie director
o"Privilege" and "MURDER and murder" by Yvonne Rainer, an independent filmmaker from New York
Archival project researchers:
During Spring 1998, four francophone researchers came to LSU to work on the French language archives located at Hill Memorial Library. Each perused and classified a small portion of the archives and focused on topics that could later be developped by graduate students for a thesis. This was the first step of the Center's on-going archival project.The four researchers were:
o Olivier Brégeard, a doctoral student in history at the University of Tours in France
o Carlo Célius, a doctoral student at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales of Paris, France
o Dr. Sara Le Ménestrel, a doctoral graduate from the University of Paris Nanterre, France
o Pr. Salwa Nacouzi, a professor of American studies at the University of Poitiers, France
Part of this project was also the following lecture:
o "The Role of Tourism in the Construction of Cajun and Creole Identity", by Dr. Sara Le Ménestrel
Special Seminars:
In the Spring of 1998, the Center organized two special seminars for graduate students in the French Department:
"Introduction to the Francophone African Novel (Sub-Saharan)", a special two-week seminar on Sub-Saharan francophone literature taught by Professor F. Abiola Irele, Professor of African, French and Comparative Literature at Ohio State University
"La Littérature Québécoise au Féminin", a special two-week seminar on Quebec women authors, taught by Professor Maïr Verthuy, Professor of French Studies at Concordia University in Montreal, Canada
Professor Irele also presented the following lecture, as part of his class:
"Contemporary Thought in Sub-Saharan Francophone Africa", a lecture by Pr. F. Abiola Irele
Fall 1998-Spring 1999
"Forgotten Immigrants: Rethinking French Immigration to the Americas, 19th-20th Centuries":
This lecture was presented by Professor François Weil, from the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, in Paris, France and was part of the Center's archival project. This lecture also served as an introduction to the following colloquium
"Journées d'Histoire Franco-Louisianaise-France-Louisiana History Days"
This 2-day colloquium was another step to further develop the Center's archival project. It was held at Hill Memorial Library where the French language archives are located. The purpose of this colloquium was to gather all the partners of the Archival Project to discuss which direction to take it to. The following persons were present:
Pr. Mathé Allain, Professor of French at the University of Louisiana in Lafayette
Pr. Barry Jean Ancelet, Professor of French at the University of Louisiana in Lafayette
Dean Allen David Barry, Dean of the College of Liberal Arts at Univeristy of Louisiana in Lafayette
Pr. Carl Brasseaux, Director of the Center for Louisiana Studies at the University of Louisiana in Lafayette
Myriam Cottias, Researcher for the Martinique branch of the Centre National pour Recherche Scientifique
Pr. Assia Djebar, Director of the Center for French and Francophone Studies
Pr. Dena Goodman, Professor of History at Louisiana State University
Pr. Elise Marienstras, Professor of North American Studies at the University of Paris VII-Denis Diderot
Pr. André Prévos, Professor of French at Penn State University
Christina Riquelmy, from Hill Memorial Library
Pr. John Rodrigue, Professor of History at Louisiana State University
The colloquium was also introduced by:
Dean Allen David Barry, Dean of the College of Liberal Arts at the University of Louisiana in Lafayette
Pr. Assia Djebar, Director of the Center for French and Francophone Studies
Dean Faye Phillips, Dean of Hill Memorial Library
Dean Karl Roider, Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at LSU
Mrs. Elisabeth Rosemberg, Attachée Linguistiqye to the French Consulate of New Orleans
Special Seminars:
The Center welcomed two guest to co-teach with Professor Djebar a special seminar on French literature:
Betsy Wing taught on theory and practice of translationn. Betsy Wing is a renowned translater of French literature and has translated such authors as Edouard Glissant, Assia Djebar or Hélène Cixous.
Professor Clarisse Zimra taught a class comparing the book of Assia Djebar "L'Amour, la fantasia" with the work of two other authors, Mohammed Dib and Albert Camus. Professor Zimra comes from Southern Illinois University where she teaches comparative literature and literary theory.Main activities of the Center for French and Francophone Studies
1989-1997
Colloquia and conferences:
1989: “The Plantation System”, colloquium
1990: “The Medieval Thing”, colloquium
1991: “Introduction to Creole Language”, colloquium
1991: “Surrealism”, colloquium
1992: “Echoes from Elsewhere”, colloquium
1993: “Experiencing Languages in Louisiana”, colloquium
1993: “French, as it is spoken in Louisiana”, conference
1994: “Poetic Voices”, colloquium
1994: African Film Festival
1995: African and African-American Film Festival
1996: “Icono-Graphies”, colloquium
The Center for French and Francophone Studies has also sponsored numerous lectures from such guests as:
Andre Bourrassa
Peter Brooks
Ross Chambers
Didier Coste
Joel Fineman
John Frow
Françoise Gaillard
Jane Gallop
Felix Guattari
Jean-Joseph Goux
Alain Grosrichard | Eugene Vance
Denis Hollier
Alice Jardine
Barbara Johnson
Henri Meschonnic
Denis Porter
François Regnault
Michael Rifaterre
Susan Sulieman
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