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More News and Notes from LSU French Studies
May 8, 2007
Hervé Cassan to become first Phyllis M. Taylor Professor of French Studies
The Department of French Studies is proud to announce that Hervé Cassan will become the first Phyllis M. Taylor of French Studies in Fall 2007. Dr. Cassan started his career as an academic specialist of International Law. He received his degrees from Montpellier University in the 1970s. He then became a University Professor at the Fez University in Morocco, and at the Université de Lille before chairing the Department of International Law at the Université de Paris IV (Sorbonne). While there, he served in several capacities as a specialist in international law and international relations, wrote extensively on this topic, and assisted in many missions abroad, particularly throughout French speaking Africa.
In 1992, the Secretary General of the United Nations appointed Cassan as his Directeur de Cabinet in charge of political analysis and forecasting where he worked with Boutrous Ghali, then Kofi Annan until 1997. In 1998, Boutros Ghali, then Secretary General of the International Organization of the Francophonie (OIF), requested that Cassan be put in charge of the Paris operations of the OIF. As such, he carried out numerous missions with the Francophone communities of Asia, the Indian Ocean, the Arab world and Africa.
In 2003, Cassan was appointed Ambassador and Permanent Representative of the International Organization of la Francophonie to the United Nations. He was first based in Geneva, where he worked in the field of human rights, and at the World Trade Organization, then in New York where he has lived since 2005.
The Department is proud that Hervé Cassan will become the first Phyllis M. Taylor Professor in French Studies and will call Baton Rouge home.
L-R: Cathy Coates, President, Friends of French Studies; William L. Jenkins, President, LSU System; Hervé Cassan, Phyllis M. Taylor Professor of French Studies; Mrs. Peggy Jenkins; Sylvie Dubois, Gabrielle Muir Professor and Chair, Department of French Studies.
Rosemary Peters to join the Department of French Studies
The Department of French Studies is pleased to announce that Dr. Rosemary Peters has accepted a position as Assistant Professor of French Studies, beginning Fall 2007. Dr. Peters received her PhD from Harvard University in 2003, with a dissertation entitled "Aux Voleurs!": Theft and Thieves in the French Nineteenth-Century Novel, begun under the direction of Naomi Schor, and completed under the direction of Tom Conley, Alice Jardine, and Barbara Johnson. Dr. Peters, a specialist in 19th century French literature, has, in addition to her scholarly work, also published her poetry in national and international journals.
Department of French Studies and Center for French and Francophone Studies Speaker Series, AY 2006-2007:
Revisiting Flaherty’s Louisiana Story
October 2006
An experiment in documentary video. Rom Rombout, internationally recognized documentary film-maker, professor, DESS (atelier documentaire) at the Université de Strasbourg, RITS, and the Hogeschool St. Lukas in Bruxelles, will be leading a group of 18 students who will work in small groups to produce a series of 5 minute videos to re-examine the changes in landscape, culture and the status of the French language in Acadiana on the sites where Robert Flaherty’s classic 1949 documentary Louisiana Story. Rombout, who often addresses the cultural and linguistic dynamics in bi-lingual societies (see Les Passagers d’Alsace, 2000), conceived of this project in collaboration with Patricia Suchy and James Catano (Program for the Study of Film and Media Arts) and Adelaide Russo (French Studies & Comparative Literature). The workshop will culminate with a two-day public screening of the 52-minute video. The project has been partially funded by the Hopkins Black Box Theatre at Louisiana State University.
Jean-Marie Klinkenberg
October 15-18, 2006
Public lecture on Magritte and a seminar
Guyane Conference
November 3, 2006
A one-day conference on French Guiana at which four professors will give presentations/exhibitions on various topics such as history, literature, popular traditions, law, music, and dance.
Une première rencontre sur le dialogue historique entre la vallée de l’Ubaye, la Louisiane, et le Mexique
November 8-9, 2006
A multidisciplinary colloquium to study the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century immigration from the Ubaye Valley in France to Louisiana and Mexico and the historic and cultural ties that link these three disparate communities.
Olivier Bertrand
November 13-19, 2006
Maître de conférences, Ecole Polytechnique, Vice-President of the Department of Languages and Cultures. Olivier Bertrand’s visit to LSU is in conjunction with the Francophone Heritage Project. Dr. Bertrand will conduct a seminar at which he will give his expert opinion on the corpus of letters associated with the FHL project. Professor Bertrand will also be a guest speaker in Dr. Cerquiglini’s FREN 4001: History of the French Language course.
Oulipo: Paul Fournel
February 2007
Writing workshop, public lecture, and graduate level seminar.
Manuel Delanda
February 28, 2007
Department of Architecture, Columbia University. Public lecture sponsored by School of Architecture, Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies, Department of French Studies, and the CFFS.
Leonard Lawlor
March 16,2007
Department of Philosophy, University of Memphis. Public lecture.
Speaker Series, Spring 2006
Jean-Marie Gleize
April 3-4, 2006
Jean-Marie Gleize, writer and professor of modern and contemporary French litersture at the Ecole normale supérieure de Lettres at Sciences humaines (Lyon) delivered a lecture entitled Etat present de la poésie française on April 3, 2006 at Hill Memorial Library. He was also a guest speaker in an upper level French course.
Jean-Pierre Verheggen
April 20-21, 2006
Jean-Pierre Verheggen, Belgian author of some twenty works of fiction and recipient of the Grand Prix de l’Humour noir in 1995, gave a public reading of his own works and was a guest lecturer in an upper level French course at LSU on April 20-21, 2006. This visit was co-sponsored by the Permanent Community of Belgium, Wallonie-Bruxelles Office.
Oulipo (Marcel Bénabou and Jacques Jouet)
April 23-28, 2006
Marcel Bénabou and Jacques Jouet, members of OULIPO (Ouvroir de la littérature potentielle) or « Workshop for Potential Literature), conjointly gave a public lecture and a writing workshop during their visit at LSU from April 23-28, 2006.
Stephen G. Nichols,
May 5, 2006
Chair of the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures at Johns Hopkins University, delivered a lecture titled "Reading and Seeing in a Troubadour Chansonnier" in May 2006. The lecture was co-sponsored by the LSU Program in Comparative Literature and the Center for French and Francophone Studies.
FACULTY NEWS:
FRANK A. ANSELMO lectured at the National D-Day Museum in New Orleans on "The Smallest Military Cemetery in Europe," in May 2006.
KEVIN BONGIORNI delivered a talk entitled "The Gleaner(s), The Artist: La Part Maudite, Millet, Varda and Bataille" at the Hawaii International Conference on Arts and Humanities in Honolulu, Hawaii in January 2006.
BERNARD CERQUIGLINI participated in "La Voie de la francophonie," a colloquium sponsored by the Centre International d'Etudes Pédagogiques in Paris on November 23-25, 2005.
SYLVIE DUBOIS presented three papers in 2006. (1) "Measuring chronological sequences of language change through early Louisiana English documents and letters, c. 1803 to c. 1870" (with Malcolm Richardson) at the Sociolinguistics Symposium 16. Limerick, Ireland, July 6-8; (2) "Intergenerationelle Interferenz und Sprachwandelmuster im Cajun-Französischen" (with Sibylle Noetzel) at SLE: 39th Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea. Bremen, Germany, August 30 – September 2; (3) "L’usage des pratiques bilingues dans la communauté cadienne (with Carole Salmon)" at the Association of French Language Studies. Bristol, England, September 5-7.
JEFF HUMPHRIES agreed to publish his Katrina, mon amour with Seuil, Paris, and Harry N. Abrams, New York. Expected publication in 2007.
KATE JENSEN will deliver "Daughters as Maternal Masterpieces: Teaching Sevigne and Lafayette" at the annual Southeastern Seventeenth-Century French conference in Iowa City, Oct. 11-13, 2006, and "Historicizing Psychology: Teaching Mother-Daughter Relations in Vigee Lebrun and Graffigny" for the annual Kentucky Foreign Language Conference, Lexington, April 2007. She delivered an invited lecture in October 2005 at the University of Wisconsin on "Daughters as Maternal Masterpieces: The Search for an Authentic Self in Lafayette and Colette," as well as organizing panels at the Kentucky Foreign Languages Conference and at the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (ASECS) in April 2006. At ASECS she presented a paper on "Myself/My Daughter: Female Ambition, Maternal Narcissism, and the Failure of Mutual Recognition in Vigée-Lebrun."
ALEXANDRE LEUPIN lectured in November 2005 at the University of Minho in Braga, Portugal on on psychoanalysis and medieval literature. He published "La faute à Katrina ?" in La Revue, no 3, juillet-août 2006, pp. 140-149 and "The 'roman de la rose' as a möbius strip (on interpretation)", in The Medieval Author in Medieval French Literature, edited by Virginie Greene, New York: Palgrave MacMillan, 2006: 61-75.
CAROLINE NASH will present talks at the International Association of Dialoge Analysis in Mainz, Germany in September 2006 and at the 7th High Desert International Linguistics Conference at the University of New Mexico in November 2006. She presented a paper on "Nonverbal Conversation Markers in French, Japanese and American English Speakers" at the Hawaii International Conference on Arts and Humanities in Honolulu, Hawaii in January 2006.
PIUS NGANDU of LSU French Studies received the LSU Distinguished Faculty Award in May 2006. He published Écrire à l’infinitif: la dérision de l’écriture dans les romans de Williams Sassine with L’Harmattan, and he also delivered a talk on "Les cultures et littératures africaines et le défi de la globalisation," at the University of Ottawa in May 2006.
JOHN PROTEVI will deliver talks at the Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy (SPEP) in Philadelphia in October, at the Department of Philosophy at SUNY-Stony Brook in November, and in Dublin (IADT) and London (Middlesex) in December. In AY 2005-2006 he edited A Dictionary of Continental Philosophy, published with Yale University Press in March 2005. He also delivered a paper at the annual meeting of the Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy (SPEP) on "Between Geophilosophy and Political Physiology" in October 2005 in Salt Lake City as well as talks on various philosophical, political, and legal aspects of the Terri Schiavo case at the annual meeting of the Society for Literature, Science and the Arts in Chicago in November 2005, at the "Forensic Futures" conference at Birkbeck College School of Law in London in March 2006, and at the Foucault Circle in Memphis in April 2006.
ADELAIDE RUSSO published Le Peintre comme modèle with Presses Universitaires du Septentrion, and was co-editor, with Simon Harel, of Lieux Propices: L’Enonciation des lieux/ Le lieu de l’énonciation dans les contexts francophones interculturels, published with Presses de l’Université Laval, and co-editor, with Fabrice Leroy, of a special issue of Etudes Francophones: Dossier Thématique: Bande Dessinée Belge Vol. 20/no.1 (Printemps 2005). In addition, she was elected to the Executive Committee of the MLA Division on Twentieth Century French Literature.
GREG STONE published Dante's Pluralism and the Islamic Philosophy of Religion with Palgrave-Macmillan Press, London and New York. He also published "The Nameless Wild One: The Ethics of Anonymous Subjectivity-- Medieval and Modern." Common Knowledge 12.2 (Spring 2006): 219-251 and "The Prick of the Rose: Boccaccio's Bisexual Hermeneutics," in Boccaccio and Feminist Criticism, ed. T. Stillinger and F. R. Psaki. Chapel Hill NC: Annali d'Italianistica, 2006.
GRADUATE STUDENT NEWS:
Six students earned the PhD degree in French Studies during AY 2005-2006: Julie Driessen (director: Kevin Bongiorni); Bani Ningbinnin (Ngandu); Lesly Jean-Francois (Ngandu); Souleymane Fofana (Ngandu); Catherine Kapi (Russo); Christine Harris (Yeager). Congratulations to the new doctors and to their directors!
Two dissertation defenses are scheduled for Fall 2006: Jean-Marc Duplantier and Nathalie Malti (both directed by Professor Emeritus Nathaniel Wing).
LOGAN CONNORS presented "Confucian and Confusion: Pham Van Ky's Construction of a French reader" at the 10th annual UCLA French and Francophone Graduate Student Conference in October 2005.
ANGELIQUE BERGERON GARDNER participated in two successful grant projects in summer 2005, to the Louisiana Arts Council and to the Pointe Coupee Enrichment Fund for the Pelican State Chamber Music Series.
MARIANNE HALLORAN presented three papers in Spring 2006: (1) “Casse-tête terminologique: littérature française, francophone, ou d’expression française? Qui décide? Pourquoi?” FIGS Conference, University of Texas, April 2006; (2) “Other Among His Own: The Dis-Location of Identity in Pham Van Ky’s Frères de sang.” Rice University Graduate Conference in the Humanities, April 2006; (3) “Créolité and Narration: The Textual Recasting of Identity.” SECCLL Conference, Georgia Southern University, March 2006. Her articles “‘Beannacht libh, cried Miss Ivors’ Translating James Joyce: Culture-Specific Items in Translation.” and “Créolité et narration: refonte identitaire en action.” have both been accepted for publication.
SIBYLLE NOETZEL participated in two conferences, together with Sylvie Dubois and Carole Salmon. They presented a paper titled: “The Janus structure of code-switching in the Cajun community” at the 5th International Symposium of Bilingualism in Barcelona, Spain, in March 2005, and they also “L’usage des pratiques bilingues dans la communauté cadienne” in Moncton, New Brunswick, Canada, in August. Sibylle is also the co-author, with Sylvie Dubois, of the article “Intergenerational pattern of interference and internally-motivated changes in Cajun French,” published in Bilingualism: Language and Cognition 8 (2), 2005, 131-143.
CAROLE SALMON participated in four recent conferences. At the 5th International Symposium on Bilingualism in Bacelona, Spain, March 20-23 2005, she presented a paper with Sybille Noetzel and Sylvie Dubois entitled: “The Janus Structure of Code-switching in Cajun French”. At the University of Moncton, NB, Canada, August 2-4 2005, she presented a paper with Sylvie Dubois entitled « Etude diachronique de O devant R et L dans le parler de quatre générations de femmes cadiennes ». At the 24th AFLS colloquium at the Université de Savoie à Chambéry, France, September 2-4 2005, she presented a paper with Sylvie Dubois entitled « Etude diachronique de O devant R et L dans le parler de quatre générations de femmes cadiennes ». Finally, she presented a poster based on work with Sylvie Dubois entitled « Stylistic variation in the speech of four generations of Cajun women » at NWAV 34, at New York University, New York, October 20-23 2005.
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Placement News (September 18, 2006) (Partial List: check back for updates)
Souleymane Fofana (PhD 2006) is Instructor in French at the University of Alberta in Edmonton, Alberta (Canada).
Julie Driessen (PhD 2005) has a joint teaching / administration post at Our Lady of Holy Cross College in New Orleans, Louisiana.
Mike Bierschenk (MA 2006) is in the doctoral program in Creative Writing at Ohio State.
Julien Carriere (PhD 2005) is Assistant Professor in French and Italian at SUNY-Oneonta.
Boubakary Diakite (PhD 2004) is Visiting Assistant Professor at Franklin and Marshall College in Lancaster, Pennsylvania.
Moussa Sow (PhD 2004) is Assistant Professor at the College of New Jersey in Trenton, New Jersey.
Robin White (PhD 2004) is Assistant Professor at Nicholls State University in Thibodaux, Louisiana.
Anna Rocca (PhD 2003) is Lecturer in French at Pace University in Westchester, New York.
Nabil Boudraa (PhD 2002) is Assistant Professor at Oregon State University in Corvallis, Oregon.
Evan Bibbee (PhD 2002) is Assistant Professor at the University of Saint Thomas in St Paul, Minnesota.
Ina Pfitzner (PhD 2001) is an author and translator in Berlin, Germany.
Scooter Pegram (PhD 2001) is Assistant Professor at the University of Indiana - Northwest in Gary, Indiana.
Evelyne Bornier (PhD 1999) is Assistant Professor at Southeastern Louisiana University in Hammond, Louisiana.
Valerie Loichot (PhD 1996) is Associate Professor at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia.
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