February 17-18, 2016
Imagining Climate Change Spring 2016 Colloquium
Second part of the project “Imagining Climate Change: Science and Fiction in Dialogue”. For the February colloquium, participants include Yann Quero, Christian Chelebourg, Jay Famiglietti, Jeff Vandermeer and Tobias Buckell.
The Spring colloquim begins with a Plenary Panel at the 5th Biennial Symposium of the UF Water Institute.
February 17 1:30-3pm, Reitz Union Auditorium.
All events are free and open to the public.
For more information visit https://imagining-climate.clas.ufl.edu/
February 18, 2016
2:00-5pm
Christian Chelebourg visits UF
Smathers Library 100
Participates in the second part of the project “Imagining Climate Change: Science and Fiction in Dialogue” with Yann Quero, Jeff Vandermeer and Tobias Buckell.
For more information visit https://imagining-climate.clas.ufl.edu/
March 11, 2016
La France et l’état d’urgence
2pm, Dauer Hall
Justice Guy Canivet, Member of the French Constitutional Council and honorary first president of the Cour de cassation, that is, former Chief Justice of the Supreme Court for civil and criminal matters, is the highest ranked French judge. He recently wrote the Preface to the French version of Justice Breyer’s latest book on the increasing global scope of the work of the U.S. Supreme Court, The Court and the World: American Law and the New Global Realities (Knopf, Sept. 2015).
Event organized by Professor Claire Germain from the University of Florida College of Law, co-sponsored by International Law Society, Florida Journal of International Law and the France Florida Research Institute with the support of the Cultural Services of the French Embassy.
The talk is in French and open to the public.
March 14, 2016
“French language and its region on the big screen, from Bienvenue chez les Chtis to Les Neiges du Kilimandjaro”
4.05pm Room TBA
Kevin Elstob is a professor of French at Sacramento State University. Since working on the theatre of French playwright Michel Vinaver for his PhD, Professor Elstob has continued to examine ways in which the visual arts, particularly theatre and film, represent French and Francophone culture. He has led a number of post-film discussions and question and answers sessions at the Crest movie theatre in Sacramento and also presented at conferences and workshops in the USA, Canada, and Europe on cinema and culture.
March 15, 2016
Wanuri Kahiu visits UF
Ustler Hall Atrium
a screening of Pumzi and conversation
with director Wanuri Kahiu
Event is free and open to the public.
For more information visit https://imagining-climate.clas.ufl.edu/
March 30, 2016
French Canadian Tourists, Immigrants and Snowbirds in Florida, 1850-2015
3 p.m., (Dauer 215)
This conference will summarize the sociology of North American Francophone communities in order to better understand the position of French Canadians, as well as other Francophones in Florida, on the community-language axis. Whereas settlers, immigrants and descendents tended to integrate rapidly into Floridian society, tourists were seldom affected by their sojorn, other than through the acquisition of certain traits of American consumerism. In fact, snowbirds are the ones who have sought to reconstitute microcosms of French Canadian societies with associations, neighbourhoods, and French mass, but only during the Winter season. This presentation will also allude to other Florida Francophones (French and Haitian migrants for the most part) with which French Canadians are developing relations in French-language commercial, journalistic and medical spaces. However, these links remain too fragmentary to establish institutions that can transmit culture, such as French-language schools, which have traditionally been established in regions where French-speakers have settled in large numbers.
November 1, 2016
Yacine Balah to visit UF
10.45am, Dauer Hall, 215
Frères ennemis features two completely opposite characters: one is a member of the FLN and the other is a soldier in the French army. Given the circumstances, the film raises an important question: how would any human being react toward the situation in the context of the Algerian war? Even though the film does not have a purpose of providing a solution, it sheds light on the way the soldiers of the French army were perceived. The story focuses on Messaoud, a member of the FLN, who is rebellious, sure of himself, and is not afraid of anything. The French army pursues him from the beginning of the film, and his hiding and running from them leads him to meet his antagonist, Belkacem, who tries to ignore the existence of the war after having lost the people he loved. This complicated conflict could break the trust between the two men at any time. Paranoia sets in and the aggressiveness increases as the smallest thing could make everything explode, which is what ends up happening. Messaoud discovers that Belkacem, the man that welcomed him in and protected him from the army, is a former member of the French army, called harki in the years after the war. As the army approaches the house, Messaoud literally explodes and becomes hysterical.
A discussion with Balah will follow.
November 16, 2016
Retour sur image: Patrick Modiano et la Mémoire; la Mémoire de Patrick Modiano
4pm, Dauer Hall, 215
Martine Guyot-Bender is the Margaret Bundy Scott Professor and Chair in the Department of French at Hamilton College. She is the author of Poétique et politique de l’ambiguité chez Patrick Modiano (Paris, Lettres Modernes, 1999) and co-editor of Paradigms of Memory: The Occupation and Other Hi/stories in the Novels of Patrick Modiano (New York, Peter Lang, 1998), as well as numerous articles and book chapters on cultural stereotypes, French popular fiction, and French cinema and media, among other work. A co-editor of Women in French Newsletter, her current research centers on French militant documentary film. Recent courses taught include “Poetics and Politics of Representation,” “Cinematographic Memory,” “Narrative of Nationhood,” and “Politics and Aesthetics of Surrealism.”
The talk is part of the series “Confrontation and Aftermath: Remembering Wars in France”
The talk is in French and open to the public.
For more information please contact Carol Murphy (cmurphy@ufl.edu) Alioune Sow (sow@ufl.edu)