CYRANO DE BERGERAC
January 23, 2019 – January 24, 2019
CYRANO DE BERGERAC is coming to America. Experience the beloved and iconic French romantic comedy, presented by the most prestigious Parisian stage, for a special one-night event, nationwide only in cinema – January 23, 7 pm.
Book now: http://bit.ly/CyranoTickets
Call For Proposals: Thomas Jefferson Fund
January 29, 2019 @ 8:00 am – March 5, 2019 @ 5:00 pm
The 2019 Call for Proposals of the Thomas Jefferson Fund is now open until March 5, 2019 | 12:00pm (midday) EST.
This program, launched by the Embassy of France in the United States and the FACE Foundation, aims to encourage and support cooperation among the most promising young French and American researchers, and foster forward-looking collaborative research projects.
Each selected French-American project will receive up to $20,000 over a period of two years.
Applications are accepted in the three following fields: Humanities and Social Sciences (HSS), Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM), Science for Society (interdisciplinary STEM-HSS projects).
In support of the Make Our Planet Great Again Initiative launched by President Emmanuel Macron in June 2017, the Thomas Jefferson Fund is offering additional grants this year for research projects related to Earth System Science, Climate Change and Sustainability, and Energy Transition.
Interested parties are invited to get more information and to apply here:http://face-foundation.org/thomas-jefferson-fund/.
The Postcolonial Turn Of MuZEE, A European/Belgian Museum
February 21, 2019 @ 8:00 am – 5:00 pm
DAUER 215
Phillip Van den Bossche studied art history in Ghent, and attended the Curatorial Training Programme of De Appel in Amsterdam. He worked from 2001 as a curator at the Van Abbemuseum in Eindhoven and has been director of Mu.ZEE in Ostend since 2007. In recent years he curated exhibitions with amongst others Carsten Höller, Eric van Hove, Sammy Baloji, Lili Dujourie, Saddie Choua, M’barek Bouhchichi and Richard Tuttle. Upcoming research and exhibition projects include Pascale Marthine Tayou and Papa Mfumu’eto 1er. He also wrote extensively about modernism, dada and surrealism, beside essays on the work of Allen Ruppersberg, Jean Katambayi Mukendi and Anne-Mie Van Kerckhoven. Since 2013 Mu.ZEE, the museum of modern and contemporary art in Ostend, is doing research on colonial and postcolonial histories closely related with re-thinking the archive, the collection and exhibition policy.
Mu.ZEE
Since 2013 Mu.ZEE, the museum of modern and contemporary art in Ostend, is doing research on colonial and postcolonial histories closely related with re-thinking the archive, the collection and exhibition policy. There are questions that no museum can ignore today: who speaks? Who is listening? And why? Three Mu.ZEE exhibitions and the most recent collection presentation will be at the center of this presentation: “Hunting & Collecting” with Sammy Baloji (2014), “European Ghosts – the representation of art from Africa in the twentieth century” (2015), “Bokutani Ya Masangisi Ya Kinshasa Na Masangisi Ya Ostende” (A conversation between collections from Kinshasa and Ostend) with Sinzo Aanza (2018) and “Transform the local. Poetry must be made by all” (2019).
A Conversation with Fanny GLISSANT on the Documentary “Slavery Routes”
Monday, February 25, 2019 at 4pm
Scott Nygren Scholars Studio (Library West)
For the official kick-off event of the second edition of the TOUT-MONDE FESTIVAL, the Caribbean Contemporary Arts Festival in Miami (March 13-17, 2019) “Echo-Natures,” and on the occasion of BLACK HISTORY MONTH, The Cultural Services of the French Embassy & the France Florida Research Institute of the University of Florid present “A Conversation with/ Conversation avec Fanny GLISSANT, Film director and producer, on the Caribbean episode of the documentary Slavery Routes”
With:
- Dr. Alioune Sow, Associate Professor of French and African Studies
- Dr. Hélène Blondeau, Director of the FFRI
- Mrs. Vanessa Selk, Cultural and Education Attaché of the French Embassy’s Cultural Services in the US.
For more information, please contact Alioune Sow: sow@ufl.edu or Helene Blondeau: blondeau@ufl.edu . This event is free and open to the public.
Flyers:
Fanny Glissant
www.tout-monde-festival.com
Screening of “Shoah: Four Sisters” from Claude Lanzmann, 2018
Sunday, March 24, 2019 at 11am
Special Event!! Film screening at the Hippodrome Cinema:
Shoah: Four Sisters,” Claude Lanzmann, 2018.
2018 / documentary / 274 min / France / French, German, English, Hebrew
Director: Claude Lanzmann
This newly released film, one of Claude Lanzmann’s last, was recently named one of the 10 best films of 2018 (https://www.tabletmag.com/jewish-arts-and-culture/276898/the-esthers-top-ten-jewish-films-of-2018). It is comprised of previously unseen outtakes from Lanzmann’s masterpiece, Shoah. Introduction and Q & A by Dr. Gayle Zachmann.
Admission to this screening has been generously underwritten by a grant from the France Florida Research Institute.
Guests must reserve their seats, but there is no charge to attend. There will be refreshments at intermission.
The FFRI project, “Confrontation and Aftermath: Remembering Wars in France,” is pleased to support this special screening event in the context of the 9th annual Gainesville Jewish Film Festival.
Reservations may be made at the following link:
- Confrontation and Aftermath Project
- Gainesville Jewish Film Festival
- Center for Jewish Studies
- Jewish Council of North Central Florida
Explore UF and Rennes 2 Connection!
Wednesday, March 27, 2019
Pugh Hall, 210, at 4pm
The University Rennes 2 is a public research university in Rennes, France and offers a unique blend of courses, in fields ranging from fine arts and literature, to languages, human and social sciences and sports science.
The University of Florida’s College of Liberal Arts and Science offers students the opportunity to study in Rennes, France. In the context of the Francophone Month, discover the experience of UF and French students who benefited from the Reciprocal Exchange Agreement between the UF and Université Rennes 2.
Learn about the exchange and the application process. Experience a typical “goûter Breton” (Breton snack). This event is free and open to the public.
For more information regarding the exchange contact Dr. Helene Blondeau (blondeau@ufl.edu) and/or Nicole Fuls (nfuls@ufic.ufl.edu).
UF Student Exchange Program with Université Rennes 2
Lecture Of “Vice, Crime, And Poverty: How The Western Imagination Invented The Underworld” By Dominique Kalifa
April 15, 2019 @ 4:00 pm – 5:00 pm
LIBRARY EAST, 100, AT 4 PM
Dominique Kalifa is a historian and professor at the University of Paris 1, where he heads the Center of 19th Century History. His work focuses on the history of crime, social control, and mass culture in 19th- and early 20th-century France and Europe. He wrote the first book on the private detective métier, published in 2000 as Naissance de la police privée, and is a member of the Historical Committee of the City of Paris. Since 1990, he has been a literary contributor to Libération.
About the book: Vice, Crime, and Poverty: How the Western Imagination Invented the Underworld, Columbia University press, April 2019, tr. by Susan Emanuel)
Dominique Kalifa is a historian and the author of Vice, Crime, and Poverty: How the Western Imagination Invented the Underworld, forthcoming in spring 2019 from Columbia University Press.
This event is free and open to the public.
French For Health Professional Training Session
May 20, 2019 – May 24, 2019
Pugh Hall, University of Florida
The Cultural Services of the Embassy of France in the U.S., in cooperation with the Paris International Chamber of Commerce and the France Florida Research Institute and Department of Languages, Literatures and Cultures of the University of Florida is organizing a 5-day professional training session in French for Health at the University of Florida.
Eligibility: Ph.D. students, lecturers, associate professors and professors willing to implement a curriculum in French for international relations in their university are invited to send their application.
If you know anybody meeting the requirements that would be interested do not hesitate to share this information.
Applications can be submitted until February 15th, 2019.
For more information contact Martine Johnston, Deputy Cultural Attachée at the Consulate General of France in Miami.
Inscribing the Self on the Small Screen: How Marguerite Duras Put Literature on TV
Dr. Anne Brancky, Vassar College, October 21, 2019 at 4pm, (George E. Smathers Libraries (Library East), Room 100
Some of the most well-known intellectuals of 20th-century France have warned of the dangers of television to thought, to society and to the book. However, Marguerite Duras, a prominent writer and public intellectual, made use of the television as an extension of her literary project. As both an interviewer on state-funded television shows during the postwar period, and later as a major cultural celebrity being interviewed herself, Duras foregrounds both her writerly persona and her public image in order to film what amount to literary productions in themselves that would fascinate viewers while simultaneously educating them about social issues.
Blackness in French
Dr. Mame-Fatou Niang, Carnegie Mellon University, October 28, 2019 at 4pm
Scott Nygren Scholars Studio (Library West)
Mame Fatou Niang is Associate Professor of French and Francophone Studies at Carnegie Mellon University. Her research focuses on contemporary France, Sub-Saharan Africa, Postcolonial and Transnational Studies, Media, and Urban Planning. She is the author of Identités Françaises (Brill 2019) which examines the development of Afro-French identities and the works of second- and third-generation female immigrant writers of the banlieue. In 2015 she has co-directed Mariannes Noires: Mosaïques Afropéennes in which seven Afro-French women reflects on what it means to be Black and French, Black in France. She has also co-authored a photo series on Black French Islam.
Les Belles au Bois Dormant with Dr. Trinquet du Lys and Dr. Bloom
November 13, 2019 @ 3:00 pm – 4:00 pm
Dialogue around “Les Belles au Bois dormant” with Dr. Charlotte Trinquet du Lys (University of Central Florida) and Dr. Rori Bloom (University of Florida). Dialogue in French with discussion in French and/or English.
Taking inspiration from Charles Perrault’s late seventeenth-century fairy tale, “La Belle au Bois dormant,” Drs. Trinquet and Bloom will explore several versions of the “Sleeping Beauty” story, including Italian sources and French variations on the theme. Their aim is to treat a familiar, classic text in order to explore its literary and cultural complexity
This event is open to all but especially undergraduate students in French and Francophone Studies who would like to participate in a moderated discussion of French literature. If interested, consider reading Perrault’s “La Belle au Bois dormant” here. You might be surprised by this version’s unfamiliar ending!
For more information please contact
- Rori Bloom (ribloom@ufl.edu)
- Hélène Blondeau (blondeau@ufl.edu)
Vodou Inscriptions of the Self in Zora Neale Hurston’s Haitian Ethnography
November 18, 2019 @ 3:00 pm – 4:00 pm
Scott Nygren Studio, Library West
Zora Neale Hurston’s 1938 book, Tell My Horse: Voodoo and Life in Haiti and Jamaica, recounts her two years of fieldwork research on African-derived religions and other cultural practices in the Caribbean. Though it has received plenty of attention since being republished in 1990, Tell My Horse is still Hurston’s most complicated, least understood book.
Her inscriptions of self are frequently debated in conflicting scholarly assessments and in this talk, Dr. Meehan tries to make sense of Tell My Horse by placing it in the context of five centuries of travelogue writing about Haiti from French as well as Spanish, British, white American and African American authors. Haitian vodou is also important with its wide-ranging cultural, political, and historical contexts, especially when unpacking the book’s title.
“Tell my horse” is actually an English rendering of the phrase “Parley cheval ou” that is uttered by vodou practitioners to announce the onset of possession by the spirit of Papa Gede during a vodou ceremony. This reference to the vodou lwa of social protest is pivotal for sorting out Hurston’s own narrative politics and seeing how she uses the cultural logic of spirit possession to affiliate with vodou, push back against the cultural logic of imperialist travelogue from Columbus down to Herskovits, and, in the process, decolonize ethnography at a transitional moment in the history of anthropology as a discipline.
Dr. Kevin Meehan is a professor of English at the University of Central Florida. He is the author of People Get Ready: African American and Caribbean Cultural Exchange (University Press of Mississippi, 2009), and numerous articles on literature and decolonization in the Americas. His recent scholarship includes articles on small farming as climate change adaptation in the Caribbean, and he is developing a book-length project analyzing climate change adaption through the framework of environmental humanities. He has received grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the National Science Foundation, the U.S. Department of Education, the Organization of American States, and in 2017-18 he was a Fulbright Scholar in Residence at the Clarence Fitzroy Bryant College in St. Kitts, in the Leeward Islands.