The Tournées Festival of French FilmMarch 2008
Films shown:LE PLAFOND DE VERRE The Glass Ceiling (Yamina Benguigui, 2004)
CHATS PERCHÉS The Case of the Grinning Cat (Chris Marker, 2004)
VERS LE SUD Heading South (Laurent Cantet, 2005)
CACHÉ Hidden (Mickael Haneke, 2005)
LES INVASIONS BARBARES The Barbarian Invasions (Denys Arcand, 2003)The Tournées Festival was made possible with the support of the Cultural Services of the French Embassy and the French Ministry of Culture (CNC), The Florence Gould Foundation, the Grand Marnier Foundation, highbrow entertainment, agnès b. and the Franco-American Cultural Fund.
For more information on the films, go to http://www.facecouncil.org/tournees/
Pierre Rodrigo
Sartre and Tintoretto: From the irreality of image to social praxisWednesday, February 20, 2008
Professor of Philosophy at the University of Burgundy in Dijon
Hope Glidden
"What To Do With A Broken Thing": Du Bellay and the Cult of Ruins in the French RenaissanceTuesday, November 20, 2007
Kathryn B. Gore Professor of French, Department of French and Italian, Tulane University
Frieda Ekotto
Ousmane Sembene's Moolaadé and Women's Resistance in West AfricaMarch 13, 2007
Professor at the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor
Rouben Cholakian
"Marguerite de Navarre: The Making of a Biography"January 25, 2007
Rouben Cholakian is Professor emeritus at Hamilton College
Cathy Yandell
"Iconography and Iconoclasm: The Female Breast in the French Renaissance"January 26, 2006
Cathy Yandell is a W.I. and Hulda F. Daniell Professor, Department of French Literature, Language & Culture Carleton College
Souleymane Bachir Diagne
"The Reformist Philosophy in Islam: A Presentation of the Thought of Muhammad Igbal"and
"Senghor et l'art africain"
November 10 & 11, 2005
Souleymane Bachir Diagne is a Professor of Philosophy at Northwestern University.
Danielle Michel-Chich
"Feminine Contemporary WritingApril 12, 2005
Danielle Michel-Chich is an essayist, translator, and journalist.
Réda Bensmaïa
'La Langue de l'autre: A "Demonstration"...'January 31, 2005
Réda Bensmaïa is a Professor of French Studies & Comparative Literature at Brown University
Dr. Patrick Weil
"L'Immigration en France et aux Etats-Unis Politiques ComparéesNovember 9, 2004
Patrick Weil is a Senior Research Fellow at The National Center for Scientific Research and
the Director for The Center for the Study of Immigration and Citizenship at The University of Paris 1-Sorbonne
Lawrence Schehr
"Seducing Straight Characters: The Case of Vautrin and Lucien"February 7, 2002
Lawrence Schehr is a Professor of French Studies, Comparative Literature, and Women Studies at the University of Illinois-Urbana.
The Future of Feminist Critique: Ethics, Agency, Politics
November 3-5, 2000
A conference organized by French Studies professor Lynne Huffer, along with her colleagues Susan Lurie (English) and Carol Quillen (History), this conference brought together innovative scholars and activists from a range of fields and political contexts. Together they examined how specifically feminist analyses can speak to fundamental questions about the nature of subectivity, the ethical claims of difference, the meaning of social justice, and the efficacy of political action.
The keynote address was given by Angela Davis, who spoke about "Race, Gender, and the Punishment Industry."
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Marie Darrieussecq
"Ecrire"April 27, 2000
Marie Darrieussecq is the author of Truismes and La naissance des fantômes, published by New Press in 1999.
Marcelin Pleynet
"Art et littérature au XXème siècle: le XXème siècle à travers les âges"November 9, 1998
A poet, literary critic, and art historian, Marcelin Pleynet has been a participant in the Tel Quel movement. He is the author of ten poetry volumes and two novels, as well as the co-author, with William Rubin, of Situation de l'art moderne. He published the fifth volume of his diaries in 1997. He currently holds the chair in Esthetics at the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts.
Jean-Yves Jouannais
"L'idiotie en art, un ésotérisme fin de siècle"October 28, 1998
Jean-Yves Jouannais is the author of several books, the editor in chief of Art Press and co-founder of the Revue perpendiculaire and Documents sur l'art contemporain. He also teaches contemporary art at Paris VIII (Saint-Denis).
Michel Houellebecq
"'Les Perpendiculaires' et l'avant-garde contemporaine"April 21, 1998
Michel Houellebecq is the author of several novels, poems, and an essay on Lovecraft. In 1994, he published L'extension du domaine de la lutte, an ironic novel which has become a landmark for a new generation of readers.
Bernard Noël
"L'espace du poème"November 26, 1996
Bernard Noël is a renowned poet (la chute du temps), novelist (Le roman d'Adam), and essayist (Les printres du désir).
Cornelius Castoriadis
"Culture in a democratic society"April 28, 1995
Professor at the Ecoles des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (Paris), the late Cornelius Castoriadis was a well-known political and cultural philosopher. Five of his numerous books have been translated into English, among them "The Imaginary Institution of Society".
The event was co-sponsored by the Baker Institute for Public Policy, the Center for the Study of Cultures, the Dean of Humanities, and the French Cultural Service of the French Consulate in Houston.
Gilles Lipovetsky
"L'Empire de L'Ephemere"November 22, 1994
Professor at the University of Grenoble, Gilles Lipovetsky is the author of the acclaimed book L'ère du vide (Gallimard, 1983), as well as De l'éphèmère (The Empire of Fashion, Princeton University Press, 1994), and Le refus du devoir, démocratie morale et démocratie moraliste (1992).
The event was co-sponsored by the French Cultural Service of the French Consulate in Houston.