October Newsletter, 2002

   

Departmental News:

John Lyons gave one of the two keynote addresses at the Seventeenth-Century French Studies annual meeting in Bath (UK), September 12-14. His talk was titled "Triumph of the Will: Imagination and Self-Cultivation in François de Sales." On September 21 he spoke on "The Rhetoric of Tyranny" at the Swarthmore College symposium, "L'Invraisemblance du pouvoir."

Philippe Roger's L'Ennemi américain. Généalogie de l'antiaméricanisme français appeared at the Editions du Seuil early in September. Reviews and other paratext may be found in Le Nouvel Observateur (9/5), Le Figaro littéraire (9/5), Le Monde (9/11 et 9/12), Le Soir de Bruxelles (9/12), La Croix (9/14), Les Inrockuptibles (9/11-17), Libération (9/21). Also out in September : "John Dos Passos, desperado du siècle américain", a preface to a new edition of Dos Passos' U.S.A. (Gallimard, Quarto). A paper entitled "Jeux interdits ou vices policés ? Sexualité et politique dans le libertinage de la seconde moitié du XVIIIe siècle" was given at the International Colloquium "Libertinage et politique en France au temps de la Monarchie Absolue" (Château de Versailles and Sorbonne, September 18-19); another on "Antiamericanism : another French exception ?" at the International Symposium organized by the CERI (Sciences Po) on September 30 and October 1.

On October 24th Elisabeth Ladenson attended the 19th Century Conference in Columbus Ohio giving a paper entitled "The Return of the Imperial Prosecutor." She is also ashamed to report that she has been invited to participate in a Colloque de Cerisy, June 21-28, on: "Lire, écrire la honte."

Mary McKinley attended the Sixteenth Century Studies Conference in San Antonio, Texas, Oct. 24-27. She presented a paper titled "Rabelais's Appeal to Marguerite de Navarre: the Tiers Livre dedication in context."

Amy Ogden presented a paper on "Transforming Texts: Literary and Linguistic Transformations on the Peripheries of Old French Hagiography" at the South-Eastern Medieval Association conference in Tallahassee (Sept. 28).

Candace Cone has accepted the position of Acting Language Program Director for Spring 2003.

   

Up-coming Events:

Thursday November 7, and Friday, November 8
LIONEL JOSPIN, SAMUEL HUNTINGTON & ROBERT KAPLAN
will speak at the University of Virginia symposium on "America in the World"
Keynote address by Samuel Huntington 7 pm, November 7 in Alumni Hall.
On November 8, Lionel Jospin will speak at 9:00 am, and Robert Kaplan will speak at 10:30 am in Old Cabell Hall auditorium, followed by a noon panel discussion with all three symposium participants.

For details, please contact the Center on Religion and Democracy at (434) 924-7705 or visit the following web site:
http://www.virginia.edu/topnews/releases2002/french-oct-16-2002.html .

Monday, November 11
"La Guerre de Sécession vue de France: à propos d'un tableau d'Edouard Manet."
by PHILIPPE ROGER (CNRS- Université de Paris IV)
La Maison Française at **6:00pm
Sponsored by the Department of French & part of the Fall 2002 Lecture Series

Tuesday, November 12
"Queer Dirt: Homosexuality and the History of Literary Censorship."
by ELISABETH LADENSON (Associate Professor of French, UVa)
5:00 pm, Cabell 423
Sponsored by the LGBT Resource Center & part of the Queer Scholarship series.

** Please note change in time.