News & Events
News
@ Smith
Departmental Newsletter 2007-08.
Collaborations, 2008: discover the exciting student-faculty collaborations that take place in French Studies.
Departmental Newsletter 2006-07.
Scholarly Activities by members of the department in 2006-07.
in/from Geneva
A biology major spends her junior in Geneva and write about her experience (April 2008).
Read her comments in Grécourt Gate News!
JYA in Geneva 07-08: blog.
JYA in Geneva 06-07: blog.
in/from Paris
Collective jump of joy of the students spending their junior year in Paris, @ beach in Normandie (April 2008).
JYA in Paris 07-08: best memories.
Events
sponsored by the Department of French Studies
La Table française
Every
Monday, noon–1:15
p.m., Duckett House Dining Room
Please, bring anyone and everyone interested in speaking French!
Will resume the second week of classes (Monday, September 15, 2008).
Fête de fondue on Friday May 2, 2:30-4:00 PM @ Dawes House: French Majors organized a delicious fondue (cheese & bread, chocolate & fruit...) as well as drinks, and good conversations in order to celebrate both the department and their hard work as French students. French Studies Majors also received a French Major T-shirt! Take a look at the party.
Visit of the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute on Saturday April 5th: French Majors took a trip to the Clark Museum and spent the day together enjoying the French Impressionists.
Take a look at the visit.
Public Performance @ 8:00 PM on Wednesday January 30th: French Theater Workshop under the direction of Rosine Schautz , in the TV Studio (room T 100 on the ground floor of the Theatre building).
French House
Activities (Dawes House/La Maison française)
- Le petit immortel @ 3:00 PM on Sunday, April 13th: join us for a playful afternoon, come and try a game that will let you be part of the Académie française.
- Tea "JYA" @ 4:00 PM on Friday, April 11th: a great opportunity to share Paris and Geneva experiences and to ask all the questions you may have about life in these European cities!
- Crêpes sale event: Campus Center on Thursday, February 21st, 11:00 AM-2:00 PM, and 4:00-6:00 PM.
- Cooking workshop @ 3:30 PM on Sunday, February 17th: join us to make some galettes and enjoy them.
- Tea "peinture" @ 4:15 PM on Friday, December 7th: Dawes will turn into a small gallery; join us to play games and take quizzes on French paintings.
- Tea "chanson française" @ 4:00 PM on Friday, November 9th: enjoy your tea listening to and (re)discovering French music from the last years and months. Treat for your ears!
- "Crêpes" party @ 4:00 PM on Friday, September 21st: meet with the students who spent their JYA in Paris and Geneva. Discuss with them, and learn about their amazing experience as well as about the programs.
French Film Series @ Dawes House
- Les Bronzés font du ski @ 8:00 PM on April 15th: the sequel in the French Alps.
- Les Bronzés @ 8:00 PM on April 8th: a comedy in an all inclusive holiday resort. Games, outings and sunburn accompany a succession of casual affairs.
- Astérix Mission Cléopâtre @ 8:00 PM on April 1st: the adventures of the famous Gaul turned into a movie.
- Sheitan @ 8:00 PM on March 11th: a group of young people end up in their friend's farmhouse where they meet a frightening man, Joseph. Kooky and spooky things will happen.*
- C'est arrivé près de chez vous @ 8:00 PM on February 16th: a mock documentary on reality TV dealing with a serial-killer who is accompanied by a TV crew who first document and then participate in his activites. *
- Tanguy @ 8:00 PM on February 12th: a satirical working over of French families.
- Chacun cherche son chat @ 8:00 PM on December 15th: relationships exuding the sense of living in Paris.
- C.R.A.Z.Y @ 8:00 PM on November 29th: the story of a teenager anchored in the 70s groove struggling between his burgeoning sexuality and his religious upbringing.
- Venus Beauté @ 8:00 PM on November 13th: a romance comedy dealing with three women of different age working in a beauty salon.
- Les Roseaux sauvages @ 8:00 PM on November 6th: coming-of-age story of young characters being confused about their intellectual, sexual,and political identities within the context of France's war in Algeria.
- Être et avoir @ 8:00 PM on October 18th: a fly-on-the wall documentary about a single-class French village school.
- Un Long dimanche de fiançailles @ 8:00 PM on October 4th: another film from the directror and star of Amélie, a love story within the context of WWI.
- Delicatessen @ 8:00 PM on Thursday, September 20th: an outstanding black comedy from the director of Amélie. In French with English subtitles, all welcome!
*These films contain some violent secnes which can be disturbing
Talks & Conferences
- MARYSE CONDÉ and RICHARD PHILCOX on Thursday November 8th @ 5:00 PM, Neilson Library Browsing Room.
A bilingual reading presented by Maryse Condé -internationally acclaimed Guadeloupean author- and Richard Philcox -her translator: "Intimate Enemies: A Conversation Between an Author and Her Translator". The reading will be followed by a round table discussion with Leah D.Hewitt. Professor of French at Amherst College, and Nicole Ball, translator.
- Publish and Perish: Marcel Proust, Catherine Pozzi, and their Literary Circles. Roundtable featuring Larry Joseph (Professor Emeritus, French Language and Literature, Smith College) and Christine Cano ('84, Associate Professor of French and Comparative Literature, Case Western Reserve University) on Parisian Lietrary Cricles (1910-1930), and moderated by Martine Gantrel (French Studies Department) on Thursday April 3rd @ 5:00 PM, The Poetry Center (Wright Hall).
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This round table discussion will offer a unique setting in which to discuss some of the anxieties and passions that galvanized French literary circles around Proust's time. Having earned his bachelor's, master's and doctoral degrees from Harvard University, Joseph taught at Smith from 1965 until his retirement in 1999. His scholarship has focused on 19th and 20th century French literature, including biographies of French literary figures Henri Cazalis and Catherine Pozzi. In 2000, he gave the prestigious Engel Lecture at Smith on "Marcel Proust and 'Doctor Dieu': Letters to Samuel Pozzi." Larry's most recent book, La Flamme et la cendre : Correspondance (Gallimard, 2006) presents the correspondance of Catherine Pozzi , the daughter of the |
| Docteur Dieu Samuel Pozzi, and of Paul Valéry, the famous poet who was also one of the most influential intellectuals and activists of early to mid-twentieth-century France. Christine Cano (Ph.D. Yale University) is an Associate Professor of French and comparative literature at Case Western Reserve University. An alumna of Smith College, she spent her junior year in Aix-en-Provence and at the Sorbonne in Paris. Her book Proust's Deadline (University of Illinois Press, 2006), which has received rave reviews, presents a concise history of the publishing and reception of À la recherche du temps perdu, and sorts out the most important issues that have arisen from the ensuing debates about the text. |
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