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PEN WORLD VOICES

La Maison Française welcomes the Ninth Annual PEN World Voices Festival of International Literature.

Lunchtime Literary Conversations

Free and open to the public.
Seating is limited. No reservations.

Part of the Literary Mews Mini Festival

 
Friday, May 3, Noon to 1:00 p.m.

AGATA TUSZYNSKA
Writer, poet, journalist; author of Lost Landscapes: In Search of Isaac Bashevis Singer and the Jews of Poland;Vera Gran: The Accused

in conversation with JEAN-EUPHÈLE MILCÉ
Novelist; author of Alphabet of the Night; co-founder of Lire Haiti magazine

Friday, May 3, 2:00 to 3:00 p.m.

JAMES KELMAN
Novelist; author of How Late It Was, How Late; Kieron Smith, boy

in conversation with EMMELIE PROPHÈTE
Novelist, poet, journalist; author of Le Reste du temps; Impasse dignité

Co-sponsored by PEN Haiti

The Ninth Annual PEN World Voices Festival of International Literature, New York City, April 29–May 5, 2013. Writers from across the globe convene in New York City to explore bravery in art, politics and personal life. Chaired by Salman Rushdie, this year’s festival examines writers’ impact on political transformations in recent global hot spots—Burma, Palestine, South Africa, Haiti, and Guantanamo Bay—and honors small acts of bravery displayed in daily life.

www.worldvoicesfestival.org

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Monday, April 29, 7:30 p.m.
FLORENCE GOULD EVENT

French Literature in the Making

KATHERINE PANCOL
Born in Morocco, Katherine Pancol grew up in France where she studied literature. After a stint at journalism at the age of twenty, she published Moi d’abord in 1979, an immediate success. She moved to New York to study creative writing at Columbia University and immerse herself in the literary world. Back in France, she continued to write novels and to work as a journalist, interviewing high profile personalities. Katherine Pancol has written 14 novels to date, among them La Valse lente des tortues, Les Écureuils de Central Park sont tristes le lundi, and Les Yeux jaunes des crocodiles (2006, prix Maison de la Presse), which sold over a million copies and was translated into 9 languages. Katherine Pancol was one the top three best-selling authors of 2012.

in conversation with
OLIVIER BARROT
Writer, journalist, television producer and host, Un Livre un jour (France 3 and TV5)

Presented with the additional support of Sofitel, Centre National du Livre, Air France, Institut Français, and the Cultural Services of the French Embassy

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CONFERENCE

Friday, April 26, 2:00 to 6:00 p.m.

Translating / Writing / Publishing Caribbean Literature

Organized by EMMANUELLE ERTEL, NYU

MICHAEL DASH, NYU
“Recomposer par trace: Translating Without an Original”

CHRISTINE RAGUET, Université Sorbonne-Nouvelle
“Diglossia, Heterophony, Superposed Voices: Obstacles to Translation?”

PRINCE GUETJENS, Poet
“Poetry Reading”

AARON PETROVICH, Akashic Books
“A Publisher’s Perspective”

PETER CONSTANTINE, Literary translator
ROGER CÉLESTIN, University of Connecticut
“Molly Goes to Haiti: Translating Joyce’s Ulysses into Creole”

ROSE RÉJOUIS, The New School
“Reading Translation”

CHELSEA STIEBER, NYU
“Du côté de chez Swann at 100, and in kreyòl: Guy Regis Junior Translates Marcel Proust”

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Wednesday, April 24, 6:30 p.m.
INSTITUTE OF FRENCH STUDIES COLLOQUIUM
CO-SPONSORED BY THE COLLÈGE INTERNATIONAL DE PHILOSOPHIE, PARIS

Roundtable discussion

“Marriage for All!”: The French Debate on Same-Sex Marriage

BRUNO PERREAU, MIT, author of Penser l’adoption
CAMILLE ROBCIS, Cornell, author of The Law of Kinship

Moderated by
JULIE SAADA, Université d’Artois-Collège International de Philosophie
FRÉDÉRIC VIGUIER, NYU

A proposed law that would extend marriage rights to same-sex couples and allow them to adopt children has prompted mass demonstrations and heated discussions in the French Press and Parliament. As the legislative procedure is nearing completion, our round-table will examine the French debate on same-sex marriage (“le marriage pour tous”), the recent history of the same-sex marriage agenda, and the changing dynamics of sexual politics in France.

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16 Washington Mews (at University Place)
Tel. 212-998-8750
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Thursday, April 25, 7:30 p.m.

GUILLAUME SOULEZ
Guillaume Soulez est Professeur en cinéma et audiovisuel à l’Université Sorbonne Nouvelle-Paris 3. Il a fondé et présidé l’Association Nationale des Téléspectateurs « Les Pieds dans le Paf » ainsi que la revue littéraire La Voix du Regard. Revue sur les images modernes. Associé au CNRS, co-directeur de la collection « Champs Visuels » de L’Harmattan, membre du comité éditorial de MédiaMorphoses (Ina), puis de Mise au Point. Revue de l’association française des chercheurs en cinéma et audiovisuel, il a publié notammentStendhal, le désir de cinéma (Séguier, 2006, avec L. Jullier) et Quand le film nous parle. Rhétorique, cinéma, télévision (PUF, 2011).

Le cinéma, une pensée de la littérature ?

Ces dernières années, on s’est de nouveau intéressé à la relation entre les deux arts, au-delà de l’ « adaptation » ou de l’ « influence du cinéma » sur la littérature. Comment la question revient-elle ? L’évolution des études littéraires et cinématographiques, l’archéologie du cinéma, la « philosophie du cinéma » ont modifié le paysage. En replongeant la littérature et le cinéma dans leur contexte historique, on peut observer comment la littérature s’approprie, avant la naissance du cinéma, l’expérience de la modernité (moyens de transport, sollicitations visuelles…). De même, après une réflexion qui a souligné le pouvoir de préfiguration utopique du cinéma par la littérature, un tournant récent est, au contraire, de voir comment le cinéma aide à penser la littérature. Le « cinématisme », la pensée cinématographique serait à l’oeuvre en dehors même du cinéma. En quel sens l’entendre ? Quelle part de la littérature est concernée ? On essaiera de mesurer ce renversement, d’en interroger les présupposés, d’en observer et d’en défendre la productivité. Peut-on penser littérature et cinéma comme explorant en miroir leurs propres limites ?

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Thursday, April 18, 7:30 p.m.

RÉDA BENSMAÏA
Réda Bensmaïa is Professor of French Studies and Comparative Literature at Brown University. He has written widely on the readership of theoretical production to cinema, philosophy, colonial and postcolonial history, aesthetics as well as on francophone Maghrebi literature. He is the author of The Barthes Effect: the Essay as a Reflective Text, The Year of Passages; Alger ou la maladie de la mémoire; and the editor of Gilles Deleuze (in Lendemains, 1988 and in Discourse, 1998). His last book, entitled Experimental Nations or the Invention of the Maghreb, analyzes the way different North African francophone writers dealt with national identity, language and cultural constructions after the independence of their countries.

Figures de l’événement

« Par l’événement seul nous devenons nous-mêmes », affirmait avec force Martin Heidegger dans l’un des textes fondateurs du concept d’événement dans ses Holzweg. Repris par les phénoménologues, le concept allait se transformer en ce que Jean-Luc Marion a qualifié de « phénomène saturé », soit comme une expérience du monde qui passe dorénavant par un « surcroît » de l’intuition sur tous les concepts et catégories d’appréhension de la réalité mondaine par une conscience.

Dans l’excursus que sera engagé dans cette conférence, il s’agira, en partant de l’analyse de quelques-unes des configurations théoriques qu’a pris la notion d’événement dans la modernité, de mettre en évidence la place qu’elle occupe aujourd’hui dans le domaine de la création artistique.

La Maison Française de NYU
16 Washington Mews (at University Place)
Tel. 212-998-8750
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Saturday, April 13, 4:00 p.m.
Location: Jerry H. Labowitz Theatre for the Performing Arts, 1 Washington Place

BERNARD STIEGLER
Bernard Stiegler is leading philosopher of technology and culture. He is the founding director of the Institut de Recherche et d’Innovation at the Pompidou Center in Paris, and a founding member of the collective Ars Industrialis: An International Association for an Industrial Politics of Technologies of the Spirit. His publications include the several volumes of La Technique et le temps, published in English as Technics and Time; Disbelief and Discredit 1, 2, and 3; as well as Acting Out, Taking Care of Youth and the Generations, and Towards a New Critique of Political Economy.

Social Networking and Neuropower

Followed by a discussion moderated by BEN KAFKA (Department of Media, Culture, and Communication, NYU).

Co-sponsored by the Department of Comparative Literature; the Department of Media, Culture, and Communication; the Humanities Initiative; Information Futures; and Cultural Services of the French Embassy.

La Maison Française de NYU
16 Washington Mews (at University Place)
Tel. 212-998-8750
maison.francaise@nyu.edu
www.nyu.edu/maisonfrancaise

Friday, April 12, 6:00 p.m.
CO-SPONSORED BY INSTITUTE OF AFRICAN-AMERICAN AFFAIRS AND INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC KNOWLEDGE

Location: Institute for Public Knowledge, NYU, 20 Cooper Square, 5th floor

EDWY PLENEL
Journalist; co-founder and CEO, Mediapart; former editor-in-chief, Le Monde; author of Le Droit de savoir

Révolution numérique, revolutions démocratiques
Digital Revolution, Democratic Revolutions

Comme les deux précédentes révolutions industrielles, la révolution numérique modifie radicalement l’espace public: il est devenu sans frontières et il s’est ouvert aux individus. Ce bouleversement technologique offre d’immenses opportunités démocratiques qui affrontent les pouvoirs étatiques et les puissances économiques. A partir de l’expérience française de Mediapart, journal numérique, indépendant et participatif, une réflexion sur les enjeux politiques d’Internet.

Like the previous two industrial revolutions, the digital revolution has radically changed public space: it has become borderless and open to all individuals. This technological revolution offers huge democratic opportunities that confront state authorities and economic powers. The event will use the French experience of Mediapart—a digital newspaper, both independent and participatory—to reflect upon the political Internet.

In French, translation provided.

Reservations recommended: www.nyu.edu/ipk

La Maison Française de NYU
16 Washington Mews (at University Place)
Tel. 212-998-8750
maison.francaise@nyu.edu
www.nyu.edu/maisonfrancaise

CONFERENCE

Tuesday, April 9, 1:00 to 4:00 p.m.
INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM

Location: Kimmel Center, 60 Washington Square South, Room 914

Aurignacian Genius: Art, Technology, and Society of the First Modern Humans in Europe

New York University will host an international symposium, on Aurignacians, who inhabited much of Europe and parts of southern Asia until approximately 28,000 years ago. They are the first modern humans outside Africa, and their practices and advances shed light on the origins of the arts in Europe. The symposium will consider the social, technological, and environmental contexts of Aurignacian art and how science can inform our understanding of Aurignacians’ contributions to today’s cultural landscape.

Among the speakers are NYU Anthropology Professor RANDALL WHITE and RAPHAËLLE BOURRILLON of the University of Toulouse whose discovery of the earliest form of wall art was reported last fall, a finding that offers rich evidence of the role art played in the daily lives of Early Aurignacian humans. Other speakers include: MARC AZÉMA, FRANÇOIS BON, CAROLE FRITZ, WILLIAM RENDU, and GILLES TOSELLO of the University of Toulouse; and HARALD FLOSS and SIBYLLE WOLF of the University of Tuebingen.

Detailed information and registration materials can be found here.

Sponsors include NYU’s Center for the Study of Human Origins, the NYU Center for International Research in the Humanities and Social Sciences (UMI 3199 CNRS-NYU), in collaboration with the Cultural Services of the French Embassy.

The symposium is free and open to the public, but confirmed registration is required: 212-992-7488 or valerie.dubois@nyu.edu.

SOLD OUT

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Friday, April 5, 4:00 p.m 
CO-SPONSORED BY CULTURAL SERVICES OF THE FRENCH EMBASSY

Illustrated Presentation

BOULET

Boulet is a comic book writer who has published over 40 books in France, including the « Raghnarok » series. He began drawing for Tchô! magazine almost 15 years ago, while he was studying at the Beaux Arts of Strasbourg. In 2004 he began working on Lewis Trondheim and Joann Sfar’s series « Dungeon » for Back in Style, before starting his own webcomic. Available to U.S. audiences in English, the blog receives nearly 8,000 unique visitors per day, while the French blog receives 50,000 visitors daily and has been the basis for seven books published by Delcourt.

www.bouletcorp.com

La Maison Française de NYU
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Tel. 212-998-8750
maison.francaise@nyu.edu
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