|
SEPTEMBER
September 19 and
20: O'Grady
Latin American Literature Lecture Series
- Thursday, September
19, 4:30 p.m., Hesburgh Center Auditorium:
Tomás
Eloy Martínez, Rutgers University, will give a
lecture (in English), "Reality and Fiction:
Santa Evita and Other Stories."
- Friday, September
20, 4:30 p.m., Hesburgh Center Auditorium: Tomás
Eloy Martínez will give a lecture (in Spanish),
"Cómo nace una novela" (How a
Novel Is Born), on El vuelo de la reina and The Tango
Singer.
T O P [+]
OCTOBER
-
Wednesday,
October 2, 4:30-6:00 p.m., McKenna Hall (CCE): Jo
Labanyi will speak on "An Oral History
of Cinema-Going in 1940’s and 50’s Spain." A reception
will follow. All are welcome.
-
Thursday, October 3, 4:30 p.m., 119 O'Shaughnessy Hall: round
table, "Memory and Things: Thinking Beyond
Subectivity." All are welcome.
Co-sponsored by
the Nanovic Institute for European
Studies, the Institute
for Scholarship in the Liberal Arts, and the Office of the Provost,
with the support of the Program of Liberal Studies, and the Departments
of History, English, and Film, Television and Theatre.
Wednesday,
October 16, 5:00 p.m., Auditorium of the Hesburgh Center for International
Studies: Remo Ceserani,
Professor of Comparative Literature, Università degli Studi di
Bologna, will present a lecture titled, "Melancholy
and Wit: A Humorous Relationship."
For more information,
visit the Devers Program in Dante
Studies, and specifically the page on its fall
2002 lectures.
Professor Ceserani's
lecture is sponsored by the Distinguished Visiting Chair in Italian
Studies held this year by Prof. Piero
Boitani, by the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures,
by the PhD in Literature Program,
and by the Nanovic Institute for
European Studies. A reception will follow.
Tuesday,
October 29, 4:45 p.m. reading room of the Department of Special Collections,
102 Hesburgh Library: William J. Kennedy,
Professor of Comparative Literature at Cornell University,
will give a lecture entitled "Du Bellay's Strategic
Defense: Petrarchan Illustrations of National Sentiment in Early Modern
France."
| William
J. Kennedy (Ph.D. in Comparative Literature, Yale University),
teaches the history of European literature and literary criticism
from antiquity to the early modern period. His interests focus
on Italian, French, English, and German texts from Dante to Milton.
His Rhetorical Norms in Renaissance Literature (Yale University
Press, 1978) studies interactions of genre, style, and mode in
lyric, epic, and prose narrative. His Jacopo Sannazaro and
the Uses of Pastoral (University Press of New England, 1983),
recipient of the MLA's Marraro Prize, traces the rise of modern
pastoral from ancient models. His Authorizing Petrarch
(Cornell University Press, 1994) explores the canonizing imitations
throughout Europe. He has co-edited a rhetoric text, Writing
of Petrarch in the Disciplines (Prentice-Hall, fifth ed. 1998),
and has contributed articles on the history of rhetoric and literary
theory to journals and critical collections. He has received fellowships
from the Fulbright, Guggenheim, and Rockefeller Foundations. His
current book-length project concerns ideas of nation and national
sentiment in an age of pre-nationalism. |
|
William J. Kennedy
on the Arts
and Letters events page
T O P [+]
NOVEMBER
Thursday,
November 7, 7:00 p.m., 102 DeBartolo Hall: Candace
Slater,
UC Berkeley, will present a lecture entitled "Entangled
Natures: Popular Narratives and Visions of Wild Nature."
For
complete information, please visit the ISLA web
page for this event.
Wednesday,
November 6, 4:30 p.m. Medieval Institute Reading Room, 715 Hesburgh Library:
Emanuel J. Mickel, Jr.,
Indiana
University, Bloomington, will introduce National French Week with a lecture
entitled "The Other and the Enemy: Great Fears
in Medieval French Literature and Civilization."
|
|
Emanuel
J. Mickel, Jr. is Professor of Medieval and 19th-century French
literature at Indiana University, Bloomington, where he was Director
of the Medieval Studies Institute from 1976 to 1991, and Chair
of the Department of French and Italian from 1984 to 1995. Recipient
of three NEH Grants, he has also been a Lilly Fellow. The medieval
roman and chanson de geste as well as 19th-century
poetry and the novel predominate in his research. He has authored
and edited numerous books: The Artificial Paradises in French
Literature (1969); Marie de France (1974); The Old
French Crusade Cycle, v. 1, La Naissance du Chevalier au
Cygne, Part 1, Elioxe (1977); Eugène Fromentin
(1982); Ganelon, Treason and the Chanson de Roland (1989);
Jules Verne's Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea
(1991); The Shaping of Text: Style, Imagery, and Structure
in French Literature (editor, 1993); Studies in Honor of
Alfred G. Engstrom (co-editor, 1972); The Old French Crusade
Cycle, Vols. 1, 2, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, and 10; Medievalia Hungarica,
Vols. 1 and 2 (editor). The Enfances Godefroi and Le
Retour de Cornumarant appeared in 1999, and the final volume
of the entire Crusade Cycle series, La Chanson d'Antioche
by Professor Jan Nelson, has just gone into press production and
will appear in the summer of 2003. Emanuel Mickel is presently
working on the aesthetic relationship between 19th-century French
painting and literature.
This event
is co-sponsored by the Program in French and Francophone Studies
in
the Department of Romance Languages and
Literatures, the Medieval
Institute, and
the Nanovic Institute for
European Studies.
See
pictures of this event!
|
Friday, November
8, 3:00-5:30 p.m., 210-214 McKenna Hall (CCE): Induction
ceremony into Pi
Delta Phi,
National French Honor Society, to be followed by a reception.
Sunday,
November 10, 7:30-10:00 p.m., Ballroom, LaFortune Student Center:
French singer Éric
Vincent will give a concert, to be followed
by an informal reception. The event is free and open to the
public. All are welcome!
Monday,
November 11, 10:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m., Ballroom, LaFortune Student
Center:
French singer Éric
Vincent will
give a concert, followed by a workshop in which he will describe
his world travels and explain the art of composing. This event,
designed for high-school and college students of French, is
free and open to the public. All are welcome!
Eric Vincent's
performances are co-sponsored by Notre Dame's French student
club "Le Cercle
français," by the local chapter Mu
Phi of the National French Honor Society Pi
Delta Phi, by the Nanovic
Institute for European Studies, and by the Institute
for Scholarship in the Liberal Arts.
See
pictures of this event!
|
|
Thursday,
November 14, 7:00 p.m., Hesburgh Library Auditorium:
French movie Mauvaises
Fréquentations / Bad Company
(in French, with English subtitles)
1999. Directed by
Jean-Pierre Améris. Written by Alain Layrac. Starring Maud Forget,
Lou Doillon, Robinson Stévenin, and Maxime Mansion. 98 minutes.
Bad
Company
is a stunning French film of adolescent obsession. While at first the
plot may suggest a standard coming-of-age teen romance, as the drama
develops it becomes clear that nothing could be further from the truth.
The French concept of mad love - "l'amour fou" - is brilliantly
developed in this startling story, inspired by true events reported
in the French press in the mid-1990s. Fourteen-year-old Delphine is
a delicate boned, shy child of the haute-bourgeoisie, while pal Olivia
is tall, brazen, and dread-locked. Falling hard for a boy for the first
time, Delphine embarks upon a sexual enterprise to prove her love. The
film's subject matter is, in the words of one critic, "quietly devastating."
While not explicitly graphic, Bad Company suggests that
teenagers are capable of profound degrees of self-sacrificial behavior,
and its counterpart - the cold-blooded exploitation of others.
World Prism Award for best feature-length
foreign film, Santa Barbara International Film Festival, 2000
"The
difference between French cinema and Hollywood is the difference between
Bad Company and She's All That. Jean-Pierre Améris's
French teen love story . . . is one of those quietly devastating journeys
into the darkness of the human soul so characteristic of Gallic cinema.
. . . [A] knockout performance by lead teen Maud Forget. . . . Working
with a natural cast of kids, Améris sensitively, sometimes cruelly,
illustrates the power of teenage obsessions." -- Mike Goodridge, Screen
International
Other
Press Reviews
with actress Sandrine Bonnaire (C'est la vie, 2001)
The
spirit of French Week will continue throughout November!
Thursday,
November 21, 7:00 p.m., Hesburgh Library Auditorium:
French movie La
Fille sur le pont / Girl on the Bridge
 |
(in
French, with English subtitles)
|
 |
presented by the
Nanovic Institute for European
Studies and the Department of
Film, Television, and Theatre.
This program was made possible with the support of the Cultural
Services of the French Embassy and the French
Ministry of Culture (CNC).
1999. Directed by
Patrice Leconte. Starring Daniel Auteuil and Vanessa Paradis. 92 minutes.
"Shot
in sumptuous black and white, replete with dizzy, swooping camera effects
and gorgeous shots of Paris, Monaco, Athens and Istanbul, Girl
on the Bridge is like a pocket anthology of your favorite foreign
movies (or mine, anyway), a meticulous cut-and-paste collage of a half-dozen
half-remembered, dreamed-up movies by Godard, Truffaut and, above all,
Fellini. . . . Adèle (Vanessa Paradis) is a young woman who has
drifted through a life of aimless, passive promiscuity ("I believe
every promise I hear") that has led her to the brink of suicide.
Standing on a chilly Paris bridge, she meets Gabor (Daniel Auteuil),
a profane, philosophical knife thrower out recruiting new talent. After
saving her life, he persuades her to risk it, and they set out to conquer
the cabarets and casinos of Europe with their act. He seems a bit uncertain
of his own skill, but that, he assures her, is a secondary consideration.
The secret to knife throwing is to find a fortunate target." (from
a New York Times review by A. O. Scott)
César Award for best actor
(Daniel Auteuil), France, 2000
DECEMBER
Sunday,
December 15, ROLL Christmas Party, Sacred Heart Parish, 1:00-5:00
P.M.
View
pictures of this event!
|
Graduate Program 
