Tuesday, September 18, 2012
Fall Symposium of the Graduate Students of French and Italian (Friday, 10/5, 1-4pm, 145 Nicholson)
We would like to invite the French & Italian and English departments to the Fall Symposium of the Graduate Students of French of Italian, which will take place on Friday, October 5th from 1pm to 4pm in Nicholson 145. The presenters are Kate Droske and Jiewon Baek.
More information and details will follow in the coming weeks.
If you have questions, please feel free to contact either Courtney Pyrtle (matth193@umn.edu) or I (ferr0382@umn.edu)
We look forward to seeing you there.
Courtney and Déborah
Monday, September 17, 2012
Event: Franco-Fête Minneapolis 2012 with Le Vent du Nord, 9/28-9/29
Francophone, Francophile, French-Canadian ancestry…or know someone who is, or is interested? Consider passing this post along, about a very special event in Minneapolis September 28-29, 2012. Here is the final, detailed program: 2012 Franco-Fete Final Program.pdf
Franco-Fête will include all the elements of a fine program: family, food, fun…along with academics, history, music…
This will be the first such Fete in Minneapolis-St. Paul, but is not a first ever venture.
Leader Dr. Virgil Benoit, French-Canadian (Franco-American), professor of French at the University of North Dakota and a lifelong part of the Red Lake Falls MN community, has been putting together similar festivals for over 35 years in various places in Minnesota and North Dakota. Dr. Benoit is a professor of diverse talents and great skill, as well as having great passion for the culture and language of his birth.
This years conference will be the largest and most ambitious thus far.
Presenters & Speakers from the U of M - Twin Cities:
April A. Knutson, Lecturer in French, University of Minnesota (retired)
Lydia Belateche, Senior Lecturer of French, University of Minnesota
Patricia Mougel, Ph.D., Senior Lecturer Dept of French & Italian - University of Minnesota
Friday, September 28th: Prelude Evening Events
One Lourdes Place
Minneapolis, Minnesota, 55414
Saturday, September 29th: Main Events
DeLaSalle High School
One DeLaSalle Drive, Nicollet Island
Minneapolis, Minnesota, 55401
"Le Vent du Nord", a Québécois progressive folk band will be
holding a concert in Minneapolis (at De La Salle High School, just a
few blocks from campus) on Saturday evening, September 29th, 7:30 p.m., as the culminating event of the Franco-Fête festival celebrating French in Minnesota taking place that day.
You can get a reduced concert admission in one of three ways:
- If you are age 18 or below, you can pay only $5 by completing the appropriate part of the attached registration form
and sending it to the indicated address with your payment. (You may
also register for the day events--presentations, dance demonstrations
etc. about French-speaking groups in Minnesota, past and present, for only $5.)
- Whatever your age, you may get a reduced rate of only $5 each for the concert and/or the day's events by volunteering to help out at the event for a couple of hours during the day. To volunteer, contact Dick Bernard.
Please see the event website for more details and registration.
Friday, September 7, 2012
Lecture: Lynn Festa,"The Cook, the Thief, the Knife, and the Other: Possession and Loss in Eighteenth-Century Tahiti" (9/28, 2:30pm)
Friday, September 28, 2:30 pm, 112 Folwell Hall
Lynn Festa: "The Cook, the Thief, the Knife, and the Other: Possession and Loss in Eighteenth-Century Tahiti"
Dept. of English, Rutgers University. Lynn is a comparatist working in the 18th century. She is doing a TEMS presentation on Enlightenment birds-eye views (intersection among aesthetics, science, and history).
Focusing on Bougainville’s and Cook’s late eighteenth-century accounts of Tahiti, this paper examines the way persons and things (including a cook, a thief, a knife, and both lovers and others) are exchanged, offered, filched, and relinquished in cross-cultural encounters between the sailors and the islanders. Notwithstanding depictions of Tahiti as tropical paradise of free love and unbridled pleasures, neither sailors nor islanders invariably get what they want— what they lack and what they desire. I trace the way these abrupt and often unhappy reversals compel Bougainville and Cook to turn from figures of analogy and similitude to the splintering displacement and distancing of irony, a turn in trope that I argue can help us understand the critical role played by irony in producing a purchase point on a globalized world, both then and now.
Wednesday, September 5, 2012
Lectures and Events: Celebrating Venice!
Join the James Ford Bell Library this fall as we celebrate the entrancing city of Venice, long a capital of Mediterranean trade, through an exhibition, lectures, workshops, and other cultural events.
October 8, 2012
James Ford Bell Library Exhibition
Celebrating Venice: On Land and Sea
Venice Public Lecture Series
All three lectures will begin at 7:30 p.m. in 120
Elmer L. Andersen Library on the West Bank Campus. Tickets will go on
sale September 10, 2012 through the University of Minnesota Ticket
Office. $20 per ticket; free to students. Discounts will be available
to members of sponsoring organizations—watch your mail box!
October 11, 2012
The 50th Annual James Ford Bell Lecture
Professor Joanne M. Ferraro, Department of History, San Diego State University
“Binding Passions and Shielding Virtue in Early Modern Venice”
October 25, 2012
The Inaugural Carl Sheppard Memorial Lecture, Center for Medieval Studies
Professor Robert S. Nelson, Department of Art History, Yale University
“ ‘Lords of One Quarter and One Half of the Empire of Romania’: Byzantine Art & State Authority in Venice”
November 1, 2012
IAS Mediterranean Collaborative Lecture
Dr. Alan M. Stahl, Firestone Library Rare Books and Special Collections, Princeton University
“Wealth and Power in Medieval Venice: The Condulmer Family in the Century after the Black Death”
December 14, 2012
Institute for Advanced Study Theorizing Early Modern Studies Collaborative Workshop
Professor Lisa Pon, Meadows School of Arts, Southern Methodist University
Center for Early Modern History Workshops
October 12, 2012
12:15 p.m., 1210 Heller Hall
Professor Joanne M. Ferraro, San Diego State University
December 15, 2012
12:15 p.m., 1210 Heller Hall
Professor Lisa Pon, Southern Methodist University, "Isolating Contagion in Early Modern Venice"
Related Events
Consortium Carissimi
October 5, 2012
“Gabrieli!”
Details at http://consortiumcarissimi.org/
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