Spring 2006 Lecture Series Geneviève Fraisse April 10 Bernard-Henri Lévy April 10 Jacques Neefs April 11-12 Manfred Hinz April 12 Léon-François Hoffmann April 20 Béatrice Didier April 27-28 Carrie Noland May 4 Margaret Cohen May 13 Christine Détrez June 8		Geneviève Fraisse (CNRS, Paris; Rutgers University) Talk: "Gender, Sexual Differences and the Modern Public Sphere" Monday, April 10 / 4:00pm / HSSB 4020 Feminist philosopher, historian and ex-deputy of France to the European Parliament, will give a talk in English on 19th century French culture and politics. Her publications include: La Controverse des sexes (2001); La Difference des sexes (1996); La Raison des femmes (1992) [Muse's Reason]. Co-sponsored by the Departments of Chicano/a Studies, History, Political Sciences, Philosophy, and Women's studies, and the Interdisciplinary Humanities Center.
		Bernard-Henri Lévy Talk: "The Resurgence of Anti-Semitism in Europe" Monday, April 10 / 8 pm / Campbell Hall / Free French philosopher, war reporter and public intellectual Bernard-Henri Lévy is best known in the U.S. for his book Who Killed Daniel Pearl? Lévy is co-founder of the antiracist group SOS Racism and author of the recently published book American Vertigo: Traveling America in the Footsteps of Tocqueville. A Herman P. and Sophia Taubman Foundation Endowed Symposium in Jewish Studies.
		Jacques Neefs (University of Paris-8; Johns Hopkins University) Talk: "Flaubert, Madame Bovary, la subjectivité mimétique"." Tuesday, April 11 /4:00pm, Interdisciplinary Humanities Center, McCune room (HSSB6020) A renowned specialist of modern French literature, Neefs will present the manuscript of Madame Bovary in order to study the identification between author and character in Flaubert's 1857 masterpiece. See poster. -On Wednesday, April 12, at 4:30pm, Professor Neefs will be a guest speaker in Professors Lévy and Holland's seminar on Improvisation, talking on "L'improvisateur, Stendhal." Sponsored by the Series in Contemporary Literature.
		Manfred Hinz (University of Passau) Talk: "Kant and Revolution: The Reception of His Thought in Late 18th-Century France" Wednesday, April 12 / 2:00pm/ Phelps 6309. Manfred Hinz's publications include: Die Menschlichen und die gottlichen Mittel : Sieben Kommentare zu Baltasar Gracian (2002). See poster. Presented by the Department of Germanic, Slavic, and Semitic Studies and the Italian Studies Program
		Léon-François Hoffmann (Emeritus, Princeton University) Talk: "Literature and Nation-Building: The Case of Haiti ". Thursday, April 20 / 4:00pm / UCEN State Street Room. Hoffmann is a renowned specialist of Francophone Studies, especially the Antilles and Haiti. His publications include: Haitian fiction revisited (1999), Haiti : lettres et l'être (1992); Essays on Haitian literature (1984). This lecture is organized in conjunction with Professor Prieto's seminar on Haiti. Sponsored by the Series in Contemporary Literature.
		Béatrice Didier (Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris) Talk: "Sand: la figure de l'auteur" Thursday, April 27, 4:00pm / IHC, McCune room, HHSB 6020 A prominent specialist of feminist writing, and 18th-19th century literature and music, will speak on George Sand and the issue of authorship for women writers. -April 28: 11:00am-1:00pm: mini-seminar for graduate students on Diderot's Le Neveu de Rameau. Phelps 5313. Sponsored by the Series in Contemporary Literature.
		Carrie Noland (University of California, Irvine) Talk: "Poetry in the Political Field: Aimé Césaire and the Affaire Aragon." Thursday, May 4, 4:00pm / South Hall 2635 Noland will address the ways in which postcolonial theory addresses poetry. She will deal with the relationship between Césaire's Cahier d'un retour au pays natal (Notebook of a Return to the Native Land) and the Affaire Aragon (in which the claims of politics and the claims of poetics were hotly debated). Sponsored by the Series in Contemporary Literature. A Poetics@ucsb events (http://www.english.ucsb.edu/poetics/)
		Margaret Cohen (Stanford University) Talk: "The Novel and the Sea: Adventures in Practical Reason." Saturday, May 13, 10:00 am / location TBA Professor Cohen will be one of our keynote speakers for the 7th annual UCSB-UCI Graduate Student Conference. Her publications include Profane Illumination: Walter Benjamin and the Paris of Surrealist Revolution (1993) and The Sentimental Education of the Novel (1999), that was awarded the MLA's Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione prize in French and Francophone literature. Sponsored by the Series in Contemporary Literature.
		Christine Détrez Ecole Normale Supérieure, Lettres et Sciences Humaines (Lyon, France) Talk: "A leur corps défendant: Les Femmes à l'épreuve du nouvel ordre moral." Thursday, June 8, 4:00pm, Delattre Library, Phelps 5309 Professor Détrez will present her new book, co-written with Anne Simon (to be released on June 15). Their inquiry focuses on the artistic and symbolic uses of women's bodies in French media culture and public space. They question the function of essentialist forms of femininity in current media and representational practices. Join us for the last lecture of the academic year!
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