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Winter & Spring 20067 Lecture Series Monica Green January 26 Roger Chartier February 8-9 Simon Levis-Sullam February 15-16 Deborah McGrady February 20 Maurizio Ferraris February 21 Jean-Marie Apostolidès March 7 Jean-Paul Sermain April 17 Claudie Bernard May 7 Peter Wortsman May 8 Frank Lestringant May 17-18		Monica Green (Arizona State University) Talk: "The Trial of Floreta d'Ays (1403): Jews, Christians and Obstetrics in Later Medieval Marseille." Friday, January 26. Monica Green is a specialist of the history of women's healthcare, Medieval European History, History of Medicine, and Race and Medicine. She is the author of The ‘Trotula’: A Medieval Compendium of Women’s Medicine (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2001). Organized by the Medieval Studies Program and co-sponsored by our Department.
		Roger Chartier (University of Pennsylvania, and EHESS, Paris) Talk: "Is there a reading revolution in the eighteenth century? Diderot, reader of Richardson." Friday, February 9, 3:00pm, State Street room (UCEN). Roger Chartier is Annenberg Visiting Professor at the University of Pennsylvania and Directeur d'Etudes at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes in Paris. He is frequently lecturing and teaching in United States, Spain, México, Brazil and Argentina. His work in Early Modern European History was rooted in the tradition of the "Annales School" and mainly dedicated to the history of education, the history of the book and the history of reading. Organized by the Early Modern Center and co-sponsored by our Department.
		Simon Levis-Sullam (Berkeley) Talk:  "The "Theological" and the "Political" in Giovanni Gentile and Carl Schmitt: Fascism and Nazism between Secularization and Sacralization." Thursday, February 15, 5:00pm. Location: McCune Conference Room, IHC. & Friday, February 16: Mini-Seminar:  "Imagined Community: Towards a new History of  the Jews in Italy." 1:00-3:00pm. Location: Religious Studies Conference Room, 3041 HSSB. Co-sponsored by the Departments of Germanic, Slavic and Semitic Studies, History, Religious Studies, and the Interdisciplinary Humanities Center.
		Deborah McGrady (Tulane University) Talk: "Medieval Reading Lessons: What Machaut Can Teach Us about Reception", 1:30-2:45pm. Tuesday, February 20. Note change in location: Delattre Library, Phelps 5309. Well-known for her work on Medieval Studies and reader-response theory, Deborah McGrady is the author of Controlling Readers: Guillaume de Machaut and His Late Medieval Audience, just published by Toronto University Press (2006); she co-edited a volume on medieval woman writer (and feminist) Christine de Pizan: A Casebook, with Barbara Altmann (Routledge, 2003). Presented by the Departments of Music, Germanic, Slavic, and Semitic Studies and the Comparative Literature Program as well as the Medieval Studies Program.
		Maurizio Ferraris (The University of Turin, Italy) Talk: ""Where are you? A Mobile Ontology" Wednesday, February 21, 3:30pm, Delattre Library, Phelps 5309 Maurizio Ferraris is Professor of Theoretical Philosophy & director of the interuniversity Centre for Theoretical and Applied Ontology (CTAO); he was also program director at the Collège International de Philosophie, in Paris. He is the author of 29 volumes, one of which in co-authorship with Jacques Derrida, and of more than 500 philosophical essays and articles. Ferraris’ most recent titles include Good-Bye Kant! (2004) and the best-selling Dove sei? Ontologia del telefonino (2005)
		Jean-Marie Apostolidès (Stanford University) Talk: "Religion et médecine dans Le Malade imaginaire de Molière" Wednesday March 7, 4:00pm /Delattre Library, Phelps 5309 Jean-Marie Apostolidès wrote over 14 books that range from the medieval to the modern and across national literatures. At least four of his critical works are now considered classics in the field of French literary and cultural studies: Le Roi-machine, Le Prince sacrifié, Les Métamorphoses de Tintin, and Les Tombeaux de Guy Debord. Sponsored sponsored by the Departments of Germanic, Slavic, and Semitic Studies, as well as Drama, the Comparative Literature Program, and the Interdisciplinary Humanities Center.
		Jean-Paul Sermain (Université de Paris-III, Sorbonne Nouvelle) Talk: "A Western Vision of Oriental Women: Antoine Galland’s Translation of the Thousand and One Nights." Tuesday, April 17, 4:00pm, UCEN-Harbor Room Jean-Paul Sermain is a specialist of 18th century French literature, the aesthetics of Classicism and fairy tales. His books include Rhétorique et roman au 18e siècle (1985), Marivaux, Cervantes et le roman post-critique (1999), Métafictions (1670-1730). La Réflexivité dans la littérature d'imagination (2002) and Le Conte de fées du classicisme aux Lumières (2005). Sponsored by the Series in Contemporary Literature, the Department of Germanic, Slavic, and Semitic Studies, the Comparative Literature Program, and the Interdisciplinary Humanities Center.
		Claudie Bernard (New York University) Seminar : "Penser la famille au XIXe siècle" Monday May 7, 2:00-4:00pm. Location: Phelps 5313. Claudie Bernard received her Ph.D from Princeton University. She is a specialist of nineteenth-century French studies, with a focus on the intersections of literature, history, and historiographical theories. Her books include: Le Chouan romanesque: Balzac, Barbey d'Aurevilly, Hugo (1989) ; Le Passé recomposé, le roman historique français au dix-neuvième siècle (1996). She also edited Balzac Paterfamilias with Franc Schuerewegen (2001). She recently completed on book on the family in nineteenth-century French culture to be released in the spring 2007. Sponsored by the Series in Contemporary Literature.
		Peter Wortsman Talk: "Talking in Tongues: Translating Others and Myself." Tuesday May 8, 4:00pm. Location: McCune Conference Room, Interdisciplinary Humanities Center, HSSB 6th floor. Peter Wortsman is the author of a book of short fiction, A Modern Way To Die (1991), two stage plays, The Tattooed Man Tells All (2000) and Burning Words (2004), and an artists’ book, “it-t=i” (2005) in collaboration with his brother, the artist Harold Wortsman. A critically acclaimed translator from the German, his translations include Posthumous Papers of a Living Author, by Robert Musil, now in its third edition; Telegrams of the Soul: Selected Prose of Peter Altenberg and Travel Pictures, by Heinrich Heine. He is the recipient of the Beard’s Fund Short Story Award and fellowships from the Fulbright and Thomas J. Watson Foundations. Sponsored by the Series in Contemporary Literature, the Department of Germanic, Slavic, and Semitic Studies, the Comparative Literature Program, and the Interdisciplinary Humanities Center.
		Frank Lestringant (University of Paris-IV Sorbonne) Talk (in French): " INSULAIRES en mouvement : Saint-Exupéry, Michaux, Calvino, Glissant." On: Thursday, May 17, 4:00pm, UCEN-Harbor room. * * * Talk: "Shipwreck with Beholder and Theatrum Mundi. On Life's Metaphors in Renaissance Culture." On: Friday, May 18: 3:00pm, South Hall 2635 * * * Frank Lestringant is a specialist of Renaissance literary and cultural Studies. He has published on Renaissance cosmography and anthropology as well as on Huguenot poetry and philosophy. His most recent books include: Jean de Léry ou l’invention du sauvage (1999),  Le Livre des îles. Atlas et récits insulaire, de la Genèse à Jules Verne (2002) ; Sous la leçon des vents. Le monde d’André Thevet, cosmographe de la Renaissance (2003) ; Lumière des martyrs. Essai sur le martyre au siècle des Réformes (2004). Sponsored by the Series in Contemporary Literature, The Early Modern Center and the Renaissance Studies Program.
*	Updated CN April 25, 2007