2003-2004 events

 

The Department of French and Italian University of California, Santa Barbara invites you to the 29th Annual Pi Delta Phi National French Honor Society Reception Monday, May 24, 2004, 4-6 p.m. UCen, Harbor Room (1st floor) The Awards Ceremony will also include the recognition of the Best French Lower-Division Students, the French Senior Honors students of the year, Distinguished Graduating Seniors, the Hermione Chevallier Award, and the Distinction in the Major.	The Department of French and Italian University of California, Santa Barbara invites you to the Annual Italian Awards Reception Wednesday, May 26, 2004, 3:00 p.m. Delattre Library, Phelps 5309A The Awards Ceremony will also include the recognition of the Best Italian Lower-Division Students, the Italian Senior Honors students of the year, and the Distinguished Graduating Seniors.
Ms. Vera Klekovkina Our guest this quarter will give a lecture in the Delattre Library, Phelps 5309A on Thursday, May 20, at 4:30 PM Ms. Klekovkina comes to us from UCLA, where she is finishing a dissertation on "Subjectivity in Cinematic Adaptions of Marcel Proust's A la Recherche du temps perdu.	Dr. Luc Monnin Our guest this quarter will give a lecture in the Delattre Library, Phelps 5309A on Monday, April 26 at 3:00 Dr. Monnin defended his dissertation in French literature at Johns Hopkins University in March 2004. His dissertation on "Analytic Genesis in Eighteenth Century Thought" raises fundamental questions in many fileds such as epistemology, aesthetic, psychology, anthropology.
MUSIC, TEXT and the SPOKEN WORD SERIES The Center for the Interdisciplinary Study of Music Presents: Professor Eric Prieto Department of French and Italian, UCSB "Words and Music in Beckett's Radio Plays" This talk will explore the interaction between Music and Words in two of Beckett's most important radio plays, Cascando and Words and Music. Monday, March 1st, 7PM McCune Conference Rm., HSSB Sponsored by the Center for the Interdisciplinary Study of Music and the UCSB Interdisciplinary Humanities Center	Lecture by Professor Downing Thomas "Rameau's Platée Returns: French and Italian Opera in the Querelle des Bouffons," Thursday Feb 12 at 4pm in the Delattre Library, 5309A Phelps Hall. This talk is sponsored by the Department of French and Italian, the Department of Music, and the Center for the Interdisciplinary Study of Music (CISM). Refreshments and a post-talk reception will be provided by CISM. Downing Thomas is Associate Professor of French and Chair of the Department of French & Italian at the University of Iowa. He is author of Music and the Origins of Language (Cambridge, 1995) and Aesthetics of Opera in the Ancien Régime:1647-1785 (Cambridge, 2002), and is co-editor, with Roberta Marvin, of a collection of essays, Operatic Migrations: Transforming Works and Crossing Boundaries (forthcoming, Ashgate). He is currently working on aesthetic judgment, taste, and the tensions between the good and the fine in eighteenth-century France.
Lecture by Professor Stephen Fleck of CSU Long Beach on Thursday, March 4 at 4 PM in the Seminar Room. "Heads and Tails: Music, Corporality, and Spectacle in Late Moliere." Dr. Fleck is a preeminent Moliere scholar and author of Music, Dance, and Laughter: Comic Creation in Moliere's Comedies-Ballets (1995).	The Modernist Group presents : "EMERGENCE AND THE READABLE IN GEORGES PEREC" A lecture by Professor Sydney Lévy, Dept of French and Italian Friday, February 6, 2004 3:30 PM South Hall 2635