Monday, October 18, 7:00 p.m.

Honoring the 2008-09 winner of the Wylie Prize in French Cultural Studies

Peter J.Bloom
author of French Colonial Documentary: Mythologies of Humanitarianism

Discussion with NYU scholars


Edward Berenson

Ludovic Cortade

Denis Hollier

Stephane Gerson
(moderator)





Co-sponsored by the Center for French Civilization and Culture, Graduate School of Arts and Science, Institute of French Studies







Additional NYU event of interest, sponsored by the Bronfman Center

Tuesday, October 19, 5:00 p.m.

Location: Bronfman Center of NYU, 7 East 10th Street

Israeli author MICHAL GOVRIN
in conversation with
Ofra Amihay, specialist in contemporary Israeli literature
Sabine Wespieser, publisher and editor of Govrin's books in French
Judith Miller, Department of French, NYU; editor of the English translation of Govrin's Hold On to the Sun (Feminist Press, 2010).

RSVP required: fas.taubcenter@nyu.edu or call 212 998 8981



Thursday, October 21, 7:00 p.m.

JUDITH REVEL
Judith Revel is a professor of philosophy at the University of Paris I Sorbonne. She is a specialist of Michel Foucault and of political philosophy from 1945 to 1980 (Foucault Deleuze, Derrida, Clastres; Merleau-Ponty, Lefort et Castoriadis). Revel has written several books on Michel Foucault, including Foucault: Experiences de la pensée (2005) and Dictionnaire Foucault (2007) and recently reflected on her experience as a philosophy professor in a high school on the outskirts of Paris in Qui a peur de la banlieue? (Bayard, 2008).

Foucault face à l’histoire: périodisation, discontinuité, événement

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