ERIC HAZAN
Founder-director of Editions La Fabrique; author of L’Invention de Paris; Chronique de la guerre civile; Changement de propriétaire: La guerre civile continue
The Invention of Paris: A History in Footsteps
The shape and spirit of Paris are largely determined by the way it has grown: in layers, with concentric walls. When the city gets too crowded for its population, the existing wall is dismantled and a new layer is created, with a new wall to protect it against invaders. This process explains why the city is so dense, and why the ancient layers and walls are still present on the map and in the public consciousness. The literature, the history of uprisings, and the images of the city depend on this very peculiar system of growth, still in operation today.
Monday, April 5, 7:00 p.m.
ELISABETH LADENSON
Professor of French and Comparative Literature, Columbia University; author of Proust’s Lesbianism; Dirt for Art’s Sake: Books on Trial from Lolita to Madame Bovary
Colette and the Economics of Notoriety
Colette, a unique figure in the canon in any number of ways, insisted that she wrote only for money. Elisabeth Ladenson looks at Colette's career in terms of the vexed relations between art and money in early 20th-century France, aiming to understand the role of such pragmatic claims in Colette's astonishing trajectory from music-hall performer and ghostwriter of her husband's salacious novels to president of the Académie Goncourt
April 8, 9, and 10
A Florence Gould Event
CAMUS NOW
An international conference to mark the 50th anniversary
of the death of Albert Camus (1913-1960)
In French and in English. Free and open to the public.
Thursday, April 8, 7:00 - 9:00 p.m.
Location: La Maison Française of NYU,16 Washington Mews (between Washington Sq. North and E. 8th St)
Opening Remarks: Tom Bishop (NYU); Denis Hollier (NYU)
Philip Watts (Columbia)
Camus and Film
KEYNOTE ADDRESS:
Raymond Gay-Crosier (University ofFlorida)
La Négation affirmative:paradigme de la pensée camusienne
Friday, April 9, 2:00 - 4:00 p.m.
Location: La Maison Française of NYU,16 Washington Mews (between Washington Sq. North and E. 8th St)
David Carroll (UC Irvine)
Justice Now: What Does a Mother Have To DoWith It?
Elizabeth Hawes(writer)
In Pursuit of AlbertCamus
Tom Bishop(NYU)
Camus: A Witness for Our Time
Friday, April 9, 4:15 - 5:45p.m.
Location: LaMaison Française of NYU, 16 Washington Mews (between Washington Sq. North and E. 8th St)
Michel Contat (CNRS)
Camus or Sartre, Why Choose?
Ronald Aronson (Wayne State)
Camus, Philosopher of the Present
Friday, April 9, 7:30 p.m.
Location: Auditorium, 5 WashingtonPlace, 1st floor (between Broadway and Mercer Street)
KEYNOTEADDRESS:
Jean Daniel (Le Nouvel Observateur)
Comment un homme qui aconnu Camus peut-il adapter ses souvenirs à la gloire
qui lui est rendue aujourd’hui?
Saturday, April 10, 2:00 p.m.- 4:00 p.m.
Location: La Maison Française ofNYU, 16 Washington Mews (between Washington Sq. North and E. 8th St)
Yves Hersant (EHESS)
"Je n’ai rien contre l’humanisme, bien sûr"
Paul Audi (philosopher)
"Pour en finir avec le jugement des hommes"
Françoise Gaillard (Paris VII)
Camus:Une mystique de la Justice
Saturday, April 10, 4:15 - 5:45 p.m.
Location: La Maison Française of NYU,16 Washington Mews (between Washington Sq. North and E. 8th St)
Philippe Roger (EHESS)
LaMéditerranée, avenir de “l’ignoble Europe"?
Denis Hollier (NYU)
Inactuelles
This conference is made possible by thegenerous major support of the Florence Gould Foundation, with additional support from the Humanities Initiative, NYU, and the Cultural Services of the French Embassy.
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