Calendar - Fall 2003
October 28
FFRI - Harn Museum RISK Cinema French Film Series
Derrida
Directors: Kirby Dick and Amy Kofman (2002, 84 minutes)
7:30 pm,
Harn Museum
($4.00 for General public, $3.00 for Students, & free
for Harn members)
October 16
FFRI - Harn Museum RISK Cinema French Film Series
Le Souvenir
d’ un avenir (Remembrance of Things
to Come)
Directors: Yannick Bellon and Chris Marker (2001,
42 minutes)
Colette
Director: Yannick Bellon (1951, 29 minutes)
7:30
pm,
Harn Museum
($4.00 for General public, $3.00 for Students, & free
for Harn members)
October 14
FFRI - Harn Museum RISK Cinema French Film Series
Le Souvenir
d’ un avenir (Remembrance of Things
to Come)
Directors: Yannick Bellon and Chris Marker
(2001, 42 minutes)
Colette
Director: Yannick Bellon (1951, 29 minutes)
7:30
pm,
Harn Museum
($4.00 for General public, $3.00 for Students, & free
for Harn members)
October 13 - 15, 2003
FFRI Visiting Professor - Hélène
Cixous
Professor, Université de
Paris VIII, Director, Centre
des Etudes Feminines.
Dr. Cixous is an internationally renowned novelist, feminist critic, and playwright.
- Monday, October 13
Roundtable Discussion with Hélène Cixous
3:00 - 5:00 pm, Emerson Alumni Hall - Tuesday, October 14
Lecture: “A Mongolian Life: on Unexpected Racisms”
7:00 - 9:00pm, Reitz Union Ballroom - Wednesday, October 15
Reading (in French): Rêveries de la Femme Sauvage: - theme: Algeria
3:00 - 5:00pm, Keene Faculty Center
Dr. Cixous’ visit is sponsored by the FFRI, the Department of English, the Center for Women’s Studies and Gender Research, with the cooperation of the Department of Theater and Dance. The Services Culturels of Chicago has also contributed support to this event.
October 6, 2003
Dr. Jean-Jacques Lecercle
Professor Université de Paris X, Nanterre, and
the University of Cardiff, Wales.
Dr. Lecercle, a Linguist and a specialist of English literature,
is the author of Philosophy Through a Looking Glass, Philosophy
of Nonsense: The Intuitions of Victorian Nonsense Literature, and Deleuze
and Language.
Lecture: “The Remainder Revisted: How to Leave the
Mainstream Philosophy of Language”
5: 00 pm, 219 Dauer Hall, Ruth McQuown Room
(Refreshments will be served at 4:30)
Dr. Lecercle’ s visit is sponsored by the French Cultural Services and the FFRI with the cooperation of the Department of English.
October 1 - 3, 2003
Dr. Jean Bellissard
Professor of Physics and Mathematics, Georgia Institute of
Technology
- Wednesday, October 1
Lecture: “Coherent and Dissipative Electronic Transport in Aperiodic Media”
4:05 pm, Institute of Fundamental Theory, Room 2165 NewPhysics Building
- Thursday, October 2
Lecture: “Entropy and Information: A Physicist’ s Point of View”
3:00 pm, Little Hall, Room 339 (Atrium) - Friday, October 3
Lecture: “Tilings, Aperiodic Media and Their Noncommutative Geometry”
4:05 pm, Little Hall, Room 339 (Atrium)
Professor Bellissard’s visit is sponsored by the FFRI, the Department of Mathematics and the Institute of Fundamental Theory. Dr. Gerard Emch (Mathematics) is the organizer of Prof. Bellisard’s lecture series.
September 23, 2003
FFRI - Harn Museum RISK Cinema French Film Series
Le
Fond de l’ Air est Rouge: ("A Grin without a Cat")
Director: Chris Marker (1977/1993, 180 minutes)
7:00
pm,
Harn Museum
($4.00 for General public, $3.00 for Students, & free
for Harn members)
September 9, 2003
FFRI - Harn Museum RISK Cinema French Film Series
From the Other Side
Director: Chantal Akermann (2002, 99 minutes)
7:30
pm,
Harn Museum
($4.00 for General public, $3.00 for Students, & free
for Harn members)
