Calendar - Spring 2003
April - May 2003
FFRI Visiting Professorship - Professor Jean-Pierre Launay
Center for Materials Elaboration
and Structural Studies, CNRS,
Toulouse, France
Prof. Jean-Pierre Launay, Director of the “Center for Materials Elaboration and Structural Studies” Professor Launay will be a FFRI Visiting Professor. His institution (ca 170 people) associates closely with Chemistry, Physics, and Material Sciences. His personal research activity concerns Molecular Electronics and Nanosciences, i. e. the use of molecules as electronic devices or parts of nanomachines. As a hobby, he practices sailplane gliding (soaring) over the French Alps and the Pyrénées.
Professor Launay will be at UF for a month-long visit as our first FFRI Visiting Professor.
- Monday, April 21
Seminar: “The Contribution of Chemistry to Molecular Electronics and Nanosciences”
4:00 pm, 202 NEB
- Tuesday, April 29
Seminar: “Intramolecular Electron Transfer in Inorganic and Organic Chemistry”
4:00 pm, 309 Leigh Hall
Intramolecular Electron Transfer can be studied in Mixed-valence compounds, using the properties of the so-called “intervalence transition” which gives information on the degree of electronic coupling between redox sites linked by a spacer. Results on several series of complexes with metal-metal distances approaching 25 Å will be discussed.
However the topic is not limited to Inorganic chemistry, and analogous processes occur in purely Organic systems. In this latter case, a combination of experimental and theoretical studies gives information on geometrical changes during oxidation/reduction, thermal and optical electron transfer, the role of quinonic froms… Finally an example of molecular switching will be given. - Wednesday, April 30
Seminar: “Molecular Electronic”
10:00 - 11:00 am, 328 Benton Hall (Please note: this room holds 30 people)
The continuous progress in the miniaturization of electronic devices cannot continue indefinitely, due to technological, physical, and even financial limitations. Molecular Electronics is one of the possible solutions to push again the limits, by using single molecules to process signals. However the concept encompasses several variants: (i) the “hybrid” approach, in which single molecules are interfaced to ultra-small metallic wires, and fulfill simple functions, (ii) the “integrated” approach, in which complex logical functions would be performed by a single highly elaborated molecule, and (iii) a “quantum” approach. Approach (i) is presently the most documented and molecule-based devices such as wires, diodes, switches, amplifying elements, … have been described. The prospects and limitations will be discussed).]' - Thursday, May 1
Seminar: “Molecules, Molecular Electronics, and Nanomachines”
4:00 pm, 2165 New Physics Building
The synthesis of new molecules gives now access to “technomimetic” objects, mimicking the shape and functions of macroscopic elements of our technological world. In the field of Molecular Electronics, device-like molecules have been obtained, such as wires, diodes, switches, amplifying elements, … This gives “hybrid’ molecular electronic systems, in which molecules are interfaced to ultra-small metallic wires. The prospects and limitations will be discussed. But sophisticated new molecules can also be used to prepare mechanical elements, such as gears, rotors, even barrows,… which could be the basis of future “nanomachines”).
April 17-18, 2003
Professor Aline Tauzin
An anthropologist at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Aline Tauzin will lecture in English on her research concerning gender and women in Africai in particular Mauritania. Her visit is sponsored by the French Cultural Services, the FFRI, and the Department of African and Asian Languages and Literatures.
- Thursday, April 17
Lecture: “Islamic Fundamentalism”
1:55 - 2:45 pm, Turlington B310
Lecture: “Women in Mauritania: Between Constraint and Avoidance”
4:00 - 6:00 pm, 219 Dauer Hall - Friday, April 18
Lecture: “Women's Voices/Songs from Mauritania”
1:55 - 2:45 pm,Matherly, Room 51
April 16 - 18, 2003
Dr. Roland Fortunier
Professor, Ecole
Nationale Supérieur des Mines, St.
Etienne, France
- Wednesday, April 16
Research meetings with faculty from the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering - Thursday, April 17
Lecture: “Parametric Finite Element Analyses in Optimal Design Procedures”
4:00pm, Room 303 MAE-A Building
- Friday, April 18
Visit of materials characterisation facilities, and discussions with faculty from the Material Science and Engineering Department
April 14, 2003
Professor Olivier Wieviorka
Lecture: “Resistance: myth, legend and history”
1:00 pm, 219 Dauer Hall, O. Ruth McQuown Room
Historian at the Ecole Normale Supérieure de Cachan will lecture in English on his area of research, the French Resistance to Nazism and its aftermath. He has published numerous articles and several books on these issues such as Les orphelins de la République, destiné des sénateurs français de 1940 à 1944.
Professor Wieviorka’s visit is sponsored by the French Cultural Services, the FFRI, and the Department of History.
April 10 - 12, 2003
Raymond Bellour
Director of Research, CNRS, Editor, “Traffic”
Dr. Bellour will participate in the International Symposium entitled “Beyond/After the Screen: The Impact of Documenta X and XI on Contemporary Film and Video Practice,” which will take place at the Harn Museum of Art . The subject of his lecture is “Multiple Cinemas,” and will be given Saturday, April 12th between 12:00 and 5:00pm.
April 1- 4, 2003
FFRI Visiting Professor, Jacqueline Lichtenstein
Professor of Philosophy and Aesthetics, Université de
Paris X, Nanterre
- Tuesday, April 1
Lecture: “Beauty and the Miseries of Modern Color”
6:00 pm, Harn Museum of Art
Reception to Follow
Dr. Lichtenstein, author of “The Eloquence of Color, ” will present a lecture drawn from her forthcoming book on nineteenth-century French painting, art criticism and aesthetics. Her talk, “Beauty and the Miseries of Modern Color,” is concerned with what she terms the “colorist paradigm” both in modern painting (as defined by Baudelaire) and in art criticism during the second half of the nineteenth century. Lichtenstein's discussion of the “miseries of modern color” will center on the writing of J.-K. Huysmans, a late-nineteenth-century French writer of the decadence, author of fiction (notably, “A Rebours”) and an art critic, noted for his work on Degas. - Friday, April 4
“Aesthetics vs. Art History”
Roundtable discussion with Jacqueline Lichtenstein
10:00 a m - Noon, 219 Dauer Hall, O. Ruth McQuown Room
March 19, 2003
Dr. Marie Chessel, professor of History at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales and the CNRS in Paris, France, will lecture on the Consumer Leagues in late-nineteenth-century France. Her talk will be in English.
4 pm, Keene Flint Hall, Room 005
Professor Chessel is currently visiting at the Harvard Center for European Studies. She is the author of several books on the history of advertising and marketing in France. Her lecture has been arranged by Professor Sheryl Kroen of the History Department in coordination with the FFRI.
March 19 - 22, 2003
Fernando Romero, Director Dire et Faire contre le Racisme, Producer 12 Regards sur le racisme
French producer Fernando Romero is bringing a series of twelve short French films he helped produce in 2001 for the conference on Children, Culture, Violence, to be held at the University of Florida Law School. The series entitled “Pas d'histoires! ” ('No more lies,' which can also translate into 'no fuss' or 'no stories') consists in 12 short films directed by 12 different French filmmakers. The films discuss ordinary racism. The scripts were solicited from and written by French youth; they are inspired by real-life events. The objective of Romero's production company, d.f.c.r./zor.films, is to study, develop, produce, and disseminate cultural projects, especially those which address civic themes. They are particularly interested in making films about the same themes as those that will be addressed by the conference: violence, culture, childhood, and adolescence.
- Saturday, March 22
10am - 12pm, Harn Museum
Screening of films and discussion with Fernando Romero
French short-film series: Ten Films Against Racism
- Thursday, March 20 and Friday, March
21
Sheraton Hotel, Gainesville
M. Romero will participate in the Levin College of Law conference on “Children, Culture and Violence”
March 4, 2003
Marcel Marceau
8 pm, Curtis M. Phillips Center for the Performing Arts
February24 - March 3, 2003
FFRI Visiting Professor, Boris Boubacar Diop, journalist and author from Senegal, author of “Murambi: le livre des ossements”
M. Diop’s visit is hosted by the Center for African Studies and the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures
- Monday, February 24
4 - 6 pm, Emerson Alumni Hall, President’s Room (second floor)
Roundtable on the Rwanda Genocide, with M. Diop, Professor Leonardo Villalon, Department of Political Science and Director, Center for African Studies, Professor René Lemarchand, Professor Emeritus, Department of Political Science, Professor Ngwarsungu Chiwengo, Creighton University - Monday, March 3
4 - 6pm, 219 Dauer Hall, O. Ruth McQuown Room
Table ronde en français sur la littérature francophone africaine, avec Boris Diop, Professor Fiona McLaughlin, Department of African and Asian Languages and Literatures and Program in Linguistics, Dr. Pius Ngandu, Department of French and Francophone Studies, Executive Director, Center for French Studies, Louisiana State University, and Dr. Eileen Julien, Director, David C. Driskell Center for the Study of the African Diaspora, University of Maryland.
February 9 - 10, 2003
Inaugral Speaker - Julia Kristeva, Université de Paris VII - Denis Diderot, Jussieu
- Sunday, February 9
Roundtable with Julia Kristeva/Rencontre avec Julia Kristeva
3 - 5pm, Keene Faculty Center, 103 Dauer Hall
(south entrance of building-please consult UF map) - Monday, February 10
Inaugural Lecture - “Is there a female genius?”
4 - 6pm, Constans Theatre (J.Wayne Reitz Union)
(please consult UF map)
January 14 - 16, 2003
THE 2ND ANNUAL UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA STEINWAY FESTIVAL
Sponsored by the France-Florida Research
Institute and the College of Fine Arts
Jerome Lowenthal, Professor Emeritus, Julliard Piano School, Faculty member, Ecole Normale de Musique Alfred Cortot, Paris, France, and Nelson Delle-Vigne Fabbri, co- director, Ecole Normale de Musique Alfred Cortot, Paris France, Director France Fondation Bell'Arte, Brussels, Belgium.
- Lowenthal and Fabbri Bio
- Tuesday, January 14
Master Classes with Nelson Delle-Vigne Fabbri
10 am -12 noon; 2 pm - 4 pm, University Auditorium - Wednesday, January 15
Masterclass and Lecture by Jerome Lowenthal
10 am -12 noon, University Auditorium - Thursday, January 16
Masterclass
10 am -12 noon, University Auditorium
Recital, featuring works by Franz Liszt and others in the French repertoire
8 pm, University Auditorium
