Calendar - Fall 2004
June
3
Workshop on Franco-American University Partnership
Dr. Carol Murphy (France-Florida Research Institute), Dr. Craig Osenberg (Zoology Department), and Associate Dean for Research Lou Guillette (College of Liberal Arts and Sciences) attended the Workshop on Franco-American University Partnership in Paris, France, at the invitation of His Excellency Jean-David Levitte, Ambassador of France to the United States.
July 5 - 9
Dr. Catherine Grosdemange of the University Louis Pasteur, Strasbourg, visited the University of Florida meeting with Dr. Randy Duran, Dr. David Richardson, Chair of the Chemistry Department, and with Lynn Frazier of the University's International Center concerning cooperation between the University Louis Pasteur and UF. She will also be lecturing on organic synthesis research.
October
25-29
M. Pascal Filâtre, Nantes, Architect, Bureau des Monuments Historiques, 2004 Richard Morris Hunt Fellow Conference on Historical Restoration.
Lecture: French Architectural Heritage: Preservation
and Re-use. A discussion of theory and practice illustrated
with historic buildings, urban protected zones, professional
and student projects in France.
October 27, 2004, 6:00pm, 126 Gerson Hall (the
new building north of Tigert Hall on 13th street)
November 14-21
Dr. Irene Burghardt, Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris. Chargée de Recherche, CNRS
Nov. 16 - Seminars
in Physical Chemistry, 4:00pm, 209 Leigh Hall
Nov. 17 - Seminar in Quantum Theory Project, 4:00pm, 2205 New
Physics Building
November 15-18
Herve Di Rosa, international artist, founder
and president, Musée de l’Art Modeste
Nov. 16 –Animating the Imagination, A Multi-Media Presentation,
4:05 - 6:00 p.m., 2342 Turlington Hall
Nov. 16 - Reading in English with Marie Nimier, Goering’s
Book Store, 7:30pm
November 15-18
Marie Nimier, novelist, Paris,
France
Nov. 15 - Seminar in French, “Le Corps du texte”,
4:00-7:00pm, 219 Dauer Hall
Nov. 16 - Presentation with Hervé Di Rosa in English ,
Goering’s Book Store, 7:30 pm.
Nov. 17 - Reading from La Reine du Silence, 9:30-10:30AM,
219 Dauer Hall.
December 1
M. Thierry Zéphir, Curator, Southeast
Asian Art, Musée Guimet, Paris
Lecture in English: "From India to Cambodia: adoption and
adaptation - An introduction to the iconography of Khmer bas-reliefs",
Samuel A. Harn Museum, 6:00pm
The France-Florida Research Institute, with the cooperation of Dr. Vasudha Narayanan of the Department of Religion, is pleased to sponsor the visit of Dr. Thierry Zéphir to the University of Florida. Dr. Zéphir teaches at the Ecole du Louvre in Paris on the art and techniques of Khmer bronzes, and he is the pre-eminent scholar on Cambodian art. He is the author of books including Discoveries Khmer and Angkor: A Tour of the Temples. Dr. Zéphir also curated the exhibition "Sculpture of Angkor and Ancient Cambodia: Millenium of Glory" that premiered at the National Gallery of Art in 1997.
