Calendar - Fall 2005
August 9 - October 30
Toulouse-Lautrec: Artist of Montmartre
This exhibit showcases the substantial holdings of lithographs,
posters and drawings by the great French modernist at the University
of Illinois's Krannert Art Museum. Featured in the Harn exhibit
are some of Toulouse-Lautrec's best-known prints, including Moulin
Rouge - La Goulue (1891), his first lithograph and poster.
The exhibition is organized along five themes representing key
facets of the artist's printmaking career: Early Work, Nightlife,
Theatre and Music, The Fine Art Print and Advertising.
Toulouse-Lautrec: Artist of Montmartre is sponsored
locally by the France-Florida Research Institute and the C. Frederick
Thompson Foundation. The curator is Dulce Roman.
Gladys Gracy Harn Exhibition Hall, Samuel P. Harn Museum of Art
(www.harn.ufl.edu)
October 3-4
His Excellency Jean-David Levitte, Ambassador of France to the United States
Lecture: "The United States and France in a World Transformed"
Monday, October 3, Constans Theatre, Reitz Union Colonnade, 4:30pm
(http://www.info-france-usa.org/intheus/ambassador_levitte.asp)
October 10
Didier Rebois - Architect and General Secretary of Europan, Paris. FFRI Visiting Professor in collaboration with the School of Architecture.
Lecture: "the streets are ours.....all?", Harn Museum of Art Auditorium, 6:00pm
October 14-15
Translation Routes - a symposium on literary
translation involving invited national and international writers
and translators to discuss key translation issues, problematics
and experiences. The symposium will be held in the Keene Faculty
Center.
Organizers: Sidney Wade, Department
of English, Creative Writing,
and Sylvie Blum-Reid, France-Florida Research Institute and the
Department of Romance Languages
and Literatures.
The symposium is sponsored by the France-Florida Research Institute, the Departmentof English, the Center for European Studies, the Asian Studies Program, the Department of Germanic and Slavic Studies, the Translation Studies Certificate Program, the Department of African and Asian Languages and Literatures and the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures.
October 11 through November 3
Margaret Mead Film and Video Festival - features the films of Jean Rouch including his film about Margaret Mead followed by Jaguar. Financial Support provided by University of Florida Department of Anthropology, Department of English, France-Florida Research Institute, Center for Latin American Studies
All shows are free and open to the general public.
Tuesday October 11, 7:30 pm
Location: University of Florida Campus, New Engineering Building
202, located on Center Drive, halfway between Reitz Union and
Shands
Afghanistan Unveiled
Brigitte Brault & Aina Women Filming Group. 2003. 52 min.
Video. (Afghanistan)
Filmed by the first team of women video journalists trained in
Afghanistan, this rare film explores the effects of the Taliban's
repressive rule and recent U.S. military campaign on Afghani
women. Shot in rural regions of the country, the filmmakers present
footage of Hazara women whose lives have been decimated by recent
events, and yet manage to also find moving examples of hope for
the future.
Madanm Ti Zo (Mrs. Littlebones)
David Belle. 2004. 60 min. (Haiti)
U.S. Premiere at 2004 Margaret Mead Film & Video Festival
Madanm Ti Zo, a midwife and herbal doctor, runs her own clinic
in Jacmal, Haiti. This vérité-style film—shot
primarily in the courtyard and the thatched-roof hut where "Mrs.
Littlebones" examines pregnant women, helps to birth babies,
and aids the steady stream of men, women, and children seeking
her expertise—provides an intimate look into traditional
health practices.
Thursday October 13, 7:30 pm
Location: University of Florida Campus, New Engineering Building
202, located on Center Drive, halfway between Reitz Union and
Shands
Margaret Mead: A Portrait by a Friend
Jean Rouch. 1978. 30 min. (U.S.)
Jean Rouch filmed this loving and humorous portrait of anthropologist
and filmmaker Margaret Mead in September 1977 while he was a
guest of the first Margaret Mead Film Festival. As both a friend
and colleague, Rouch reveals a glimpse of the legendary Mead
in her later years.
Jaguar
Jean Rouch. 1957. 92 mins. (Niger/Ghana)
Part documentary, part fiction, and part reflective commentary,
Jaguar tells the story of three young men from the Savannah of
Niger who leave their homeland to seek wealth and adventure on
the coast and in the cities of Ghana. This seminal film, which
was the result of improvised on-screen action and then later,
improvised narrative voice-over, is the story of their travels,
their encounters along the way, their experiences in Accra and
Kumasi, and, after three months, their return to their families
and friends at home.
Tuesday October 18, 7:30 pm
Location: University of Florida Campus, New Engineering Building
202, located on Center Drive, halfway between Reitz Union and
Shands
Marry Me
Uli Gaulke & Jeannette Eggert. 2003. 105 min. (Germany/Cuba)
U.S. Premiere at 2004 Margaret Mead Film & Video Festival
While on holiday in Cuba, Erik, from Hamburg, meets a beautiful
woman from Havana, Gladis. One year later, Gladis and her 8-year-old
son, Omarito, board a plane to leave their island home for Germany.
This intense and intimate portrait of their transcultural marriage
takes us through the couple's first two years as they struggle
with unexpected obstacles. The film presents a highly original
observation of cross-cultural identity and alienation.
Tuesday October 25, 7:30 pm
Location: University of Florida Campus, New Engineering Building
202, located on Center Drive, halfway between Reitz Union and
Shands
The Future of Food
Deborah Koons Garcia. 2003. 88 min. Video. (U.S./Canada/Mexico)
N.Y. Premiere at 2004 Margaret Mead Film & Video Festival
What will food look like for future generations? Will all plant
species become private property? The Future of Food raises important
questions about genetically modified food. It highlights the
role of corporations and government in agriculture, and the role
consumers have yet to play in determining what we will eat in
the decades to come. Viewing this film, you'll never look at
food the same way again!
Thursday November 3, 7:30 pm
Location: University of Florida Campus, New Engineering Building
202, located on Center Drive, halfway between Reitz Union and
Shands
A Panther in Africa
Aaron Matthews. 2004. 71 min. (Tanzania)
N.Y. Premiere at 2004 Margaret Mead Film & Video Festival
In 1969, Black Panther Pete O'Neal was arrested on a gun charge
in Kansas City, Missouri. To avoid conviction, he fled to Africa,
where he has spent the last 34 years living in exile in Tanzania.
During the past three decades, he and his wife have devoted themselves
to community work dealing with health, literacy, and anti-racism.
Now, faced with the possibility of returning to America, O'Neal
reflects on his life and radical past.
a/k/a Mrs. George Gilbert
Coco Fusco. 2004. 31 min. (U.S.)
World (film festival) Premiere at 2004 Margaret Mead Film & Video
Festival
This hybrid video blends fictional and documentary source material
in an imaginative re-creation of a crucial political moment in
U.S. history. Co-scripted by Rick Moody (The Ice Storm), it tells
the story of an FBI agent who confesses to his involvement in
the nationwide search for Angela Davis, the famous radical philosopher
and black activist who was on the FBI's "Ten Most Wanted" list
in 1970 and an underground fugitive for two months.
Oscar
Sergio Morkin. 2004. 61 min. Video. (Argentina)
U.S. Premiere at 2004 Margaret Mead Film & Video Festival
Oscar is a taxi driver, family man, and intrepid guerilla artist
who rebels against the bombardment of advertisements in Buenos
Aires. In doing so, he attracts attention from both the media
and academia as an artist/activist whose story resonates strongly.
But can he pay his bills without selling out?
Sponsored by the Department of Anthropology, the Center for Latin American Studies, and the France-Florida Research Institute. For more information, please contact Dr. Roger Beebe (rogerbb@english.ufl.edu) or Dr. Rick Stepp (stepp@ufl.edu).
October
28
Chahdortt Djavann is of Iranian origin and has been living in Paris since 1993 where she studied anthropology. She wrote her first novel in French (Je viens d'ailleurs, Autrement, 2002), but acquired instant fame with Bas les voiles (Gallimard, 2003), a pamphlet against the Islamic veil. In 2004 Ms. Djavann was awarded the International Prize for Secularism by the International League Against Racism and Anti-Semitism.
Lecture: "Secularism and Political Islam: Reflections on the Islamic Veil", 5:30pm, October 28, 1002 New Physics Building.
Ms. Djavann's trip to the United States is organized by the General Delegation of the Alliances Françaises USA and the French Embassy in Washington D.C. Her stay in Gainesville is under the auspices of the Alliance Française and her lecture is sponsored by the France-Florida Research Institute.
December 2
Dr. George Greenia, editor of the distinguished journal of Medieval Studies La Coronica and the new journal "American Pilgrim", will be discussing the medieval pilgrimage route called the Rue Saint Jacques, Xacobeo or Camino de Santiago. He will give an illustrated, interdisciplinary lecture about the Rue Saint Jacques to the general public in English. 4:00pm, Florida Gym, Room 210.
