Events and Activities
The Florence Gould Foundation Lecture Series on Landscape Architecture Fall 2005: Un-built Works/ Projets non-réalisés
The
Department of Landscape Architecture and the Paris Research Center of
the University of Florida invite you to attend the second annual lecture
series in Landscape Architecture at the Paris Research Center.
The theme of this lecture series is "Un-built Works/Projects non réalisés". Landscape design professionals typically have many commissions that possess imaginative and cutting edge concepts, but for reasons outside their control these projects may never come to fruition. Three prominent professionals in Landscape Architecture actively involved in the design of landscapes in both France and the United States will present such works - many for the first time - and will discuss the valuable landscape design ideas incorporated in these un-built commissions.
Schedule of Speakers:
- Faye Harwell, Rhodeside and Harwell, Washington, DC
Continuity: 20 years of Landscape Architectural Works
Wednesday, September 28, 2005: 6:30 PM in Reid Hall's Grande Salle
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- Rosemary Wakeman, Urbanist
Paris Streets and Public Open Space From 1940-1950"
Wednesday, November 2, 2005: 6:30 PM in Reid Hall's Grande Salle
- Phillipe Nys, Landscape Philosopher
Wednesday, November 23, 2005: 6:30 PM in Reid Hall's Grande Salle
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Paradise in the New World
Sergio Vega, University of Florida
The UF Paris Research Center is pleased to present "Paradise in
the New World," a lecture by Sergio Vega, who will present his interdisciplinary
art project currently on view at the 51st Venice Biennale on October 5,
2005 at 6:30 PM in Reid Hall's Grande Salle, Paris.
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Sergio Vega creates work that addresses both contemporary and historical
systems of representation. The artist has taken the ever-evolving notion
of earthly paradise as a reoccurring point of departure for his work.
He specifically bases his research on the theory by Antonio de Leon Pinelo
(1650) that locates the garden of Eden in South America. His investigation,
which adopts a cross-disciplinary approach, incorporates lush imagery
and distinct literary references to create physical manifestations of
cultural myths to disclose the modus operandum of colonialist ideologies.
His work is currently on view at the 51st Venice Biennale. He has participated
in the 5th Lyon Biennale, the 1st Prague Biennale, the 1st Yokohama Triennale,
the 3rd Kwangju Biennale, Sonsbeek 9, the 3rd Site Santa Fe Biennale,
and the 2nd Johannesburg Biennale. In addition his work has been featured
in numerous museum exhibitions in Europe, the United States and the Americas.
His work has been reviewed in Art in America, Flash Art,
Artforum, Camera Austria, Tema Celeste, Atlantica,
Art News, Art Nexus, The New York Times, and
Time Magazine.
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UF Department of English Colloquium
New Approaches to French Film & Culture
June 24-25, 2005
Organized by Dr. Maureen Turim, University of Florida
This colloquium will honor the publication of Popular Front Paris and the Poetics of Culture , by Dudley Andrew, Professor of Film Studies and of Comparative Literature at Yale University and Steven Ungar, Professor of French and Chair of Comparative Literature at the University of Iowa. For two days, a group of participants, who will receive copies of the book upon publication, will present papers that react to, run parallel to, or are inspired by this volume. Our purpose is to engage each other in discussion of the history, methodology, and theory of Thirties culture. Participants will include the authors, who will speak about the process of writing this book, and major figures working on French Film History in France. Andrew's earlier volume, Mists of Regret: Culture and Sensibility in Classic French Film, will also be considered.
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UF Paris Research Center Workshop
Annual Workshop in Nineteenth Century French Studies
May 30-31, 2005
Organized by Dr. Gayle Zachmann, University of Florida and Dr. Charles
Stivale, Wayne State University
The University of Florida Paris Research Center is pleased to host the first annual journées d'étude in Nineteenth Century French Studies. The theme of this working atelier is Cultural Production in the 19th Century: Constructions of Desire. The meeting will serve as a model for subsequent annual working group rencontres. Participants from institutions in France and the US, include: Eric Bordas (l'Université Paris III), Vincent Duclert ( EHESS) , Lucienne Frappier Mazur (Univ. of Pennsylvania), Françoise Gaillard (l'Université Paris VII), Rae Beth Gordon (Univ. of Connecticut), Elizabeth Ladenson (Univ. of Virginia), Ann McCall (Tulane Univ.), Catherine Nesci (Univ. of California Santa Barbara), Marshall Olds (Colgate Univ.), Jean-Marie Roulin (Université Jean Monnet St. Etienne), Larry Schehr (Univ. of Illinois), Charles Stivale (Wayne State Univ.), Gayle Zachmann (Univ. of Florida), Damien Zanone (Université Stendhal Grenoble III).
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UF Department of Physics & Ecole Normale Supérieure
Workshop
Quantum Dynamics of Complex
Molecular Systems
May 18-20, 2005
Organized by Dr. David Micha, University of Florida and Dr. Irene Burghardt,
Ecole Normale Supérieure
Quantum phenomena are ubiquitous in complex molecular systems, and yet remain a challenge for theoretical analysis. Much current activity is directed at developing methods to tackle quantum dynamics in many dimensions, including dissipative phenomena, often with the aim of interpreting and predicting experimental observations based upon ultrafast spectroscopic techniques. The goal of this workshop is to bring together workers in this field, to discuss new theory concepts, methods, and phenomena in molecular physics, chemistry and biology. Of special interest are the connections between quantum dynamical and quantum statistical aspects.
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UF Department of Philosophy Workshop
Mind and Language: Conceptual, Scientific and Normative Issues
May 5-6, 2005
Organized by Dr. Robert D'Amico, University of Florida
The questions raised by the conference concern the relationship between subjective conscious experience and such linguistic features as the possession of phenomenal, indexical and demonstrative concepts. The workshop will examine this topic through papers on conceptual as well as empirical scientific approaches.
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Guest Lecture: Sexual Difference and Politics in France today : the parity issue
April 20, 2004
Danielle Haase-DuBosc
Danielle Haase-Dubosc was brought up in France and the United States and as a result is a bi-lingual person of dual citizenship. After the French lycée, she trained at Barnard College and Columbia University where she received her Ph.D. in Comparative literature. She was an assistant professor in French at Barnard College before returning to France where she became Director of Reid Hall, Columbia University's campus in Paris. She is now Executive Director of Reid Hall, Director of Columbia University's Institute for Scholars at Reid Hall and Associate Provost of her university. Her fields of research are gender relations in the 17th century and the contemporary world. Her latest books, "Ravie et Enlevée", Albin Michel, 1999, and "Enjeux contemporains du féminisme indien" (Presses de la Maison des Sciences de l'Homme, 2002, deals with the abduction and seduction of women in 17th-century France and Indian feminism, respectively.
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Guest Lecturer: Daniel Maximin
April 13, 2005
Daniel Maximin, born in Guadeloupe, is a poet, novelist and essayist. He is the author of three books, published by Editions du Seuil, in Paris: L'Isole soleil (1981, collection Points-Seuil 1987), Soufrières (1987, Collection Points-Seuil 1996), and L'Ile et une nuit (1996, Collection Points-Seuil 2002), and of a poetry anthology , L'Invention des Désirades, published by Editions Présence Africaine (2000). His most recent publication, Tu, c'est l'enfance (Editions Gallimard, Collection Haute Enfance. Avril 2004), received the prestigious Grand Prix de l'Académie Française 2004 Maurice Genevoix in December 2004.
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Guest Lecture: The women surrealists' hybrid status and search for identity as writers, plastic artists, muses and significant others
April 5, 2005
Georgiana Colvile
Georgiana Colvile is professor of English and American language and literature at the University of Tours and former professor of French, Comparative Literature and Film at the University of Colorado, Boulder. She has published numerous books and articles on Avant-Garde, particularly Surrealist and Postmodern literature, art and film in France, America and Canada, mainly on women's creative expressions in those fields. Her four latest books concern women's contributions to surrealism: La Femme s'entête , essays on women surrealists, co-edited with Katharine Conley (Paris Lachenal & Ritter, 1998), Scandaleusement d'elles: 34 femmes surréalistes , an anthology of women surrealists (Paris Jean-Michel Place, 1999), Edition of Valentine Penrose: Ecrits d'une femme surréaliste , (Paris Editions Joëlle Losfeld, 2001), Edition of Simone Breton: Lettres à Dénise Lévy et autres textes (Paris Editions Joëlle Losfeld, 2005).
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Guest Lecturer: Vincent Duclert
March 24, 2005
Vincent Duclert is a professeur agrégé at the École des hautes études en sciences sociales (Paris). Historian of contemporary France, he specializes in political history, particularly of France, and in the history of the intellectual, particularly public engagements and forms of mobilization. Author of L'affaire Dreyfus (La Découverte, 1994), Les archives (La Découverte, 2001, in collaboration with Sophie Coeuré) and L'histoire contre l'extrême droite (Mille et une nuits, 2002), he is co-editor of Serviteurs de l'État. Une histoire politique de l'administration française (La Découverte, 2000) and Justice, politique et République, de l'affaire Dreyfus à la guerre d'Algérie (Complexe, 2002) with Marc Olivier Baruch; the Dictionnaire critique de la République (Flammarion, 2002) and Il s'est passé quelque choseÞ le 21 avril 2002 (Denoël, 2003) with Christophe Prochasson, and Quel avenir pour la recherche ? (Flammarion, 2003) with Alain Chatriot. He is currently preparing a political and intellectual biography of Captain Dreyfus and a critical edition of letters from l'île du Diable between Captain Dreyfus and his wife Lucie.
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MAE International
University of Florida Engineering Exchange International Program
Recruiting Day in Paris, December 13, 2004
The University of Florida Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
program will be holding an International Partnership/Recruiting Day at
the UF Paris Research Center on December 13, 2004 to provide information
to French professors and prospective graduate students concerning joint
Ph.D. programs and potential research collaboration with UF MAE faculty.
To register for this event or for more information, please visit www.mae.ufl.edu/parisevent.
About the MAE Department
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Kickoff meeting: L'Ecole d'Architecture de Paris-Belleville/Paris Research Center student partnership
Thursday, October 7, 2004 2:30 PM
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Kickoff reception: Sorbonne/Paris Research Center student partnership
Tuesday, October 5, 2004 6:00 PM
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The Paris Research Center Lecture Series on Landscape
Architecture
Fall 2004: Un-built Works/ Projets non-réalisés
The Department of Landscape Architecture and the Paris Research Center of the University of Florida invite you to attend the first of a yearly lecture series in Landscape Architecture at the Paris Research Center.
The theme of this inaugural year is ¿Un-built Works/Projects non réalisésî.
Landscape design professionals typically have many commissions that possess
imaginative and cutting edge concepts, but for reasons outside their control
these projects may never come to fruition. Three prominent professionals
in Landscape Architecture actively involved in the design of landscapes
in both France and the United States will present such worksÜmany for
the first timeÜand will discuss the valuable landscape design ideas incorporated
in these un-built commissions.
Download the flyer
Schedule of Speakers:
- R. Terry Schnadelbach, Distinguished
Professor of Landscape Architecture
Wednesday, September 29, 2004: 6:30 PM in Reid Hall's Grande Salle - Jacqueline Osty, Landscape Architect
Wednesday, October 27, 2004: 6:30 PM in Reid Hall's Grande Salle - Philippe Robert, Architect/Landscape
Architect
Wednesday, November 10, 2004: 6:30 PM in Reid Hall's Grande Salle
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Guest Lecturer: Alain Payan
September 7, 2004 12:00 PM
"Business Culture in France"
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Guest Lecturer: Vanessa R. Schwartz
Clichés of the Belle Epoque: Frenchness Films of the 1950's
Monday, July 12, 2004, at 1:00 PM
Dr. Schwartz is an historian of modern visual culture whose research and writing in the past decade has concentrated on the emergence of film in the crucible of the urban culture of late nineteenth century Paris. She is a French cultural historian of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries and my interests reach across fields into art history, urban studies, and cinema studies. Her new project, "'It's So French': Nationality and Internationalism in French and American Cinema, 1945-1968" argues that we re-think the post-war relations between France and America and considers this through the frame of the film industry. The book examines 'Frenchness' in film, the Cannes Film Festival and notions of cosmopolitansim among other topics. She is also co-editing a reader for Routledge, Modernity and the Nineteenth Century: A Visual Culture Reader .
Selected Publications:
- Spectacular Realities: Early Mass Culture in fin-de-siecle Paris (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1998)
- Co-editor, with Leo Charney, Cinema and the Invention of Modern Life (Berkeley: University Of California Press, 1995)
- "Walter Benjamin for Historians" AHR 106, n.5 Dec.2001:1721-1743.
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Guest Lecturer: Yann Beauvais
Monday, July 5, 2004, at 2:00 PM
Beauvais is one of the best-known and most productive avant-garde filmmakers in Paris, and indeed, worldwide. He will speak to us about his work, project some examples, and discuss LightCone and Scratch, two organizations he helped found to exhibit and distribute experimental films. He is also a curator and critique of note. Some of his work deconstructs image of Paris; his most recent works address AIDS (SIDA).
Yann Beauvais is a filmmaker who has authored approximately 30 films. His work has appeared in several installations, including de Rives (1999) and Tu Sempre (2001-2). In 1982 he co-founded Light Cone with artist Miles McKane. His recent publications include Scratch Book (1999) co-authored with Jean Damien Collin, and Monter Sampler (2000) with Michel Bouhours. His latest film is Adrift (2002).
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Guest Lecturer: Alain Payan
"La culture moderne: Paris et le monde / Paris High-Tech"
Friday, March 12, 2004 10:00AM
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Guest Lecturer : Vincent
Duclert
Professeur Agrégé d'histoire contemporaine à l'EHESS:
¿Sciences sociales et engagement intellectuel, le rôle d'une institution
de recherchesî
Thursday, March 11, 2004 2:00 PM
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Guest Lecturer : Yann Beauvais
Monday, March 8, 2004 11:00 AM
Beauvais is one of the best-known and most productive avant-garde filmmakers in Paris, and indeed, worldwide. He will speak to us about his work, project some examples, and discuss LightCone and Scratch, two organizations he helped found to exhibit and distribute experimental films. He is also a curator and critique of note. Some of his work deconstructs image of Paris; his most recent works address AIDS (SIDA).
Yann Beauvais is a filmmaker who has authored approximately 30 films. His work has appeared in several installations, including de Rives (1999) and Tu Sempre (2001-2). In 1982 he co-founded Light Cone with artist Miles McKane. His recent publications include Scratch Book (1999) co-authored with Jean Damien Collin, and Monter Sampler (2000) with Michel Bouhours. His latest film is Adrift (2002).
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Florida-Paris Workshop on Granular Fluids
University of Florida Paris Research Center
November 6 and 7, 2003
The objective of this Workshop is to provide an opportunity for a small group of people working on the statistical mechanics, kinetic theory, and simulation of granular fluids to exchange ideas in an informal atmosphere. Short presentations by the participants will provide the basis for communicating their latest work to stimulate discussions among the group as a whole. Ample time will be provided for clusters of participants to pursue topics of more restricted personal interests. Time will be reserved at the end of the second day for a group discussion of where the field is headed and what are the most critical issues to be resolved.
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Mailing Address:
2008 Turlington Hall
P.O. Box 117300
Gainesville, FL 32611
4 rue de Chevreuse
75006 Paris, France
Phone: 011 33 (0)1 43 22 10 65
Fax: 011 33 (0)1 43 22 07 35