Events and Activities

Photographing Paris

November 15, 2006 - January 15, 2007 at the Focus Gallery
University of Florida, Gainesville Campus
Reception: December 1, 2006 7-9 p.m.

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This exhibition is a selection of the work produced by students enrolled in the class ART 2930 C Photographing Paris as part of the Honors program at the UF Paris Research Center in the spring of 2006. The class was designed to introduce students to the basic techniques of photography using the city of Paris as a playground for experimentation. The themes for discussion were: nineteenth century and the history of the city in images of melancholy, surrealist photography and the mapping of the unconscious, voyeurism, street photography and the artist as the drifter, postwar humanism and modernist conceptions of photography, realism, symbolism, opticality and abstraction. The exhibition will travel to Reid Hall at the Paris Research Center in the Spring of 2007.

The Florence Gould Foundation Lecture Series on Landscape Architecture Fall 2006: 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 third 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 field of landscape design in both France and the United States will present and discuss their theories and ouevre.

The Florence Gould Foundation sponsored lectures will be in English and will take place at the Paris Research Center which is located in the heart of Montparnasse at Columbia University’s Reid Hall.

Schedule of Speakers

• Wednesday November 8, 2006, 6:30 pm
  Florence Mercier, Principle and founder of the agency, F M Paysage, Paris
  “Figuring Out the Landscape; From a Géographical to an Urban Scale”
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• Wednesday November 29, 2006, 6:30 pm
  Pierre Clement, Arte Charpentier
  “Urbanism: France in China”
• Wednesday December 6, 2006, 6:30 pm
  R. Terry Schnadelbach, University of Florida
  “Intertextual Landscapes: French Roots”

’Who?’ or ‘What?’—Jacques Derrida

October 9-11, 2006,
On campus event - University of Florida, Gainesville

A conference to celebrate the legacy of Jacques Derrida This event is FREE and OPEN to the public.  For more information, including the conference program, please visit http://www.gss.ufl.edu/derrida/

Conference participants include Hélène Cixous (France-Florida Research Institute Visiting Professor, University of Florida), Chris Snodgrass (University of Florida),  Eric Prenowitz (Leeds University), David Wills (University at Albany), Maureen Turim (University of Florida), Akira Lippit (University of Southern California), Greg Ulmer (University of Florida), Nora Alter (University of Florida), Peggy Kamuf (University of Southern California), Richard Burt (University of Florida), Gaby Schwab (University of California, Irvine), John Leavey (University of Florida), Scott Nygren (University of Florida), Geoffrey Bennington (Emory University), Brigitte Weltman-Aron (University of Florida), Pamela Gilbert (University of Florida), and J. Hillis Miller (Doctor Honoris Causa, University of Florida).

Conference co-sponsors: Dean’s Office of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences; Department of Romance Languages and Literatures; France-Florida Research Institute; Department of Germanic and Slavic Studies; University of Florida Paris Research Center; Department of English; University of Florida International Center; Center for the Humanities and Public Sphere; Center for Jewish Studies; The Center for Women's Studies and Gender Research; Center for European Studies; Dean’s Office of the College of Fine Arts; School of Art and Art History at the University of Florida; and French Department, New York University.

Pathways for Women Workshop

September 22-23, 2006

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The Paris Research Center is pleased to host "Pathways for Women", a two-day workshop involving academics, policy makers, and practitioners interested in women's intercultural leadership questions. The purpose of the workshop is to evaluate and fine-tune a proposed survey designed to explore the different ways women in international business environments create and utilize mentoring and networking to achieve their career goals. "Pathways for Women" is sponsored jointly by the University of Florida, the University of Michigan, and Indiana University.  The workshop is organized by Terry Dworkin (Indiana University, Kelley School of Business), Angel Kwolek-Folland (University of Florida, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences), Virginia G. Maurer (University of Florida, Warrington College of Business Administration) and Cindy Schipani (University of Michigan, Stephen M. Ross School of Business).

Student exhibition: "The Architecture of Paris: Experiments of Place"

Location:  Reitz Union 2nd Floor
Dates: October 4-17, 2006

We are pleased to announce the opening of an exhibition of student work from Professor Nancy Clark's Spring 2006 May Intersession course "The Architecture of Paris: Experiments of Place" held at the Paris Research Center.

The exhibition includes each student’s unique observations, perceptions and recordings of Paris embodied in image, word and artifact. We encourage all to visit the exhibit and see the city of Paris through these talented eyes and minds!!

For more information, please contact Dr. Nancy Clark at nmclark@ufl.edu

Cultural Production in the 19th Century: Voices and Visions of the Contemporary

June 7-8, 2006

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The Paris Research Center is pleased to present “Cultural Production in the 19th Century: Voices and Visions of the Contemporary”, the second edition of the annual Paris Research Center workshop series in French Studies organized by Dr. Gayle Zachmann (Paris Research Center) and Dr. Charles Stivale (Wayne State University). This international workshop will unite scholars from Europe and the United States addressing how authors and artists in the nineteenth century may create voices and images that envisage and express the contemporary, that is, their contemporaneity.  This year’s participants include: Anne-Marie Baron (Société des Amis d’Honoré de Balzac), Dorian Bell (University of Pennsylvania), Eric Bordas (Université de Paris III), Vincent Duclert (EHESS), Elizabeth Emery (Montclair State University), Lucienne Frappier-Mazur (University of Pennsylvania), Françoise Gaillard (l’Université de Paris VII), Andrea Goulet (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign), Melanie Hawthorne (Texas A & M University), Elisabeth Ladenson (Columbia University), Brigitte Mahuzier (Bryn Mawr College), Anne McCall (Tulane University), Nicole Mozet (Université de Paris VII), Michel Pierssens (Université de Montréal), Jean-Marie Roulin (University Jean Monnet—St. Etienne),  Gisèle Seginger (Université de Marne la Vallée), Charles J. Stivale (Wayne State University), Marie-Eve Thérenty (l’Université de Montpellier III), Gayle Zachmann (University of Florida), among others.

Présences Africaines: Contesting Images and Creating Identities

April 10-11, 2006

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The Paris Research Center and the Center for African Studies, in conjunction with the Festival Francophone en France are pleased to present Présences Africaines: Contesting Images and Creating Identities, a two-day interdisciplinary discussion joining international scholars, this workshop will focus on African communities in France, looking at how they have been imaged and imagined in French society and politics and how Africans themselves have created and defined their place within French culture and society. Workshop participants will examine contemporary cultural and political issues such as the integration of African communities in France; the relationship of African migrants with their home communities; the connections between African communities in Europe; and the historical and contemporary African presence in French cultural expressions including literature, film, fashion, architecture and public arts institutions. Participants include: Brunhilde Biebuyck (Columbia University Programs in Paris), Marcus Bruce (Bates College), Geneviève Calame-Griaule (CNRS), Odile Cazenave (Boston University), Jacques Chevrier (Sorbonne), Christophe Daum (Université de Paris VII), Jean-Philippe Dedieu (Maison de l’Homme, EHESS), Romuald Fonkoua (Strasbourg; Présence Africaine), Joan Frosh (University of Florida, Center for World Arts), Hélène Joubert (Musée du Quai Branley), Abdoulaye Kane (University of Florida, Anthropology), Janet MacGaffey (Bucknell University), Steven Nelson (UCLA), Ayoko Mensah (Africultures),Victoria Rovine (University of Florida, Art & Art History), Ibrahima Abdoul Sall (Mairie de Paris), Jean Schmitz (EHESS), Alioune Sow (University of Florida RLL), Mohamet Timera (Université du Havre), Steven Ungar (University of Iowa), Leo Villalon (University of Florida Center for African Studies). Writers featured: Daniel Maximin, Abdourahman Waberi, Fatou Diome, Paulin Joachim, Jake Lamar, Maboula Soumahoro, Simon Njami, Nimrod, Tierno Monénembo and film producer Bob Swaim.

Organized by Leo Villalon (University of Florida Center for African Studies), Abdoulaye Kane (University of Florida, Anthropology) and Gayle Zachmann (University of Florida, Paris Research Center).

At the Fringe of the French Capital: American Artists in Giverny

Distinguised Guest Lecturer, Veerle Thielemans
March 16, 2006

Veerle Thielemans is a prominent art historian. As the head of Academic Programs for the Musée d’Art Américan Giverny and the Terra Foundation for American Art she has organized numerous colloquia and workshops on exhibits, including Thomas Eakins: painting, masculinity, 2002; l’indépendence de l’art américain, 2003; Vous avez dit Hopper? 2004; and Alfred Stieglitz: From the European Avant-Garde to American Art, 2004. She is currently presenting workshops on the National Gallery of London’s exhibition Americans in Paris 1860-1900. She oversees the educational activities of the Terra Foundation for American Art for university students and the Terra Foundation/INHA travel scholarship as well as the residency program for doctoral students in American Art History. A graduate of the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, she defended her doctoral thesis at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore.

UF Paris Research Center Workshop
"I am (not) an Amazon"
Women and the Avant-gardes

February 17-18, 2006
Organized by Maureen Turim, University of Florida and Christa Blümlinger, Université de la Sorbonne Nouvelle

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The theme of this working atelier is Women in the Avant-Gardes: “I am (not) an Amazon”. During the seventies, two kinds of discussions crossed: questions of cinema and art, put in terms of aesthetic and political debates about avant-garde practices, and questions of sexual difference, put in terms of feminist theories and politics. More than a quarter of a century later, these interrelated questions deserve reconsideration. Have all avant-gardist gestures become today, as Thierry de Duve claims, at once treasonous and traditional? If the modernist field, as Rosalind Krauss suggests, is dependent upon constant renewal not unlike that of the living organism, how may we address the contemporary situation? Artists of a younger generation such as Pipilotti Rist (I am not the Girl who Misses Much, 1986) have playfully claimed their position within the art field. Theories of the arts today benefit from years of prior examination of women’s systemic marginalization from art practices, particularly in the most daring echelons of various avant-garde movements. Yet we know that the recovery of the “amazons of the avant-garde” (to quote the title of a recent exhibition and lengthy volume re-visiting Russian avant-gardes of the twenties), has shown that even within these male-dominated movements women played a forceful role. We assume the historical re-examination of women’s participation a worthy project, largely well underway, and equally assume fewer barriers to women within contemporary art practice, or even their inescapable participation.

The focus of the atelier will be on the still under-theorized issues surrounding writing and image making by women in its most challenging manifestations. This conference attempts to re-consider and to re-contextualize women and the avant-gardes within a theoretical, aesthetic and political framework that thirty years of feminist, gender and other theoretical studies have established. This re-consideration attempts an international dialogue about current debates and issues. The perspective of the atelier is aesthetic and epistemological, rather than merely historical. Invited speakers will address female artists of various contemporary arts, such as fine arts, photography, cinema, literature, dance, video and media art.

Participants from institutions in France and the US, include: Nora Alter (University of Florida), Christa Blümlinger (Université de Paris III), Nicole Brenez (Université de Paris I), Christine Buci-Glucksmann (Université de Paris VIII), Chantal Duchet (Université de Paris III), Lucy Fischer (University of Pittsburgh), Gertrud Koch (Free University, Berlin), Laura Mulvey (Birkbeck University, London), Chantal Pontbriand (Parachute, Montreal/Paris), Shelley Rice (New York University), Maureen Turim (University of Florida), Jennifer Wild (Paris), Elvan Zabunyan (Université de Rennes II), Gayle Zachmann (University of Florida).

UF Paris Research Center: Honors in Paris Distinguished Guest Lecturer

Dr. Steven Ungar
January 20, 2006

Display and Identity at the 1931 Paris Colonial Exposition
Steven Ungar, Professor of French and Comparative Literature at the University of Iowa, teaches on 20th and 21st century French literature, thought, and film. His most recent publication, co-authored with Dudley Andrew, is Popular Front Paris and the Poetics of Culture (2005). Current research interests include early postwar film. He is in Paris as a visiting scholar at the PRC and to complete a book on Agnés Varda’s 1962 feature film, Cleo from 5 to 7.

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