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Opportunities
Call for Proposals
The
UF Paris Research Center is currently accepting course proposals for
our 2010 Spring Break, May Intersession and Summer Study Abroad terms.
Paris
Research Center study abroad programs are meant to provide faculty an
opportunity to create innovative courses to be taught in authentic environments.
Courses should provide students unique, discipline- and faculty research-
specific experiences.
Faculty interested in creating NEW discipline-specific (intensive
or semesterly) programs at the Paris Research Center should contact the
Director, Gayle Zachmann, at paris-research@clas.ufl.edu.
Call for Spring Break, May Intersession & Summer
2010 Courses in Paris
The following includes important information concerning the submission
of course proposals for 2010 Summer, Spring Break and May Intersession
programs at the UF Paris Research Center.
When considering your course
proposal, please keep in mind the following:
- The Paris Research Center
will assist faculty of member units with questions prior to the submission
of course proposal.
- When submitting your proposal, please be sure to
specify the term for which you would like your proposal to be considered.
- All proposals must be submitted by the specified deadline. If you
plan to propose a course at the Paris Research Center, please notify
us by email at paris-research@clas.ufl.edu.
- For CLAS faculty members,
once course proposals are selected, the Paris Research Center will
assist with preparation for CLAS International Committee approval.
Please read the following course proposal guidelines carefully
Spring Break Intensive Weeklong Study Abroad Programs at
the Paris Research Center
Proposal deadline: August 15, 2009
These innovative weeklong programs for intensive study abroad in Paris
are expressly created to provide in-depth on-site international experiences.
Two-credit courses include seven activity-rich days in Paris with classes
given on-site at the cultural, historical, scientific and political institutions
studied.
Faculty
interested in teaching Spring Break 2010 at the Paris Research Center
should submit brief course descriptions and a tentative itinerary/syllabus
by August 15, 2009. Please feel free to request information and advice
on course and/or template design from the Paris Research Center at paris-research@clas.ufl.edu.
May Intersession Intensive Weeklong and Two-Week Study Abroad Programs
at the Paris Research Center
Proposal Deadline: August 15
These innovative programs for intensive
study abroad in Paris are expressly created to provide in-depth on-site
international experiences. Two to three credit courses include activity-rich
days in Paris with classes given on-site at the cultural, historical,
scientific and political institutions studied. The length of May Intersession
programs can vary from one to two weeks, depending on the needs of
the program.
Faculty
interested in teaching May Intersession 2010 at the Paris Research Center
should submit brief course descriptions and a tentative itinerary/syllabus
by August 15, 2009. Please feel free to request information and advice
on course design from the Paris Research Center at paris-research@clas.ufl.edu
Summer Study Abroad Programs at the Paris Research Center
Proposal deadline: August 15, 2009
The Paris Research Center welcomes course proposals for our 2010 Summer
Study Abroad Program in Paris.
Summer Study Abroad at the Paris Research
Center is meant to provide faculty an opportunity to create innovative
courses to be taught in authentic environments. Courses should provide
students unique, discipline- and faculty research- specific experiences.
This six-week interdisciplinary program welcomes students from all majors.
All courses include subject-specific enhancement activities such as site
visits and guest lecturers.
Faculty interested in teaching Summer 2010
at the Paris Research Center should submit brief course descriptions
by August 15, 2009. Please feel free to request information and advice
on course design from the Paris Research Center paris-research@clas.ufl.edu.
New Program Initiatives
Faculty interested in creating new, discipline
specific (intensive or semesterly) programs at the Paris Research Center
should contact the Director, Gayle Zachmann, at paris-research@clas.ufl.edu.
Reconsidering Relationality
April 18-19, 2007
Download agenda here
The relationship between art works, institutions and their audiences
has recently been a topic of considerable discussion. “Reconsidering
Relationality” will revisit this debate, positing relationality
as a space for art that temporarily suspends institutional autonomy and
explores new forms of interaction with the lifeworld. From this perspective,
the sphere of art functions as a vehicle for such experimentation; as
a laboratory where the relations between different subjects, forms, and
spaces can be tested. This is not a falsely open idea of the sphere of
art, one that “aestheticizes” relations, as well as the social
and creative processes implicit to them, and thus interrupts their effectiveness
by fetishizing and freezing them in turn. Rather, the notion of relationality
that we seek to reconsider is derived from a broad experimental tradition
in modern and contemporary art that has explored meaningful methods of
restoring artistic processes with forms of subjective appropriation.
This is a tradition that has sought to go beyond institutional overdetermination
in an attempt to revive art’s transformative potential within the
broadest possible frame.
- Workshop organizers: Alexander Alberro, University of
Florida & Nora Alter, University of Florida
- Keynote Speaker : Jacques Rancière (Professor Emeritus,
Université de Paris VIII)
“Image, Action, Relations: Questions about the Politics of Art”
Participants include: Christa Blümlinger (Université de
la Sorbonne Nouvelle); Wouter Davidts (Ghent University); Diedrich Diederichsen
(Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna & Merz-Akademie, Stuttgart); Lutz Koepnick
(Washington University-St. Louis); Birgit Pelzer (Ecole de Recherches
Graphique, St. Luc, Brussels); Sébastien Pluot (Ecole Nationale
Supérieure des Beaux-Arts, Bourges) ; Chantal Pontbriand
(Parachute magazine); Juliane Rebentisch (Universität Potsdam);
Constanze Ruhm (Academy of Fine Arts Vienna) ; Carsten Strathausen
(University of Missouri-Columbia); Felicitas Thun (Academy of Fine Arts,
Vienna); Stephen Wright (Institut National d'Histoire de l'Art, Paris).
Sessions
- International Affairs & the Public Sphere: For more information
about this exceptional program designed for UF students seeking to
internationalize their education, attend the information session on
Tuesday, March 6 at 4PM in FLI 13 (Flint Hall).
PRC affiliates may apply to the Center for European Studies for
the following opportunities. For more information, please visit the
CES website at grove.ufl.edu/~ces/.
Guest Lectures – Spring Break Programs
Week of March 11-17, 2007
Tuesday, March 13
2:30-5:30
Guest lecturer: Daniel
Maximin (award winning poet, essayist and novelist)
Paris Research Center, Reid Hall, Salle des Conferences
Daniel Maximin, a poet, essayist and novelist, originating from Guadeloupe,
has devoted his time to writing, education, and culture. He has acted
as the director of cultural affairs in Guadeloupe, helped organized the
150th anniversary of the abolition of slavery, and most recently published
the novel Les Fruit du Cyclone: Une geopoetique de la Caribe in
2006. Other publications include : Tu, c’est l’enfance [Seuil
2004, winner of the Prix de l’Académie Française
Maurice Genevoix in December 2004], L’Île et une nuit [Seuil,
2002], Soufrières [Seuil 1995]
7:00-8:30
A Symposium on “Jules Verne’s
Paris”
Paris Research Center, Reid Hall, Salle des Conferences
- Download the PDF
- Presenter: Daniel Compère is a professor
at Paris III and at the Université de la Sorbonne nouvelle.
Heis
the author of numerous articles and books on Jules Verne, Alexandre
Dumas, fantastic fiction and the popular novel. In 1972 he founded
the Centre de Documentation Junes (Amiens).
- Presenter: Jean-Michel Margot is
the President of the North American Jules Verne Society.An independent
scholar, he has published numerous articles on Verne, and has edited
two collections of documents related to Verne’s reception in the popular press if the late 19th
Century. The foremost bibliographer of Verne’s studies, his personal
collection of Verne criticism is the most extensive in the world.
Thursday, March 15
10:00-12:00
Guest lecturers Professor Cliff Jones and Professor
Lynda Kaid
Paris Research Center, Reid Hall, Salle des Conferences
- A
Presentation on international law and the war on terror
by Professor
Cliff Jones
Professor Cliff Jones is a visiting faculty
member from the Levin College of Law, at the University of Florida.
His research is centered around US, EC, and international and comparative
competition law, EC law, media law, intellectual property law,
constitutional law, and election and campaign finance law and has
most recently published Private Enforcement
of Antitrust Law in the EC, UK, and USA in 1999.
- A
Presentation terrorism and international media
by Professor Lynda
Kaid
Professor Lynda Kaid is a professor at the University of Florida and
the Senior Associate Dean for Graduate Studies and Research. Her research
specialties include political advertising and news coverage of political
events. A Fulbright Scholar, she has also done work on political television
in several Western European countries
2:30-4:30
Guest lecturer
Jake Lamar, Novelist
Paris
Research Center, Reid Hall, Salle des Conferences
Jake Lamar, an author born and raised in New York, graduated from Harvard
University and spent the beginning of his career writing for Time magazine.
In 1993 moved to Paris and has most recently published the novel Ghosts
of Saint Michel in 2006 [St. Martin’s Minotaur 2006]. Other
publications include Rendez-vous 18ème [St. Martin’s
Minotaur 2003], The Last Integrationist [Crown 1996], and Bourgeois
Blues [Plume 1992].
Friday, March 16
4:00-6:00
Guest lecturer
Bob Swaim, Filmmaker
Paris Research Center, Reid Hall, Classe 6
Bob Swaim, an American filmmaker educated in Paris has been active as
a producer, screenwriter, and actor in film, television, and theater.
He has worked all around the world and has won numerous awards at festivals
worldwide, including the Berlin Film Festival and the Festival de Saint
Malo. Upcoming projects include directing a play at the Theatre du Chatelet.
His films include : Nos Amis Les Flics [2004], L’Atlantide [1992], La
Balance [1982], La Nuit de Saint-Germain-des-Près [1977].
Teaching and Research Opportunities
Faculty Course Enhancement Grants
The CES holds annual competitions for 3 course enhancement grants of
$2,500-3,000 for the Summer of each academic year. The grants are designed
to assist current faculty in the enhancement of existing courses to incorporate
new technologies, to broaden the scope of the course to make it more interdisciplinary,
or to create a capstone experience add-on units that incorporates a study
abroad visit to Europe. To be eligible, courses may be in any area or
department, but must include substantial European content. The deadline
for application for summer support is February 28, 2006. Faculty conducting
research to create courses at the Paris Research Center are encouraged
to apply.
Faculty New Course Development Grants
The CES holds annual competition for 3 course development grants for
the Summer semester of each academic year, in the amount of $2,500-$3,000
each. The grants are designed to assist current UF faculty in the development
of new interdisciplinary courses with a substantial European focus. Faculty
conducting research to create courses at the Paris Research Center are
encouraged to apply. The deadline for application for summer support is
February 28, 2006.
Student Grants
Summer Abroad Travel Grants (undergraduate students)
The CES and EUSP offer three annual grants of $500 each to undergraduate
students participating in a CES summer study abroad program (currently
Brussels-VUB, Salzburg or Prague) and completing EU relevant coursed work.
The deadline for application for summer support is February 28, 2006.
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Fellowships
Scholarship in French Cinema Studies
The Society for French American Cultural Services and
Educational Aid (FACSEA) is offering a Scholarship for Masters or Ph.D.
candidates to study French cinema in France. For more information, please
consult www.frenchculture.org
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Internships
Internships in France in the Public
or Private Sector
For more information, please consult www.frenchculture.org/education/support
or e-mail Saima.ASHRAF-HASSAN@diplomatie.fr
Internships Related to the European
Union
The EUSP is collecting a database of internship opportunities
related to the European Union. For more information, please consult the
Center for European Studies' opportunities link on their website (grove.ufl.edu/~ces/)
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