Can't see images? Click here to view this message in a browser  
   
MAY 2013
 
Authors on tour
 
October 9- 20, 2013

Walls and Bridges is a 10-day series of performances and critical explorations in New York uniting French and American thinkers and artists from the social sciences, philosophy, literature and performing arts. Curated by the Villa Gillet, each season’s wide selection of events spans more than 15 talks, concerts, dance and theatre performances, and storytelling shows.

Now, for the first time, the festival's authors will extend their stay for a series of additional lectures.

With best wishes,

The Book Department of the French Cultural Services in New York

FOR MORE INFORMATION
 
AVAILABLE TO TOUR IN THE MIDWEST
October 2013

Ivan Jablonka is a French historian and former student of Alain Corbin and Jean-Noël Luc. In 2004, he defended his doctoral thesis on wards of the state Under the Third Republic. Now an Associate Professor of contemporary history at the Université du Maine in Le Mans (France), he is one of the editors-in-chief of La Vie des idées/Books and Ideas and editorial director with Pierre Rosanvallon of the collection "La République des Idées" for the French publisher Le Seuil.

Proposed lectures (in French or English)

1-"Families and Collective History"
2-"Archives, Families, and Judaism"
3-"Historians and their History"
4-"How to Document the Lives of Unknown People"
5-"Children in Exile"
6-"Social Welfare and the Rights of Children"
7-Workshop on "Creative History"

FOR MORE INFORMATION
October 8-20, 2013

Corine Pelluchon is an associate professor at the CERSES, a research center on meaning, ethics, and society affiliated with the CNRS (French National Research Center) and the University of Paris Descartes. A specialist in the works of Léo Strauss and in moral and political philosophy, she has devoted much of her research and teaching to issues of applied ethics such as medical and biomedical ethics, animal ethics, and environmental ethics.

Proposed lectures (in French or English)

1-Men, Animals, nature: what subject, what democracy?
2-The Case for an Ethics of Vulnerability
3-Animals: an issue of justice
4-Ecology and politics
5-Ecology: a philosophical issue
6-Ecology and Ontology. The Case for a Philosophy of Existence

FOR MORE INFORMATION
October 18-26, 2013

Pascal Dibie is a professor of ethnology at the University of Paris Diderot-Paris 7, where he is co-director of the division of sciences of the city. He is the author of a two-part ethnology of a village in Burgundy that has become a classic in the discipline: The Rediscovered Village (Grasset, 1979) and thirty years later, The Radically Changed Village (Plon, 2006). He is also the author of Ethnology of the Bedroom, which has been translated into fifteen languages and has sold 30,000 copies.

Proposed lectures (in French)

Lectures about his books:
-Ethnologie de la porte [Ethnology of the Door], Metaillé, 2012
-Le village retrouvé [The Rediscovered Village], Éditions de l’aube, 2008
-Le village métamorphosé [The Radically Changed Village], Plon, 2006
-La Tribu sacrée [The Sacred Tribe], Métailié, 2004
-Ethnologie de la chambre à coucher [Ethnology of the Bedroom], Métailié, 2000
-La Passion du regard [A Passion for Observation], Métailié, 1998

FOR MORE INFORMATION
October 10-19, 2013

Michèle Audin is a French mathematician and a professor at the Institut de recherche mathématique avancée (IRMA) in Strasbourg (France), where she does research notably in the area of symplectic geometry.

Proposed lectures (in French)

1-Mathematics and Literature - the case of the OuLiPo
2- Scientific Publications in Occupied France (1940-1944)

FOR MORE INFORMATION
 
MORE AUTHORS ON TOUR
Fall 2013

The complete French Authors on Tour list will be available shortly with the US tour of François Bon, Marc Boutavant, Catherine Millet, Laurent Binet, Olivier Rolin, Lyonel Trouillot, Jean-Christophe Valtat, Ananda Devi and more!!

FOR MORE INFORMATION
 
French Culture
IN THIS ISSUE
AVAILABLE TO TOUR IN THE MIDWEST
 
MORE AUTHORS ON TOUR
 
 

Service Culturel

Consulat Général de France
205 North Michigan Avenue
Ste 3710
Chicago, IL 60601

f t
 

YOU ARE RECEIVING THIS EMAIL BECAUSE YOU HAVE SUBSCRIBED AT LIAISON AT WWW.CONSULFRANCE-CHICAGO.ORG

UNSUBSCRIBE NOW