Richard Sieburth Receives Guggenheim Fellowship, 2012

Draper is pleased to congratulate Richard Sieburth, Draper’s master teacher in Literary Cultures, for receiving a 2012 Guggenheim fellowship for translation. He is working on a new edition of Late Baudelaire.

Sieburth, who holds appointments in NYU's Comparative Literature and French departments, is an accomplished translator, whose previous publications include a dozen translations from the French and German, such as Georg Büchner’s Lenz, Walter Benjamin’s Moscow Diary and Gérard de Nerval’s Selected Writings and The Salt Smugglers, as well as critical volumes in the field of Pound studies. Most recently, he released Ezra Pound, New Selected Poems & Translations through New Directions.

Brooklyn Rail offers an excellent interview with the Guggenheim fellow circa 2010. Read Sieburth’s thoughts on the exact craft of translation and on the role of the author’s ego. http://www.brooklynrail.org/2012/03/books/richard-sieburth-with-adam-fitzgerald

Equinoxes 2012, Brown University French Studies Graduate Conference

EQUINOXES 2012 Call For Conference Papers Transgression(s)

April 20-21, 2012 | Brown University | Providence, Rhode Island Keynote speaker: Sylvaine Guyot
Assistant Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures Harvard University

The notion of transgression is a ubiquitous theme of humankind’s history. The word in itself evokes the act of overstepping a defining boundary between what is lawful from criminal; what is permitted from forbidden; what is good from evil. To transgress is to bend a norm, to infringe upon a law, to violate a proscription, to go beyond what society deems a prescribed limit. Transgression, therefore, raises the question of the norms and values on which a group or community is founded, along with the question of the conditions under which one will or will not be considered as a member of the group. The various effects that are expected from the transgressive act or behaviour - effects of emancipation, salvation, or inversely of destruction, regression - and the various modes of social regulation of transgression - punishment, absolution - are some other aspects of the question from which it is possible to deeply explore the representations of the norm and anti-norm in French and Francophone literature.

In the aim of investigating the various stakes pertaining to the notion of transgression, we invite submissions in literary, cultural, and media studies dealing with all periods and genres of cultural production from all areas of the French-speaking world.

Potential avenues of exploration may include but are not limited to:

aesthetics of transgression
logics and/or aesthetics of the scandal, the shock sacrality, aura
passion, excess, violence, irrationality representations of the body, erotics, pleasures notion of the Other
power, domination, emancipation
breaking knowledge barriers
temporality, spatiality, universality of transgression taboos, prohibitions
judgement, punishment, redemption, catharsis activism, radicalism
performance, "actionism"
knowledge, initiation, truth

Graduate students who wish to participate in the conference should submit an abstract of roughly 250 words. The presentations, in French or English, should not exceed 20 minutes. Please send abstracts with name, institutional affiliation and address to brown.equinoxes@gmail.com before January 15, 2012.

The conference proceedings will be published in the Equinoxes electronic journal (http:// www.brown.edu/Research/Equinoxes).

Comp Lit talk: ETIENNE BALIBAR- TODAY (WED 10/19)

Etienne Balibar
"Bourgeois Universality & Anthropological Differences"

Wednesday, October 19
7-8:30 pm
at La Maison Francaise
16 Washington Mews

There will also be a presentation/discussion with Jacques Lezra on Professor Balibar's new book from puf publications: Citoyen sujet et autres essais d'anthropologie philosophique (Citzen Subjects and Other Essays of Philosophical Anthropology).

Co-sponsored by the NYU Department of Comparative Literature and La Maison Francaise.

Comp Lit Announcement

You are cordially invited to an evening with Etienne Balibar

Bourgeois Universality & Anthropological Differences

Wednesday, October 19. 7-8:30 pm

La Maison Francaise,16 Washington Mews

There will also be a presentation/discussion with Jacques Lezra on Professor Balibar's new book from puf publications: Citoyen sujet et autres essais d'anthropologie philosophique (Citzen Subjects and Other Essays of Philosophical Anthropology).

Co-sponsored by the NYU Department of Comparative Literature and La Maison Francaise.

Updated Schedule: French & American Authors in Conversation

FESTIVAL of NEW FRENCH WRITING
French & American Authors in Conversation

February 24 - 26, 2011

Hemmerdinger Hall
NYU Silver Center, 1st floor
100 Washington Square East


Curated by Olivier Barrot & Tom Bishop


In French and English. Simultaneous translation available for this event.

The conversations between French and American authors that constitute the seven one-hour sessions of the Festival of New French Writing will each pair one French and one American writer, confronting their respective experiences and ambitions with respect to literary creation. Each animated by an American cultural critic familiar with the literatures of the two countries, the dialogues will explore the singular qualities of each author, national similarities and differences, as well as the future of literature.

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Updated schedule. Authors biographies and festival details available at www.frenchwritingfestival.com

Thursday, February 24
7:00 p.m. Geneviève Brisac & Rick Moody (moderated by Chad W. Post)

8:30 p.m. Stéphane Audeguy & Jane Kramer

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Friday, February 25
2:30 p.m. Pascal Bruckner & Mark Lilla (moderated by Adam Gopnik)

4:00 p.m. David B. & Ben Katchor (moderated by Françoise Mouly)

7:30 p.m. Atiq Rahimi & Russell Banks (moderated by Lila Azam Zanganeh)

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Saturday, February 26

2:30 p.m. Laurence Cossé & Arthur Phillips (moderated by Judith G. Miller)



4:00 p.m. Philippe Claudel & A. M. Homes (moderated by John R. MacArthur)

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Organized by the Center for French Civilization and Culture of NYU, Institut Français, and the Cultural Services of the French Embassy

Upcoming Events at La Maison Française

La Maison Française

New York University

EVENTS January / February 2011

Monday, January 24, 7:00 p.m.

Florence Gould Event (in French)

A Special Edition of French Literature in the Making

ANTOINE GALLIMARD in conversation with OLIVIER BARROT

Les 100 ans des Editions Gallimard

Presented with the additional support of Sofitel, Open Skies, CulturesFrance, and the Cultural Services of the French Embassy.

Thursday, January 27, 7:00 p.m.

Lecture

ANKA MUHLSTEIN

Writer; author of Napoléon à Moscou; A Passion for Freedom: The Life of Astolphe de Custine; Elisabeth d’Angleterre et Marie Stuart ou les périls du mariage; Garçon, un cent d’huitres. Balzac et la table

Proust and Balzac: A Closer Look at the Baron de Charlus

Tuesday, February 1, 7:00 p.m.

Reading (in French)

EUGENE NICOLE

Professor of French, NYU; novelist; author of Alaska; L’Oeuvre des mers, a cycle of five books, including

Un adieu au long cours (L’Olivier/Le Seuil, 2011); à coups du pieds de mouche (Le Bleu du ciel, 2011)

Long cours & pieds de mouche

Wednesday, February 2, 7:00 p.m.

Institute of French Studies Colloquium

Lecture

PATRICK WEIL

CNRS, Centre d’Histoire Sociale du XXe siècle;Université Paris I - Panthéon-Sorbonne, visiting professor, NYU; author of Etre français: les quatre piliers de la nationalité (Ed. de l'Aube, 2011)

Being French: The Four Pillars of a Nationality

Thursday, February 3, 7:00 p.m.

Lecture

TOM CONLEY

Professor, Departments of Romance Languages and Visual/Environmental Studies, Harvard University; author of Cartographic Cinema; The Self-Made Map; An Errant Eye (University of Minnesota Press,2010)

An Errant Eye: Poetry and Topography in Early Modern France

Monday, February 7, 7:00 p.m.

Lecture

VINCENT DEBAENE

Assistant Professor of French, Columbia University; author of L’Adieu au voyage. L’ethnologie française entre science et littérature; co-author, Claude Lévi-Strauss. L’homme au regard éloigné

French Anthropology and Literature:

From Mauss and Bataille to Lévi-Strauss and Barthes

Tuesday, February 8, 7:00 p.m.

Lecture (in French)

YVES CITTON

Professor, Université de Grenoble-3; CNRS; visiting professor, NYU; author of L’Avenir des Humanités. Économie de la connaissance ou cultures de l’interprétation ; Mythocratie. Storytelling et imaginaire de gauche

Société de la connaissance ou cultures de l'interprétation?

Tuesday, February 15, 7:00 p.m.

Institute of French Studies Colloquium

Panel Discussion

Haiti: The Unfinished Independence

Jean-François Brière, Universityat Albany, SUNY; Jonathan Katz, Associated Press;

Margaret L. Satterthwaite, NYU School of Law; Chelsea Stieber, NYU (moderator)

Wednesday, February 16, 6:15 p.m.

Illustrated Lecture

Location: Michelson Theater (Rm. 648)

Cinema Studies, Tisch School of the Arts, NYU

721 Broadway

ERIC LE ROY

Chef du Service, Archives françaises du film (CNC); vice-président, Fédération internationale des archives du film

Occupation, Collaboration, Resistance, 1940-1944:

Short Propaganda Films Made in France

Sponsored by Cinema Studies, La Maison Française, Remarque Institute, NYU/CNRS Center

Thursday, February 17, 7:00 p.m.

Lecture

SARAH KAY

Professor and Chair, Department of French and Italian, Princeton University; author of The Place of Thought. The Complexity of One in Late Medieval French Didactic Poetry; co-editor, The Troubadors: An Introduction and The Cambridge Companion to Medieval French Literature

Animals and the Ethics of Medieval Reading

SPECIAL EVENT

February 24-26

Festival of New French Writing: French & American Authors in Conversation

Organized by the Center for French Civilization and Culture, NYU; CulturesFrance, and the Cultural Services

of the French Embassy

Curated by Olivier Barrot & Tom Bishop

Location: Hemmerdinger Hall

Silver Center, NYU, 1^st Floor

100 Washington Square East (at Waverly Place)

In English and French. Simultaneous translation available for this event.

Schedule follows:

Thursday, February 24

7:00

Opening Remarks

7:15 p.m.

Annie Ernaux & Rick Moody

Moderated by Chad Post

8:45 p.m.

Stephane Audeguy & Jane Kramer

Friday, February 25

2:30 p.m.

Pascal Bruckner & Mark Lilla

Moderated by Adam Gopnik

4:00 p.m.

Joann Sfar & Ben Katchor

Moderated by Françoise Mouly

7:30 p.m.

Atiq Rahimi & Russell Banks

Moderated by Lila Azam Zanganeh

Saturday, February 26

2:30 p.m.

Amin Malouf & (to be announced)

Moderated by Judith Miller

4:00 p.m.

Philippe Claudel & A.M. Homes

Moderated by John MacCarther

Full details on festival website: www.frenchwritingfestival.com

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La Maison Française is open Monday through Friday, 10:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m.

The building re-opens a half-hour before evening programs.

All events are open to the public and free of charge unless otherwise indicated.

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New MA in Literary Translation (French-English), NYU

A Message from NYU's French Department:

Dear Colleague:

We wish to call your attention to our new M.A. Program in Literary Translation (fiction, non-fiction, literary analysis, humanities and social science texts). Starting in Fall 2011, this one-year program (two semesters in New York, the following summer in Paris) will both train students in literary translation and put them in touch with representatives of the publishing industry in New York and Paris. Students will take courses in the theory of translation, in French literature and culture, as well as participating in workshops focusing on specific translating challenges (for example theatre or poetry). They will be encouraged to develop their own translating style. The final exercise for the M.A. degree will be an original translation, supervised by professionals in the field.

Housed in the Department of French at NYU, students will also benefit from the myriad lectures, conferences, visiting professors, and French- and Francophone-focused activities of the Department. The Paris component at New York University in Paris will feature encounters with French and Francophone writers and a course in creative writing taught by well-known Anglophone writers.

We hope you will bring this program to the attention of your colleagues and to those students who might be interested in learning more about translation, in translation as a career, and in enhancing their knowledge of the intricacies of the French language and the imbrication of language and culture.

For more details and contact addresses, please visit our website at:

www.french.as.nyu.edu/object/translationMA

Sincerely yours,

Denis Hollier, Chair

Emmanuelle Ertel, Director, M.A. in Literary Translation

We would, of course, also be most happy to have your students apply to our other graduate programs: the PhD in French Literature; the M.A. in Literature; the M.A. in Language and Culture; the M.A. in Teaching French. Please visit our website for specifics of these programs:

www.french.as.nyu.edu

Department of French

New York University

13-19 University Place

New York, NY 10003

Tel: 212 998 8700