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Yale Department of French Fall 2014 yale department of french fall 2014 th GREETINGS WITH TRANSITIONS UNDERWAY IN scholarship since the post-war era. For the the Department, we have entered into past decade, the French 18 century has FROM THE deep conversation about our future. As I been brilliantly represented on campus write, we’ve just received excellent news of by THOMAS KAVANAGH, an expert on th CHAIR authorization to conduct a senior search for Enlightenment literature and thought, who a scholar in 18 century studies. Acting Chair came to Yale in 2002. With Tom’s phased MAURICE SAMUELS will be reaching out retirement (He is teaching his last course to senior scholars in the field for their input. this fall.), it is vital that we maintain our Scholarship on this period of standing in this area. contradictory energies, encompassing nd libertinage, the Encyclopédie project, key WITH THE DEATH OF PIERRE CAPRETZ advances in the sciences, and the rise of on April 2 , 2014, the Department has the novel, has always been particularly lost the brilliant animator of French in rich. Some of the most exciting work in Action and a revered friend and mentor. A recent years has explored the underside Memorial ceremony will be held at Battell of Enlightenment through the study of Chapel on Oct 11, 2014 at 1:30 pm (See issues of slavery, the slave trade, empire, program here.), followed by a reception at th and colonialism. And, as we like to remind the Graduate Club. Ruth Koizim is in charge our Anglophone colleagues, without 18 of arrangements, with support from the century French literature, the American President’s office. Revolution could not have taken place— Pierre Capretz’s life was remembered there would be no Jefferson, no Adams, no around the world: in the Yale Daily News, Federalist Papers…. Yale News, the Paris Review, the New York th HENRI PEYRE, GEORGES MAY, Times, and in a speech (below) given at his PAUL DE MAN, and their distinguished gravesite in Aix-en-Provence on April 7 . Instudents Memoriam: have set a high bar PATRONfor influential — Alice Kaplan, summer 2014 “Patron!” Je ne savais pas non plus à cette époque-là qu’il travaillait déjà C’est la première à une méthode d’apprentissage du français, fondée sur ce principe parole que j’ai entendue d’authenticité culturelle, qui allait révolutionner notre métier et enrichir de la bouche de Pierre la vie de dizaines de milliers de gens—jeunes et moins jeunes—, leur Capretz. ouvrir une grande fenêtre sur la langue et la culture françaises. C’était en 1960; J’ai eu par la suite l’immense chance et le grand bonheur d’être j’étais son étudiant dans son collaborateur dans la transformation de cette méthode en French un cours de français in Action; son collaborateur et son ami. Amitié complexe, bien sûr, Intermédiaire à Yale. Nous comme toutes les amitiés qui s’honorent. devions lire Les Copains de Jules Romains, dont on n’avait pas encore Aujourd’hui, rétrospectivement, c’est le mot “patron” qui me vu le texte et dont “Patron!” est le premier mot. revient à l’esprit. Car Pierre a été triplement mon patron. J’ai travaillé Et Pierre de demander notre interprétation du vocable qu’il venait avec lui et pour lui, pour réaliser son rêve; il a été pour moi le modèle de prononcer. d’une action innovatrice et efficace en pédagogie, un modèle et un Moi, fort de mes études de français à l’école, cependant déficientes mentor; et il a été un père, un père professionnel. en phonétique, je comprends “Pas trop!”, et comme un idiot je lève la J’ai reçu dernièrement le mot d’une collègue dans une université main pour en expliquer le sens. autre que la mienne qui enseigne également French in Action: c’est, Je ne me rappelle pas la réaction de Pierre—je l’ai sans doute dit-elle “la seule et meilleure méthode.” refoulée—et ce n’est que beaucoup plus tard, quand j’ai commencé Elle n’est pas seule à le penser. Quand je leur ai annoncé la mort à travailler avec lui professionnellement, que j’ai compris que le coup de Pierre, plusieurs de mes étudiantes sont venues m’exprimer leurs de “Patron!” était du plus pur Pierre Capretz. condoléances et leur douleur devant la nouvelle: l’ayant vu quasiment Ce n’était pas le sens du mot qu’il voulait que nous saisissions 1 tous les jours sur leur écran, elles avaient l’impression de le connaître. mais sa fonction sociale et culturelle. So goodbye Pierre. Adieu, Patron. — Barry Lydgate BILAN In Memoriam: friend in business and the law when you’re a Co-sponsored by: Naomi Schor Memorial French major.” Co-sponsored by the Yale Lecture Fund; Women Faculty Forum; Undergraduate Business Society. Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Program; FREDRIC JAMESON ’59 PHD , and Whitney Humanities Center. Recipient of the 2013 Yale Graduate ANTOINE We note with sadness that JOSUÉ School Alumni Association’s highest COMPAGNON HARARI, Ora Avni’s husband and , honor, the Wilbur Lucius Cross Medal. a critic who influenced several Professor of French “Proust and the Persistence of Narrative.” generations of graduate students and Comparative Co-sponsored by Yale Department of at both Johns Hopkins and Emory, Literature at Comparative Literature and The Yale died in June. Joe Harari will be Columbia University, Graduate School Alumni Association. remembered for his keen intelligence Professeur au IVAN JABLONKA and theoretical acumen, his sense of , Professor Paris Collège de France. humor, and his joie de vivre. All our XIII, author on tour with the French “Le jour où Proust a sympathy goes to Ora. Embassy program Walls & Bridges. su qu’il était un grand écrivain.” “The Historian and His Family: Documenting PROUST MARATHON, Saybrook the Lives of Holocaust Victims.” Co- Underbrook, Co-sponsored by the French sponsored by Yale Department of Department Molière and Co Fund in the History and Yale Program for the Study of memory of June Guicharnaud and l’Amuse Antisemitism (YPSA). Bouche. (See page 8.) GREGSON DAVIS, Andrew W. Mellon RHONDA GARELICK ’91PhD, Professor, Research Professor in the Humanities, NYU, Department of English University of “‘Journal of a Homecoming’: A New English Lincoln Nebraska.“An Exterminating Version of Aimé Césaire’s Monumental Angel: Coco Chanel, Myth, and Fashion” Poem, ‘Cahier d’un retour au pays natal.’” Co-sponsored by the YPSA and the Whitney Co-sponsored by African-American Studies. Humanities Center. EVÉNEMENTIEL MARIE-HÉLÈNE GIRARD spearheaded th the Olympiad Conference, celebrating the 150 anniversary of Manet’s Olympia. Co-sponsored by the Department of Art History. MARIANNE AMAR, Head of the Research Department of the Parisian museum, the Cité nationale de l’histoire de l’immigration. Seminar organized by graduate student JULIE ELKSY GRISELDA POLLOCK , Professor, on the Berberova Papers MORGANE CADIEU, at the Beinecke Library: “Un musée en University of Leeds, UK, delivered PhD Cornell the ANNUAL LECTURE IN University. “Enumérer jusqu’à épuisement: tensions. Reflexions sur l’évolution de MEMORY OF NAOMI SCHOR l’exposition Repères à la Cité nationale de : esthétique de la liste dans les espaces l’histoire de l’immigration.” Co-sponsored “Crimes, Confession and the Everyday: littéraires.” (See page 3.) by the Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Challenges in Reading Charlotte CORBIN TREACY, PhD University of Library. Salomon’s Leben? oder Theater? 1941-42.” Minnesota. “Multidirectional Memory MICHELE LONGINO, Professor of Gone Wrong? Boualem Sansal’s Le Village Romance Studies, Duke University. “The de l’Allemand.” Traveler, the Eunuchs, and the Seraglio: A ALISON RICE French Department Borrowed View and Double Vision.” Graduate Student Conference: “ Bad STÉPHAN ALAMOWITCH, Specialist in Literature.” Keynote Speaker: Professor legal finance at Olswang, managing partner Alison Rice, Notre DameCONTINUED University. ON “ActingPAGE 3 of their Paris office and editor of the online Out: Theatricalities and Technicalities in Worldwide Women’s Writing in French.” magazine Contreligne. Undergraduate 2 discussion: “Thinking about careers BILAN, continued from page 2 VINCENT KAUFMANN ,Professor KAPLAN’s research leave in the fall of new tradition of a French film series Universität St. Gallen, Switzerland and 2014. This academic year, CHRISTOPHER begun by the normaliens of 2012-2013. SOLANGE Director of the MCM Institute, was the SEMK is once again serving as DUS, and In fall 2014, we welcomed ARBER CLEMENT BADY CAROLINE 2014 JAMES T. KING DISTINGUISHED CHRISTOPHER MILLER as DGS. The , , BOUQUET ALICE PROVENDIER VISITOR (See page 6.) His talk was titled Direction of the Language Program is , and . “Authorship Between Page and Screen still in the expert hands of FRANÇOISE Our summer program in Paris HOWARD (1970-2013).” Sponsored by French SCHNEIDER. And we have welcomed continued to thrive with BLOCH AUDREY HOFFMANN Department James T. King Fund. to campus a new librarian for Western , , MICHAEL CONNIE SHERAK, SOUMIA KOUNDI, GENEVIÈVE SELLIER, Professor in European Humanities at Yale, PRINTY KATHLEEN BURTON , MATUKU Film Studies at the University Michel de . NGAME, and CANDACE SKORUPA Montaigne Bordeaux 3, author of The Battle serving as our faculty at large. of the Sexes in French Cinema, 1930–1956 JALONS We bade farewell to JONATHAN (Duke U Press). “Couples incestueux, pères After a rigorous nationwide search and CAYER, post doc associate in the department défaillants et garces diaboliques: la drôle interviews with many brilliant finalists, we for the past 2 years, and a vital presence in de guerre des sexes du cinéma français welcome a new faculty member, Assistant Professor, MORGANE CADIEU, a Ph.D. and out of the classroom. Our Operations 1930-1956.” DEBORAH PETROSKEY from Cornell University. Professor Cadieu, Manager retired ROBERT MANKIN, Professeur, UFR an award winning at the end of September.
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