HOLLINS ABROAD PARIS II: PARIS TO DAY ! ALL PANEL DISCUSSIONS AND GUIDED TOURS WILL BE OFFERED IN ENGLISH Saturday, October 21, 2017 2:30-4:30 p.m. Paris Today: Allons-Y! Welcome Reception at Restaurant du Rond Point 5:00-6:00 p.m. Guided FIAC Visit For several days each year, Paris becomes the world capital of contemporary art with FIAC, the International Contemporary Art Fair. FIAC is an opportunity to discover the latest in contemporary art, through works by some of the most famous artists in the world. Exhibitions take place at the Grand Palais, Petit Palais, and hors les murs. 7:30 p.m. Optional Captain’s Table Dinner Pershing Hall Sunday, October 22, 2017 12:00-1:00 p.m. Orientation at Reid Hall, Home of Hollins Abroad Paris Enjoy a catered lunch & the wisdom & humour of our speaker, Diane Johnson, who also will lead an afternoon walking tour through her own Paris quartier, St. Germain des Prés. 2:30 p.m. Walking Tours (One of the following, assigned at random.) Diane Johnson, author of the bestselling novels Le Divorce, Le Mariage, and L'Affaire and Into a Paris Quartier: Reine Margot's Chapel and Other Haunts of St.-Germain – and two-time finalist for both the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award -- will share a personal tour of her St.-Germain neighborhood. (45 minutes-1 hour) John Baxter, author of The Most Beautiful Walk in the World: A Pedestrian in Paris and Saint-Germain-des-Prés: Paris's Rebel Quarter (among many others) will lead a lively tour of St.-Germain-des-Prés, the neighborhood that’s been his home for more than two decades. (2-2 ½ hours) David Burke, writer, documentary filmmaker, literary detective, and author of Writers in Paris: Literary Lives in the City of Light, will lead a ‘Lost Generation: Montparnasse’ tour. Burke arrived in Paris in 1986 for what he thought would be one year, but turned into more than 30. (2-2 ½ hours) Terrance Gelenter, 'Your American Friend in Paris,' author of From Bagels to Brioche: Paris par Hasard, and creator of The Paris Insider Newsletter will guide walkers through Montparnasse, focusing on the quartier's famous cafes, painters, writers, and historical personalities as well as what the neighborhood was like in the '20s and '50s, "with improvisations as perceived". (2-2 ½ hours) 6:30 p.m. Cocktail Reception - Location TBD Monday, October 23, 2017 ART IN PARIS TODAY 9:30 a.m.-12:00 p.m. Location: La Maison Rouge, Fondation Antoine de Galbert Tea, coffee, and panel discussion covering patronage of the arts in Paris today (private, municipal support and “free” street art) Moderator: Deborah Palmer, art historian and acclaimed professor with Hollins Abroad and Hamilton College. Emilie Augier Bernard, Project Manager at the Fondation Louis Vuitton Astrid Moitrieux, Administrative Manager at the Centre de Recherche et de Restauration des Musées de France Sophie Makariou, Director of Musée Guimet Sophie Mallebranche, textile designer and artist 2:00-5:00 p.m. Site Visits (One of the following) Fondation Louis Vuitton Buttes-aux-Cailles (street art, art hors les murs) Musée de l’Orangerie 7:30 p.m. Group dinner at Cercle de l’Union Interalliée Founded in 1917 at the time of the U.S. entry into WWI to create solidarity among all those fighting for the same cause on French soil, le Cercle de l'Union Interalliée is a private, members-only club, based in the Hôtel Henri de Roth- schild, one of Paris's most beautiful mansions on the chic rue du Faubourg St. Honoré. Tuesday, October 24, 2017 THE NEW MULTI-CULTURALISM 9:30 a.m.-12:00 p.m. Location: Institut du Monde Arabe Panel Discussion, The New Multiculturalism: How the issues of secularism (laïcité) and the wearing of the veil in schools are central to an understanding of France today. Moderator: Christelle Taraud, scholar and historian. Bruno Nassim Aboudrar, a professor in aesthetics at the University of Sorbonne-Nouvelle, who recently published, in 2014, Comment le voile est devenu musulman, How the veil became Muslim; Françoise Gaspard, a member of the United Nations Committee on the Elimination of Discrimina- tion against Women, senior lecturer at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, and member of the EHESS/CNRS Centre for Sociological Analysis and Intervention (CADIS). She holds executive functions in youth movements and has political experience as an elected representative (mayor, mem- ber of the European Parliament, member of the French National Assembly, regional and town Coun- cillor) 12:30-2:00 p.m. Group lunch at Institut du Monde Arabe 3:00-5:00 p.m. Guided site visits (one of the following): Institut du Monde Arabe (IMA) Discovery of the Arab world within a high-tech building.Tea at La Grande Mosquée (optional)(optional walk from IMA) Musée d’Orsay Artistic creation in the western world 1848-1914. Including a walk through Impressionism. Quai Branly Jean Nouvel’s landscaped, innovative space to feature les arts primitifs. 7:00-9:00 p.m. Wine tasting and dinner Wednesday, October 25, 2017 FRENCH CULTURE AND CUISINE 8:30 a.m. Guided site visit to Marché d’Aligre Cooking class with Chef Martial (10:00 a.m. - 2:00 p.m.) OR Culinary arts walking tour and tasting with Paris by Mouth (10:30 a.m. - 1:30 p.m.) OR Gourmet lunch at Restaurant Guy Savoy at la Monnaie Begins at noon 3:00 p.m. VIP tour of the private collection of Émile Hermès, Hermès flagship store, Rue du Fauboug Saint-Honoré (thanks to Anne Moody Page ’62 and Pierre-Alexis Dumas, Creative Director of Hermès.) 6:00 p.m. Galerie Elizabeth Royer: gallery presentation and wine reception We are invited to a fascinating program & to "prendre un verre" at the gallery of Elizabeth Royer, Place du Palais Bourbon. Elizabeth is an important gallery owner as well as the Founder in 2013 of HARP Europe, the Holocaust Art Restitution Project. She is a force in successfully assuring the historical archival research & the restitution of looted art works. 7:30 p.m. Optional Captain’s Table Dinner Vagenende Thursday, October 26, 2017 WOMEN IN FRANCE 9:30-11:00 a.m. Location: Foyer International des Étudiantes Presentation and Discussion with Anne Sebba, author of Les Parisiennes: How Paris Women Lived, Loved, and Died in the 1940’s What did it feel like to be a woman living in Paris from 1939 to 1949 ? These were years of fear, power, aggression, courage, deprivation, and secrets until – finally – renewal and retribution. Even in the darkest moments of Occupa- tion, glamour was ever present. French women wore lipstick. Why ? Anne Sebba read History at Kings’s College then joined Reuters as a foreign correspondent based in London and Rome. She is the acclaimed author of Jennie Churchill : Winston’s American Mother, the international bestseller That Woman :The Life of Wallis Simpson, Duchess of Windsor, and seven other works of non-fiction. 11:30 a.m.-1:00 p.m. Panel Discussion: Women in France Today – Political Action and the Fight for Equality. Moderated by Christelle Taraud. Natacha Henry, historian Michelle Perrot, historian Clémentine Autain, French activist and politician. 1:15 p.m. Lunch on the terrace of the Foyer International des Étudiantes 3:00-5:00 p.m. Site visit: Musée Nissim de Camondo 7:30 p.m. Evening Performances (one of the following) Verdi’s Falstaff at Opéra Bastille Balanchine’s Ballet at Opéra Garnier Friday October 27, 2017 ARCHITECTURE: OLD AND NEW 10:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m. Location: Pavillon de l’Arsenal . Panel discussion with: Laurent Lecomte, architectural historian specializing in modern architecture Catherine Haas, architect and urbanist Marc Boinet, architect from the think tank Bella Stock Architecture 1:00 p.m. Lunch: Choice between Le Grand Colbert (Old) or Saturne (New) 2:30-6:00 p.m. Site Visits We will all take a guided walk through the Palais-Royal Gardens and see the Buren columns that have transformed the Cour d’Honneur. Continuing to the Louvre and the Musée des Arts Décoratifs, we have a choice of three visits, each including both the Dior Exhibit at the Musée des Arts Déco and the Islamic Wing at the Louvre. The retrospective “Christian Dior, Couturier du Rêve” (“Christian Dior, Dream Couturier”) celebrates the 70th anniversary of the House of Dior. This extraordinary exhi- bition will feature designs by the House’s founder and the six couturiers who succeeded him. The elaborate set design is by interior architect Nathalie Crinière. The new Islamic Wing of the Louvre houses a collection spanning 1,200 years of history, from the 7th through the 19th cen- turies, and includes glass works, ceramics, metalwork, books, manuscripts, textiles and carpets. Italian architect Mario Bellini and French architect Rudy Ricciotti designed a glass-walled pavillion with an undulating roof of metal mesh centered in the 18th-century Cour Visconti. The architecture is a stunning example of the integration of contemporary features with historic design. Columns by Buren, Palais Royal Musée des Arts Décoratifs and the Dior exhibit The Islamic Wing of the Louvre 7:30 p.m. Optional Captain’s Table Dinner Café Marly Saturday October 28, 2017 YOUR OWN DAY IN PARIS Flâner dans la plus belle ville du monde Visit your old neighborhood. Shop for the perfect scarf Take the RER to Versailles. Picnic in the Jardin du Luxembourg Visit a spa. Gauguin: Artist as Alchemist, exhibition at Le Grand Palais (25 tickets available for entry at 12:00 noon.) 5:00 p.m.