HONORS IN PARIS 2008

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The staff and faculty of the Paris Research Center Honors in Paris program would like to thank you for spending this term with us.

As promised, this has been an activity packed semester. Since memories can fade quickly with time, we wanted to leave you with a souvenir of this semester’s activities for those of you who are keeping a scrapbook or for the scrapbook in your mind…

We are delighted to have welcomed you during your time in Paris and to have shared this experience with you.

We hope to see you again soon in Paris!

Sincerely,

The Honors in Paris 2008 Staff & Faculty

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All in a Term…Paris

Engagements with Modern France: Art, Poetics, and the Social

Course and Program Visits in Paris

− Lecture Visit of the Musée d'Art et d'Histoire du Judaisme

− Lecture Visit to the Closerie des Lilas

− Lecture Visit to la Coupole

− Class Visit to the Sorbonne

− Class Lecture Visit to the Mémorial de la

Shoah

− Class Lecture Visit to the Mémorial des

Martyrs de la Déportation

− Class Lecture Visit to the Institut du

Monde Arabe

− Class Lecture Visit to the Grande Mosquée

− Class Lecture Tour of the Marais (Hotel de

Sens, St. Paul-St. Louis, Place des Vosges,

17-18c Hotels, Isle St. Louis, Rue des

Rosiers)

− Class lecture Tour of the Sainte Chapelle

− Class Lecture Visit to Radio Beur

− Class Lecture Visit to the Grande Synagogue

− Class Lecture Visit to the Centre Communautaire Juif

− Class Tour of Présences Africaines

− Class Lecture Tour of Père Lachaise, Buttes-Chaumont, and Belleville

− Guided Lecture Tour of the Latin Quarter

− Guided Lecture Tour of Montmartre

− Guided Lecture Tour of the Arcades du

Louvre & Haussmann’s Paris (la Madeleine,

Blvd des Capucines, Opéra Garnier)

− Guided Lecture Tour of Saint Germain des

Près

− Guided Lecture Tour of Montparnasse

Neighborhood

− Class Lecture Tour: Dada Tour of St. Julian

le Pauvre

− Class Lecture Tour of Notre Dame

− Class Lecture Tour of the Porte St. Martin,

Théâtre de la Renaissance, Place de la République, Canal St. Martin, Gare de l’Est

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− Class Lecture Visit to the Cinémathèque Française

− Class Lecture Visit to Quai Branly Museum

− Class Lecture Visit to Musée Carnavalet

− Class Lecture Tour of the Champs-Elysées

− Class Lecture Visit to the Jeu de Paume

− Class Lecture Visits to the Musée d’Orsay

− Class Lecture Visits to the Louvre

− Class Lecture Visits to the Centre Pompidou

− Class Lecture Tour of the Parc Montsouris

− Class Lecture Tour of the Hotel de Soubise

− Class Lecture Tour and Special Expo at the Palais de Tokyo: Cellar Door

− Class Lecture and Special Expo at the Luxembourg Gardens: Archimbaldo

− Class Lecture Tour and Special Expo at the Hôtel de Ville: Paris la métisse

− Class Lecture Tour and Special Expo at the Hôtel de Ville : Paris en couleurs

− Class Lecture Tour and Special Expo at the Musée d'Art et d'Histoire du Judaisme : Superman

was Jewish

− Class Lecture Visit to the Musée Rodin

− Class Lecture Visit to Arts et Métiers

− Class Tour of the Opera Garnier

Course and Program Visits Outside Paris

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Saint Denis Basilica :

− Lecture Tour of the Basilica

Versailles :

− Lecture Tour of the Château & Gardens

WWI in the Marne: Excursion to Soissons

− Lecture Tour of historical sites of Soissons

− Lecture Tour of Soissons Cathedral

− Guided Lecture Tour of the Chemin des

Dames

− Guided Lecture Visit of Le Caverne du

Dragon Museum

Excursion to Mont St. Michel &

Normandy:

− Lecture Visit of L’Abbaye

du Mont St. Michel

− Lecture Visit of La

Tapisserie du Bayeux

− Lecture Visit of the town of

Bayeux

− Guided Lecture Tour of the

Musée du Débarquement

& the artificial port,

Arromanches

− Guided Lecture Visit of

D-Day landing beaches

Fontainebleau Excursion:

- Lecture Visit of Chateau of Fontainebleau

- Lecture Visit of Fontainebleau Gardens and Grounds

Weeklong Capstone Excursion to

Provence and the Côte d’Azur:

Avignon, Marseille, Nice, and Saint Paul

de Vence :

Avignon

− Lecture Visit of the Palais des Papes,

Avignon

− Tour of Pont Saint Bénezet, Avignon

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− Lecture Visit of the Musée D’Angladon, Avignon

− Lecture Visit of the Collection Lambert, Avignon

Marseille

− Lecture Visit of the Musée de la

Déportation, Marseille

− Walk through Old Marseille

− Visit of the Old Port of Marseille

− Visit to the Jardin des Vestiges

Nice and Saint Paul de Vence

− Lecture Visit of the Musée d’Art

Moderne et d’Art Contemporain,

Nice

− Lecture Visit of the Musée Matisse, Nice

− Scenic Drive through the Corniche d’or and Cannes

− Lecture Visit to the Old Port of Nice

− Visit of the “Château” in Nice

− Lecture Visit to the Jewish Cemetery, Nice

− Visit of Old Nice and the Cour Saleya

− Lecture Visit of the Promenade des Anglais, Nice

− Lecture Visit of the Roman Arena and Ruins

− Excursion to St. Paul de Vence

− Lecture Visit of the Fondation Maeght, St. Paul de Vence

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Group Meals & Receptions

− Welcome dinner at La Rotonde in Montparnasse

− Orientation Coffee and Croissants

− Orientation Sandwich Lunch

− Pizza and a movie: Amélie

− Coffee at the Closerie des Lilas

− Weekly Lecture Visits to the Resto U

− Lunch at L’Arganier in the Marais

− Coffee at Les Deux Moulins, Montmartre

− Sampling of Arab pastries from La Bague de

Kenza

− Coffee at La Coupole

− Coffee at La Véronese

− Dinner and a movie at Dr. Zachmann’s: La Petite Jérusalem

− Picnic lunch at the Rocher des Doms, Avignon

− Coffee at the Place de l’Horloge, Avignon

− Karaoke at the American, Avignon

− Group Dinner at La Casita in Nice

− Group Lunch: Niçoise Specialties, Nice

− Gelatto at Fenocchio, Nice

− Soirée d’adieu at La Brasserie Fernand

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Cultural Events and Guest Lectures

− Rencontre with Anne-Marie Baron, film

reviewer for Radio Juif

− Special Concert: Naguila Ensemble at the

Institut du Monde Arabe

− Special Concert: Le Freylekh Trio &

Goulash’ System Klezmer

− Guest Lecture at Radio Beur with M.

Mezhoud, Director

− Guest Lecture at the Grande Synagogue

with M. Loeb, President

− Guest Lecture at the Centre Communautaire Juif with M. Raphy Marciano,

Director

− Guest Lecture : La Coupole with M. Georges Viaud

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On-Site Guest Lectures

On-Site Guest Lecture: Georgiana Colvile (University of Tours)

Women & Surrealism

Georgiana Colvile is professor of English and American language and literature

at the University of Tours and former professor of French, Comparative Literature and

Film at the University of Colorado, Boulder. She has published numerous books and

articles on Avant-Garde, particularly Surrealist and Postmodern literature, art and film

in France, America and Canada, mainly on women’s creative expressions in those

fields. Her four latest books concern women’s contributions to surrealism: La Femme

s’entête, essays on women surrealists, co-edited with Katharine Conley (Paris Lachenal

& Ritter, 1998), Scandaleusement d’elles: 34 femmes surréalistes, an anthology of women

surrealists (Paris Jean-Michel Place, 1999), Edition of Valentine Penrose: Ecrits d’une

femme surréaliste, (Paris Editions Joëlle Losfeld, 2001), Edition of Simone Breton: Lettres à

Dénise Lévy et autres textes (Paris Editions Joëlle Losfeld, 2005).

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On-Site Guest Lecture: Daniel Maximin (Author, Poet, and Professor)

Poetry and Engagement: The Invention of Negritude

Daniel Maximin, born in Guadeloupe, is a poet, novelist and essayist. He is the

author of three books, published by Editions du Seuil, in Paris: L’Isole soleil (1981,

collection Points-Seuil 1987), Soufrières (1987, Collection Points-Seuil 1996), and L’Ile et

une nuit (1996, Collection Points-Seuil 2002), and of a poetry anthology , L’Invention des

Désirades (2000, Editions Présence Africaine). His most recent publication, Tu, c’est

l’enfance (Editions Gallimard, Collection Haute Enfance. April 2004), received the

prestigious Grand Prix de l’Académie Française Maurice Genevoix in December 2004.

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Courses—Honors in Paris 2008

Engagements with Modern France: Art, Poetics and the Social

LIT 3400 -- Jews and Arabs in France: Parallel Otherness in French Literature and Film

Professor Maureen Turim

Inspired by Karin Albou’s La Petite Jérusalem, (2005) a film set in the Sarcelles

banlieue, a film in which a young philosophy student from an Orthodox Jewish

background falls in love with a young Arab illegal immigrant fleeing oppression in his

homeland, only to be rejected by both

communities, this course takes a look at

concerns (some parallel, others

intersecting, and some quite different)

faced by two communities in France, Jews

and Arabs. Through literature, film, and

art, and site Lecture Visits which

correspond to sociological and historical

readings, this course will ask honors

students to engage in a unique

opportunity to explore current social

issues and their expression in the

arts. One parallel shared by the communities, of course, is an outsider status, and a

history of oppression, and this course will take as its touchstones the history of anti-

Semitism in France culminating in the Shoah, and the wars of decolonialization,

particularly the war in Algeria. Students will gain a firm grasp on this historical

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background, including the waves of immigration to France, and on processes of

assimilation. Religious identities will be studied through our readings, and students

will Lecture Visit synagogues and la mosquée, and talk to religious leaders. They will

eat at restaurants associated with these communities, and attend concerts. They will

Lecture Visit the Jewish Museum, The Arab Institute, The Memorial to the Shoah, and

other such museums and sites. Our focus will be on a selection of films and novels that

speak to the issues we will be exploring in site Lecture Visits and the other readings.

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ARH 4930 -- Court and Capital in Paris, 1364-1715

Professor Elizabeth Ross

This course will explore the interface between the

development of the French court and the city of Paris during

the early modern period when they rose together as centers of

power and culture. We will begin with the florescence under

Charles V in the late fourteenth century when the rebuilding of

the Louvre was first linked to a royally-sponsored cultural

campaign of literature, visual imagery, and ritual

elaboration. Focusing on the reigns of Charles V (1364-80),

Francis I (1515-1547), Henri IV (1589-1610), and Louis XIV

(1643-1715), we will describe the organization and historical

development of court society and the integral role that artistic works played in

furthering rulers’ social, political, and cultural goals. We will follow the development

of the Louvre—its architectural design, symbolic function, and role in the fabric of the

city, while tracing the accompanying urbanization and conceptualization of Paris as

French capital. We will investigate how Paris developed not only as a site of royal

residence, but also in relationship to the competing court centers of Fontainebleau and

Versailles. The course will examine architecture in the widest sense, including the

arrangement, use, and decoration of spaces for social and ceremonial life. Topics

discussed will include the transformation of Renaissance classicism into a French royal

style, the mechanics and centralization of court patronage, the social and political uses

of architecture and urban planning, and the ritual orchestration and visual depiction of

the royal body. In addition to Lecture Visiting the Louvre (both as architectural site

and as art museum), Fontainebleau, and Versailles, we will take walking tours to

identify how the remains and patterns of old Paris influence the shape and meaning of

the contemporary city.

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ENG 4133 -- Image-Time: Cinema in Paris and the Landscape of History

Professor Scott Nygren

This course introduces cinema as the medium is conceived in Paris, through

both historic and contemporary film in a European cultural context. A central premise

of the course is that in the contemporary postmodern and postcolonial context, the

modern world becomes historicized as a resource for current innovation. In Paris, the

landscape embodies the historical context that contemporary projects reinvent, so past

and present are continually interwoven. Cinema works in

conversation with the other visual arts, such as painting,

sculpture and architecture.

Accordingly, the class will continually alternate between

screening films shot or set in Paris, and Lecture Visiting the

locations and contexts that the films transform and bring to life.

Films will be drawn from all eras and include some of France's

most famous directors, from Lumière, Méliès, Leger, Ray,

Epstein, Kirsanov, Dulac, Duvivier and Carné, to Godard, Varda,

Jeunet, Jacquot, Klapisch and Allouache. Students will Lecture

Visit the streets of Montmartre where Amélie was set and the

Champs Elysées for Godard's Breathless, to consider how Paris

has been continually reinvented through film. We will Lecture Visit the site of the first

cinema exhibition by the Lumière brothers on the Boulevard des Capucines, and the

Studio des Ursulines theater where Dulac’s La Coquille et le clergyman premiered. You

will have the opportunity to watch films at Parisian theaters, Lecture Visit museum

exhibitions in relation to cinema, and see several current exhibitions specifically on

cinema. In addition to quizzes on narrative theory and film analysis, students will

maintain a journal to prepare for their final paper. Students who have digital photo or

video cameras are encouraged to bring them, to include visual materials in their work

for the course.

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FRT 4956 -- Avant-garde Poetics and the Social Professor Gayle Zachmann

A historical survey of the French Avant-Gardes, this course

focuses on how “modern” poetic movements engage with cultural

politics. We will begin by exploring how historical relations between

text and the construction of national identity in France pave the way

for 19th century constructions of the figure of the poet and the later

interventions of 20th century poets, revolutionaries, and public

intellectuals. Course includes guest lectures, site Lecture Visits and

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literary and art criticism. Readings will be used as a basis for understanding the

constantly shifting social, political and commercial contexts with which post-

revolutionary artists, critics and thinkers engage.

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FRE 1182 - Beginning French at the PRC Professor Audrey Stavrévitch

This course, which constitutes the basic sequence in French for

the development of skill in the language, is a student-centered,

communicative language class that integrates the experience and

impressions of students living in Paris. Emphasis is placed on the

development of language proficiency and cultural awareness. The

student will work on all language skills and is asked to take his or her

learning outside the traditional learning environment. Class includes

many outside activities. Combines FRE 1130, FRE 1131.

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Thank You to Our Students:

Danielle Bourgi, Karina Galvez, Marianna Gardinali, Katie Heroux, Petra Houbova,

Kristina Kessler, Maggie Le, Jordan McBee, Jenna McGrath, Melissa Miller, Emily New,

Stephen Palahach, Jonathan Steiner, Gianina Valle, John Washington,