| RECENT NEWS |
Professor of French and Director of French Studies Laurent Dubreuil's new book, Le refus de la politique, has just been released by Éditions Hermann. Read the publisher's description and links to reviews here. Dubreil is also currently Editor of the journal diacritics.
Timothy Campbell, Professor of Italian and Chair of Romance studies, has been named editor of a new Fordham University Press series on political thought, titled "Commonalities." The series was inspired by a conference Campbell organized last year at Cornell, "Commonalities: Theorizing the Common in Contemporary Italian Thought." Read the full article in the Cornell Chronicle.
Bruno Bosteels, Professor of Romance Studies, has several recently published works. His Actuality of Communism (Verso, 2011) whose press release calls him "one of the rising stars of US critical theory," was featured in a recent column in the Cornell Chronicle. Badiou and Politics Bosteels' "much-anticipated interpretation of the work of the influential French philosopher . . . argues for understanding Badiou’s thought as a revival of dialectical materialism, and . . . illuminates the philosopher’s understanding of the task of theory: to define a conceptual space for thinking emancipatory politics in the present." Coming in March 2012: Marx and Freud in Latin America.
Professor of Spanish Edmundo Paz-Soldán's new novel is Norte. Read more in this interview. Paz-Soldán is also featured in a recent Cornell Chronicle for his work in fostering creative writing in Spanish at Cornell. In addition to formal courses, he hosts a bi-weekly workshop for young writers in his home, and last fall organized a very successful conference, "Latin American/Latin Voices For the New Century," which he hopes will become an annual event.
Archipelagoes: Insular Fictions from Chivalric Romance to the Novel is Associate Professor of Spanish Simone Pinet's latest book. In this innovative work, Pinet "examines insularity as the space for adventure in the Spanish book of chivalry, much like the space of the forest in French chivalric romance."
Congratulations to the Winners of the Teaching Assistantship Awards for Academic year 2010-2011:
First Prize, for Outstanding Performance as a Graduate Teaching Assistant: Elisabeth Fay
Certificates of Recognition, for Meritorious Performance as Graduate Teaching Assistants:
Shanna Carlson and Pablo García-Piñar.|
EVENTS |
Ongoing Events.
Atelier français. All levels welcome. Connect to Atelier on Facebook
Romance Studies Proseminar/Colloquium Series. Check the calendar below for the next Proseminar talk.
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Calendar of Events - Spring 2012
March 26
4:45 p.m.
107 Morrill |
Timothy Campbell (Cornell University), "Impolitical Comedies: Biopolitics and the Return of Conflict." A lecture in the series Critical Exigencies in Romance Studies. |
March 27
4:45 p.m.
106 Morrill |
Graduate Proseminar: Title and Speaker TBA
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March 29
4:30 p.m.
107 Morrill
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Guillermina de Ferrari (University of Wisconsin, Madison), "Evil and the Caribbean Novel" |
April 2
4:30 p.m.
111 Morrill |
Alesandro Cerda (Universidad Iberoamericana), Title TBA |
April 3
5:00 p.m.
History of Art Gallery
Goldwin Smith |
Paul Julian Smith (Graduate Center, CUNY), "Almodóvar’s Women: Cinema, Television, Theatre" |
April 4
4:30 p.m.
Guerlac Room
A. D. White House |
Romance Studies Inaugural Distinguished Lecture: Leo Bersani (Emeritus Professor of French, University of California, Berkeley), "Notness and Being: A Reading of Pierre Bergounioux's La casse." Co-sponsored by the Society for the Humanities. |
April 12
4:30 p.m.
Wing Lecture Room
Johnson Museum |
Claudia Calirman (MOMA), "Brazilian Art Under Dictatorship." A lecture in the Brazilian Studies Colloquium |
| April 13-14 |
Conference: "The Language of Food: Exploring Representations of the Culinary in Culture," organized by Diana Garvin, graduate student in Italian. For speakers, times, venues, and other information, visit the conference website. |
April 16
4:00 p.m.
Campus Store |
Timothy Campbell (Cornell University) discusses his latest book Improper Life: Technology and Biopolitics from Heidegger to Agamben |
April 18
12:30 p.m.
ROMS Lounge
304 Morrill |
Giovanni Giorgini (University of Bologna), Title TBA. Co-sponsored with the Department of History |
April 20-21
Location TBA
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Psychoanalysis Reading Group Conference: "What Can a Body Do? Psychoanalysis and the Logic of the Symptom," featuring keynote speaker Tim Dean
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ADDITIONAL EVENTS LINKS |
French Studies
Institute for European Studies
Language Resource Center
Latin American Studies Program
Latino Studies Program
Society for the Humanities
CUSLAR Events and Film Series
Comparative Literature
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PAST EVENTS OF NOTE |
Lectures and Conferences - Academic Year 2011-2012
Sept 6: Donatien Grau (Paris, Sorbonne), "La Place de Sainte-Beuve"
Sept 7: Donatien Grau (Paris, Sorbonne), "Fashion Is an Intellectual Gesamtkuntswerk"
Sept 15: Jean Dangler (Tulane University) and David Wacks (University of Oregon),
"Globalization and Diaspora: Approaches to Medieval Iberia"
Oct 4: Michele Faioli (Tor Vergata University, Rome) "Europe's Challenges: Indifference, Disenchantment, Indignation"
Oct 25-26: Screening and technical discussion of "Memorias del desarrollo" with director Miguel Coyula
Oct 27: Pola Oloixarac, "Reverse-engineering the Boom: New Literary Utopias" Co-sponsored by Latin American Studies
Oct 31: Jacques Lezra (NYU), The John Kronik Memorial Lecture: "On the Fetish-Character of Translation in the Theatre of Early Modernity"
Feb 16: Antonia Arslan (Armenian-Italian writer), "The Armenian-Italian Diaspora: An Afternoon Talk with Antonia Arslan." Sponsored by the European Club, the Armenian Student Organization, and the Cornell Institute for European Studies
Mar 12: Sabrina Ovan (Scripps College), "Dystopian Turin: The City-Factor in Nanni Balestrini's Vogliamo Tutto"
last updated
March 21, 2012
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