FREN-GA 1191 |
002 |
Écrire l’histoire des siens (sciences humaines, histoire, littérature) Cross-Listed with IFS Stéphane A Gerson Wed 12:30 PM - 3:00 PM Description: Depuis quelques années, un nombre croissant d’historiens et d’historiennes, d’anthropologues, de sociologues se tournent vers l’histoire de leurs propres familles. Ces ouvrages s’émancipent de normes disciplinaires qui ont longtemps prôné la distance face à notre objet de recherche. Il mérite donc que nous nous y arrêtions. Nos objectifs seront les suivants: (1) comprendre les raisons intellectuelles, politiques et autres de cet intérêt pour sa propre famille; (2) saisir les savoirs ainsi produits et les regards que ces ouvrages nous proposent (retour, enquête, récit, trajectoire, généalogie, etc.); (3) découvrir des modes d’écriture hybrides; (4) nous interroger, avec un esprit critique, sur les apports et les limites actuels de ce genre. Les étudiant.e.s auront la possibilité (mais non l'obligation) de rédiger une histoire personnelle, autour d’une problématique particulière. Lectures possibles: Martine Sonnet, Annie Ernaux, Camille Lefebvre, Ivan Jablonka, Audrey Célestine, Maryse Condé. |
FREN-GA 1990 |
001 |
Topics in Francophone Literature Romauld Fonkoua MW 9:30AM – 12:00 PM
Description: TBA |
FREN-GA 2390 |
001 |
The Early Modern Ecumenopolis: From Ptolemy to Latour Phillip Usher Thurs 3:30 PM - 6 PM
Description: At the intersection of early modern studies and the Environmental Humanities, this seminar will ask questions about the ecological stakes of how literature and cartography apprehend the planet on — and with — which with live. On the early modern side of things, we will be exploring evolutions in cartography, such the invention of the first terrestrial globes, globe gores, the re-discovery of Ptolemy’s Geographia, the “discovery” of the New World (and its subsequent disruption of a tripartite view of the whole), alongside a host of literary texts from the period, including Rabelais, Montaigne, Léry, and Ronsard. On the Environmental Humanities side, we will explore recent works by (and about) Bruno Latour, especially his Face à Gaïa, Où atterrir?, Où suis-je?, his edited volume on Critical Zones, and his recent theatrical spectacles created in dialogue with Frédérique Aït-Touati (Inside, Moving Earths, Viral), as well as Patrice Maniglier’s recent Le philosophe, la terre et le virus: Bruno Latour expliqué par l'actualité. The seminar will be of particular use to graduate students wishing to work on either the early modern period and/or theoretical approaches to questions of ecology. Students will be encouraged throughout to relate the seminar to their own ongoing research. The seminar will be conducted in English. A reading knowledge of French is highly desirable, though a majority of readings are available in English translation. NB. Students considering this seminar might wish to see Latour’s trilogy Inside, Moving Earths, Viral at New York’s FIAF on October 27 or 28, 2022. Details here: https://fiaf.org/event/2022-
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FREN-GA 2890 |
001 |
Recent French Theory Emily Apter Tues 3:30 PM -6 PM
Description: What is Sexual Being? Philosophy, Sexual Politics and French Feminist Theory This course will review pivotal texts in the history of French feminism (Simone de Beauvoir, Monique Wittig, Julia Kristeva, Luce Irigaray, Hélène Cixous, Gisèle Halimi, Michelle Perrot) in relation to more recent works on gender and sexuality by Irigaray (L’oubli de l’air, J’aime à toi), Anne Garréta (Pas un jour), Jean-Luc Nancy and Adèle Van Reeth (La Jouissance), Catherine Malabou (Le plaisir effacé: Clitoris et pensée ), Elsa Dorlin (Se défendre: une philosophie de la violence) ; Manon Garcia (On ne naît pas soumise, on le devient), Mona Chollet (Sorcières : La puissance invaincue des femmes), Paul Preciado (Je suis un monstre qui vous parle), Jack Halberstam (Trans : A Quick and Quirky Account of Gender Variability), Françoise Vergès (Un féminisme décolonial), and activist manifestos hailing from Ni Putes Ni Insoumises, #Balance Ton Porc, Femen and Parti des Indigènes de la République (Houria Bouteldja). Through-lines will be traced between second and third-wave/contemporary feminism with special focus on themes of sexual ontology (how “to be” in sex, does philosophy have a sex? What is clitoral (versus phallic) philosophy?); erogenous zones, corporeal materialism and the plasticity of embodiment; the politics of abortion and the right to bodily autonomy; non-possessive, nonbinary desire (jouissance), sexual violence and the art of feminist self-defense, sexed grammar and social harming. Prerequisite: An advanced reading knowledge of French
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FREN-GA 2991 |
001 |
Qualifying Exam Workshop Phillip Usher Thurs 11:00 AM -1:00 PM , in person
Description: TBA |
FREN-GA 2991 |
002 |
Prospectus Workshop Phillip Usher Thurs 11:00 AM-1:00 PM, in person
Description: TBA |