... University New York, Hunter College; Chevalier de la Légion d’honneur) as well as my colleagues, I conceived this colloquium as a Proust conference with a difference. Innumerable Proust events have been held, especially before, during, and since the centenary year of publication of Du côté de chez Swann...

...Elisabeth Ladenson Copyright © 2016 by the Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York 2016 Editor s Introduction Elisabeth Ladenson Editor s Introduction: Feminism s Abject Selves There have not been a great number of feminist conferences held at the Maison Française...

...Dominique Jullien Dominique ]ullien ARAGON, ELSA TRIOLET: LOVE AND POLITICS IN THE COLD WAR O n October 13-14,2000 at Columbia University's Maison Fran~aise an international and interdiciplinary conference was held on Aragon, Elsa Triolet: Love and Politics in the time of the Cold War. 1 Many...

...Barbara Abrams Copyright © 2016 by the Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York 2016 Need Header Barbara Abrams Homage to Gita May: A Woman of Valor Ifirst met Professor May at a 1986 American Society of Eighteenth Century Studies (ASECS) conference in Cincinnati, Ohio, during...

...Jane Gallop Copyright © 2010 The Trustees of Columbia University 2010 Jane Gallop AROUND 1991 Some time after Elisabeth and I had agreed I would talk here about feminism, she wrote back; given how the conference was taking shape, she wanted me to pick a date, a year, to hinge my talk...

... of Althusser's For Marx a year earlier. I will focus on the conference of the same year, when French theory was launched in America under the name of Structuralism, in order to highlight Riffaterre's role as a mediator between two traditions, and describe a unique moment of condensation and translation...

... contributions from a conference that took place at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2012 about the sublime and the grotesque or rather, to be more precise, about certain problematic moments at which these two notions collide or collapse. The volume builds indirectly on Hugo's comment in the "Preface de...

... of these past two days, perhaps the best thing one can do is to draw a brief moral to the conference as a whole in the way that a brief moral follows each of the stories in Aesop's Fables. One recurring theme of this conference seems to be that Romance studies are under siege. I think I heard one or two...

..., to tell him that a number of students were interested in working on his writing and to ask him for advice on how to approach it. Proust wrote back with suggestions, and the two met to discuss potential research subjects for Columbia students.1 The "Proust Reread" conference, which took place on October 4...

... the most immediate architectural example, was built in 1910, the moment at which the recently founded Morningside Heights campus was assuming something like its current form. The conference organizers chose Albert Robida's "La Sortie de l'opera en l'an 2000" for the poster and program because it seemed...

..., and especially Mélancolie et opposition. On the title page of the copy he sent me, Ross had written, For Ed Ahearn with warmest friendship, Ross Chambers, October 27, 1987. The two of us in fact quickly became very close, on a number of occasions appearing in the same session at meetings and conferences. Early...

... its complement, La Disparition, Perec's lengthy lipogrammatic novel in "e" 1. Georges Perec, interview with Jorge Aguilar Mora, "Busco al mismo tiempo 10 eterno y 10 efimero: Dialogo con Georges Perec," trans. Eric Beaumatin, Georges Perec: Entretiens et conferences, volume 1, 1965-1978, ed. Dominique...

... known as the lega romagnola and its activities in the final years of Guido’s life.” In Monselice, at a conference in 2002 on Guido Guinizzelli and pre-Dantean poetic culture, just weeks before Le Lettere released Domenico De Robertis’s five-tome edition of Dante’s Rime , the culmination of over...

... rejects the reading of description as static (as set out by Yurij Tynianov) and prefers Viktor Shklovsky's view of the "fait litteraire" as delivering, in the latter's words, "Ie transfert d'un objet de sa perception habituelle dans la sphere d'une nouvelle perception" (Simon, Quatre conferences 13...

... Robertson met at the large annual medieval conference at Kalamazoo and decided to form a support group for medievalist feminists; its mouthpiece was to be the Medieval Feminist Newsletter.2 In 1985, there appeared an important volume of Romance Notes edited by Jane Burns and Bonnie Krueger containing...

... to it both formally and historically keeps you from fetishizing the preconceptions and rituals that define it, which is always a salutary state of affairs. Nevertheless, in my intervention in a conference titled "The Return to History and the Future of Romance Studies," I would like to argue that, precisely...

... wrote an article together, planned a conference, visited each other's classes at Duke and Pittsburgh. Sophie translated our article on retranslations of Celine, and we cheered when Phil's essay on Celine and revisionism appeared in Esprit, and especially when Allegories of the Purge won the big MLA book...

..., Eichmann in Jerusalem. We had in fact planned a conference to commemorate the fiftieth anniversary of the publication of Arendt's profoundly influential and controversial work, to be held at the Glasscock Humanities Center at Texas A&M this year. That conference took place this past January. I am so sorry...

... textes de George Sand), la troisieme par une invitation formelle adressee aux Instituts et aux Ambassades d'inclure dans leurs activites culturelles quelque manifestation portant sur George Sand (sous forme de colloques, de conferences, de projection de films, d'expositions et autres manifestations dites...

... the object of any conference since the 2001 colloquium in his honor? Perhaps if scholars who liked, disliked, agreed, and disagreed with him were not invited to cite their published work, but their memories, something new might be said. Riffaterre's style of teaching has certainly left an indelible...