Paris as Promised Land: On Eastern European Francophilia
Conference Program

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Location for all events: Faculty Lounge, Hopkins Center

Friday, November 19

Introductory Remarks

9:30-10:00
  • Lenore Grenoble, Assoc. Dean of Faculty for the Humanities, Dartmouth College
  • Roxana Verona, Dept. of French & Italian, Dartmouth College

Opening Lecture
10:00 -11:00
  • Paris: Cultural Capital and Capital of Culture. Patrice Higonnet, Harvard University
  • Introduction: Ioana Chitoran, Dept. of French & Italian, Dartmouth College
11:00-11:30 Coffee break

Session I

11:30 - 1:30
  • Picturing the (new) Homeland: Eastern European Photographers and Image of France in the 1920s and '30s. Sarah Kennel, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
  • Moderator: Kathy Hart, Interim Director, Hood Museum, Dartmouth College
  • Barbarian in the Garden: The Promise of Paris in Gombrowicz, Cioran and Herbert. Katarzyna Jerzak, University of Georgia
  • Moderator: Andrea Tarnowski, Dept. of French & Italian, Dartmouth College
1:30-2:30 Lunch

Session II

2:30-5:00
  • The Romanian Version of the "Cantatrice Chauve". Matei Calinescu, Indiana University
  • Moderator: Marianne Hirsch, Columbia University
  • Anna de Noailles and Marthe Bibesco: Cousins in Literary Competition. Catherine Perry, University of Notre-Dame
  • Romanian Sociologists in Paris in the 1930s. Sanda Golopentia-Eretescu, Brown University
  • Moderator: Roxana Verona, Dept. of French & Italian, Dartmouth College
6:00-7:30 Dinner

Concert
8:00 Concert by the Hirsch/Pinkas Piano Duo (Evan Hirsch, Brandeis University and Sally Pinkas, Dartmouth College) with music by Eastern European composers, Faulkner Recital Hall, Hopkins Center.

Saturday, November 20

Session I

9:30-11:15
  • Paradise Lost and Found: Polonophobia and Russophilia on the Paris Stage, 1871-1905. Ksenya Kiebuzinski, Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute
  • Moderator: John Kopper, Dept. of Russian, Dartmouth College
  • Murky Tourism: The Artificialist Paintings of Jindrich Styrsky and Toyen, 1925-1928. Matt Witkovsky, National Gallery of Art, Washington DC
  • Moderator: Steven P. Scher, Dept. of German Studies, Dartmouth College
11:00-11:30 Coffee break

Session II

11:30-1:15
  • "Atmosphère, atmosphère": Seeing Alexandre Trauner's Paris. Steven Ungar, University of Iowa
  • Moderator: Irene Kacandes, Dept. of German Studies, Dartmouth College
  • Presentation of her novel Ninochka, followed by discussion. Svetlana Boym, Harvard University
  • Moderator: Gerd Gemünden, Dept. of German Studies, Dartmouth College
1:15-2:30 Concluding Lunch