Paris as Promised Land: On Eastern European Francophilia
C. Brancusi, Domnisoara Pogany, bronze, 1913.
This symposium will address aspects of the cultural interchange between East and West at a time when Europe's history is being redefined and its borders redrawn. The participants -- scholars, artists, and specialists with similar interests -- will take on contemporary topics such as cultural center and margin, minor literatures, cultural synchronism and national identity, as they relate to the Parisian Diaspora and/or to Francophilia and Francophonie outside of France.
Participants:
- Svetlana Boym, Harvard University
- Matei Calinescu, Indiana University
- Sanda Golopentia-Eretescu, Brown University
- Patrice Higonnet, Harvard University
- Katarzyna Jerzak, University of Georgia
- Sarah Kennel, Curator, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
- Ksenya Kiebuzinski, Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute
- Catherine Perry, University of Notre Dame
- Steven Ungar, University of Iowa
- Matt Witkovsky, Curator, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Also featuring a concert with music by Eastern European composers, performed by the Hirsch-Pinkas Piano Duo (Evan Hirsch, Brandeis University and Sally Pinkas, Dartmouth College).
Organized by Roxana Verona.
Sponsored by the Leslie Humanities Center, the John Sloan Dickey Center for International Understanding, the Department of French and Italian and the Parents Distinguished Research Chair.
For more information, please contact: Margaret Robinson
phone (603) 646-2418
fax (603) 646-1474
e-mail: margaret.p.robinson@dartmouth.edu