L'Argent / Money (New York, 6-9 mars 2014)

20th/21st CENTURY FRENCH & FRANCOPHONE STUDIES INTERNATIONAL COLLOQUIUM 

This conference will focus on the role that money, economics, dépense, financial crises and equitable or unjust economic distribution have played in 20th and 21st century French and Francophone literatures, visual cultures, theatre, history, theory, translation studies and gender and ethnic studies. Since the financial crises of 2008, there has been an ever widening debate about the role that financial gain plays in the production of culture and the functioning of institutions of higher education throughout the world. At the same time, the crises have energized communities that put into question the culture of capital and the ties between capitalism and culture, all of which has created particularly dynamic, ideological, moral and cultural power struggles. This conference will serve as an open discussion on the way money has worked in stories, aesthetic forms, translations, methodologies, curricula and our own institutions from 1900 to the present.

Site du colloque : http://ffsmoney2014.yolasite.com/

Programme : http://ffsmoney2014.yolasite.com/program.php  

On Saturday, March 8th, Special Session with Julie Verlaine, introduced by Emmanuelle Saada, 4:30-6pm, Columbia University, Maison Française, Hamilton Hall.