Literature Program and French Studies Program Present
Snobbery, Class, and Exclusion in French Literature
Friday, March 29, 2019
Olin Humanities, Room 102
2:00 pm – 6:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
2:00 p.m. 2:00 pm – 6:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
Welcome. Éric Trudel (Associate Professor of French, Bard College), Moderator
2:15 p.m.
Morgane Cadieu (Assistant Professor and Director of Undergraduate Studies, French Department, Yale University), “The Return of Rastignac-Télémaque in Contemporary French Prose and Politics.”
3:00 p.m.
Caroline Weber (Professor of French, Barnard College), “The Three Faces of Proust’s Duchess.”
Coffee Break: 3:30–4:00 p.m.
4:00 p.m.
Maurice Samuels (Betty Jane Anlyan Professor of French, Yale University), “Dress Rehearsal for Dreyfus: Simon Deutz, the Duchesse de Berry, and Modern France’s First Antisemitic Affair.”
4:30 p.m.
Concluding Remarks. Marina van Zuylen (Professor of French and Comparative Literature, Bard College), “I Am a Snob, You Are a Snob: On the Inevitability of Social Shame.”
5:00 p.m.
Discussion with Students and Faculty
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
Time: 2:00 pm – 6:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
Location: Olin Humanities, Room 102