| Friday
April 4 |
9:00
am –
6:00 pm |
Registration
Rose Alumni House
232 York Street (between Chapel and Elm) |
| PRE-CONFERENCE
EVENTS |
9:30
am –
3:30 pm |
Open House - Department of French
80-92 Wall Street, Third Floor |
1:00
pm –
2:00 pm |
Special
tour of Sterling Memorial Library
120 High Street |
|
Short
presentation by University Librarian Alice Prochaska,and
guided tours of newly-renovated reading rooms and the
new Gilmore Music Library. |
2:30
am –
3:30 pm |
Special
tour of the Yale Center for British Art
1080 Chapel Street |
|
A
guided tour by curators including the reference library,
rare book and manuscript collection, and prints and drawings
department with a private showing of some treasures related
to France. |
|
|
| CONFERENCE |
4:00
pm –
4:15 pm |
Welcoming
Remarks
Peter Salovey ’86 PhD (Psychology)
Dean, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences |
|
Edwin
Duval ’73 PhD
Chair, Yale Department of French |
|
|
4:15
pm –
5:30 pm |
The
Birth of the Modern French Department:
The Henri Peyre Years |
|
MODERATOR |
Thomas Kavanagh
’69 PhD
Yale University |
|
PANELISTS |
Mary Ann
Caws ’56 MA
Graduate Center, CUNY |
|
|
Jacques Guicharnaud
Yale Univerity |
|
|
Charles Porter
’62 PhD
Yale University |
|
|
| 5:45
pm |
Reception
Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library |
| 7:00
pm |
Dinner
Berkeley College Dining Room |
|
|
| SATURDAY
APRIL 5 |
9:00 am –
10:15 am |
What
I Wish I Had Learned in Graduate School
(or, What I Would Like to Have Known
Before Becoming a Professor) |
|
MODERATOR |
Christopher
Miller ’83 PhD
Yale University |
|
PANELISTS |
Matilda Bruckner
’74 PhD
Boston College |
|
|
Jeffrey Mehlman
’71 PhD
Boston University |
|
|
Richard Watts
’98 PhD
Tulane University |
|
|
Carolyn Weber
’98 PhD
University of Pennsylvania |
|
|
|
10:15
am –
10:45 am |
Coffee
break |
|
|
|
10:45
am -
noon |
Round
Table on Graduate Studies Today |
|
MODERATOR |
Ora Avni
’80 PhD
Yale University |
|
PARTICIPANTS
- ALUMNI |
Philip Lewis
’69 PhD
Cornell University |
|
|
Peggy McCracken
’89 PhD
University of Michigan |
|
|
Thomas Trezise
’87 PhD
Princeton University |
|
PARTICIPANTS
- STUDENTS |
Joseph Acquisto
2003 |
|
|
Laure Marcellesi
2007 |
|
|
Ryan Poynter
2005 |
|
|
|
12:15
pm –
1:45 pm |
Lunch |
|
2:00
pm –
3:15 pm |
From
a Degree in French Literature to a
Career in Another Profession |
|
MODERATOR |
Charles
Porter ’62 PhD
Yale University |
|
PANELISTS |
William Carlson
’73 PhD
Foreign Service Officer, U.S. Department of State,
Lima, Peru |
|
|
Linda Jenkins
’91 PhD
Director, Institutional Development,
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston |
|
|
Richard Scaldini
’76 PhD
President, Hiram College (Ohio) |
|
|
Nancy Vickers
’76 PhD
President, Bryn Mawr College |
|
|
Frank Yeomans
’79 PhD
Clinical Associate Professor of Psychiatry,
Weill Medical College of Cornell University |
|
|
|
| 4:00
pm |
Memorial
Service for Georges May
Battell Chapel
Elm and College Streets |
| 6:00
pm |
Reception
McDougal Common Room, Hall of Graduate Studies |
| 7:00
pm |
Dinner
Hall of Graduate Studies Dining Room |
|
|
|
| SUNDAY,
APRIL 6 |
9:30
am –
10:45 am |
French
Studies: Past, Present … and Future? |
|
MODERATOR |
Howard Bloch
Yale University |
|
PANELISTS |
Janet Beizer
’81 PhD
Harvard University |
|
|
Karl Britto
’98 PhD
University of California, Berkeley |
|
|
David Ellison
’75 PhD
University of Miami |
|
|
Richard Terdiman
’68 PhD
University of California, Santa Cruz |
|
|
Janie Vanpée
’82 PhD
Smith College |
| 10:45
am |
Farewell
brunch
Location to be announced |
|
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French
Department Alumni Conference
