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Members' Calendar
Below, please find the complete calendar of meetings for the current semester, as well as information on our guests and the articles we will be discussing. Be sure to contact Benjamin Young if you have suggestions for guests or questions regarding any of the meetings. Announcements will continue to be sent out prior to each session and members-only dinner invitations will be issued in the usual manner.

Times and locations will be included in an announcement prior to each meeting.

Please note that the Salon is not open to the public. If you are a member of the Columbia community and are interested in our events, please visit our Membership Information page.

Spring 2007 Members' Calendar

The calendar will soon be updated with paper titles.

 

Friday, March 23, 2007 (followed by dinner)
Gilles DECLERCQ, Paris III

Le Manteau d'Ulysse. Poétique de la ruse aléthique.
Gilles DECLERCQ est professeur de rhétorique et de dramaturgie, Directeur du Centre de recherche sur la théorie et l'histoire du théâtre à la Sorbonne Nouvelle et président de la Société Jean Racine. Il est connu pour ses ouvrages sur la rhétorique antique et moderne.

 

Thursday, April 5, 2007 (followed by a reception)
Jean-Paul MONTAGNIER, Université de Nancy

Sacred Music and Royal Propaganda under Louis XIV (ca. 1661-1686).
A musicologist at the University of Nancy, Jean-Paul MONTAGNIER specializes in the sacred French music of the Baroque. He is involved with Musica Gallica, an edition of the works of the musical inheritance of France, and is the artistic director of the Vocal Ensemble of Chartreuse de Bonlieu.

 

Friday, April 20, 2007 (followed by dinner)
Sara MELZER, UCLA

Extreme Makeover: from Native American "Savages" into Civilized, French Catholics. The Foundations of France's Assimilation Policy in the Seventeenth Century.
Sara MELZER is Associate Professor of French at the University of California, Los Angeles. She is the author of Discourses of the Fall: A study of Pascal's Pensées and the co-editor of Rebel Daughters: Women and the French Revolution (Oxford) and From the Royal to the Republican Body: Incorporating the Political in Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century France (University of California).

 

Thursday, April 26, 2007 (followed by dinner)
David QUINT, Yale University

Petrarch, Ronsard and the Seven Year Itch.
David QUINT's fields of study include classical and Renaissance heroic poetry and their influence on the epics of Milton and Spenser, Renaissance Drama, and the literature and legacy of humanism. He is the present chair of the Department of Comparative Literature at Yale, and is particularly interested in the larger cultural meanings vested in literary and generic forms.

 

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