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Fall 2004 activities
This fall's (2004)activities, organized in partnership with several University of Texas departments and centers, include: Thursday, October 7 at 8 PM in Jessen Auditorium (Homer Rainey Hall) Invited by the Department of French and Italian and the Institute, the Inter-Europe Spectacles based in Paris and directed by Claude Beauclair will present in French a newly created spectacle to celebrate the bicentenary of the birth of George Sand. The title is George Sand - Gustave Flaubert: Conversations Epistolaires. Free admission. Thursday, October 21 from 8:30 AM to 4:30 PM Texas Union Ballroom, the Institute will be part of an International Forum and will provide students with information about scholarships, internships, study, travel, and work opportunities in France. 18-19-20 November 2004 Charles Nelson Prothro Theater of the Harry Ransom Research Center
In collaboration with the Humanities Research Center, the Center for Science, Technology, and Culture, and the French consulate in Houston, the Institute will be hosting a conference entitled:
With increasing use of the Internet have come multifaceted ways of communicating with others, creating new forms of expression, methods of storing knowledge, and a host of complex questions.These timely and exciting topics will be explored from various perspectives.The conference highlights the interests and expertise of faculty and students at the University of Texas, as well as counterparts and colleagues from France and other American universities. Intersections of the social, the cultural, and the technological will be explored in plenary sessions, roundtables, digital posters, and artistic performances. Presentation of current projects by visiting artists, UT faculty and students are featured. Scholars from France and UT and other American universities will assess and debate issues such as national policies regarding the Internet, personal expressions and self fashioning via the Iinternet, and the transformations occurring in journalism wrought by the Internet. Literary scholars, artists, and composers from France, UT, and other American universities will discuss the significance of creative art with, for, and through the web. A netcasted web concert on Friday evening is part of this program. For more information see the program provided through the following link. Internet, Culture, & Society Conference Program (schedule of events) Thursday, December 2 A symposium entitled Physics at work in Neuroscience, Neuroscience
at work in Mental Health, sponsored by the Department of Physics,
the France-UT Institute for Interdisciplinary Studies, the School of Social
Work, the Department of Psychology, the Institute of Neuroscience and
the French Consulate in Houston will bring to the UT Campus Denis
LeBihan, one of the leading French researchers on functional
MRI. He will give the Emmet L. Hudspeth Centennial Lecture in Physics
on December 2nd, 4:00 p.m., in the Avaya Auditorium, ACES 2.302. The title
of the lecture is "From Physics to the Mind: An Imaging Quest".
Learn more about this internationally known researcher and this lecture
from these websites: http://www.meteoreservice.com/dlb
and http://www.ph.utexas.edu/hudspeth/
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