Colloquium Herbaria

Event time: 
Friday, April 30, 2021 - 9:00am
Location: 
ZOOM See map
Event description: 

Please register at https://yale.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_1Fl4JrKpSQKwLaLLJEMZBA

See abstracts and participants’ bios

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“ARTIALIZE” NATURE, NATURALIZE ART

WHEN PLANTS AND OTHER CREATURES BECOME LIVING BOOKS

AN INTERNATIONAL COLLOQUIUM

9:00 (Eastern Standard Time) / 15h (European Time)

Welcome and Introduction: Pierre Saint-Amand and Dominique Brancher (French, Yale University)

 

9:15-10:30

Elisa Andretta (History, CNRS, LARHRA)

José Pardo-Tomás (History, Spanish National Research Council)

“Art and nature in the library of Diego Hurtado de Mendoza: The herbaria of the Escorial”

 

10:30-11:15

Lea Dauwalder (Curator, Swiss Federal Office of Topography)

“The Herbarium of Felix Platter”

 

11:15-11:30

Coffee break

 

11:30-12:15

Anatole Tchikine (Curator of Rare Books, Dumbarton Oaks, Harvard University)

“The individual and the type in early modern botanical illustration: The paradox of herbaria viva”

 

12:15-1:00

Marisa Anne Bass (History of Art, Yale University)

“Exoskeletons in the Closet: Art and Death in Seventeenth-Century Amsterdam”

 

1:00-1:45

Break

 

Moderator: Abigail Fields

 

1:45-2:30

Pierre Saint-Amand (French, Yale University)

“Jean-Jacques Rousseau: Remains of Plants”

 

2:30-3:15

Yota Batsaki (Executive Director, Dumbarton Oaks, Harvard University)

“The Apocalyptic Herbarium: Anselm Kiefer’s Secret of the Ferns (2007)”

 

3:15-3:30

Discussant, Paola Bertucci (History, Yale University)

 

Made possible wtih the  generous support

of the  Cultural Services of the French Embassy in the United States.

 

YLS Event - The Grande-Synthe Decision: A Conversation with the Judges of the French Council of State

Event time: 
Wednesday, February 24, 2021 - 12:00pm to 1:30pm
Event description: 

In November 2020, the French Council of State (Conseil d’État), the country’s chief administrative court, issued a landmark ruling with far-reaching implications for the global environmental movement. The French commune of Grande-Synthe brought suit* against the French government for allegedly failing to meet its commitments under the Paris Agreement. The Council of State subsequently gave the French government three months to demonstrate that its emissions reductions were on track. 

The Yale Law School is honored to host several judges of the French Council of State to discuss this ruling, with additional commentary from several Yale Law professors, including Dan Esty and Doug Kysar. This event provides participants with a rare opportunity to hear directly from several leading global judges – and to be part of an important conversation about the role of courts in the environmental movement.

*Grande Synthe case (which was widely reported on in November) 

Please register for the event HERE.

French Translation Exam

Event time: 
Tuesday, March 23, 2021 - 9:00am to Friday, March 26, 2021 - 5:00pm
Event description: 

This exam is for graduate students who need to fulfill a language requirement.  Exams consist of two passages to be translated from French to English.  A print dictionary is permitted for use, but not provided; students must supply their own.  Exams are held once per semester.

Information at:  https://french.yale.edu/graduate/french-translation-exam

Admission: 
Free but register in advance
Open to: 
Graduate and Professional
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Literature, Arts and the Environment (LAE) colloquium - "Curating the Environment: Conceptions of nature in museums and archives."

Event time: 
Friday, December 4, 2020 - 4:00pm
Location: 
Register for the event to receive the zoom link at: bit.ly/CuratingEnvironment See map
Event description: 

Co-conveners, LAE Colloquium: Abigail Fields (French) & Dylan Davidson (English)

How has our collective understanding of the environment been shaped by cultural production? And how do works of art, literature, and design continue to inform how we interact with nature? In this panel, which spans time periods and genres, we invite curators and archivists to discuss how notions of the environment have been created, curated, and indeed cultivated by creatives and experts alike. Panelists include: 

Yota Batsaki, Executive Direction at Dumbarton Oaks

Anna Burkhardt, Curatorial Assistant at MoMA

Chitra Ramalingam, Associate Curator of Photography and the Yale Center for British Art 
 

Register for the event to receive the zoom link at: bit.ly/CuratingEnvironment

Zoom Lecture - Terra Incognita: Mapping the Afterlives of French Nuclear Imperialism in the Sahara

Event time: 
Thursday, November 19, 2020 - 11:30am
Event description: 

An American Institute for Maghrib Studies Lecture Series

Speaker: Yale U. Jill Jarvis (Department of French)

Discussant: Cornell U. Samia Henni

Registration is required. 

Once your registration is approved, you will be emailed the Zoom link and instructions to join.

French Translation Exam

Event time: 
Tuesday, October 20, 2020 - 9:00am to Friday, October 23, 2020 - 5:00pm
Event description: 

This exam is for graduate students who need to fulfill a language requirement.  Exams consist of two passages to be translated from French to English.  A print dictionary is permitted for use, but not provided; students must supply their own.  Exams are held once per semester.

Information at:  https://french.yale.edu/graduate/french-translation-exam

Alyson Waters's Translation Prize Celebration

Event time: 
Thursday, September 10, 2020 - 1:00pm
Event description: 

You are invited to attend an online celebration over Zoom to celebrate  the winners of this year’s Translation Prize competition.

Alyson Waters, Fiction Winner for her translation of “A King Alone” by Jean Giono, New York Review Book, and other notable literary professionals, will share thoughts on their work and take questions from interested members of the public.

More information and RSVP at https://frenchamerican.org/2020-translation-prize-winners/

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