International Undergraduate Program in French Studies and Modern Languages at The American University of Paris - France

On October 31, French national radio station, France Culture, broadcast the three-hour documentary "Portrait of Tsilla Chelton" by Marie-Christine Navarro. On November 30, publisher INA/Radio France will publish in "Great Interviews" two CDs on the interviews that Professor Navarro completed with Edgar Morin, along with a booklet by Jean-Claude Guillebaud, journalist and critic at the Nouvel Observateur, on Professor Navarro’s work. A paperback of these interviews has been re-published by Arléa and is entitled Itinérances.

[AUP - Posted 11 Nov 2011]

As a service to the community, Camille Hercot has been regularly translating, rewriting, and editing articles for a team of clinical biologists from the Hôpital Robert Debré for children, a member of the Assistance Publique/Hôpitaux de Paris (AP/HP) system. Professor Hercot has been providing this service for many years. The latest article is to be published by Clinical Biochemistry, an Elsevier Canadian journal, this fall.

[AUP - Posted 4 Oct 2011]

Marie-Christine Navarro will be giving a reading-performance of her last poem "Ce Pays qui s'appelle Tane" at the Greek Cultural Institute of Paris on May 14 (9, rue Mesnil in the 16th arrondissement) at 19:00, with the participation of two Greeks actors, Dimitra Kontou and Nikolas Lakiotakis. Sounds, Albanian and Greek music, and contemporary music will be part of this performance. A debate and buffet will follow. Attending this performance: members of the Consulate of Greece; Jean-Baptiste Para, Director of La Revue Europe who published extracts of Professor Navarro's poem; Nikos Graikos, President of the cultural association "Phonie/Graphie"; and Gérard Iglesia, French composer of contemporary music.

[AUP - Posted 3 May 2011]

The monthly revue Europe is going to publish, on April 7, a large extract of the last poetic work of Marie-Christine Navarro entitled "Avec ton Sang".  Her publication can be found in all good bookstores in Paris. 

[AUP - Posted 1 Apr 2011]

Marie-Christine Navarro has been invited by the University of Krakow to participate in the first international symposium dedicated to Edward Saïd, on November 8. She will give a lecture about "Edward Saïd, Out of Place", concerning Edward Saïd, Saïdism and Identity.  On October 24 the newspaper Le Monde announced the diffusion on national radio France Culture of Marie-Christine Navarro's documentaries, "Tziganes, History, Culture and Tragedy", from October 25-29, at 17:00 every day.  

[AUP - Posted 5 Nov 2010]

Edith Taïeb est intervenue dans le cadre du Colloque international intitulé "Les féministes de la 2ème vague" qui s'est tenu à Angers du 20 au 22 mai. Le titre de sa communication: "La postérité d'Hubertine Auclert."

[AUP - Posted 17 June 2010]

Marie-Christine Navarro gave a seminar in April on her first novel Mémoire confite at the Lycée Pierre Forest of Maubeuge (north of France) which has chosen her text for the baccalauréat littéraire. In May she will participate as a writer and specialist of francophone literature in the "Rencontres annuelles of Balma" festival (near Toulouse). She will animate roundtables and present a talk on "The Language as Territory," with the following invited writers:  Denise Desautels, Dany Laferrière, Nimrod Bena Djangrand, and Hyam Yared.

[AUP - Posted 6 May 2010]

[AUP - Posted 2 Apr 2010]