April 25-26, 2003
Contact: Sarah Ray
802-443-5794
sray@middlebury.edu
Posted: April 15, 2003
The colloquium will continue from 10 a.m.-5 p.m. on Saturday, April 26, with a series of talks on such topics as the French welfare state, issues in the workplace, multiculturalism, globalization, and Europe. Saturday’s schedule includes a break for lunch. Lectures will take place in the Robert A. Jones House on Hillcrest Road off College Street (Route 125). All talks will be in English.
Colloquium participants include a former advisor to the French labor minister, an associate editorial director of Le Monde newspaper, and faculty from such institutions as Carleton University in Toronto, Harvard and Princeton Universities, and Middlebury College.
/offices/rcfia/colloque/default.htm or contact the Middlebury College Rohatyn Center for International Affairs at 802-443-5324.
Events Calendar Listings:
Friday, April 25
4:30 p.m.
Opening Lecture: “French-U.S. Relations Before and After 9-11”
Jeremy Shapiro, Associate Director
Center on the United States and France, Brookings Institution
Introduction by Edward C. Knox, Middlebury College Professor of French
Dana Auditorium, Sunderland Language Center, College Street (Route 125)
7:30 and 9:30 p.m.
Film: “Etre et avoir” directed by Nicolas Philibert
Introductory remarks by Huguette L. Knox, Middlebury College Lecturer in French
English subtitles
Dana Auditorium, Sunderland Language Center, College Street (Route 125)
Saturday, April 26
Morning Session
All April 26 colloquium events, except lunch, will take place in the Conference Room, Robert A. Jones House, Hillcrest Road off College Street (Route 125).
Introductory remarks:
Bethany Ladimer, Professor of French and Department Chair, Middlebury College
9:45 a.m.
Continental Breakfast
10-11 a.m.
Lecture: “The French Welfare State: Between Exceptionalism and Pragmatism”
Pascale Dufour, Institute of Political Economy, Carleton University, Toronto
11 a.m.-12 p.m.
Lecture: “Workplace Issues in France”
Nicolas Véron, former advisor to French Labor Minister Martine Aubry
12-1:30 p.m.
Lunch for attendees
Redfield Proctor Room, Proctor Hall, Second Floor, Hillcrest Road off College Street (Route 125)
Afternoon Session
Introductory remarks: Erik Bleich, Assistant Professor of Political Science, Middlebury College
1:45-2:45 p.m.
Lecture: “Multiculturalism in France”
Jonathan Laurence, Center for European Studies, Harvard University
2:45-3 p.m.
Break
3-4 p.m.
Lecture: “France and Europe”
Thomas Ferenczi, Associate Editor, Le Monde
4-5 p.m.
Lecture: “France and Globalization”
Sophie Meunier of Princeton University is the author of “The French Challenge: Adapting to Globalization” (with Philip Gordon, Brookings Institution Press, December 2001)
5 p.m.
Concluding Discussion
All participants
All events, including meals, are free and open to the public. The public is welcome to attend any portion of the colloquium, and no registration is necessary. For more information, visit the Middlebury College Web site at /~rcfia/colloque/ or contact the Middlebury College Rohatyn Center for International Affairs at 802-443-5324.