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Lectures 2007-2008
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Saturday, April 5, 2008
Antoine Sfeir
French-Lebanese journalist, Antoine Sfeir contributed
to French paper La Croix and magazine L'Express as well as to several
periodicals such as Esprit and Etudes. He currently teaches at the
journalism school CELSA (Paris IV Sorbonne). Sfeir is the author
of a series of studies about the Arab world for the French Government
(Ministries of Defense and Foreign Affairs). He authored works on
religion, Dieu, Yahweh, Allâh : Les Grandes Questions sur
les trois religions, 100 réponses à des vraies questions
d'enfants (Bayard Jeunesse, 2004), on Islam and Islamism, Les Réseaux
d'Allah (Plon, 2001), and on communitarism and secularism with René
Andrau, Liberté, Égalité, Islam (Tallandier,
2005.) In 2006, in collaboration with Nicole Bacharan, he published
a book on the Middle East, Américains, Arabes: la confrontation
(Seuil, 2006) and Vers l'Orient compliqué (Grasset, 2006). Time: 6:30
PM Saturday, February 16, 2008 Gaston Kelman Among his controversial views, Kelman denies there is black culture. He thus favors what he calls an assimilating humanism and is unsympathetic toward certain associations or organizations that call for the integration of black populations while at the same time maintaining the right to assert a difference. In 1992, Kelman started an association for the
discussion of matters relating to the integration of the races,
known by its French acronym as the CRI. He also owns a consulting
firm that deals with socio-cultural issues related to immigration
from black Africa.
DR.ROBERT SATLOFF WEDNESDAY - JANUARY 30, 2008 Hulsey Recital Hall A Personal Approach 1:00PM 2:00PM
In Search of an Arab Schindler: Did Any ARABS SAVE ANY JEWS DURING THE HOLOCAUST? 6:30PM 7:30PM
Book signing session 3:00PM-4:20PM
Lamia Ben Youssef Zayzafoon, Ph.D. /Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures / University of Alabama at Birmingham / HB 408 / 1530 3rd Avenue South / Birmingham, Alabama 35294-1260 / 205.934.2214(tel.) / 205.934.1944 (fax) / lzayzafo@@uab.edu Reception to follow Friday, January 11, 2008Alliance Française of Birmingham and UAB Department of Foreign Languages invite the public to a free lecture in English by Christopher Thompson "Giants of the Road or Junkies" Time: 7:30 PM Friday, November 30, 2007 Alliance Française of Birmingham and UAB Department of Foreign Languages invite the public to a free lecture in English by Antoine Malamoud "Léon Blum en captivité: Time: 7:30 PM Saturday, October 27, 2007 Alliance Française of Birmingham and UAB Department of Foreign Languages invite the public to a free lecture in French by Evelyne Bloch-Dano Time: 7:00 PM Cette conférence est organisée avec le soutien
de la Délégation générale de l'Alliance Française
de Paris aux Etats-Unis. Sunday, October 14, 2007
Alliance Française of Birmingham and UAB Department of Foreign Languages invite the public to a free lecture in English by Jean Harzic Cette conférence est organisée avec le soutien
de la Délégation générale de l'Alliance Française
de Paris aux Etats-Unis. Saturday, May 5, 2007
Alliance Française of Birmingham and UAB Department of Foreign Languages invite the public to a free lecture in French by Yasmina Kadhra Yasmina Khadra is the pen name of Mohammed Moulesselhoul,
born in Algeria in 1955. An officer in the Algerian army, he became a
commander by the time he left in 2000 after thirty-six years of military
life, to dedicate himself to his real vocation: writing. In 2001, after
a short stay in Mexico , he settled in France where he has lived ever
since with his family. His wife suggested he take on a pseudonym and lent
him two first names. Les Hirondelles de Kaboul, translated in the USA by John Cullen, was best book of the year in 2005 according to the San Francisco Chronicle and Christian Science Monitor. LAttentat, pubished in 2005, confirmed his talent and international acclaim. Nobel prize winner J. M. Coetze sees in this prolific
writer, now translated into 17 languages, a novelist of the highest order.
In 2004, Newsweek acclaimed him as one of the rare writers capable of
giving a meaning to the violence in Algeria today. His novel set in Afghanistan
under the Taliban The Swallows of Kabul was short listed for the 2006
International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award. Time: 7:30 PM Saturday, February 10, 2007 Alliance Française of Birmingham and UAB Department of Foreign Languages invite the public to a free lecture in English by Philippe Gumplowicz "Jazz: American Musicians in Paris" Born in Paris in 1950, Philippe Gumplowicz is distinguished
lecturer in musicology at the University of Bourgogne and teaches seminars
at the Sorbonne as well as at the School for Advanced Studies in Social
Studies. Time: 7:30 PM
Place: UAB Hulsey Recital Hall, 950 13th Street South Admission: FREE Reception to be announced For more information, call 934-8902 Sunday, January 28, 2007 Alliance Française of Birmingham and UAB Department of Foreign Languages invite the public to a free lecture in French by Jean Plantu Time: 6:30 PM Click here
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