Activities of the AFCS
1997-98

AFCS Colloquium, April 1997, Wellesley College: "Fin de siècle, millenium": One hundred participants had the opportunity to listen to and interact with several French and American speakers, including: Alain Finkielkraut, Christian Delacampagne, Edward Ahearn, Kevin McLaughlin, George Ross, Allen Weiss, David Grayson, Anne Higonnet, Michel Winock, Françoise Gaillard, Denis Hollier, Claudine Haroche, Willa Silverman and Vinni Datta.; Many thanks to Sabine Raffy and Marie-Paule Tranvouez for organizing this colloquium.; AFCS Colloquium, 1999 will be held in New York. Details forthcoming.

Four speakers, specializing in anthropology, will present papers:

Steve Albert (NYU): "Mass media, youth culture and the popularization of new language forms in contemporary France."
Janet Morford (Bryn Mawr College): "Manners, Moeurs and Modernity: historical and anthropological approaches to teaching French civilization."
Michele Koven (University of Chicago): "Identity play and register shifting in the spoken French of children of Portuguese immigrants."
Mark Ingram (Goucher College): "Modernizing State Cultural Policy: the legacy of the French Ministry of Cultural Affairs."

AFCS Pedagogical Workshop, November 1997, SUNY/Albany:: This workshop for secondary school teachers explored methods of teaching culture using new media technology. Claire Keith (Marist College), Peter Kirkpatrick (Virginia Commonwealth University) and Janet Horne (University of Virginia) made presentations.; This workshop was co-sponsored by the College of Arts and Sciences of SUNY/Albany.

First Laurence Wylie Prize in French Cultural Studies, 1997:: The first Laurence Wylie Prize in French Cultural Studies was awarded during the AFCS Colloquium at Wellesley to Kristen Ross for her book Fast Cars, Clean Bodies, Decolonization and the Reordering of French Culture (MIT Press, 1995). Joan Wylie and the sons of Laurence Wylie were present at the award ceremony.