8:30 am-9:30 am:

• Registration
• Coffee & croissants

9:30 am-10:00 am:

Opening remarks:
• Jean-Francois Briere (SUNY/Albany), President, AFCS;
• Robert Picken, Provost, Baruch College;
• Laurent Burin des Roziers, Conseiller Culturel-Adjoint, French Embassy

SESSION 1: Chair: Shanny Peer (New York University)

10:00 am-11:30 am:

• Dina Sherzer (University of Texas/Austin): "La Nouvelle Nouvelle Vague: cinema du present"
• Keith Cohen (University of Wisconsin/Madison): "Irma Vep: une nouvelle culture du cinema"
• Peter Kirkpatrick (Virginia Commonwealth University): "Bertrand Tavernier: son engagement devant et derriere la camera"

11:30 am-12:30 pm: Questions

12:30 pm-2:30 pm: Lunch offered to panelists by the AFCS

SESSION 2: Chair: Willa Silverman (Penn State University)

2:30 pm-4:00 pm:

• Georges Santoni (State University of New York/Albany): "Representation de la famille "incertaine" dans le cinema des annees 90"
• Sylvie Blum (University of Florida): "Deconstruction du quartier et reconstruction d'une communaute dans Chacun cherche son chat et Les gens normaux n'ont rien d'exceptionnel"
• Marja Warehime (University of South Carolina): "Politics and Sex in the 90s: The Case of Arnaud Desplechin"

4:00 pm-5:00 pm: Questions

5:00 pm-6:00 pm: Cocktail.

• Announcement of the Laurence Wylie Prize in French Cultural Studies (awarded by the AFCS)

6:00 pm-8:00 pm: Screening of Bruno Dumont's La vie de Jesus (1997)

• Winner of Jean Vigo Prize for Best First Feature, Cannes Film Festival
• Screening at Baruch College, 17 Lexington Avenue, room 1303

8:30 am-9:30 am:

• Registration
• Coffee & croissants

SESSION 3: Chair: Priscilla Ferguson (Columbia University)

9:30 am-11:30 am:

• Tom Conley (Harvard University): "Le monde est a nous: a propos de la camera-graffito"
• Jacques Ranciere (Universite de Paris VIII): "Jean-Luc Godard: l'histoire melancolique du cinema"
• Carolyn Durham (College of Wooster): "Codes of Cinematic Contagion: Cyril Collard's Les nuits fauves"

11:30 am-12:30 pm: Questions

12:30 pm-2:30 pm:Lunch-Debate (Administrative Lounge, Baruch College) with:

• Jean Roy (critique at L'Humanite, Directeur de la Semaine de la Critique at Cannes Film Festival);
• Catherine Verret-Vimont (Unifrance)
• Jean Vallier

SESSION 4: Chair: Janet Horne (University of Virginia)

2:30 pm-4:00 pm:

• Henry Garrity (Bowling Greene State University): "The Other: Changing Faces of French Identity"
• Reda Bensmaya (Brown University): "Nouvelles figures du nomadisme et de l'etranger en France: Salut cousin! de Merzak Allouache"
• Alan Williams (Rutgers University): "Must French cinema be French?: Patrimony and Internationalism in contemporary filmmaking"

4:00 pm-5:00 pm: Questions

5:00 pm-5:30 pm: Wine and cheese

5:30 pm-8:00 pm: Screening of Post Coitum, Animal Triste(1997) by director Brigitte Rouan

• Screening at Baruch College, 17 Lexington Avenue, room 1303)