Events/Exhibitions

 

On-line Exhibitions

Book as Art: Beautiful Books Les Fleur du Mal

At the Forefront of Change: Paris, 1900-1970. Selections from the Pascal Pia Collection.

Gilbert Sigaux Collection Exhibit

 

Upcoming Conference

"Cultural Modernism in the Americas I: Québec"
W.T. Bandy Center, April 18-19, 2013

Upcoming Presentation

Dr Seth Whidden, Villanova University, Pascal Pia Fellow
"Terrains minés; or, How to Find Success on Two Continents"
3:10, Tuesday April 9th, Bandy Center, Central Library

 

Past Conferences

Conference Paris 2011
Baudelaire: Translation, Criticism, Reception
December 9 and 10, 2011, Paris, France
Sponsored by the Research Center « Littérature française XIXe-XXIe siècles » (University of Paris-Sorbonne)
and the W. T. Bandy Center for Baudelaire and Modern French Studies (Vanderbilt University).

 

The 34th Annual International
Nineteenth-Century French Studies Colloquium
Vanderbilt University
Nashville, Tennessee
16-18 October 2008

The theme for the 2008 NCFS colloquium was “Empire, Identity, Exoticism.” Contributions explored the intersection of these themes from a broad range of disciplinary and interdisciplinary methodologies and approaches—from literary, social, and political culture to visual aesthetics—in Nineteenth-Century France.

 

Past Seminars and Presentations

October 2012
Dr. Damian Catani, visiting W.T. Bandy Fellow from Birkbeck College, London University, presented his research topic “Modernity, Evil and Ethics: Reading Baudelaire through Eliot, Sartre and Bataille.”

April 2011
Professor Lamia Ben Youssef Zayzafoon, University of Alabama-Birmingham, read selections from her poem "The Women of Algiers Gaze Back," giving voice to the odalisques painted by Eugene Delacroix in his 1834 work titled Femmes D'Alger dans leur appartement [Women of Algiers in their Apartment]. She discussed the texts and contexts of Arabic women related to Delacroix and Baudelaire.

January 2010
Jeffrey Jackson, Professor of History, Rhodes College, Memphis, TN.
“Paris Under Water: How the City of Light Survived the Great Flood of 1910.”
http://www.parisunderwater.com/
Sponsored by the Max Kade Center for European and German Studies,
W.T. Bandy Center for Baudelaire and Modern French Studies,
Central Library and the Department of French & Italian.

April/May 2010
Jonathan Culler, Class of 1916 Professor of English and Comparative Literature and Chair, Department of Romance Studies, Cornell University.
“L'hyperbole et l'apostrophe: Baudelaire and the Theory of the Lyric.”
View the video recording of Professor Culler’s 50-minute lecture with accompanying handout.
Sponsored by the National Humanities Center, the W.T. Bandy Center for Baudelaire and Modern French Studies, and the Department of French and Italian.

The lecture was part of a continuation seminar on “Reading Les Fleurs du Mal” led by Professor Culler at the National Humanities Center in July 2009.
The 2010 seminar took place at the Bandy Center from April 29 to May 1 and provided the opportunity for past seminar participants to continue discussions on Baudelaire, give presentations, and research in our unique French collections at Vanderbilt.

Seminar Presentations:
Beautés fatales: detours, silences et cruautés du texte dans "Une Charogne" et "Une Martyre"
Anne Birien, James Madison University

Baudelaire’s Epistolary Dialectic
Daniel Sipe, University of Missouri

From Baudelaire to Bishop: Questions of Travel
Steven Monte, College of Staten Island, CUNY

Deteriorations of the City in Baudelaire’s Tableaux parisiens,
Lisa Weiss, Vanderbilt University

March 2010
"Inside/Out: Including and Excluding in French Culture, Text and Art." March 26-27, 2010. Bandy Center and Central Library. Graduate Symposium organized by Jerome Brillaud, Professor of French, Vanderbilt University. Keynote speaker Professor Lawrence Kritzman, Dartmount College.

March 2010
Mathide Labbé, Ph.D. Candidate, Université de Paris-Sorbonne.
Presentation: "Réception Baudelaire et transmission de la culture littéraire"
W. T. Bandy Center

July 2009
From July 5-10, 2009, the National Humanities Center Summer Institutes in Literary Studies in North Carolina hosted the seminar “Reading Baudelaire’s Les Fleurs du Mal.” The seminar was led by Professor Jonathan Culler for twelve invited fellows.

Fall 2007
Edward Ahearn, University Professor of Comparative Literature and French Studies at Brown University. “Sex, Race and the City.”
Co-sponsored by the 2007-2008 Fellows of the Robert Penn Warren Center for the Humanities and the W.T. Bandy Center for Baudelaire and Modern French Studies, in honor of the 150th anniversary of the publication of Charles Baudelaire's Les Fleurs du mal.

Spring 2006
Ed Colker, author, artist, eduator. Lecture titled "Modern Arts of the Book."
January 15-18, 2006 Part of the Vanderbilt Lecture Series, Sponsored by the Bandy Center, Department of French & Italian, English Department, Comparative Literature Department, Central Library, and the Robert Penn Warren Humanities Center.

Spring 2005
"Hugo and Baudelaire" Seminar directed by Professor Pat Ward.

Mary Ann Caws, Distinguished Professor of French, English, and Comparative Literature at the Graduate Center of CUNY.
Lecture titled "Surrealism Still!" February 16, 2005.
February 16-18, 2005 Part of the Vanderbilt Lecture Series Bandy Center, sponsored by the Bandy Center, Robert Penn Warren Humanities Center, History of Art, Comparative Literature, Department of French & Italian, English Department, Department of German, Department of Spanish & Portuguese.

Spring 2004
“The French Poe" Seminar directed by Professor Pat Ward with visiting professor Steve Reich.

Spring 2000
"Baudelaire and His Critics: Benjamin, de Man, and Jameson” Seminar directed by Professor Patricia Ward.
Sponsored by the W.T. Bandy Center for Baudelaire and Modern French Studies and The Robert Penn Warren Center for the Humanities, Vanderbilt University.

Spring 1998 (April 3-4, 1998)
Symposium: "L' Ere de Baudelaire." Honoring Claude Pichois, Distinguished Professor of French, Vanderbilt University. Organized by Bandy Center and Department of French & Italian, Vanderbilt University with exhibits coordinated with the Library and the Vanderbilt Fine Arts Gallery.

Related Websites

Baudelaire and the Arts at Brown University

Charles Baudelaire's Fleurs Du Mal

Charles Baudelaire info

Charles Baudelaire: Sa vie, son oeuvre: Le poète maudit-litteratura

“Étienne Carjat: Charles Baudelaire”
In Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History. Metropolitan Museum of Art

Paris: Capital of the 19th Century
Brown University Library Exhibition

Street Scenes in Paris in the 19th Century: From the comic to the tragic
Brown University Library Exhibition