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9:00-9:15 Welcome and Opening

9:15-11:15 MALRAUX MINISTER OF CULTURE

Chair: Christie McDonald, Harvard University

Stanley Hoffmann, Harvard University

" 'Les ennemis du terre à terre': de Gaulle and Malraux"

Herman Lebovics, SUNY Stonybrook

"Washington and Mona Lisa: the Malraux Exhibition of French Art in Washington and New York in December 1963"

Frédéric Martel, French Consulate in Boston

"La politique culturelle d'André Malraux"

11:15-11:45 Coffee Break

11:45-1 :00 INTELLECTUALS, I

Chair: T. Jefferson Kline, Boston University

Jacques Lecarme, Université de Paris III

" 'D'une jeunesse européenne': Malraux, Berl, Drieu essayistes des années 20"

Nathalie Raoux, Institut des Sciences Politiques, Paris

"André Malraux et Walter Benjamin: Rencontres et chassés croisés intellectuels"

1:00-2:30 Lunch at Center for European Studies

2:30-4 :00 INTELLECTUALS, II

Chair : T. Jefferson Kline, Boston University

Maxime Blanchard, Harvard University

"Portrait de l'intellectuel engagé dans Les Noyers de l'Altenbourg"

Robert Harvey, SUNY Stonybrook

"Stylus and Stylet: Malraux Between Art and Politics"

4:00-4:30 Coffee Break

4:30-6:30 ORIENT/OCCIDENT

Chair: Isabelle de Courtivron, M.I.T.

Henri Godard, Université de Paris IV

"Le dialogue de l'Occident et de l'Orient dans Les Antimémoires de Malraux"

Walter Langlois, University of Wyoming

"New Light on an Old Controversy: Malraux's Sabean Expedition, Yemen, 1934"

Gisèle Sapiro, CNRS, Paris

"Malraux and the Occident/Orient Debate in the Interwar Period"

6:30-7:45 Reception

8:00-10 :00 Dinner at Harvard Faculty Club (panelists and invited guests)

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8:30-9:00 Breakfast in Ticknor Lounge, Boylston Hall

9:00-11:30 ART

Chair: John Michalczyk, Boston College

Christian Delacampagne, Tufts University

" 'À propos de Saturne': Goya vu par Malraux"

Moncef Khémiri, Université de Tunisie I

"Malraux et l'art médiéval"

Edson Da Silva, Université de Rio de Janeiro

"La Métamorphose de l'art: des formes inventées contre les formes héritées"

Jean-Pierre Zarader, Paris

"Le musée imaginaire: entre ouverture et clôture"

11:30-12 :00 Coffee Break

12:00-1:15 SCIENCE AND PHILOSOPHY, I

Chair: Jeffrey Mehlman, Boston University

Verena Conley, Harvard University

"Malraux in the Plural"

Michaël de Saint-Chéron, Paris

"Le dialogue de Malraux avec la science"

1:15-2:30 Lunch

2:30-4 :00 SCIENCE AND PHILOSOPHY, II

Chair : Jeffrey Mehlman, Boston University

Karen Levy, University of Tennessee

"Beyond the Time Of Being: Levinas's 'ailleurs' and Malraux's 'aléatoire'"

Brian Thompson, UMASS Boston

" The 21st Century Will Be Religious or Will Not Be': Malraux's Controversial Dictum"

4 :00-4:30 Coffee Break

4:30-6 :30 WAR AND MEMORY

Olivier Todd, Paris

"Biographical Booby Traps: Malraux and the Second World War"

Robert Thornberry, University of Alberta

"Malraux and the Algerian War"

Susan Rubin Suleiman, Harvard University

"Great Men to the Pantheon: Malraux and Moulin"

6:30 Reception offered by the French Cultural Services

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