“Le cru et le cuit; le bifteck et les frites: structuralisme et mythologie”

2013 Institute of French Cultural Studies on Culture and Gastronomy presents a lecture by Vincent Debaene, Columbia University.

June 20, 2013
4:30 pm - 5:30 pm
Location
Kemeny 006
Sponsored by
French and Italian Department
Audience
Public
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Patricia McGuinn

Vincent Debaene received his academic training in France, where he was a fellow of the École normale supérieure. He took the Agrégation de lettres modernes in 1996 and received his doctorate from the University of Paris-Sorbonne in 2004. He was a Lecturer at Yale University in 1996-1997, taught for two years in high school in Antananarivo (Madagascar), and for four years at the University of Paris-Sorbonne. Principal teaching and research interests include French anthropology, 20th-Century French literature, literary theory, intellectual history, and the points of contact between scientific discourses and literature. Debaene was in charge of the edition of the works of Claude Lévi-Strauss in the Bibliothèque de la Pléiade. He co-authored with Frédéric Keck the intellectual biography Claude Lévi-Strauss. L’Homme au regard éloigné (Gallimard, 2009).His book on the relationship between literature and anthropology in 20th-Century France, L’Adieu au voyage, was published by Gallimard in the fall 2010 in the "Bibliothèque des sciences humaines" series. He has published articles in French literature journals as well as in anthropology journals.

Location
Kemeny 006
Sponsored by
French and Italian Department
Audience
Public
More information
Patricia McGuinn