Date: Thursday, December 5, 2013
Time: 5:30 PM - 7:30 PM
Building: Law Annex in Room 1st floor
Location: uptown campus
Other Information: Weinmann Hall; Berkett Multipurpose Room (1st floor)

This lecture by Professor Fayçal Falaky will examine some of the stage adaptations of Jean-Jacques Rousseau's one-act opera, Le Devin du Village in Saint-Domingue and New Orleans. He will describe the reception accorded these plays and explain how the same Rousseau who influenced the slave revolution of Haiti could have also captivated an audience of theater-going slaveholders. Fayçal Falaky is Assistant Professor of French at Tulane University and the author of Social Contract, Masochist Contract: Aesthetics of Freedom and Submission in Rousseau (forthcoming with SUNY Press). This program is made possible in part by a generous donation from UBS.  

Sponsored by: 1 in 4 as well as Alliance Francaise de La Nouvelle-Orleans

Admission: Free
Attendance: Open to the public
Open to: Alumni, Faculty, Graduate students, Parents, Prospective undergrads, Staff, Undergraduates, Visitors

Tickets: Not required

For more information contact Jeanny Keck via email to jkeck@tulane.edu or by phone at 504-865-5115