Schedule of Activities

The schedule of activities is as follows but is subject to change in order to accommodate invited guests and activities for the course. Your assignments will be due no later than January 18th to be turned in by email earlier if possible (evelyneaccad@aol.com or e-accad@illinois.edu ). Registrar has asked me to have your grades turned in by January 23rd so please give me time to read and correct them properly. Keep in mind that it is imperative that you at least take notes throughout the entire course, especially after every class experience and that you keep a daily journal of your activities, impressions, feelings, remarks.
NOTE: Your self-discovery activities must be scheduled around these activities. (See syllabus)
Pre-departure: Orientation meetings done in Urbana with Dinah and Evelyne.
Sunday, Dec. 27: Leave for Paris - AF#667 – Chicago O’Hare/Paris – 5:25 PM

Monday, Dec. 28: Arrival in Paris at 8:35a.m. on AirFrance/Delta, met by Evelyne at CDG airport terminal 2E and taken to FIAP (30 rue Cabanis, Paris 75014, métro Glacière, www.fiap.fr, tel 33 1 43131700), on-site orientations.
6 pm Special required orientation at FIAP with FIAP organizers.

Tuesday, Dec. 29:
10 :30 a.m. Cité nationale de l’histoire de l’immigration, Palais de la Porte Dorée, 293, avenue Daumesnil, Métro : Porte Dorée.
Visit of Fem’Chic en Spectacle, 2 rue Livingstone, Métro Anvers, purchase of attire for dance.
Visit of Montmartre.
4 pm: FIAP: interview with Lydie Dje, an immigrant from Côte d’Ivoire, come prepared to ask her questions. Read “Rejection” from So Long a Letter, Mariama Bâ
6 pm FIAP: Cocktail party.

Wednesday, Dec. 30:
10 am: Sociological study of Barbès, the Marché Déjean, the African immigrant neighborhoods of Paris.
Visit to the Musée Dapper, art appreciation activity. 35 rue Paul Valéry. Métro: Victor Hugo or Charles de Gaulle-Etoile.
5 pm: Visit of Cheryl Toman, Professor at Case Western Reserve University, specialist on African women, latest book: Contemporaries in Cameroonian Francophone Literature. Read “African Women Eliminating Borders”
article by Toman and come prepared to ask questions.

Thursday, Jan. 31: 10:30: Sociological study of Belleville and the market (Métro: Couronnes)
(Discovery activity opportunity during the day)

Friday, Jan. 1: FREE

Saturday, Jan. 2: Meeting to begin at 11 a.m (leave FIAP at 9:30 am latest to allow enough time. Visit to Women’s Immigrant Association in Saint-Denis (Femmes du Franc-Moisin).
Lunch and visit of Saint-Denis
3:30 p.m. Visit of Charisma Church, 15 boulevard de la Libération / 24 rue Charles Michels, Saint-Denis

Sunday, Jan. 3: (Opportunity for Discovery activity during the day)
12 to 1:30 p.m. Middle Eastern dance class at Sun City Gym, 2-4 rue de l’Ancienne Mairie 92110 CLICHY, Nadia from Tunisia, métro Mairie de Clichy. The whole group together, bigger room; both men and women should bring a long scarf that can be tied around the waste. Women should wear a long skirt or leggings. Shoes are not worn in the studio.
2:00 Group lunch at Mont-Liban restaurant. 42 boulevard des Batignolles, métro: Rome.

Monday, Jan. 4:
[Self-discovery activity opportunity throughout the day.]
3pm Discussion with anthropologist Paul Vieille at FIAP, on “National Identity and Urban Violence.”
Read: “TheTrouble with French Identity” , G. Pascal Zachary, “A Struggle for Identity: The Extreme Right in France” Alex Zakaras, “A Structural Crisis of Capitalism” Michel Husson, “Anger Festering in French Areas Scarred in Riots” New York Times, “Urban Violence in France” Paul Silverstein and Chantal Tetreault.
5 pm: Discussion of Evelyne Accad’s The Excised. Read also “Beirut, The City that Moves Me”.

Tuesday, Jan. 5:
10:00: Visit of the Grande Mosquée de Paris (Place du Puits de l’Ermite, métro: Monge). Souk and tearoom after tour, followed by the Institut du Monde Arabe (métro: Jussieu) for art appreciation activity. Read: “The Muslims in France and the French Model of Integration” by Dominique Maillard (2005) and “The Long Trial” by Andrée Chedid.
2-4 PM Lycée Louis-le-Grand. Discussion of pertinent social issues with French students and their instructor, Françoise Séquestra-Karo. Formal reception to follow. Appropriate attire required (no jeans, no baggy trousers). 123 rue Saint-Jacques. Métro: Cluny La Sorbonne / Luxembourg / Saint-Michel. Bring English magazines or newspapers to share with students.
5 pm: Visit of Etel Adnan at her place (28 rue Madame, Paris 75006, metro Saint Sulpice). Read Sitt Marie-Rose and excerpts in packet of Paris When its Naked, “To Write in a Foreign Language”, and “The Body and the City—Evelyne Accad and Etel Adnan’s Beirut” and Sullivan on Adnan and Accad. Come prepared to ask her questions.

Wednesday, Jan. 6:
11:00 to 12:15 or 12:15 to 1:30 p.m.: African dance with Instructor Ousmane from Senegal at Sun City, Métro Guy Moquet. Athletic attire suggested. You can also wear an African “pagne” (loin cloth). Shoes are not worn in the studio. Students will be split in two groups each group can have lunch in the market St Ouen and visit that interesting market while the other has the class (there is a nice inexpensive Turkish restaurant, kebab, fries, etc, right next to the studio).
2:30: Visit to Technical Lycée for discussion of pertinent social issues with students and their instructors Hassen Hadjadj, Isabelle Thery, and Yves Simon. 95 rue du Dessous des Berges, Métro: Bibliothèque. Please bring magazines or newspapers in English to distribute for all students.
5:15: Interview with Christine Delorme, journalist and radio producer of cultural programs, film producer (one on Sembene Ousmane director of Moolade film), come prepared to ask her questions.
7 p.m. Welcome dinner at the FIAP for our group.

Thursday, Jan. 7:
FREE (Have you completed your self-discovery activity?)

Friday, Jan. 8:
11 am or 2pm: Lycée Honoré de Balzac, Collège International de Paris, 118 Blvd Bessières, métro Porte de Clichy. Discussion of pertinent social issues with French and International students, their English and International studies instructor Jackie Holland. Please bring English magazines or newspapers to share with students.
3 or 5 pm: Visit of Thérèse Kuoh-Moukoury at FIAP or near her place. Read Essential Encounters and come prepared to ask questions.

Saturday, Jan. 9:
10 am at FIAP. Presentation of self-discovery activity.
Visit of the Vietnamese neighbourhood, métro Tolbiac. Discuss Linda Le’s Slander. Lunch at Pho 14 (voluntary). Visit of a Buddhist temple.

Sunday, Jan. 10: Departure from the FIAP at 7:15 a.m. Plane leaves at 10:35 a.m., CDG Terminal 2E.
AF#664– Depart Paris: 10:35 AM – Arrive Chicago O’Hare: 12:55 PM 1/10/10