UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS COURSE ABROAD LAS 298:
Paris: A Multicultural Perspective: Immigration and Globalization
Director: Evelyne Accad; Assistant: Dinah
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 June 15th to be turned in by email earlier if possible (evelyneaccad@aol.com or e-accad@illinois.edu). 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. Written reports on the two scheduled conferences due and to be taken into account for your grade.
May 16 – June 3, 2011
Monday, May 16: Leave for Paris from O’Hare at 6:05pm
Tuesday, May 17: Arrival in Paris at 9:30am on United #942, met by Evelyne at CDG airport terminal 1 and taken to FIAP, on-site orientations by Professors and FIAP.
Wednesday, May 18:
10:00am: Sociological study of Barbès, the Marché Déjean, the African immigrant neighborhoods of Paris.
Visit of Fem’Chic en Spectacle, 2 rue Livingstone, Metro Anvers, purchase of attire for dance. Visit of Montmartre. Read Beyala’s Loukoum… in packet.
1:30-3:00pm (13:30 to 15:00) : African dance with Instructor Ousmane from Senegal at Sun City, 2-4 rue de l’Ancienne Mairie, 92110 metro Mairie de Clichy.
Athletic attire suggested. You can also wear an African “pagne” (loin cloth). Shoes are not worn in the studio.
5 :45 pm (17 :45) FIAP: Visit of the quartier around FIAP (district) organized by FIAP, drinks afterwards.
Thursday, May 19:
10am-12pm: Visit to Lycée Marcelin-Berthelot in Pantin / Aubervilliers 111 Boulevard Jean Jaurès, metro: Quatre Chemins (Line 7). This is the lycée where Faїza Guène (author of Kiffe-kiffe demain) was a student.
5-7pm FIAP: Visit of Cheryl Toman, Professor at Case Western Reserve University, specialist on African women, latest book: Contemporaries in Cameroonian Francophone Literature. Read article: “African Women Eliminating Borders” by Cheryl Toman and come prepared to ask questions. Also discussion of Beyala’s Loukoum…
Friday, May 20th:
10-12pm: Lycée Honoré de Balzac, Collège International de Paris, 118 Blvd Bessières, metro 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.
Noon: lunch with the Honoré de Balzac students.
1pm: showing of small film on immigration followed by discussion with Honoré de Balzac students.
5-7pm at FIAP: Discussion of Evelyne Accad’s Women of the Twilight. (read particularly the short stories: A woman who wants to live, p. 45, The hijacker, p. 77, A vibrant woman, p. 131, Sexual education and moral instruction, p. 147; read also “Beirut, The City that Moves Me”. Come prepared to ask questions.
Saturday, May 21st: Meeting to begin at 11 a.m (leave FIAP at 10 am (9:30) 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- 7:30 p.m. Visit of Charisma Church, 15 boulevard de la Libération / 24 rue Charles Michels, Saint-Denis
Sunday, May 22nd:
2:00pm: Group lunch at Mont-Liban restaurant. 42 boulevard des Batignolles, metro: Rome, tel : 0145223501. (Opportunity for Discovery activity during the day)
Monday, May 23:
Day trip to suburb: Discussion with students from the University Cergy-Pontoise. Métro 6 direction Charles de Gaulle-Etoile, then RER A direction de Cergy Le Haut, to Cergy Prefecture.
7pm (19hrs): Special Dinner at FIAP restaurant.
Tuesday, May 24:
11:30am: Cité nationale de l’histoire de l’immigration, Palais de la Porte Dorée, 293, avenue Daumesnil, metro : Porte Dorée.
5 pm, FIAP: Visit of Julie Assier, Professor specialist of Francophone Vietnamese Literature. Read Slander in packet and come prepared to ask her questions.
Wednesday, May 25th:
10 to 13: Lycée Suger at Saint-Denis, 6 avenue Le Roy des Barres.
Leave FIAP at 9am (15mn might be better) to get there on time (I will meet you at the Guy Moquet station at 9:30): Get off at the Porte de Paris station, about 10-15 mn from school, walk past Casanova hospital, walk along the Parc de la Légion, make a right turn to the high school, you will see a sign “Lycée Suger” (This is not the 1st big street / crossroad on the right in front of the hospital (rue Casanova) but next one (the one at the firelight in front of the park entrance) as you keep on walking along the park down the Paul Vaillant Couturier avenue.)
14:30 or 2:30pm: Visit to the Musée Dapper, art appreciation activity. 35 rue Paul Valéry. Métro: Victor Hugo or Charles de Gaulle-Etoile.
5:30pm (17:30h) Meet with Lydie, an African woman in exile, read Mariama Ba Rejection and Andrée Chedid The Long Trial and come prepared to ask questions. Adress: 13-15 Blvd Barbès (code 24) metro Chateau Rouge
Thursday, May 26th:
10:30am : Visit of the Grande Mosquée de Paris (Place du Puits de l’Ermite, métro: Monge). Souk and tearoom after tour. Followed by Institut du Monde Arabe (métro: Jussieu) for art appreciation activity. Read: "The Muslims of France".
5-7pm at FIAP: Discussion with author Thérèse Kuoh Moukoury and her novel Essential Encounters, come prepared to ask questions.
Friday, May 27th:
Leave FIAP at 9:30am to reach métro Couronnes at 10:30am: Sociological study of Belleville and the market (métro Couronnes) and the Parc des Buttes Chaumont. (métro Laumière) Bring maps in course packet.
(Discovery activity opportunity during the day)
Saturday and Sunday, May 28 and 29th:
FREE (Have you completed your self-discovery activity?)
Monday, May 30th:
10:30 am: Visit of the Vietnamese neighbourhood, metro Tolbiac. Lunch at Pho 14 (voluntary). Bring maps in packet. Visit of a Buddhist temple.
5-7pm at FIAP: Debate on Immigration and Ethnicities, Walls and Globalization. Read Maillard article “The Muslims in France and the French Model of Integration”, Michel Husson, and "How Much More French Can I Be?", "Anger Festering in French Areas Scarred in Riots, and finally, "Urban Violence in France" by Paul Silverstein and Chantal Tetreault http://www.merip.org/mero/interventions/silverstein_tetreault_interv.htm, Nov. 2005.
Tuesday, May 31st:
14:00pm to 3:30: Middle Eastern dance class at Sun City Gym, at Sun City, 2-4 rue de l’Ancienne Mairie, 92110 metro Mairie de Clichy, with Instructor Nadia from Tunisia. 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.
Self-discovery activity opportunity throughout the day.
5-7pm at FIAP: Visit of Ezza Agha-Malak at FIAP. Read Bagdad: Death Untold and come prepared to ask questions.
Wednesday June 1st:
5-7pm at FIAP: Presentation of self-discovery activity.
Friday, June 3rd:
Departure from the FIAP at 8:00 am. United #943 Plane leaves at 11:15am, CDG terminal 1.
Paris: A Multicultural Perspective: Immigration and Globalization
Director: Evelyne Accad; Assistant: Dinah
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 June 15th to be turned in by email earlier if possible (evelyneaccad@aol.com or e-accad@illinois.edu). 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. Written reports on the two scheduled conferences due and to be taken into account for your grade.
May 16 – June 3, 2011
Monday, May 16: Leave for Paris from O’Hare at 6:05pm
Tuesday, May 17: Arrival in Paris at 9:30am on United #942, met by Evelyne at CDG airport terminal 1 and taken to FIAP, on-site orientations by Professors and FIAP.
Wednesday, May 18:
10:00am: Sociological study of Barbès, the Marché Déjean, the African immigrant neighborhoods of Paris.
Visit of Fem’Chic en Spectacle, 2 rue Livingstone, Metro Anvers, purchase of attire for dance. Visit of Montmartre. Read Beyala’s Loukoum… in packet.
1:30-3:00pm (13:30 to 15:00) : African dance with Instructor Ousmane from Senegal at Sun City, 2-4 rue de l’Ancienne Mairie, 92110 metro Mairie de Clichy.
Athletic attire suggested. You can also wear an African “pagne” (loin cloth). Shoes are not worn in the studio.
5 :45 pm (17 :45) FIAP: Visit of the quartier around FIAP (district) organized by FIAP, drinks afterwards.
Thursday, May 19:
10am-12pm: Visit to Lycée Marcelin-Berthelot in Pantin / Aubervilliers 111 Boulevard Jean Jaurès, metro: Quatre Chemins (Line 7). This is the lycée where Faїza Guène (author of Kiffe-kiffe demain) was a student.
5-7pm FIAP: Visit of Cheryl Toman, Professor at Case Western Reserve University, specialist on African women, latest book: Contemporaries in Cameroonian Francophone Literature. Read article: “African Women Eliminating Borders” by Cheryl Toman and come prepared to ask questions. Also discussion of Beyala’s Loukoum…
Friday, May 20th:
10-12pm: Lycée Honoré de Balzac, Collège International de Paris, 118 Blvd Bessières, metro 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.
Noon: lunch with the Honoré de Balzac students.
1pm: showing of small film on immigration followed by discussion with Honoré de Balzac students.
5-7pm at FIAP: Discussion of Evelyne Accad’s Women of the Twilight. (read particularly the short stories: A woman who wants to live, p. 45, The hijacker, p. 77, A vibrant woman, p. 131, Sexual education and moral instruction, p. 147; read also “Beirut, The City that Moves Me”. Come prepared to ask questions.
Saturday, May 21st: Meeting to begin at 11 a.m (leave FIAP at 10 am (9:30) 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- 7:30 p.m. Visit of Charisma Church, 15 boulevard de la Libération / 24 rue Charles Michels, Saint-Denis
Sunday, May 22nd:
2:00pm: Group lunch at Mont-Liban restaurant. 42 boulevard des Batignolles, metro: Rome, tel : 0145223501. (Opportunity for Discovery activity during the day)
Monday, May 23:
Day trip to suburb: Discussion with students from the University Cergy-Pontoise. Métro 6 direction Charles de Gaulle-Etoile, then RER A direction de Cergy Le Haut, to Cergy Prefecture.
7pm (19hrs): Special Dinner at FIAP restaurant.
Tuesday, May 24:
11:30am: Cité nationale de l’histoire de l’immigration, Palais de la Porte Dorée, 293, avenue Daumesnil, metro : Porte Dorée.
5 pm, FIAP: Visit of Julie Assier, Professor specialist of Francophone Vietnamese Literature. Read Slander in packet and come prepared to ask her questions.
Wednesday, May 25th:
10 to 13: Lycée Suger at Saint-Denis, 6 avenue Le Roy des Barres.
Leave FIAP at 9am (15mn might be better) to get there on time (I will meet you at the Guy Moquet station at 9:30): Get off at the Porte de Paris station, about 10-15 mn from school, walk past Casanova hospital, walk along the Parc de la Légion, make a right turn to the high school, you will see a sign “Lycée Suger” (This is not the 1st big street / crossroad on the right in front of the hospital (rue Casanova) but next one (the one at the firelight in front of the park entrance) as you keep on walking along the park down the Paul Vaillant Couturier avenue.)
14:30 or 2:30pm: Visit to the Musée Dapper, art appreciation activity. 35 rue Paul Valéry. Métro: Victor Hugo or Charles de Gaulle-Etoile.
5:30pm (17:30h) Meet with Lydie, an African woman in exile, read Mariama Ba Rejection and Andrée Chedid The Long Trial and come prepared to ask questions. Adress: 13-15 Blvd Barbès (code 24) metro Chateau Rouge
Thursday, May 26th:
10:30am : Visit of the Grande Mosquée de Paris (Place du Puits de l’Ermite, métro: Monge). Souk and tearoom after tour. Followed by Institut du Monde Arabe (métro: Jussieu) for art appreciation activity. Read: "The Muslims of France".
5-7pm at FIAP: Discussion with author Thérèse Kuoh Moukoury and her novel Essential Encounters, come prepared to ask questions.
Friday, May 27th:
Leave FIAP at 9:30am to reach métro Couronnes at 10:30am: Sociological study of Belleville and the market (métro Couronnes) and the Parc des Buttes Chaumont. (métro Laumière) Bring maps in course packet.
(Discovery activity opportunity during the day)
Saturday and Sunday, May 28 and 29th:
FREE (Have you completed your self-discovery activity?)
Monday, May 30th:
10:30 am: Visit of the Vietnamese neighbourhood, metro Tolbiac. Lunch at Pho 14 (voluntary). Bring maps in packet. Visit of a Buddhist temple.
5-7pm at FIAP: Debate on Immigration and Ethnicities, Walls and Globalization. Read Maillard article “The Muslims in France and the French Model of Integration”, Michel Husson, and "How Much More French Can I Be?", "Anger Festering in French Areas Scarred in Riots, and finally, "Urban Violence in France" by Paul Silverstein and Chantal Tetreault http://www.merip.org/mero/interventions/silverstein_tetreault_interv.htm, Nov. 2005.
Tuesday, May 31st:
14:00pm to 3:30: Middle Eastern dance class at Sun City Gym, at Sun City, 2-4 rue de l’Ancienne Mairie, 92110 metro Mairie de Clichy, with Instructor Nadia from Tunisia. 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.
Self-discovery activity opportunity throughout the day.
5-7pm at FIAP: Visit of Ezza Agha-Malak at FIAP. Read Bagdad: Death Untold and come prepared to ask questions.
Wednesday June 1st:
5-7pm at FIAP: Presentation of self-discovery activity.
Friday, June 3rd:
Departure from the FIAP at 8:00 am. United #943 Plane leaves at 11:15am, CDG terminal 1.
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