Feb 7
Notre-Dame de Paris: A Once and Future Icon, with Professor Cathy Yandell
Carls in New Mexico
are invited to
Notre Dame de Paris: A Once and Future Icon
with Professor Cathy Yandell
Friday, February 7, 2025
After the devastating fire of 2019, Notre Dame Cathedral reopened its doors in December 2024. Why is NotreDame so important to France and to world heritage? What are its origins, and what artistic and cultural roles has it played during its 800-year existence? How did Victor Hugo's The Hunchback of Notre Dame save the Cathedral in the 19th century? And finally, how was the Cathedral reconstructed, and to what extent do the controversies following the fire in Notre Dame help to determine its future? Professor Cathy Yandell invites you to join her in examining these fascinating questions.
Time
1:00 - 3:00 p.m.
Location
University of New Mexico -Continuing Education
South Building, 220
1634 University Blvd. NE
Albuquerque, NM 87102
Registration (and fee of $25) is managed through the University of New Mexico.
Cathy Yandell is the W.I. and Hulda F. Daniell Professor Emerita of French and Francophone Studies at Carleton College. The former David and Marion Bryn-Jones Distinguished Teaching Professor of French Literature, Language, and Culture, she was knighted by the French government in the Order of Academic Palms in 2019. Author of Time and Gender in Early Modern France and co-editor of Vieillir à la Renaissance (Growing Old in the Renaissance) and Memory and Community in Sixteenth Century France, she also published a general interest book with Saint Martin’s Press in 2023: The French Art of Living Well: Finding Joie de Vivre in the Everyday World (translated into three other languages). When not buried in books, she loves hiking, dance, yoga, cooking, and the flying trapeze.
Questions?
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