Hollins Abroad Paris II: Paris Today!
Program
All panel discussions and guided tours will be offered in English
Saturday, October 21st PARIS TODAY: ALLONS- Y!
Afternoon: Welcome reception at Restaurant du Rond Point
GUIDED FIAC VISIT
For several days each year, Paris becomes the world capital of contemporary art with FIAC,
the International Contemporary Art Fair. FIAC is an opportunity to discover the latest in
contemporary art, through works by some of the most famous artists in the world. Exhibitions
take place at the Grand Palais, Petit Palais, and hors les murs.
Evening: Optional Captain’s Table Dinner
Sunday,October 22nd
Morning: Orientation at Reid Hall, Home of Hollins Abroad Paris
Enjoy a catered lunch & the wisdom & humour of our speaker,
Diane Johnson, who also will lead an afternoon walking tour
through her own Paris quartier, St. Germain des Prés.
Afternoon: Walking tours (one of the following):
Diane Johnson, author of the bestselling novels Le Divorce, Le
Mariage, and L'Affaire and Into a Paris Quartier: Reine Margot's
Chapel and Other Haunts of St.-Germain – and two-time finalist for
both the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award -- will share a
personal tour of her St.-Germain neighborhood. (45 minutes-1 hour)
John Baxter, author of The Most Beautiful Walk in the World: A
Pedestrian in Paris and Saint-Germain-des-Prés: Paris's Rebel
Quarter (among many others) will lead a lively tour of St.-Germain-
des-Prés, the neighborhood that’s been his home for more than two
decades. (2-2 ½ hours)
David Burke, writer, documentary filmmaker, literary detective, and
author of Writers in Paris: Literary Lives in the City of Light, will lead
a ‘Lost Generation: Montparnasse’ tour. Burke arrived in Paris in 1986
for what he thought would be one year, but turned into more than 30.
(2-2 ½ hours)
Terrance Gelenter, 'Your American Friend in Paris,' author of From
Bagels to Brioche: Paris par Hasard, and creator of The Paris Insider
Newsletter will guide walkers through Montparnasse, focusing on the
quartier's famous cafes, painters, writers, and historical personalities as
well as what the neighborhood was like in the '20s and '50s, "with
improvisations as perceived". (2-2 ½ hours)
Evening: Cocktail reception hosted at the home of Leslie de Galbert
Monday, October 23rd ART IN PARIS TODAY
Morning: Location: La Maison Rouge
Tea, coffee, and panel discussion covering patronage of the arts in Paris today
(private, municipal support and “free” street art)
Moderator: Deborah Palmer, art historian and acclaimed professor with Hollins Abroad and
Hamilton College.
Emilie Augier Bernard, Project Manager at the Fondation Louis Vuitton
Astrid Moitrieux, Administrative Manager at the Centre de Recherche et de
Restauration des Musées de France
Sophie Makariou, Director of Musée Guimet
Sophie Mallebranche, textile designer and artist
Afternoon: Site visits (one of the following):
Fondation Louis Vuitton
Buttes-aux-Cailles (street art, art hors les murs)
Musée de l’Orangerie
Evening: Group dinner at Cercle de l’Union Interalliée Founded in 1917 at the time of the U.S. entry into WWI to create solidarity among all
those fighting for the same cause on French soil, le Cercle de l'Union Interalliée is a
private, members-only club, based in the Hôtel Henri de Rothschild, one of Paris's
most beautiful mansions on the chic rue du Faubourg St. Honoré.
Tuesday, October 24th THE NEW MULTI-CULTURALISM
Morning: Location: Institut du Monde Arabe
Panel Discussion, The New Multiculturalism:
How the issues of secularism (laïcité) and the wearing of the
veil in schools are central to an understanding of France today.
Moderator: Christelle Taraud, scholar and historian.
Caroline Fourest, a journalist, essayist, and
documentary director committed to equality, secularism, and human rights.
She worked at Charlie Hebdo from 2004-2009 and is the author of In
Praise of Blasphemy: Why Charlie Hebdo is not Islamophobic and Brother
Tariq: The Doublespeak of Tariq Ramadan
Françoise Gaspard, a member of the United Nations Committee on the
Elimination of Discrimination against Women, senior lecturer at the École
des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, and member of the EHESS/CNRS
Centre for Sociological Analysis and Intervention (CADIS). She holds
executive functions in youth movements and has political experience as an
elected representative (mayor, member of the European Parliament,
member of the French National Assembly, regional and town Councillor)
Group lunch at La Grande Mosquée de Paris
Afternoon: Guided site visits (one of the following):
Institut du Monde Arabe (IMA) Discovery of the Arab world within a high-tech building.
Musée d’Orsay
Artistic creation in the western world 1848-1914. Including a walk through
Impressionism.
Quai Branly Jean Nouvel’s landscaped, innovative space to feature les arts primitifs.
Evening: Wine tasting and dinner
Wednesday, October 25th FRENCH CULTURE AND CUISINE
Morning: Guided site visit to Marché d’Aligre
Cooking class with Chef Martial 10:00 a.m- 2 :00 p.m
OR
Culinary arts walking tour and tasting with Paris by Mouth
10:00 a.m- 2 :00 p.m
OR
Gourmet lunch at Restaurant Guy Savoy at la Monnaie Begins at noon
Afternoon:
VIP tour of the private collection of Émile Hermès, Hermès flagship store,
Rue du Fauboug Saint-Honoré (thanks to Anne Moody Page ’62 and
Pierre-Alexis Dumas, Creative Director of Hermès.)
Evening: Gallery visit and cocktail hour We are invited to a fascinating program & to "prendre un verre" at the gallery
of Elizabeth Royer, Place du Palais Bourbon. Elizabeth is an important
gallery owner as well as the Founder in 2013 of HARP Europe, the Holocaust
Art Restitution Project. She is a force in successfully assuring the historical
archival research & the restitution of looted art works.
Optional Captain’s Table Dinner
Thursday, October 26th
WOMEN IN France Morning:
Location: Foyer International des Étudiantes
Presentation and Discussion with Anne Sebba, author of Les
Parisiennes: How Paris Women Lived, Loved, and Died in the 1940’s
What did it feel like to be a woman living in Paris from 1939 to 1949 ?
These were years of fear, power, aggression, courage, deprivation, and
secrets until – finally – renewal and retribution. Even in the darkest
moments of Occupation, glamour was ever present. French women wore
lipstick. Why ?
Anne Sebba read History at Kings’s College then joined Reuters as a
foreign correspondent based in London and Rome. She is the acclaimed
author of Jennie Churchill : Winston’s American Mother, the
international bestseller That Woman : The Life of Wallis Simpson,
Duchess of Windsor, and seven other works of non-fiction.
Panel Discussion: Women in France Today – Political Action and the
Fight for Equality. Moderated by Christelle Taraud.
Natacha Henry, historian
Clémentine Autain, French activist and politician.
Lunch on the terrace of the Foyer International des Étudiantes
Afternoon: Site visit: Musée Nissim de Camondo
Evening Performances (one of the following):
Verdi’s Falstaff at Opéra Bastille Balanchine’s Ballet at Opéra Garnier
Friday, October 27th ARCHITECTURE: Old and New
Morning: Location: Pavillion de l’Arsenal
Panel discussion with:
Laurent Lecomte, architectural historian specializing in modern
architecture
Fabien Gantois, architect and urbanist
Marc Boinet, architect from the think tank Bella Stock
Architecture
Lunch: Choice between Le Grand Colbert (Old) or Saturne (New)
Afternoon: Site visits We will all take a guided walk through the Palais-Royal Gardens and see the Buren columns that have
transformed the Cour d’Honneur. Continuing to the Louvre and the Musée des Arts Décoratifs, we
have a choice of three visits, each including both the Dior Exhibit at the Musée des Arts Déco and the
Islamic Wing at the Louvre. The retrospective “Christian Dior, Couturier du Rêve” (“Christian Dior,
Dream Couturier”) celebrates the 70th anniversary of the House of Dior. This extraordinary exhibition
will feature designs by the House’s founder and the six couturiers who succeeded him. The elaborate
set design is by interior architect Nathalie Crinière.
The new Islamic Wing of the Louvre houses a collection spanning 1,200 years of history, from the 7th
through the 19th centuries, and includes glass works, ceramics, metalwork, books, manuscripts,
textiles and carpets. Italian architect Mario Bellini and French architect Rudy Ricciotti designed a
glass-walled pavillion with an undulating roof of metal mesh centered in the 18th-century Cour
Visconti. The architecture is a stunning example of the integration of contemporary features with
historic design.
Columns by Buren, Palais Royal
Musée des Arts Décoratifs and the Dior exhibit
The Islamic Wing of the Louvre
Evening: 6:30 Cocktail reception
Optional Captain’s Table Dinner
Saturday, October 28th YOUR OWN DAY IN PARIS
Flâner dans la plus belle ville du monde
Visit your old neighborhood.
Shop for the perfect scarf
Take the RER to Versailles.
Picnic in the Jardin du Luxembourg
Visit a spa.
Gaugin: Artist as Alchemist, exhibition at Le Grand Palais (25
tickets available for entry at 12:00 noon.)
EVENING OF CELEBRATION:
Early evening gathering at the Atelier Brancusi, followed by a guided
tour of Le Centre Pompidou and a celebratory Farewell Dinner at the
acclaimed restaurant Georges, located on the museum’s rooftop. As
we enjoy the spectacular panoramic views over Paris, our program
will draw to a close with a champagne toast to our days spent together
experiencing Hollins Abroad Paris II: Paris Today! 2017.
Le Centre Pompidou Georges
*program subject to change based on availability
Audrey Stavrevitch, Director, Hollins Abroad Paris
Audrey Stavrevitch holds bachelor degrees in history and French literature, and M.A. and M.
Phil/DEA degrees in comparative literature from Nanterre University. She also holds an M.A. in
French as a Second Language from Sorbonne-Nouvelle University.
Ms. Stavrevitch has taught at City University of New York, the New School for Social Research, and
the New York French Institute. In Paris, she has taught French language and literature to U.S.
undergraduate and graduate students for Hollins University, Columbia University, Middlebury College
and the University of Florida. Ms. Stavrevitch also developed and coordinated the University of
Florida's business program in Paris.
Marie-Laure Cadet de Fontenay, Our concierge
Marie-Laure Cadet de Fontenay has been the program guide for the past 15 years for Hollins Abroad
Paris. She guides our students to Normandy, Burgundy, the Loire Valley, Paris (during orientation).
Guided visits for the past 2 reunions (2005 and 2015) in Paris. She holds the official guide diploma
from the Ministère de la Culture and works as a contractor for prestigious agencies in Paris.
She has received fabulous evaluations from students due to her engaging personality and incredible
experience and knowledge. Marie-Laure will be at the group’s disposal and be with us during lectures
and conferences so that she can easily answer questions during breaks and handle problems during
visits. She will be on call 24/7 during the whole program (from the 21st to the 28th included) for
logistical questions and issues, or anything else (need of advice to go to a restaurant, etc.).
Captain’s Table
A reservation will be made at specific restaurants for tables of 6-8 people that you can choose to join
in the evening for dinner at your expense.
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