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French Cultural and Scientific Delegation: Events

The distinguished historians Jean-Pierre Azema (Institut d'Etudes Politiques, Paris) and Philippe Burrin (Institut Universitaire des Hautes Etudes Internationales, Geneva) will take part in a French Resistance Day Symposium on Saturday, 2 February 2002, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., in the Winstanley Lecture Theatre, Trinity College. This Symposium is presented by the French Cultural and Scientific Delegation in association with the Faculty of History and Trinity College. Other participants include Professors M. R. D. Foot, Andre Heintz, and Julian Jackson, and Drs Margie Tolstoy, Don Simmonds, and Hillary Footitt. The Symposium will be followed by the screening of Pierre Sauvage's acclaimed documentary 'Weapons of the Spirit' at 5 p.m. in the Arts Picture House.

On the eve of the Symposium (Friday, 1 February), Jean-Pierre Azema will introduce a special screening of Claude Chabrol's 'The Eye of Vichy' at 5 p.m. in the Arts Picture House, Regent Street.

The Symposium complements the Partisan Pictures season the French Cultural and Scientific Delegation has organized with the Arts Picture House from 17 January until 17 February.

The library at the French Cultural and Scientific Delegation will host an exhibition of materials held by the Anglia Polytechnic University French Resistance Archive from 28 January until 15 February 2002. The library of the French Cultural and Scientific Delegation (12B King's Parade) is open Monday to Thursday, from 2.30 p.m. until 5.30 p.m. Please ring the bell for entry.


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Cambridge University Reporter 16 January 2002
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