OCT 14
6:30 PM–8:00 PM
MAISON FRANçAISE EAST GALLERY, BUELL HALL
6:30 PM–8:00 PM Maison Française East Gallery, Buell Hall
Panel Discussion:
Nadia Urbinati, Sheri Berman, Frederico Finchelstein, Bernard Manin, and Adam Tooze
To RSVP, please click here. What distinguishes populism from run-of-the-mill democratic politics? And why should we be concerned by its rise? In Me the People, Nadia Urbinati argues that populism should be regarded as a new form of... Read More
OCT 16
6:00 PM–7:30 PM
MAISON FRANçAISE EAST GALLERY, BUELL HALL
6:00 PM–7:30 PM Maison Française East Gallery, Buell Hall
Lecture:
Joshua Cole, with response by Emmanuelle Saada
To RSVP, please click here. Joshua Cole talks about his new book, Lethal Provocation: The Constantine Murders and the Politics of French Algeria (Cornell UP, 2019), that explores an episode of anti-Jewish violence in the Algerian city of... Read More
OCT 17
12:00 PM–2:00 PM
MAISON FRANçAISE EAST GALLERY, BUELL HALL
12:00 PM–2:00 PM Maison Française East Gallery, Buell Hall
Panel Discussion:
To RSVP, please click here. The Israeli elections of April and September 2019 highlighted, yet again, the profound rifts that divide Israeli society. But the now familiar political haggling that ensued did not only reveal traditional left-right divides.... Read More
OCT 18
9:00 AM–5:00 PM
ITALIAN ACADEMY, AMSTERDAM AVENUE
9:00 AM–5:00 PM Italian Academy, Amsterdam Avenue
Conference:
In November 2018, Felwine Sarr and Bénédicte Savoy released a report that had been prepared for the President of France entitled The Restitution of African Cultural Heritage. Toward a New Relational Ethics. This report has set in motion a debate that could... Read More
OCT 18
1:00 PM–2:00 PM
ST. PAULS CHAPEL
1:00 PM–2:00 PM St. Pauls Chapel
Performance:
A 4 hands piano duo by Hana Mizuta and Misha Galant
Concert of piano pieces by Beethoven, Chopin, Schubert and Jr Strauss. Presented as part of the Music Performance Program by the Department of Music and Maison Francaise. Beethoven Sonata Op 110, Mvmt 1Chopin Nocturne Op 27 No... Read More
OCT 21
7:00 PM–9:00 PM
MAISON FRANÇAISE 2ND FLOOR, BUELL HALL
7:00 PM–9:00 PM MAISON FRANÇAISE 2ND FLOOR, BUELL HALL
Book Club:
OCT 23
6:00 PM–7:30 PM
MAISON FRANçAISE EAST GALLERY, BUELL HALL
6:00 PM–7:30 PM Maison Française East Gallery, Buell Hall
Lecture:
To RSVP, please click here. The April 2019 fire that nearly destroyed the Cathedral of Notre-Dame revived a polemic with resonance well beyond France. Should the edifice be reconstructed “as it was” or is the very idea of Gothic... Read More
OCT 24
6:30 PM–8:30 PM
MAISON FRANçAISE EAST GALLERY, BUELL HALL
6:30 PM–8:30 PM Maison Française East Gallery, Buell Hall
Film:
Maïwenn, Emmanuelle Bercot, 2011, 127 min.
To RSVP, please click here. Winner of the Jury Prize at the 2011 Cannes Film Festival and nominated for 13 César Awards, Polisse follows the daily lives of a tight-knit team of men and women working in the Child Protection Unit of the... Read More
OCT 29
6:00 PM–7:30 PM
MAISON FRANçAISE EAST GALLERY, BUELL HALL
6:00 PM–7:30 PM Maison Française East Gallery, Buell Hall
Lecture:
To RSVP, please click here. In this intimate family history that spans from the 1930s to today, Audrey Celestine traces fragments of the lives of three generations of the same family. The history moves from the Caribbean to Algeria and the Mediterranean... Read More
NOV 1
1:00 PM–2:00 PM
MAISON FRANçAISE EAST GALLERY, BUELL HALL
1:00 PM–2:00 PM Maison Française East Gallery, Buell Hall
Performance:
A Music @ the Maison Française Concert
To RSVP, please click here. Presented as part of the Music Performance Program, by the Department of Music and Maison Française. Program: All Too Soon (Duke Ellington) Reflections in D (Ellington) Nuages (Claude Debussy) Melancholia... Read More
NOV 6
6:30 PM–8:30 PM
MAISON FRANçAISE EAST GALLERY, BUELL HALL
6:30 PM–8:30 PM Maison Française East Gallery, Buell Hall
Film:
Clément and Sophie Guerra, 2019, 90 min. Film screening and discussion with director Clément Guerra
To RSVP, please click here. The Eagle & The Condor is an ancient prophecy, shared by many Indigenous people. The prophecy says when the Eagle of North America and the Condor of South America unite, the spirit of peace will awaken. After 500 years of... Read More
NOV 7
6:00 PM–7:30 PM
MAISON FRANçAISE EAST GALLERY, BUELL HALL
6:00 PM–7:30 PM Maison Française East Gallery, Buell Hall
Panel Discussion:
A debate between Denis Lacorne and Bernard Harcourt
To RSVP, please click here. In the increasingly divided political and social landscape that surrounds us today, the idea of tolerance seems to be more relevant than ever. Beyond the acrimonious debates on migration, hate speech, impeachment, or religious... Read More
NOV 11
1:00 PM–2:30 PM
MAISON FRANçAISE EAST GALLERY, BUELL HALL
1:00 PM–2:30 PM Maison Française East Gallery, Buell Hall
Panel Discussion:
Bill McKibben and Marie Toussaint in a French-American conversation, moderated by Shanny Peer
To RSVP, please click here. Environmentalist and author Bill McKibben was among the first journalists to sound the alarm about the perils of climate change over 30 years ago, and he has continued to be a leading voice in raising awareness about climate... Read More
NOV 12
6:30 PM–9:00 PM
LENFEST CENTER FOR THE ARTS, KATHARINA OTTO-BERNSTEIN SCREENING ROOM, 615 W. 129TH STREET
6:30 PM–9:00 PM Lenfest Center for the Arts, Katharina Otto-Bernstein Screening Room, 615 W. 129th Street
Film/Roundtable Discussion:
A film by Mati Diop, 2019, 104 min.
To RSVP, please click here. Film screening followed by responses by Souleymane Bachir Diagne, Professor of French and Philosophy, and Mamadou Diouf, Professor of History and African Studies, moderated by Shanny Peer Cannes Grand Prix award-winning film by... Read More
NOV 13
6:15 PM–8:45 PM
MAISON FRANçAISE EAST GALLERY, BUELL HALL
6:15 PM–8:45 PM Maison Française East Gallery, Buell Hall
Roundtable Discussion:
Seminar session on Louis Althusser, Reading Capital, with Etienne Balibar
For RSVP, please click here. The seminar Critique 13/13 in 2019-20 returns to brilliant texts in critical theory: Adorno, Althusser, Arendt, de Beauvoir, Du Bois, Fanon, Foucault, Freire, Horkheimer, Lorde, Said, Sartre, and others, in order to examine the current... Read More
NOV 15
1:00 PM–2:00 PM
MAISON FRANçAISE EAST GALLERY, BUELL HALL
1:00 PM–2:00 PM Maison Française East Gallery, Buell Hall
Performance:
A Music @ the Maison Française Concert
To RSVP, please click here. Presented as part of the Music Performance Program, by the Department of Music and Maison Française. Aimee Toner, FluteNikki Pet, Clarinet Program: Mozart, Concerto in G Major for Flute and Orchestra, I-II, solo... Read More
NOV 19
6:30 PM–8:00 PM
MAISON FRANçAISE EAST GALLERY, BUELL HALL
6:30 PM–8:00 PM Maison Française East Gallery, Buell Hall
Film/Panel Discussion:
Film screening and discussion with Serge Margel
To RSVP, please click here. Les Maîtres fous is an “ethnofiction” made in 1955 by French ethnologist and filmmaker Jean Rouch, about ritual practices associated with trance and possession among the Hanoukas in Niger. After the screening,... Read More
NOV 21
7:00 PM–8:30 PM
MAISON FRANçAISE EAST GALLERY, BUELL HALL
7:00 PM–8:30 PM Maison Française East Gallery, Buell Hall
Performance:
A live performance and mockumentary by Gabriel Dharmoo
To RSVP, please click here. French Canadian Gabriel Dharmoo's musical practice defies easy pigeon-holing – and sometimes description – going beyond the limits of composition, performance, research, and vocal improvisation. His Imaginary... Read More
NOV 25
6:00 PM–7:30 PM
MAISON FRANçAISE EAST GALLERY, BUELL HALL
6:00 PM–7:30 PM Maison Française East Gallery, Buell Hall
Lecture:
Elaine Sciolino, in conversation with Elisabeth Ladenson
To RSVP, please click here. Elaine Sciolino’s new book explores the history and mythology, the romantic and the everyday life of the magical Seine river that runs through the heart of Paris. In the spring of 1978, as a young journalist in Paris,... Read More
DEC 3
6:00 PM–7:30 PM
MAISON FRANçAISE EAST GALLERY, BUELL HALL
6:00 PM–7:30 PM Maison Française East Gallery, Buell Hall
Panel Discussion:
A conversation with composer Zaid Jabri, and librettists, Yvette Christiansë and Rosalind Morris
To RSVP, please click here. This event is part of a series of talks organized by the Institute for Ideas and Imagination at Reid Hall in Paris and the Maison Française. It is also co-sponsored by the Heyman Center for the... Read More
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