4:00 PM    Maison Française East Gallery, Buell Hall

Performance:

Music Performance Program Concerts at the Maison Française

Join the Columbia University Music Performance Program for three days of concerts and recitals: Friday, April 20, 2018: 4:00pm - Piano Recital: Students of Reiko Uchida6:00pm - MPP Masterclass Recital Spring 20188:00pm...   Read More

6:30 PM–8:45 PM    Maison Française East Gallery, Buell Hall

Film:

In the Intense Now (No Intenso Agora)

João Moreira Salles, 2017, 127 min.

To RSVP, please click here. A.O. Scott says viewers “will find solace, enlightenment and surprise in João Moreira Salles’s In the Intense Now, a bittersweet, ruminative documentary essay composed of footage from the era of the 1960s,...   Read More

6:15 PM–8:45 PM    Faculty House Presidential Suite (3rd Floor) at 64 Morningside Drive

Panel Discussion:

Uprising 13/13: Counterrevolution

Malcolm Gladwell (author), Bernard E. Harcourt (Columbia), Laleh Khalili (SOAS, University of London), Emmanuelle Saada (Columbia), Massimiliano Tomba (University of California Santa Cruz), moderated by Adam Tooze and Jeremy Kessler

To RSVP, please click here. Open to the public. Seating is limited. *NEW LOCATION: Faculty House Presidential Suite (3rd Floor), 64 Morningside Drive The year-long “Uprising 13/13” seminar series explores various modalities of...   Read More

1:00 PM–5:30 PM    Maison Française East Gallery, Buell Hall

Lecture/Panel Discussion:

1968 in 2018: Geographies and Temporalities of Mai 68

Imen Amiri, Ludivine Bantigny, Françoise Blum, Julian Bourg, Souleymane Bachir Diagne, Frédéric Gros, Kristin Ross and Emmanuelle Saada

To RSVP, please click here. Revolts, revolutions and calls to resistance have shaped the 2010s globally. In this context, the 50th anniversary of Mai 68 calls less for a commemoration than for a reflection on the spatial and temporal parameters of the...   Read More

5:00 PM–9:00 PM    Maison Française East Gallery, Buell Hall

Film/Panel Discussion:

Jean Rouch and Modernity

A presentation of unpublished films by Jean Rouch and discussion with Jean-Pierre Dozon, Valérie Berty, Jamie Berthe, and Catherine Ruelle, moderated by Shanny Peer

To RSVP, please click here. To mark the 100-year anniversary of the birth of anthropologist and filmmaker Jean Rouch, the Maison Française presents a selection of unfinished, unpublished films by the filmmaker, including “Monsieur Albert,...   Read More

6:00 PM–7:30 PM    Maison Française East Gallery, Buell Hall

Lecture/Panel Discussion:

Proust's Duchess: How Three Celebrated Women Captured the Imagination of Fin de Siècle Paris

Caroline Weber, in conversation with Maurice Samuels and Elisabeth Ladenson

To RSVP, please click here. Geneviève Halévy Bizet Straus; Laure de Sade, Comtesse Adhéaume de Chevigné; and Élisabeth de Riquet de Caraman-Chimay, the Comtesse Greffulhe—these were the three superstars of...   Read More