A conversation in French with renowned playwright Yasmina Reza is among the enticing March, 2013, offerings at New York University's French cultural center.
In March, La Maison Française of New York University will feature a conversation, in French, with renowned playwright Yasmina Reza (3/11), a special evening including a lecture and performance, entitled “Griots, Nobility, and the Transformation of Musical Culture in Contemporary West Africa” (3/13), and a marathon Proust reading, virtually one-of-a-kind in New York City as it will be conducted in French.
Unless otherwise noted in the March schedule that follows below, the events are held at La Maison Française, and are free and open to the public.
For further information or to RSVP for any event, please call 212.998.8750 or email maison.francaise@nyu.edu. Visit La Maison Française online at www.nyu.edu/maisonfrancaise.
Events: MARCH 2013
Friday, March 1, 11:00 a.m. - 1:30 p. m.
Institute of French Studies Colloquium
Presentations in English and French
Masculinité(s) et virilité: contextes métropolitains et situations coloniales aux XIXe et XXe siècles
CHRISTELLE TARAUD
Visiting Professor, NYU; author of Sexe et colonies. Virilité, homosexualité et tourisme sexuel au Maghreb (1830-1962)
VENITA DATTA
Wellesley College; author of Heroes and Legends of Fin-de-Siècle France: Gender, Politics, and National Identity
EDWARD BERENSON
NYU; author of Heroes of Empire: Five Charismatic Men and the Conquest of Africa
Thursday, March 7, 7:30 p.m.
Lecture in French
GEORGES FORESTIER
Université Paris-Sorbonne; Institut universitaire de France; director, Centre d’Étude de la Langue et de la Littérature des XVIIe et XVIIIe Siècles, CNRS; author of Essai de génétique théâtrale: Corneille à l'œuvre; La Tragédie française
De la tragédie grecque au cinéma d'horreur: pour une contribution au débat sur la catharsis
Friday & Saturday, March 8 & 9
French Department Graduate Student Conference
...but is it art?
An exploration of how art is defined, institutionalized, and practiced in the Francophone world.
Friday, March 8, 10:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m.
Saturday, March 9, 10:30 a.m. to 6:00 p.m.
Keynote Address at 5:00 p.m. by Professor Gabriel Rockhill, Villanova University
For full conference details and schedule visit: www.butisitartconference.webs.com
Monday, March 11, 7:30 p.m.
Florence Gould Event
Discussion in French
French Literature in the Making
YASMINA REZA
Playwright, novelist, screenwriter; author of Art; Trois Versions de la vie (Life x 3);
Le Dieu du carnage (God of Carnage); L'Aube, le soir ou la nuit; Heureux les heureux
in conversation with
OLIVIER BARROT
Writer, journalist, television producer and host, Un Livre un jour (France 3)
Presented with the additional support of Sofitel, Centre National du Livre, Air France, Institut Français, and the Cultural Services of the French Embassy.
Wednesday, March 13, 6:30 p.m.
Co-sponsored by La Maison Française and Institute of French Studies
Lecture/Performance
Griots, Nobility, and the Transformation of Musical Culture in Contemporary West Africa
CHÉRIF KEÏTA
Professor of French and Francophone Literatures, Carleton College; author of Outcast to Ambassador: The Musical Odyssey of Salif Keïta
ALHAJI PAPA SUSSO
Griot; master kora (African harp-lute) player; director, Koriya Musa Center for Research in Oral Tradition
Wednesday, March 27, 6:30 p.m.
2010-2011 Wylie Prize in French Cultural Studies
BRIAN MARTIN
Williams College; author of Napoleonic Friendship: Military Fraternity, Intimacy, and Sexuality in 19th-Century France
Queer Napoleon: from Napoleonic Friendship to Gays in the Military
Sponsored by Dean of the Humanities, Department of French, and Institute of French Studies.
Thursday, March 28, 7:00 to 10:00 p.m.
Special Event
Du Côté de chez Proust
Marathon reading from the novel, in celebration of the 100th anniversary of the publication of Du Côté de chez Swann
In French
Readers: Anka Muhlstein, Richard Howard, Yves-André Istel, Joan Juliet Buck, Georges Borchardt, Lila Zanganeh, Eugène Nicole, Dominique Nabokov, Benoît Bolduc, Jacqueline Chambord, Ronald Guttman, Elisabeth Cros, Denis Hollier, Helen Gary Bishop, Emmanuelle Ertel, Violaine Huisman,Tom Bishop, and others
Reservations suggested: 212-998-8750 or maison.francaise@nyu.edu