La Maison Française is open Monday through Friday,
10:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m.
The building re-opens a half-hour
before evening programs.
All events are open to the public
and free of charge unless otherwise indicated.
February 24 – March 28
EXHIBITION
ENDRE ROZSDA: A Painter’s Trajectory
Works from 1933 – 1998
Thursday, January 23 – 7:30 p.m.
HOLLIS CLAYSON
Professor of Art History, Northwestern University; author of Paris in Despair: Art and Everyday Life under Siege (1870-71) and Painted Love: Prostitution in French Art of the Impressionist Era
Eating Rats and Standing in Line: Art and the Food Crisis in Paris (1870 - 71)
Saturday, January 25 and Monday, January 27
8:00 p.m.
CONCERT
La Voix humaine
Music by Francis Poulenc
Libretto by Jean Cocteau
Sung in French by
Caroline Worra, soprano
Sung in English by
Edwin Cahill, tenor
Brian DeMaris, piano
Set and costume design by David Newell.
English adaptation and direction by
Lawrence Edelson
Reservations required: 212-998-8750
Wednesday, January 29 – 6:30 p.m.
Institute of French Studies Colloquium
ALAIN JOXE
Sociologist, Centre Interdisciplinaire de Recherches sur la Paix et d’Etudes Stratégiques, EHESS; author of L’Empire du chaos; L’Amérique mercenaire
Divergence stratégique entre Europe et Etats-Unis: Une vision française sur l’état du monde
Thursday, January 30 – 7:30 p.m.
VICTOR BROMBERT
Professor Emeritus, Princeton University; author of Trains of Thought: Memories of a Stateless Youth; Flaubert; Victor Hugo and the Visionary Novel; The Hidden Reader; In Praise of Antiheroes
Memories of a Stateless Youth
Friday, January 31 – 7:00 p.m.
France on Film
Co-sponsored with the Institute of French Studies
Location: Cantor Film Center, 36 East 8th Street, between University Place and Greene Street
Admission: $3 for NYU i.d. holders, $5 for all others
Va Savoir /
Who Knows?
Jacques Rivette, 2002, 150 min., in French with English subtitles
Introduced by Tom Bishop, NYU
This film program is made possible with the support of the Cultural Services of the French Embassy and the French Ministry of Culture (CNC).
Tuesday, February 4 – 7:30 p.m.
Co-sponsored with The Bard Graduate Center
KENNETH FRAMPTON
Professor of Architecture, Columbia University; author of Le Corbusier: Architect of the Twentieth Century; American Masterworks; Modern Architecture; Studies in Tectonic Culture
Le Corbusier: From Primitive Form to the Linear City
Friday, February 7 – 7:30 p.m.
CONCERT
Music of Gaubert, Boulanger, Beethoven, Bach, and Schneller
Jayn Rosenfeld, flute
Bernard Rose, piano
Reservations required: 212-998-8750
Tuesday, February 11 – 7:30 p.m.
RICHARD SIEBURTH
Professor of French and Comparative Literature, NYU; translator of Friedrich Hölderlin,
Michel Leiris, Walter Benjamin, Gerard de Nerval, Maurice Scève
Emblems of Desire: Selections from the Délie of Maurice Scève
Bilingual Reading, with Michel Beaujour
Thursday, February 13 – 7:30 p.m.
MICHEL MAFFESOLI
Director, Centre d’Etudes sur l’Actuel et le Quotidien, Université de Paris V; author of L’Instant éternel; Du Nomadisme; Eloge de la raison sensible; La Transfiguration du politique
La Part du diable. Précis de subversion postmoderne
Wednesday, February 19 – 6:30 p.m.
Institute of French Studies Colloquium
GILBERT ACHCAR
Professor of Politics and International Relations, Université de Paris VIII; author of The Clash of Barbarisms: September 11 and the Making of the New World Disorder
U.S. Dominance and World Disorder
Thursday, February 20 – 7:30 p.m.
ALLEN S. WEISS
Author of Feast and Folly: Cuisine, Intoxication, and the Poetics of the Sublime; Unnatural Horizons; editor, Taste, Nostalgia; co-editor, French Food
How to Cook a Phoenix: Essay on the Culinary Imagination
Monday, February 24 – 7:30 p.m.
FAITH BEASLEY
Professor, Dartmouth College; author of Revising Memory: Women’s Fiction and Memoirs in Seventeenth-Century France
The Voices of Shadows in the Salons of Seventeenth Century France
Tuesday, February 25 – 7:30 p.m.
Florence Gould Lecture
ALAIN ROBBE-GRILLET
Novelist; filmmaker; visiting professor, NYU; author of Le Voyeur; La Jalousie; La Maison du rendez-vous; Le Miroir qui revient; La Reprise
Entretien sur La Reprise
with Tom Bishop, NYU
Thursday, February 27 – 7:30 p.m.
Co-sponsored with the Grey Art Gallery, in conjunction with the exhibition
The Park Avenue Cubists: Gallatin, Morris, Frelinghuysen, and Shaw
From the Bateau Lavoir to Washington Square
Introduction
Lynn Gumpert, Director, Grey Art Gallery
Pepe Karmel, NYU
Pablo, Suzy, and the Two Georges: Cubism in Paris and New York
Debra Bricker Balken, Curator of the exhibition
Gallatin, Morris, Frelinghuysen, and Shaw
Robert Rosenblum, NYU
Cubism’s American Accents
The exhibition is on view at the Grey Art Gallery, 100 Washington Square East (212-998-6780).
Friday, February 28 – 7:00 p.m.
France on Film
Co-sponsored with the Institute of French Studies
Location: Cantor Film Center, 36 East 8th Street, between University Place and Greene Street
Admission: $3 for NYU i.d. holders, $5 for all others
Le Temps retrouvé /
Time Regained
Raul Ruiz, 1999, 158 min., in French with English subtitles
Introduced by Eugène Nicole, NYU
This film program is made possible with the support of the Cultural Services of the French Embassy and the French Ministry of Culture (CNC).
Thursday, March 13 – 7:30 p.m.
FRANÇOISE GILOT
Personal and Artistic Recollections of a Hungarian/French Modernist: A lecture on Endre Rozsda
in conjunction with the exhibition
Endre Rozsda: A Painter's Trajectory (February 24 - March 28).
Through March 28
EXHIBITION
Endre Rozsda: A Painter’s Trajectory
Works from 1933 to 1998
See also:
March 13 – 7:30 p.m.
Lecture on Endre Rozsda by Françoise Gilot
Monday, March 3 – 6:30 p.m.
Institute of French Studies Colloquium
PHILIP GORDON
Director, Center on the United States and France, Brookings Institution; author of The French Challenge: Adapting to Globalization; The Transatlantic Allies and a Changing Middle East
France and the United States: The Division Over Iraq
Tuesday, March 4 – 7:30 p.m.
HOWARD BLOCH
Professor of French, Yale University; author of Medieval Misogyny and the Invention of Western Romantic Love; God’s Plagiarist; The Anonymous Marie de France
The Bayeux Tapestry, Animal Fables, and the Making of the Anglo-Norman World
Wednesday, March 5 – 6:30 p.m.
Institute of French Studies Colloquium,co-sponsored by the Association of Sciences Po Alumni
PIERRE UHEL
Financial Counselor, French Embassy in the United States
Corporate Governance: A European Perspective
Rendez-Vous with French Cinema
Co-sponsored by La Maison Française and the Directors Series, Tisch School of the Arts, in cooperation with the French Film Office/Unifrance USA, The Film Society of Lincoln Center, and the Cultural Services of the French Embassy
Location for all films: Cantor Film Center, 36 East 8th Street
between University Place and Greene Street
All films are in French, with English subtitles.
Thursday, March 6 – 6:30 p.m.
Mon Idole /
My Idol
Guillaume Canet, 2003; 110 min., with François Berléand
Offering a French perspective on the world of “shock TV” .... My Idol charts the tangled course of Jean-Louis Broustal (François Berléand), a fiftyish, extremely successful producer of the current TV blockbuster Send in the Handkerchiefs. My Idol impressively delineates the ever-thinner line between reality and performance that has come, it to dominate so much of television on both sides of the Atlantic.
The actor/director will be present for discussion with the audience following the screening.
Friday, March 7 – 6:00 p.m.
Un Homme sans l’occident /
Untouched by the West
Raymond Depardon, 2003; 105 min.
One of France’s most unique and original filmmakers, Raymond Depardon here freely adapts a novel by Diego Brosset that returned the director to the extraordinary desert landscapes that graced his first feature, Captive of the Desert.
Friday, March 7 – 8:00 p.m.
Vivre me tue /
Life Kills Me
Jean-Pierre Sinapi, 2002; 89 min., with Sami Bouajila, Jalil Lespert, Sylvie Testud
Jean-Pierre Sinapi’s second film resists easy classification. Focusing on the story of Paul, an aspiring writer, it is set partially among North African immigrants in France. With excellent performances by three of France’s finest young actors – Sami Bouajila (La faute à Voltaire), Jalil Lespert (Human Resources) and Sylvie Testud (Murderous Maids), Life Kills Me is a deeply affecting drama whose competing plot lines are deftly woven together to create a rich portrait of contemporary life.
Saturday, March 8 – 6:00 p.m.
24 Heures de la vie d’une femme /
24 Hours in the Life of a Woman
Laurent Bouhnik, 2002; 103 min., with Michel Serrault, Bérénice Bejo, Agnès Jaoul
Director Laurent Bouhnik takes one of Stefan Zweig’s best-loved stories and brings it to life with an extraordinary cast. Michel Serrault is Louis, a retired diplomat whiling away his final years on the French Riviera. With Bérénice Bejo and Agnès Jaoui. A selection of the 2002 Toronto International Film Festival.
Saturday, March 8 – 8:00 p.m.
Carnages /
Carnage
Delphine Gleize, 2002; 130 min.; with Chiara Mastroianni, Jacques Gamblin, Angela Molina
What do a taxidermist, a teacher, an ice-skater, an adulterer, an attack of nerves, beauty marks, and a five-year old girl have in common? Well a 1,000-pound Andalusian bull, for one thing. The other is Carnage, Delphine Gleize’s provocative debut feature which was one of the most discussed films at last year’s Cannes Film Festival. With wonderful work by Chiara Mastroianni, Jacques Gamblin, Lio, Angela Molina and others.
Rendez-vous with French Cinema is free of charge; priority to NYU i.d. holders.
Monday, March 10 – 7:30 p.m.
OLIVIER ROLIN
Novelist, editor, journalist; author of L’Invention du monde; Port-Soudan (Prix Fémina); Méroé; Tigre en papier
Littérature et politique
Wednesday, March 12 – 6:30 p.m.
Institute of French Studies Colloquium
ALAIN DIECKHOFF
Political sociologist, CNRS, CERI; author of The Invention of a Nation: Zionist Thought and the Making of Modern Israel; Israéliens et Palestiniens. L’épreuve de la paix
Les Transformations de l’identité nationale en Israël
Thursday, March 13 – 7:30 p.m.
A Florence Gould Event
FRANÇOISE GILOT
Artist; author of Life with Picasso; The Fugitive Eye; An Artist’s Journey; Matisse and Picasso: A Friendship in Art
Endre Rozsda: Personal and Artistic Recollections of a Hungarian-French Modernist
Paintings of Endre Rozsda are on view at La Maison Française through March 28
FRANCE ON FILM
Sponsored by La Maison Française and the Institute of French Studies
Admission: $3 for NYU i.d. holders, $5 for all others
Friday, March 14 – 7:00 p.m.
L’Anglaise et le Duc /
The Lady and the Duke
Eric Rohmer, 2001; 129 min.
Introduced by Anne Deneys-Tunney, NYU
The France on Film program is made possible with the support of the Cultural Services of the French Embassy and the French Ministry of Culture (CNC)
Tuesday, March 25 – 7:30 p.m.
PASCAL DUSAPIN
Composer of stage, orchestral, chamber, choral, and vocal works, including To Be Sung, and Perelà, uomo di fumo; recipient of Grand Prix National de la Musique
How to Write an Opera to be Sung
Thursday, March 27 – 7:30 p.m.
FRANÇOIS BIZOT
The only Westerner to survive imprisonment by the Khmer Rouge, François Bizot will be speaking about his experiences in Cambodia in the 1970s and his new book, Le Portail (The Gate, Knopf, 2003), an account of his imprisonment by the Khmer Rouge in Cambodia.
Witness & Remembrance
Saturday, March 29
FRENCH GRADUATE STUDENT ASSOCIATION CONFERENCE
Mondes de la Fiction
9:30 a.m.
Keynote Speaker: Emily Apter, NYU
Literary Possible Worlds and the Scandal of Textual Reproduction
10:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.
Les Lettres et les arts
Zeina Hakim, Frontières mobiles: Diderot entre réalité et fiction; Jeannie Britton, Charles Baudelaire and Walter Pater: Fictions of Aesthetic Response; Victoria Llort-Llopart, Music in Literature: Fiction or Truth ?
1:30 p.m. – 5:00 p.m.
La Scène et l’écran
Stéphanie Boulard, Nevers, Again: Narration, Time, and Representation; Moussa Sow, Production filmique et discours social dans Faatkine de Sembène Ousmane; Nikta Mowlavi, Aux origines de la production théâtrale: Le Jeu de Saint-Nicolas de Jean Bodel
La Fiction dans ses limites
Serge Bouchardon, La Fiction interactive; Serenity Joo, Race in the City in Nalo Hopkinson’s Brown Girl in the Ring and Colson Whitehead’s The Intuitionist; Pierre-Alexandre Sicart, Une Poétique de l’antijournal
Monday, March 31 – 6:30 p.m.
Sponsored by the Faculty Colloquium on Orality, Writing, and Culture
KATHRYN TALARICO
Professor of French, College of Staten Island; author of Un merveilleux contraire: Public and Private Desire in the Galeran de Bretagne
Performance and the Subversion of Romance in Jean Renart’s Guillaume de Dole
Wednesday, April 2 – 6:30 p.m.
Institute of French Studies Colloquium
CLAUDE LEFORT
Philosopher, Centre de Recherches Politiques Raymond Aron (EHESS): author of L’Invention démocratique; Essai sur le politique; Ecrire à l’épreuve du politique; La Complication
L’Idée de domination invisible
Thursday, April 3 - 7:30 p.m.
A Florence Gould Lecture
CHANTAL THOMAS
Directrice de recherches, CNRS; author of Casanova; La Reine scélérate; Sade; Comment supporter sa liberté; La Vie réelle des petites filles; Les Adieux à la Reine (Prix Fémina)
Ecrire un roman historique
Monday, April 7 - 6:30 p.m.
Co-sponsored by the Medieval and Renaissance Center
BRIGITTE M. BEDOS-REZAK
Professor of History, NYU; author of Form and Order in Medieval France: Studies in Social and Quantitative Sigillography; Anne de Montmorency: seigneur de la Renaissance
The Ambiguities of Realism and the Question of Identity in Medieval Experience (1000-1250)
Thursday, April 10 – 7:30 p.m.
PASCALE CASANOVA
France Culture; author of La République mondiale des lettres: Histoire structurale des révoltes et des révolutions littéraires
in discussion with
EMILY APTER
Professor of French, NYU; author of Continental Drift: From National Characters to Virtual Subjects
The “Global Lit” Debate in France
LECTURE -------CANCELLED
Tuesday, April 15 - 7:30 p.m.
LUCETTE FINAS
Professor, Collège International de Philosophie and Université de Paris-VII; author of Le Toucher de rayon: Proust, Vautrin et Antinoüs; Centrale pureté: quatre lectures de Mallarmé
Marguerite Yourcenar et la souffrance animale
Wednesday, April 16 – 6:30 p.m.
Institute of French Studies Colloquium
PATRICK WEIL -- Postponed until April 23, 2003
Social Historian, CNRS and Université de Paris-I; member of the Haut-Conseil à l’Intégration; author of Qu’est-ce qu’un Français?; co-author of Nationalité
et citoyenneté en Europe
Jus soli vs. Jus sanguinis? False Opposition and True Comparison between French, German and American Nationality Laws
Tuesday, April 22 – 7:30 p.m.
BEATRICE DIDIER
Professor, Ecole Normale Supérieure; author of L’Ecriture-femme; Stendhal autobiographe; Alphabet et raison; La Musique des Lumières
L’Opéra et le mythe littéraire: Orphée, Don Juan, Faust
Thursday, April 24 – 7:30 p.m.
GERARD GENGEMBRE--Postponed until Fall 2003
Professor, Université de Caen; author of Le Romantisme; Le Théâtre français au 19ème siècle (1789-1900)
Napoléon, les métamorphoses d’un mythe littéraire
Friday, April 25 – 7:00 p.m.
France on film
Location: Cantor Film Center, 36 East Eighth Street
Sponsored by La Maison Française and the hoInstitute of French Studies
$3 with NYU i.d., $5 all other
In French with English subtitles
La Ville est tranquille /
The Town is Quiet
Robert Guédiguian; 2000, 16 mm.,132 min.
Introduced by Marie Cartier, NYU
This program was made possible with the support of the Cultural Services of the French Embassy and the Ministry of Culture (CNC).
Monday, April 28 - 7:30 p.m.
STEPHANE GERSON
Professor of French and French Studies, NYU
A Local France? Local Memories, Patois, and the State in the Nineteenth Century
Wednesday, April 30 – 6:30 p.m.
Institute of French Studies Colloquium
NICOLAS VERON
Consultant, European Corporate Governance Institute; former advisor to Minister of Labor Martine Aubry; former C.F.O., Multimania
Capitalism Unchecked? Stock Market Regulation in Europe and the U.S.
Friday, May 2 – 7:00 p.m.
France on Film
Sponsored by La Maison Française and the Institute of French Studies
Location: Cantor Film Center, 36 East Eighth Street
$3 with NYU i.d., $5 all other
In French with English subtitles
L’Emploi du temps /
Time Out
Laurent Cantet; 2001, 16 mm., 132 min.
Introduced by Frédéric Viguier, NYU
This program was made possible with the support of the Cultural Services of the French Embassy and the Ministry of Culture (CNC).
Fall 2003
Friday, September 12 – 7:00 p.m.
FRANCE ON FILM
Sponsored by La Maison Française and the Institute of French Studies
Location:
Cantor Film Center, 36 East Eighth Street, (between University Place and Greene Street)
$3 with NYU i.d.; $5 all others
In French with English subtitles
Inch’Allah Dimanche
Yamina Benguigui, 2001, DVD, 97 min.
This program was made possible with the support of the Cultural Services of the French Embassy and the Ministry of Culture (CNC).
Wednesday, September 17 - 7:30 p.m.
Co-sponsored by the Medieval and Renaissance Center
JEAN-CLAUDE SCHMITT
Historian; directeur d’études, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales; author of La Conversion d’Hermann le juif; Le Corps des images. Essais sur la culture visuelle du
Moyen Âge
La Musique des images
Thursday, September 18 - 6:30 p.m.
Institute of French Studies Colloquium
BENJAMIN STORA
Historian, Institut National des Langues et Civilisations Orientales; author of La gangrène et l’oubli, la mémoire de la guerre d’Algérie; Algérie, Maroc, Histoires parallèles destins croisés
Entre images et mémoires, la guerre d’Algérie dans le cinéma français
Tuesday, September 23 – 7:30 p.m.
ANKA MUHLSTEIN
Author of A Taste for Freedom: The Life of Astolphe de Custine; Reines éphémères, mères perpétuelles; editor of Memoirs of the Comtesse de Boigne
The Memoirs of Madame de Boigne
(1781-1866) or
How to Survive Three Revolutions and Keep Your Sense of Humor
Thursday, September 25 – 7:30 p.m.
EMILY APTER
Professor of French, NYU; author of Continental Drift; Feminizing the Fetish: Psychoanalysis and Narrative Obsession in Turn-of-the-Century France
Weaponizing the Femme Fatale: Rachilde’s Marquise de Sade
Friday, October 3 – 7:30 p.m.
A Florence Gould Event
THEATER
Location:
Shorin Performance Studio - 8th floor, Kimmel Center for University Life,
60 Washington Square South
HUIS CLOS by Jean-Paul Sartre
Presented by Théâtre de la Chandelle Verte
with Francine Conley, Christian Flaugh, June Miyasaki
Performance in French
$10 with NYU i.d.; $20 all others.
Reservations: 212-998-8750
Tuesday, October 7 – 7:30 p.m.
PATRICK DANDREY
Professor of 17th Century French Literature, Université de Paris-Sorbonne; author of Maladie et médecine dans le théâtre de Molière; Phèdre de Jean Racine ou la liturgie de la souffrance
Mourir d’aimer: la “mélancolie érotique” et l’imaginaire médical ancien
Wednesday, October 8 – 6:30 p.m.
Institute of French Studies Colloquium
ARIANE CHEBEL d’APPOLLONIA
Political Scientist, Institut d’études politiques de Paris; author of L’extrême droite en France de Maurras à Le Pen; Les Racismes ordinaires
Les nouvelles formes de racismes et d’antisémitisme en France
Thursday, October 9 – 7:30 p.m.
JEAN-JACQUES LECERCLE
Professor, University of Cardiff and Université de Paris X-Nanterre; author of Philosophy Through the Looking Glass; Philosophy of Nonsense; Deleuze and Language
The Remainder Revisited or How to Leave the Mainstream Philosophy of Language
Tuesday, October 14 – 7:30 p.m.
FRANÇOISE GAILLARD
Professor, Université de Paris VII; visiting professor, NYU
Malaise de la filiation de Balzac à Zola
Wednesday, October 15 – 6:30 p.m.
Institute of French Studies Colloquium
JACQUES REVEL
Historian; President, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales; visiting professor, NYU; co-author of Une politique de la langue. La Révolution française et les patois; Political Uses
of the Past
Title to be announced (in French)
Friday, October 17 – 7:00 p.m.
Location:
Cantor Film Center, 36 East Eighth Street, (between University Place and Greene Street)
FRANCE ON FILM
Sponsored by La Maison Française and the Institute of French Studies
$3 with NYU i.d.; $5 all others
In French with English subtitles
Laissez-passer /
Safe Conduct
Bertrand Tavernier, 2002, VHS, 163 min.
This program was made possible with the support of the Cultural Services of the French Embassy and the Ministry of Culture (CNC).
Monday, October 20 – 6:00 p.m.
Presented in association with the Center for Religion and Media; co-sponsored by the Department of Anthropology; Program in Religious Studies;Center for Media, Culture, and History
Location: Hemmerdinger Hall, 1st floor, Silver Center, 100 Washington Square East
BRUNO LATOUR
Philosopher and anthropologist, Centre de Sociologie de l’Innovation, Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Mines; author of Laboratory Life; War of the World; co-editor, Iconoclash: Beyond the Image Wars in Science, Religion, and Art
If Gods Are at War, What Are the Peace Conditions?
Tuesday, October 21 – 7:30 p.m.
STEPHANE MICHAUD
Professor of Comparative Literature, Université de Paris III-Sorbonne Nouvelle; author of Visages de la femme de la Révolution française aux apparitions de Lourdes; Flora Tristan, la Paria et son rêve
Flora Tristan, américaine
Monday, October 27 – 7:30 p.m.
Why Lartigue?
Roundtable discussion, on the occasion of the exhibition
PAST TIMES: An Intimate Look at Jacques Henri Lartigue
Martine d’Astier
Director, Donation Jacques Henri Lartigue, Paris
Shelley Rice
Professor, Tisch School of the Arts, NYU
Kenneth Silver
Professor, Fine Arts, NYU
Wednesday, October 29 – 6:30 p.m.
Institute of French Studies Colloquium
ERIC FASSIN
Sociologist, Ecole Normale Supérieure; co-author of Au-delà du PaCS; author of Liberté, égalité, sexualités : actualité politique des questions sexuelles
Sexual Events: France in the American Mirror since 1989
EXHIBITION
October 27 – December 19
PAST TIMES:
An Intimate Look at Jacques Henri Lartigue
Photography exhibition organized in cooperation with the Donation Jacques Henri Lartigue
Monday, November 3 – 7:30 p.m.
Lecture by EUGENE NICOLE
Professor, Department of French, NYU; novelist; author of L’Oeuvre des mers; Les Larmes de Pierre; Le Caillou de l’enfant perdu; co-editor of Vols. 1 and 4, critical edition of Proust’s A la recherche du temps perdu (Bibliothèque de la Pléiade)
Albertine disparue ou les derniers jours de la vie de Marcel Proust
Monday, November 10 – 7:30 p.m.
Reading by SHAN SA
Novelist; author of Porte de la paix céleste (Prix Goncourt du premier roman); Les quatre vies du saule (Prix Cazes); La Joueuse de go (The Girl Who Played Go, Knopf, 2003)
Lecture de textes
Bilingual reading
Tuesday, November 11 – 6:30 p.m.
Institute of French Studies Colloquium
Lecture by STANLEY HOFFMANN
Political Scientist, Harvard University; author of The European Sisyphus: Essays on Europe, 1964-1994; The Ethics and Politics of Humanitarian Intervention; World Disorders: Troubled Peace in the Post-Cold War Era
Franco-American Discord
Thursday, November 13 – 7:30 p.m.
Lecture by FRANÇOIS CORNILLIAT
Professor, Department of French, Rutgers University; author of “Or ne mens.” Couleurs de l’Eloge et du Blâme chez les “Grands Rhétoriqueurs”
La Rhétorique revient: où va la littérature?
Tuesday, November 18 – 6:30 to 9:30 p.m.
Colloquium on Orality, Writing, and Culture; co-sponsored by the Medieval and Renaissance Center and the Dean, Graduate School of Arts and Science.
New Perspectives On Medieval Narrative: A Round Table
Elizabeth Cavitch (George Washington University), Resetting the Stone: Jean de Meun’s Rewriting of Guillaume de Lorris’ Richece; Markus Cruse (NYU), The Book Tells the Story: MS Bodley 264; Marilyn Lawrence (College of Staten Island), Nature, Nurture, and Narrative: Reading the Roman de Silence; Kathleen Loysen ( Montclair State), Storytelling and Truth in the Court of Love: Martial d’Auvergne, Les Arrests d’amour
Followed by student performances of medieval narrative.
Reservations for this event: kv246@nyu.edu
SPECIAL EVENT
Friday, November 21 – 5:00 to 7:00 p.m.
Institute of French Studies 25th Anniversary Event
in association with France Culture
Location: Eisner & Lubin Auditorium, Kimmel Center
60 Washington Square South
The United States, France, and the Crisis over Iraq
Round table with Charlie Rose, Moderator
Pascal Bruckner, Novelist and essayist
Christopher Caldwell, Senior Editor, The Weekly Standard
Ariane Chebel d’Appollonia, Political Scientist, Institut d’Etudes Politiques, Paris
Gérard Grunberg, Political Scientist, Institut d’Etudes Politiques, Paris
Patrick Jarreau, Journalist, Le Monde
Tony Judt, Historian, Remarque Institute, NYU
Sylvie Kauffmann, Journalist, Le Monde
Denis Lacorne, Political Scientist, Institut d’Etudes Politiques, Paris
Ezra Suleiman, Political Scientist, Princeton University
Monday, November 24 – 7:30 p.m.
A Florence Gould Event
Lecture by PASCAL BRUCKNER
Essayist; author of Misère de la prospérité; L’Euphorie perpétuelle; Le vertige de Babel; novelist; author of Les voleurs de beauté (Prix Renaudot)
La Crise d’identité de la France
Wednesday, December 3 – 6:30 p.m.
Institute of French Studies Colloquium
Lecture by FREDERIC MARTEL
Attaché culturel et universitaire, French Consulate in Boston, author of Le Rose et le noir: les homosexuels en France depuis 1968
Paysage après la bataille: Nouveaux débats d’idées et relève intellectuelle en France
Thursday, December 4 – 7:30 p.m.
Lecture by PHILIPPE ROGER
CNRS and EHESS; visiting professor, NYU; editor, Critique; author of Roland Barthes: roman; Sade: la philosophie dans le pressoir; L’Ennemi américain: Généalogie de l’antiaméricanisme français
Le Sabre et la plume: Bonaparte écrivain
Thursday, December 11 – 7:30 p.m.
A public conversation with composer
NED ROREM
in celebration of his 80th birthday
EXHIBITION
Through December 19
PAST TIMES:
An Intimate Look at Jacques Henri Lartigue
Photography exhibition organized in cooperation with the Donation Jacques Henri Lartigu