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.
Wednesday, January 18 – 7:00 p.m.
SPECIAL EVENT
PLANTU
Illustrated lecture by France’s leading political cartoonist Jean Plantureux (aka Plantu), whose work has been featured on the front page of Le Monde since 1985.
The Editorial in Cartoons / L’Editorial en caricatures
Tuesday, January 24 – 7:00 p.m.
CAROLYN BURKE
Biographer, art critic, translator; author of Becoming Modern: The Life of Mina Loy; Lee Miller: A Life (Alfred A. Knopf, 2005)
Lee Miller and the Surrealists
Thursday, January 26 – 7:00 p.m
Co-sponsored with the New York Institute for the Humanities
JERROLD SEIGEL
Professor of History, NYU; author of Bohemian Paris; The Private Worlds of Marcel Duchamp: Desire, Liberation, and the Self in Modern Culture; The Idea of the Self: Thought and Experience in Western Europe Since the Seventeenth Century
Imagining the Modern Self
Monday, January 30 – 7:00 p.m.
SPECIAL EVENT
Multi-media (electro-acoustic and video) performance, with bilingual readings, presented in collaboration with Productions Rhizome.
Six Québec Poets in New York
Simon Dumas
Léon Guy Dupuis
Bertrand Laverdure
Yannick Renaud
André Roy
Elise Turcotte
Wednesday, February 1 – 6:30 p.m.
Institute of French Studies Colloquium
EMMANUEL FAYE
Philosopher, Université de Paris X-Nanterre; author of Philosophie et perfection de l’homme. De la Renaissance à Descartes; Heidegger, l’introduction du nazisme dans la philosophie
Heidegger, les fondements nazis de l’œuvre et le problème de sa réception
CONCERT
Friday, February 3 – 8:00 p.m.
MIRROR VISIONS ENSEMBLE
Portraits of Paris and its Parisians: Musical Mirrors
Tobé Malawista, soprano
Richard Lalli, baritone and pianist
Scott Murphree, tenor
Christopher Berg, composer and pianist
Program features the American premiere of Christopher Berg’s cantata Portrait en miniature de Madame de Sévigné and of his Loisirs de la poste, a song cycle based on short poems by Mallarmé, as well as music by Claude Debussy, Camille Saint-Saëns, André Caplet, René Berthelot, Francis Poulenc, Reynaldo Hahn, Ned Rorem, Georges Enesco, Richard Lalli, and Christopher Culpo.
Mirror Visions Ensemble concerts featuring commissioned new works on French texts by American composers are presented with the generous support of the Florence Gould Foundation.
Reservations: 212-998-8750
Tuesday, February 7 – 7:00 p.m.
JOHANNA STALNAKER
Assistant Professor of French, Columbia University
Unreadable Objects in the Encyclopédie
Tuesday, February 14 – 7:00 p.m.
A Florence Gould Event – Samuel Beckett Centennial
BRUNO CLEMENT
Professor, Université de Paris VIII; President, Collège Internationale de Philosophie; author of L’Œuvre sans qualités, rhétorique de Samuel Beckett; Le Lecteur et son modèle; L’Invention du commentaire, Augustin, Jacques Derrida; Le Récit de la méthode
La Voix, l’image, les figures: littérature et philosophie chez Samuel Beckett
Thursday, February 16 – 7:00 p.m.
CAROL OCKMAN
Professor of Art History, Williams College; author of Ingres’s Eroticized Bodies: Retracing the Serpentine Line
and
KENNETH E. SILVER
Professor and Chair of Fine Arts, NYU; author of Making Paradise: Art, Modernity, and the Myth of the French Riviera; An Expressionist in Paris:The Paintings of Chaim Soutine; Esprit de Corps: The Art of the Parisian Avant-Garde and the First World War
Sarah Bernhardt: The Art of High Drama
A conversation with the guest curators of the Jewish Museum exhibition devoted to the great French actress (1844 – 1923).
Tuesday, February 21 – 7:00 p.m.
GUY SPIELMANN
Professor, Georgetown University; author of Le Jeu de l’ordre et du chaos: Comédie et pouvoirs à la fin de règne, 1673-1715.
Réinventer le classicisme? Pour une approche performative des spectacles sous l’Ancien Régime
Wednesday, February 22 – 6:30 p.m.
Institute of French Studies Colloquium
EMMANUELLE LOYER
Historian, Université de Lille III; visiting professor, NYU; author of Le Théâtre citoyen de Jean Vilar, une utopie d’après-guerre; Paris à New York. Intellectuels et artistes français en exil (1940-1947).
Intellectuels et artistes français en exil à New York, 1940 – 1947
Friday & Saturday, February 24 & 25, 10:00 a.m. – 6:00 p.m.
FRENCH GRADUATE STUDENT ASSOCIATION CONFERENCE
Fractured Reflections: The Breaking Point between Text / Image
Reflets brisés: Le point de rupture entre texte / image
Keynote speakers:
Tom Conley, Harvard University
Kaja Silverman, University of California, Berkeley
Conference details to be announced.
Contact: nyufrenchconference@gmail.com
Monday, February 27– 7:00 p.m.
A Florence Gould Event – Samuel Beckett Centennial
SIMON CRITCHLEY
Professor of Philosophy, New School for Social Research; author of Very Little…Almost Nothing; Things Merely Are: Philosophy in Poetry of Wallace Stevens.
Samuel Beckett’s Film – To be or not to be is not the question
Includes screening of Film (1965, starring Buster Keaton)
PLEASE NOTE:
The conference, The World of Romain Gary, originally scheduled for March, has been postponed until May 4 and 5.
Thursday, March 2 – 6:30 p.m.
Institute of French Studies Colloquium
RENEE POZNANSKI
Professor of Contemporary History, Ben Gurion University of the Negev; visiting scholar, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum; author of Jews in France during World War II
The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising in the French Underground Press
Friday, March 3 – 6:00 p.m.
Conversation (in French)
GUILLAUME GALLIENNE
Comédie Française and cinema actor
and
FLORENT MASSE
French lecturer and director, l’Atelier, Princeton University
Monday, March 6 – 7:00 p.m.
New York University Humanities Council Workshop
Storytelling in Performance
A Demonstration-Talk
ANNE AZEMA
with Joel Cohen and Shira Kammen, viellist
Growing Your Own:
Fashioning a Modern-Day Performance from Old Sources
Anne Azéma, French soprano, is a leading interpreter of early music. She is a featured soloist with The Boston Camerata.
Further information on Storytelling in Performance is available online:
www.nyu.edu/humanities.council/workshops/storytelling/
Thursday, March 9
Rendez-Vous with French Cinema 2006
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, Cultural Services of the French Embassy
CONFERENCE
Location: Cantor Film Center, 36 East 8th St., between University Place and Greene St.
Free admission. Priority with NYU i.d.
All films in French, with English subtitles
The directors will be present for discussion with the audience following each Rendez-Vous screening.
6:00 p.m.
Gentille (Good Girl)
Sophie Fillières, 2005, 35mm., 102 min.
A comedy starring Emmanuelle Devos.
8:30 p.m.
La Moustache
Emmanuel Carrère, 2005, 35mm., 86 min.
An adaptation of his own novel by the writer Carrère, starring Vincent Lindon and Emmanuelle Devos.
Tuesday, March 21 – 7:00 p.m.
A Florence Gould Lecture
Samuel Beckett Centennial Event
PASCALE CASANOVA
Author of La République mondiale des lettres; Beckett l’Abstracteur: l’anatomie d’une révolution littéraire; visiting professor, UCLA
Beckett chez les philosophes
ROUND TABLE
Wednesday, March 22 – 6:30 p.m.
Institute of French Studies Colloquium
The Memory of Slavery in France: Perspectives on the Current Controversies
with
MARYSE CONDE
Writer; Professor Emeritus, Francophone Literature, Columbia University;
Chair, Comité pour la mémoire de l’esclavage
EDWARD BERENSON
Professor, History and French Studies, NYU
WALTER JOHNSON
Associate Professor, Southern History, NYU
GREGORY MANN Assistant Professor, Francophone African History, Columbia University
Thursday, March 23 – 7:00 p.m.
ROGER CHARTIER
Directeur d’études, E.H.E.S.S.; visiting professor, University of Pennsylvania; author of Publishing Drama in Early Modern Europe; On the Edge of the Cliff: History, Language, and Practices; Forms and Meanings: Texts, Performances, and Audiences from Codex to Computer
Materiality of the Text, Literary Property, and Reading Practices:
the Page and the Screen
Monday, March 27 – 7:00 p.m.
OLIVIER BARROT
Journalist; producer and presenter, FR3/TV5 literary program Un livre, un jour; editor in chief, SENSO
SENSO: le magazine culturel français
Numero 23: “I Love NY” – Hommage au New Yorker
Thursday, March 30 – 7:00 p.m.
SYLVIANE AGACINSKI
Philosopher, E.H.E.S.S.; author of Métaphysique des sexes: masculin/féminin aux origines du christianisme; Time Passing, Modernity, and Nostalgia; Parity of the Sexes
L'imaginaire masculin dans la philosophie : Lévinas et Sartre
Tuesday, April 4 – 7:00 p.m.
Location:
Rosenthal Pavilion, Kimmel Center
60 Washington Square South
LEO BERSANI
Professor Emeritus, University of California, Berkeley; visiting scholar, NYU; author of Forms of Being; Homos; Art of Impoverishment; The Culture of Redemption; The Freudian Body: Psychoanalysis and Art
Shame, AIDS, and Gay Spirituality
Wednesday, April 5 – 6:30 p.m.
Institute of French Studies Colloquium
RICHARD WOLIN
Historian, Graduate Center, CUNY; author of The Frankfurt School Revisited: Portrait and Profiles; The Seduction of Unreason; Heidegger’s Children
The Levinas Effect: 1906 - 2006
Thursday, April 6 – 7:00 p.m.
Roundtable in the series: Rethinking Nineteenth Century French Studies
DAVID A. BELL, Johns Hopkins University
BRIGITTE MAHUZIER, Bryn Mawr College
BRIAN MARTIN, Williams College
Moderator: STEPHANE GERSON, NYU
War, Sex, Empire: Military Cultures in Nineteenth Century France
Tuesday, April 11 – 5:30 p.m.
Irving R. Jurow Lecture
Hemmerdinger Hall, Silver Center
100 Washington Square East
LEO BERSANI
Professor Emeritus, University of California, Berkeley; visiting scholar, NYU; author of Forms of Being; Homos; Art of Impoverishment; The Culture of Redemption; The Freudian Body: Psychoanalysis and Art
The Power of Evil and the Power of Love
Thursday, April 13 – 7:00 p.m.
MAURO CARBONE
Author of La Visibilité de l’invisible: Merleau-Ponty entre Cézanne et Proust; The Thinking of the Sensible: Merleau-Ponty’s A-Philosophy
How Can One Recognize What One Did Not Know?
Mnemosyne and the Art of the Twentieth Century
Tuesday, April 18 – 7:00 p.m.
PHILIPPE ROGER
CNRS and EHESS; visiting professor, NYU; editor, Critique; author of Roland Barthes: roman; L’Ennemi américain: généalogie de l’antiaméricanisme français
Je t'aime, moi non plus: le divorce franco-américain est-il une comédie du remariage?
Wednesday, April 19 – 6:30 p.m.
Institute of French Studies Colloquium
PASCAL PERRINEAU
Political Scientist, Sciences Po, CEVIPOF; visiting professor, NYU; author of Le Vote européen 2004-2005, de l’élargissement au référendum français
Le Non français au référendum sur le traité constitutionnel européen
Thursday, April 20 – 7:00 p.m.
A Florence Gould Lecture -- Samuel Beckett Centennial Event
TOM BISHOP
Director, Center for French Civilization and Culture, NYU; author of From the Left Bank: Reflections on the Modern French Theater and Novel; co-editor, Beckett (L’Herne)
Samuel Beckett: From French to English and Back
April 26 & 27
PEN WORLD VOICES:
THE NEW YORK FESTIVAL OF INTERNATIONAL LITERATURE
Co-sponsored by La Maison Française of NYU
CONVERSATION
Wednesday, April 26 - 4:00 to 5:30 p.m.
LYDIE SALVAYRE
Novelist; author of The Declaration; Everyday Life; The Lecture; The Power of Flies; The Company of Ghosts; Le Passage à l’ennemie; La Méthode Mila
in conversation with
RICK MOODY
Novelist; author of Garden State; Purple America; The Ice Age; The Ring of Brightest Angels Around Heaven; Demonology; The Diviner; The Black Veil
Thursday, April 27 - Noon to 1:30 p.m.
RAYMOND FEDERMAN
Novelist, poet, critic; author of Smiles on Washington Square; La Fourrure de ma tante Rachel; The Precipice and Other Catastrophes; Surfiction; Retour au fumier
Reading from Retour au fumier
See PEN website for all festival events: www.pen.org
Thursday, April 27 - 5:30 p.m.
Co-sponsored by the Fales Library
Fales Library (Bobst Library - 3rd Floor)
70 Washington Square South
MICHEL BUTOR
Author of La Modification; Portrait de l'artiste en jeune singe; Le Génie du lieu; Matière de rêves; Les Mots dans la peinture; Répertoire (I à IV); L’Utilité poétique
in conversation with
TOM BISHOP and LOIS OPPENHEIM
Friday & Saturday, April 28 & 29
Co-sponsored by The Urban Studies Program, Fordham University; The Institute of French Studies, NYU; and La Maison Française of NYU
Refashioning Urban Spaces in Paris and New York for the 21st Century
Organized by Rosemary Wakeman (Fordham) and Herrick Chapman (NYU)
Friday, April 28 - 9:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.
Principal Design Projects in Paris and NY
FRANCIS NORDEMANN, Ecole d'architecture de Paris-Belleville
PHILIPPE PANERAI, Ecole d'architecture Paris-Malaquais
KENT BARWICK, Municipal Art Society
ROSEMARY WAKEMAN, Fordham
Friday, April 28 - 2:00 to 5:00 p.m.
Connecting City and Metropolis
Chair: ANNIE FOURCAUT, Centre d'Histoire Sociale du XXè siècle, Paris I
KENT BARWICK, Municipal Art Society
JEAN-LOUIS COHEN, NYU
SUSAN FAINSTEIN, Columbia
PHILIPPE PANERAI, Ecole d'architecture Paris-Malaquais
THIERRY PAQUOT, Institut d'Urbanisme de Paris
Saturday, April 29 - 9:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.
Public Space and the Uses of the City
Chair: SHARON ZUKIN, CUNY Graduate Center
AYALA FADER, Fordham)
DAVID HARVEY, CUNY Graduate Center
PARTRICE HIGONNET, Harvard
THIERRY PAQUOT, Institut d'Urbanisme de Paris
RICHARD SENNETT, NYU, LSE
Saturday, April 29 - 2:00 to 5:00 p.m.
Beyond Postmodernism in Urban Design
Chair: ANTHONY VIDLER, Cooper Union
COLIN CATHCART, Fordham
DAVID HARVEY, CUNY Graduate Center
FRANCIS NORDEMANN, Ecole d'Architecture de Paris-Belleville
GWENDOLYN WRIGHT, Columbia
Monday, May 1 – 7:00 p.m.
A Florence Gould Lecture
42 Washington Mews
JACQUES TOUBON
President, Cité Nationale de l’Histoire de l’Immigration; former Deputy, Assemblée Nationale (1981-1993); Mayor, 13ème Arrondisement, Paris (1983-2001); Ministre de la Culture et de la Francophonie (1993-1995); Ministre de la Justice (1995-1997)
Immigration in the History of the French Nation:
An American Model for a New French Museum?
Tuesday, May 2 – 7:00 p.m.
PAUL AUDI
Philosopher; author of Superiorité de l’éthique: de Schopenhauer à Wittgenstein et au-delà; Où je suis: topique du corps et de l’esprit; Créer; La Fin de l’impossible; co-editor, Romain Gary (L’Herne)
Can the Body Do Wrong?
Wednesday, May 3 – 6:30 p.m.
Presented in cooperation with Dialogues: Islamic World – U.S. – The West
Islam et modernité: comment être musulman et de son temps
ABDELMAJID CHARFI, University of Tunis
HAMADI REDISSI, University of Tunis
BOUTHEINA CHERIET, University of Algiers
CONFERENCE
Thursday & Friday, May 4 & 5
Center for French Civilization and Culture
THE WORLD OF ROMAIN GARY
Thursday, May 4 – 6:30 p.m.
Rm. 914, Kimmel Center
Washington Square South
Opening Remarks: Tom Bishop & Paul Audi
Film screening: Romain Gary by Variety Moszynski (1987), K Films.
The filmmaker will be present.
8:00 p.m. Keynote address:
BERNARD-HENRI LEVY (Paris)
The Gary Case
Friday, May 5 – 9:45 a.m. to 1:00 p.m.
La Maison Française of NYU
Jean-François Hangouët (Paris), Romain Gary Through the Kaleidoscope
Carole Allamand (Rutgers University), Going Down the Staircase of Success: Romain Gary's Autobiography
Jeffrey Mehlman (Boston University), Chien blanc: Gary Among the Panthers
Astrid Poier-Bernhard (University of Graz), The Dance of Genghis Cohn: A Literary Submarine
Friday, May 5 – 3:00 to 6:15 p.m.
La Maison Française of NYU
William Styron (New York) (with Tom Bishop), About Romain Gary
David Bellos (Princeton University), The Company of Men
Ralph Schoolcraft III (Texas A&M University), Romain Gary's Use of Alter Egos
Nathalie Loiseau (French Embassy, Washington), Romain Gary Diplomat
Paul Audi (Paris), A Deep-rooted Messianic Belief
Tuesday, May 9 – 6:30 p.m.
Emmanuel Lévinas (1906 – 1995) Centennial Celebration, co-sponsored by The Center for French Civilization and Culture, the Consulate General of France, and the Consulate General of Israel
Rm. 914, Kimmel Center
60 Washington Square South
BERNARD-HENRI LEVY
Philosopher, essayist, author of American Vertigo; Sartre
The Heritage of Lévinas
FALL 2006
Tuesday, September 12 – 7:00 p.m.
CHRISTIAN BIET
Professor of Theater Studies, Université de Paris - Nanterre; visiting professor, NYU; author of Les Miroirs du soleil; Droit et littérature sous l’Ancien Régime; editor, Théâtre de la cruauté et récits sanglants
Portrait de Corneille en jeune auteur
Thursday, September 14 – 7:00 p.m.
ELISABETH LADENSON
Associate Professor of French, Columbia University; author of Dirt for Art’s Sake: Literature, Sex, and Obscenity, 1857 - 1966 (Cornell University Press, 2006); Proust’s Lesbianism
Lolita in France
Monday, September 18 – 7:00 p.m.
CHRISTOPHER THOMPSON
Associate Professor of History, Ball State University; author of The Tour de France: A Cultural History (University of California Press, 2006)
“Giants of the Road,” “Pedal Workers,” “Slave Laborers,” or Dopers? The Contested Heroism of Tour de France Racers, 1903 to the Present
Wednesday, September 20 – 6:30 p.m.
Institute of French Studies Colloquium
JOSEPH E. LEDOUX
Professor, Center for Neural Science, NYU; author of The Emotional Brain; Synaptic Self: How Our Brains Become Who We Are
Fearful Brains in the Age of Terror
Thursday, September 21 – 7:00 p.m.
JEAN ROLIN
Writer, journalist; author of La Ligne de front; L’Organisation (Prix Médicis); La Clôture; Chrétiens, Terminal Frigo; L’Homme qui a vu l’ours. Reportages et autres articles, 1980 - 2005
Travail de journaliste / Travail d’écrivain
Tuesday, September 26 – 7:00 p.m.
ADAM GOPNIK
Journalist; New Yorker staff writer; author of Paris to the Moon; The King in the Window; editor, Americans in Paris: A Literary Anthology
On The Letters of Marcel Proust
(Translated by Mina Curtiss, Helen Marx Books/Books & Co., 2006)
Thursday, September 28 – 7:00 p.m.
PIERRE MICHEL
Author of Les Combats d’Octave Mirbeau; Octave Mirbeau, l’imprécateur au Coeur fidèle; Octave Mirbeau et le roman
Les Intellectuels et l’affaire Dreyfus: le cas d’Octave Mirbeau
Friday, September 29 – 2 :00 p.m.
Institute of French Studies Colloquium
JACQUES ANDREANI
French Ambassador to the United States (1989 - 1995); author of L’Amérique et nous; Le Piège, Helsinki et la chute du communisme
French and U.S. Political Cultures
Tuesday, October 3 – 7:00 p.m.
Co-sponsored with the Grey Art Gallery
CHARLES MUSSER
Professor of American Studies, Film Studies, Theater Studies, Yale University; author of The Emergence of Cinema; Edison Motion Pictures, 1890 - 1900
The Lumière Cinématographe and Edison’s Vitascope:
The Beginnings of Cinema and the Clash of Cultures
Wednesday, October 4 – 6:30 p.m.
Institute of French Studies Colloquium
CATHERINE COQUERY - VIDROVITCH
Historian, Paris-7-Denis Diderot; visiting professor, NYU; author of History of African Cities South of the Sahara: From the Origins to Colonization
African Perspectives on Slave Trade, Colonial and Post-colonial Debates
Thursday, October 5 – 7:00 p.m.
GABRIELA BASTERRA
Associate Professor of Comparative Literature and Spanish, NYU; program director, Collège International de Philosophie, Paris; author of Seductions of Fate: Tragic Subjectivity, Ethics, Politics
The Paradox of Necessary Fictions: To Paul Ricœur
Special Events
October 12 – 14
HELENE CIXOUS
Novelist, playwright, critic; author of Le Rire de la Méduse; Le Livre de Promethea; Or: les letters de mon père; Les Rêveries de la femme sauvage; Portrait de Jacques Derrida en jeune juif; Rêve je te dis
Thursday, October 12 – 5:30 p.m.
The Irving H.Jurow Lecture
Location: Hemmerdinger Hall, Silver Center, 100 Washington Square East
The Infinite Taste of Dreams
Hélène Cixous will speak of her collaboration with Jacques Derrida on the meaning and workings of dreams, as expressed in her 2005 essay Insister: à Jacques Derrida.
Friday, October 13 – 7:30 p.m.
The Irving H.Jurow Lecture
Location:
Loewe Theater, Tisch School of the Arts,
721 Broadway, 2nd Floor
Drums on the Dam
Staged reading of the English translation of Cixous’s Tambours sur la digue, directed by Kevin Kuhlke (Tisch School of the Arts, NYU). Followed by Q & A with the author, moderated by Judith Miller (Department of French, NYU).
Saturday, October 14 – 2:00 p.m.
The Flying Manuscript
Cixous will speak of her rediscovery of Jacques Derrida’s manuscript of his essay in Voiles, their collective work, which Derrida sent “not to be opened” from Buenos Aires in 1995.
Saturday, October 14 – 6:00 p.m.
Co-sponsored by Slought Foundation and The Drawing Center
Location: The Drawing Center, 35 Wooster Street
Celebrating Hélène Cixous and Maria Chevska: Ex-Cities
Book Launch with Hélène Cixous, Maria Chevska, Avital Ronell, Judith Miller, Eric Prenowitz, Jean-Michel Rabaté, Aaron Levy
Wednesday, October 18 – 6:30 p.m.
Institute of French Studies Colloquium
HERMAN LEBOVICS
Historian, Stony Brook University; author of Bringing the Empire Back Home; Mona Lisa's Escort
Art of Darkness: The Opening of the Musée du Quai Branly
Monday, October 23 – 7:00 p.m.
GREGOIRE BOUILLIER
Writer; author of Rapport sur moi (Prix de Flore); L’Invité mystère (The Mystery Guest, 2006)
Ecriture de la réalité et réalité de l’écriture
Monday, October 30 — 7:00 p.m.
VIRGINIA BUDNY
Art historian, Department of European Paintings, Metropolitan Museum of Art; curator of exhibition Left Bank New York: Artists off Washington Square, 1900—1950
Artists' Spaces in the Heart of New York's Latin Quarter
EXHIBITION
October 27 – December 8
Opening Reception: October 27, 6:00 – 8:00 p.m.
Left Bank New York:
Artists off Washington Square, 1900-1950
Curated by Virginia Budny
The exhibit surveys artists' studios and institutions dedicated to the visual arts in the two blocks north of Washington Square in the first half of the twentieth century. Converted from unused stables and townhouses, these artists' spaces evoked the atmosphere of the Latin Quarter in Paris and became a source of endless fascination for the public. Here some of America's most important artists – among them Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney, Daniel Chester French, Edward Hopper, Paul Manship, Gaston Lachaise, and Isamu Noguchi – congregated, creating monuments that embellish New York City still today.
Paul Manship (1885-1966) in his studio at 42 Washington Mews, New York City, ca. 1918. Photograph by Nickloas Muray (1892-1965).
George Eastman House, Rochester, New York.
Wednesday, November 1 - 7:00 p.m.
SARA DANIEL
Journalist, war correspondent, Le Nouvel Observateur; author of Voyage to
a Stricken Land: Four Years on the Ground Reporting from Iraq (Arcade, 2006)
Four Years on the Ground Reporting from Iraq
Thursday, November 2 – 7:00 p.m.
GONZAGUE SAINT BRIS
Writer, journalist; author of The World of Jules Verne (Helen Marx Books, 2006); Les Vieillards de Brighton (Prix Interallié); Le Romantisme absolu; Les Eugènes russes
Sur les pas de Jules Verne
Friday, November 3, 2:00 – 5:00 p.m.
Co-sponsored by Institute of French Studies and Department of French
Voices from the Banlieues
Roundtable (in English and French)
FAIZA GUENE, Writer; author of Kiffe Kiffe Tomorrow (Harcourt, 2006)
JENNA JOHNSON, editor, Harcourt
DAVID LEPOUTRE, Université d’Amiens; author of Cœur de banlieue
with:
Susan Rogers, NYU
Emmanuelle Ertel, NYU
Kathryn Kleppinger, NYU
Jack Murphy, NYU
Wednesday, November 8 – 6:30 p.m.
Institute of French Studies Colloquium
FREDERIQUE MATONTI
Political scientist, Université de Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne; visiting professor, NYU; author of Le Comportement politique des Français
Elections présidentielles 2007: la gauche et les classes populaires
Friday, November 10 and Saturday, November 11 – 7:30 p.m.
Albertine, en cinq temps
by Michel Tremblay
Presented in French by
Théâtre de la Chandelle Verte
Reservations recommended: 212-998-8750
Tuesday, November 14 – 7:00 p.m.
Co-sponsored by the Humanities Council
ALAIN BADIOU
Philosopher, Ecole Normale Supérieure; author of Le Siècle; Logiques des mondes; L’éthique; Abrégé de métapolitque; L’être et l'événement
Timing “The Century”
Discussants:
Emily Apter, NYU
Bruno Bosteels, Cornell
Xudong Zhang, NYU
Wednesday, November 15 – 6:30 p.m.
Co-sponsored by La Maison Française, the Institute of French Studies,
and the French-American Foundation
Roundtable
Discrimination Positive? French Debates about Affirmative Action
Discussants:
Kimberle Crenshaw, UCLA Law School, Columbia School of Law
Daniel Sabbagh, CERI, Paris
Joël Vallat, Proviseur, Lycée Louis-le-Grand
Patrick Weil, CNRS Université de Paris I
Sunday, November 19, 2:00 – 4:30 p.m.
Haitian History and Culture:
Commemorating the Battle of Vertières
Book Presentation & Signing
Revolutionary Freedoms: A History of Survival, Strength,
and Imagination in Haiti
Paintings by Ulrick Jean-Pierre
Edited by Cécile Accilien,
Jessica Adams, and Elmide Méléance (Caribbean Studies Press, 2006)
LECTURE-------CANCELLED
RICHARD MILLET
Writer, novelist; author of Harcèlement littéraire; Musique secrète; Ma Vie parmi les ombres; L’Amour des trois sœurs Piale; La Gloire des Pythre
La Solitude de l’écrivain
Tuesday, November 28 – 7:00 p.m.
YVES HERSANT
Director, Group de recherches sur l’Europe, EHESS; visiting professor, NYU; author of Mélancolies: De l’Antiquité au XXe siècle; La Métaphore baroque
Michel Foucault et l’Europe
LECTURE-------POSTPONED (Date to be announced)
Co-sponsored by La Maison Française and the Institute of French Studies
PAUL BERMAN
Distinguished writer in residence, Department of Journalism, NYU; author of A Tale of Two Utopias; Power and the Idealists; Terror and Liberalism
Hugo, Hawthorne, Tocqueville, and God
CONFERENCE
Friday, December 1
Institute of French Studies Colloquium
Perspectives on Jerrold Seigel’s The Idea of the Self
9:30 a.m. - 1:00 p.m.
Panelists:
Warren Breckman, University of Pennsylvania
Lucien Jaume, Cevipof – CNRS
Louis Sass, Rutgers University
John Toews, University of Washington
3:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m.
Discussants:
Edward Berenson, NYU
Tony Judt, NYU
Helena Rosenblatt, CUNY
Debora Silverman, UCLA
4:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.
Response:
Jerrold Seigel, NYU, author of The Idea of the Self: Thought and Experience in Europe since the 17th Century (Cambridge University Press, 2005)
LECTURE-------CANCELLED
CHRISTIAN DELACAMPAGNE
Philosopher, writer; Department of Romance Languages and Literatures, Johns Hopkins University; author of Animaux étrangeset fabuleux; Les Religions peuvent-elles être tolérantes
Tina Modotti, femme, photographe, et communiste
DANY LAFERRIERE
Novelist ; author of Comment faire l'amour avec un nègre sans se fatiguer; Charme des après-midi sans fin; L'Odeur du café; Le goût des jeunes filles; Le cri des oiseaux fous (Prix Marguerite Yourcenar)
in conversation with
J. MICHAEL DASH
Professor of French, NYU; author of Culture and Customs of Haiti; The Other America: Caribbean Literature in a New World Context
LECTURE
Tuesday, December 12 - 6:30 p.m.
Co-sponsored by the Institute of French Studies and Dialogues: Islamic World - U.S. - The West
ABDESSELAM CHEDDADI
Historian, University MuhammadV,Rabat, Morocco; author of Ibn Khaldûn: L’homme et le théoricien de la civilisation
Ibn Khaldûn, Philosopher of Societies, Civilizations,
and Empires
(in English and French with interpretation)
Response:
RICHARD BULLIET
Historian, Middle East Institute, Columbia University author of The Case for Islamo-Christian Civilization
EXHIBITION
October 27 – December 15
Hours: Monday-Friday, 10 am-6 pm
Open Saturday, December 9, 12-6 pm
The gallery is closed occasionally for NYU events.
Please call to verify hours. 212.998.8750
Left Bank New York:
Artists off Washington Square, 1900-1950
Curated by Virginia Budny
The exhibit surveys artists' studios and institutions dedicated to the visual arts in the two blocks north of Washington Square in the first half of the twentieth century. Converted from unused stables and townhouses, these artists' spaces evoked the atmosphere of the Latin Quarter in Paris and became a source of endless fascination for the public. Here some of America's most important artists – among them Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney, Daniel Chester French, Edward Hopper, Paul Manship, Gaston Lachaise, and Isamu Noguchi – congregated, creating monuments that embellish New York City still today.
Catalogue available
Paul Manship (1885-1966) in his studio at 42 Washington Mews,
New York City, ca. 1918. Photograph by Nickloas Muray (1892-1965).
George Eastman House, Rochester, New York.