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.
Tuesday, January 29 - 7:00 p.m.
ANKA MUHLSTEIN
Writer, historian, biographer; author of Elisabeth d’Angleterre et Marie Stuart ou les périls du mariage; Astolphe de Custine, le dernier marquis (Prix Goncourt, biographie); Napoléon à Moscou (Odile Jacob, 2007)
Napoleon and the Burning of Moscow
Wednesday, January 30 - 6:30 pm
Institute of French Studies Colloquium
PIERRE BOUVIER
Sociologist, Université de Paris X-Nanterre; author of Le Lien social; Socio-anthropologie du contemporain; Frantz Fanon
Les Antilles entre négritude et transnational: Aimé Césaire/Frantz Fanon
Thursday, January 31 - 7:00 p.m.
Lecture
KAREEN RISPAL
Cultural Counselor of the French Embassy
La diplomatie culturelle
Friday, February 1 - 8:00 p.m.
Concert
MIRROR VISIONS ENSEMBLE
French Jewels
Music by Reynaldo Hahn, Charles Koechlin, and Christopher Berg.
Tobé Malawista, soprano
Scott Murphree, tenor
Richard Lalli, baritone
Alan Darling, piano
Reservations: 212-998-8750
This concert is inspired by an exhibition of the jewelry of René Lalique at the Musée du Luxembourg in Paris and by the Lalique Collection at the Musée des Arts Décoratifs. The program is divided into groups of songs that link to the jewels, to the Divas who wore them, and to Lalique himself. The art and intricacy of Lalique's exquisite sculpture in enamel, gold and semi-precious stones and the sensuality of his subject-matter, are paralleled in the music of Reynaldo Hahn and Charles Koechlin, as well as Gabriel Fauré, César Cui, Albert Roussel, Erik Satie, Manuel de Falla and Maurice Ravel, among others.
New commission for this concert: Christopher Berg's setting of "Les Bijoux", a poem by Charles Baudelaire. The performers are Tobé Malawista, soprano; Scott Murphree, tenor; Richard Lalli, baritone; Alan Darling, pianist.
The ensemble will also present this concert at the newly reopened Musée des Arts Décoratifs in Paris on Saturday, March 15, 2008.
Concerts by the Mirror Visions Ensemble are presented with the generous support of the Florence Gould Foundation.
Tuesday, February 5 - 7:00 p.m.
ANDRE SCHIFFRIN
Publisher; founder, The New Press; author of A Political Education: Coming of Age in Paris and New York (Melville House, 2007)
A Political Education: Coming of Age in Paris and New York
Thursday, February 7 - 7:00 p.m.
SYLVERE LOTRINGER
Professor of French Literature and Philosophy, Columbia University;
founder, Semiotext(e)
Baudrillard’s Homage to Foucault
Monday, February 11 - 7:00 p.m.
A Florence Gould Event
French Literature in the Making
(more info...)
- Simultaneaous translation into English available
JEAN ECHENOZ
Author of Le Méridien de Greenwich; Cherokee (Prix Médicis); L’Equipée malaise; Je m’en vais (Prix Goncourt); Ravel
in conversation with
OLIVIER BARROT
Journalist, Un livre un jour (France 3); publisher, Senso
Presented with the support of Directours, l’Avion, the Cultural Services of the French Embassy, and CulturesFrance.
Tuesday, February 12 – 7:00 p.m.
Translating and Adapting Artaud: The Cenci
Selected Readings and Discussion
JOHN JAHNKE
Playwright/director, The Archery Contest; Funeral Games; The Shady Maids of Haiti; artistic director, The Hotel Savant theater company
RICHARD SIEBURTH
Professor of French and Comparative Literature, NYU; translator of Antonin Artaud, Michel Leiris, Henri Michaux, Gérard de Nerval, Maurice Scève
Antonin Artaud’s infamous version of the Roman scandal of 1599 takes on a wicked life of its own in his lurid account of a wealthy family felled by incest, murder, and Papal oppression. This rarely staged Theatre of Cruelty work, adapted and directed by John Jahnke, is presented in its first American translation at The Ohio Theater, NYC, February 6-24, 2008 (http://www.hotelsavant.com).
Wednesday, February 13 - 6:30 p.m.
Cinema
Film Screening (in French; no subtitles). Co-sponsored by the Africa House, the Institute of French Studies and La Maison Française.
Les Statues Meurent Aussi
Directed by Alain Resnais and Chris Marker (1953, 29 min.), produced by Présence Africaine
Panel discussion (in English)
Ludovic Cortade, Assistant Professor of French, NYU
Awam Ampka, Associate professor of Drama; director, Africana Studies; author of Theatre and Postcolonial Desires
Denis Hollier, Professor of French, NYU
Alisa LaGamma, Curator, Department of the Arts of Africa, Oceania, and the Americas, The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Thursday, February 14 – 7:00 p.m.
FRANÇOISE GAILLARD
Professor, Université de Paris-VII; visiting professor, NYU
De l’âge de la critique à l’âge de la morale
Tuesday, February 19 - 7:00 p.m.
LISE SCHREIER
Assistant Professor of French, Fordham University; author of Seul dans l'Orient lointain: les voyages de Nerval et Du Camp
Au Secours des inépousées: colonialisme, féminisme et consensus national (1897-1903)
Thursday, February 21 - 7:00 p.m.
PIERRE-MARC de BIASI
Director, CNRS-Institut des Textes et Manuscrits Modernes; author of L’Erotisme (de l’Olympe au Cybersex)
Erotisme: l’art et les techniques dans l’histoire des représentations du plaisir
Friday & Saturday, February 22 & 23
Graduate Student Conference – Department of French
La Vie de l’œuvre: inception, reproduction, and decomposition
Details: http://homepages.nyu.edu/~yeh206/index3.html
Tuesday, February 26 - 7:00 p.m.
A Conversation with
JEROME CHARYN
Writer; novelist; author of Sizzling Chops and Devilish Spins; The Isaac Quartet; The Green Lantern: A Romance of Stalinist Russia; Johnny One-Eye: A Tale of the American Revolution (Norton, 2008)
Participants:
Georges Borchardt, Literary Agent
Robert Weil, Editor, W.W. Norton
Wednesday, February 27 - 6:30 p.m.
Co-sponsored by the Institute of French Studies and the Program in Museum Studies
The Making of the Cité nationale de l’histoire de l’immigration
NANCY L. GREEN
Historian, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris; history advisory board member, Cité nationale de l’histoire de l’immigration; author of Ready-to-Wear and Ready-to-Work: A Century of Industry and Immigrants in Paris and New York
Respondants:
Jeffrey L. Trask, Historian, Museum Studies, NYU
Ruth J. Abram, Lower East Side Tenement Museum
Thursday, Feb. 28 - 7:00 p.m.
MAURO CARBONE
Philosopher, University of Milan; author of La Visibilité de l’invisible: Merleau-Ponty entre Cézanne et Proust; The Thinking of the Sensible: Merleau-Ponty’s A-Philosophy
Merleau-Ponty and Deleuze as Readers of Proust
Rendez-vous with French Cinema
Screenings presented in cooperation with Unifrance Film International, The Film Society of Lincoln Center, The IFC Center, and the Cultural Services of the French Embassy
Location:
IFC Center, 323 Avenue of the Americas (at West 3rd Street) Tel: 212-924-7771 www.ifccenter.com
$12 General public, $8 students with NYU i.d (these screenings only), IFC members, seniors
Sunday, March 2 – 3:30 p.m.
Her Name is Sabine / Elle s’appelle Sabine
(2007, 85 min., in French with English subtitles)
Followed by Q & A with director
SANDRINE BONNAIRE
Moderator: Ludovic Cortade, NYU
A touching documentary memoir of her sister’s autism written and directed by acclaimed actress Sandrine Bonnaire.
Tuesday, March 4 – 9:30 p.m.
Ain’t Scared / Regarde-moi
(2007, 97 min., in French with English subtitles)
Followed by Q & A with director
AUDREY ESTROUGO
Moderator: Robert Stam, NYU
The 23-year-old director’s first film explores racial dynamics and adolescent life in the Parisian housing projects.
Rendez-Vous with French Cinema runs from February 29 through March 9, presenting the U.S. premieres of fifteen new French films. Screenings take place at the Walter Reade Theater and at the IFC Center.
For a complete schedule, visit www.filmlinc.com and www.ifccenter.com
Monday, March 3 – 7:00 p.m.
A Florence Gould Event
French Literature in the Making
Simultaneous translation available for this event. More info...
LINDA LÊ
Writer, novelist; author of Un si tendre vampire; Les Evangiles du crime; Calomnies; Les Dits d’un Idiot; Les Trois Parques ; Lettre morte; Voix; Les Aubes; Autres Jeux avec le Feu;Personne; In Memoriam
in conversation with
OLIVIER BARROT
Journalist, Un livre un jour (France 3); publisher, Senso
Presented with the support of Directours, l’Avion, the Cultural Services of the French Embassy, and CulturesFrance.
Wednesday, March 5 – 6:30 p.m.
Institute of French Studies Colloquium
Reading and discussion with the authors
Queer Lives: Men's Autobiographies from 19th-Century France
(University of Nebraska Press, 2007)
WILLIAM A. PENISTON
Manager of Library and Archives, The Newark Museum; author of Pederasts and Others: Urban Culture and Sexual Identity in Nineteenth-Century Paris
NANCY ERBER
Professor of Linguistics and Modern Languages, LaGuardia Community College, CUNY; author of Disorder in the Court: Trials and Sexual Conflict at the Turn of the Century
March 10, 11, 12 at 7:00 p.m.
A Florence Gould Event
A TRIBUTE TO
CHRISTIAN DELACAMPAGNE (1949-2007)
Philosopher, writer, critic, human rights activist;
author of
Histoire de la philosophie au XXe siècle; De l’Indifférence;
Le Philosophe et le tyran; Histoire du racisme;
Islam et Occident; Apprendre à vivre ensemble
THREE LECTURES IN HONOR OF A FRIEND
Monday, March 10 - 7:00 p.m.
PAUL AUDI
Philosopher, writer, Paris; author of Supériorité de l’éthique; L’Ethique mise à nu par ses paradoxes, même; L’Ivresse de l’art; Nietzsche et l’esthétique; Créer
Le Paradoxe du désir selon Alfred Jarry
Tuesday, March 11 - 7:00 p.m.
LAWRENCE D. KRITZMAN
Rosenwald Research Professor in Arts and Sciences, Professor of French and Comparative Literature, Dartmouth College; author of The Rhetoric of Sexuality and the Literature of the French Renaissance
Romancing the Stone: Montaigne's Erotics of Experience
Wednesday, March 12 - 7:00 p.m.
TOM BISHOP
Florence Lacaze Gould Professor of French Literature, NYU; editor, L’Avant-Garde Théâtrale: French Theater Since 1950; author, From the Left Bank: Reflections on the Modern French Theater and Novel
Now You See It, Now You Don’t: The Disappearing Avant-Garde
Tuesday, March 25 – 7:00 p.m.
MARK CRUSE
Assistant Professor, School of International Letters and Cultures, Arizona State University
Wednesday, March 26 - 6:30 p.m.
Institute of French Studies Colloquium
ERIC FASSIN
Sociologist, Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris; visiting professor, NYU; author of L'Inversion de la question homosexuelle, Liberté, égalité, sexualités; coeditor, De la question sociale à la question raciale?
The Rising Significance of Race in France
Thursday, March 27 – 6:00 p.m. (Note time)
Special Event
Book Launch
Continental Shifts: The Art of Edouard Duval Carrié
Edited by Edward J. Sullivan (Arte al Dia Press, 2007)
Continental Shifts: The Art of Edouard Duval-Carrié features the magical realism captured in both painting and sculpture by this important Haitian-born artist. The art of Duval-Carrié exhibits a dynamic blend of Afro-Caribbean culture, fantasy, and spectacular ornamentation.
EDOUARD DUVAL CARRIE
Artist
in conversation with
EDWARD J. SULLIVAN
Dean of Humanities, NYU; art historian
MICHAEL DASH
Professor of French, NYU
SARAH LEWIS
Art historian, Yale University
March 10 – April 8
M – F, 10 a.m. – 6 p.m.
EXHIBITION
Duende: Visages et Voix du Flamenco
Photographs by
ARIANE DELACAMPAGNE
From the volume published by L’Archange Minotaure, 2007.
Text by Christian Delacampagne.
Festival de Mont-de-Marsan, Belén Maya, 2005
April/May 2008
Wednesday, April 2 – 6:30 p.m.
Co-sponsored by the Institute of French Studies
SYLVAIN CYPEL
Senior Correspondant, Le Monde; author of Walled: Israeli Society at an Impasse
France, Israel, and the U.S.: Shifting Debates
Thursday, April 3 – 7:00 p.m.
YAËL DAGAN
Fellow, Remarque Institute, NYU; author of La Nouvelle Revue française de la guerre à la paix, 1914-1925 (forthcoming)
La Nouvelle Revue française et l’oubli de la Première Guerre mondiale
Tuesday, April 8 – 6:30 p.m. (Note time)
A Florence Gould Event
Location: 19 West 4th Street, Room 101, New York, NY 10012 (map it...)
JACK LANG
Member of the French National Assembly; Former French Minister of Culture and Minister of Education
A Dialogue on Culture, Politics, France today...
(in French)
with Tom Bishop, NYU
Through April 8, M – F, 10 a.m. – 6 p.m.
EXHIBITION
Duende: Visages et Voix du Flamenco
Photographs by
ARIANE DELACAMPAGNE
From the volume published by L’Archange Minotaure, 2007. Text by Christian Delacampagne.
April 10 – 12
CONFERENCE
Catastrophe and Caesura:
Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe Today
Organized by Denis Hollier and Avital Ronell
Thursday, April 10 - 6:30 p.m.
Location: Cardozo Law School, 55 Fifth Avenue
Introduction: Peter Goodrich
Keynote Lecture: Jean-Luc Nancy
Après la tragédie - After Tragedy (in French; English translation available)
Friday, April 11
Location: La Maison Française, NYU
10:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. (In French)
Discussion:
Marie-Hélène Huet, moderator (Princeton)
Richard Sieburth (NYU)
François Rigolot (Princeton)
Claire Nancy (Paris)
Michel Deutsch (Strasbourg)
Michel Deguy (Paris)
2:30 – 5:30 p.m.
Micaela Kramer, moderator (NYU)
Anthony Vidler (Cooper Union)
Sam Weber (Northwestern)
Jeff Fort (UC Davis)
Jean-Christophe Bailly (Paris)
Saturday, April 12
Location: La Maison Française
10:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.
Anthony Abiragi, moderator (NYU)
Susan Bernstein (Brown)
Kevin McLaughlin (Brown)
Shireen Patell (NYU)
John Hamilton (NYU)
Eduardo Cadava (Princeton)
12:30 p.m.
Concluding Remarks
Peter Banki, moderator (NYU)
Ann Smock (UC Berkeley)
Christopher Fynsk (Aberdeen)
Sponsored by NYU (Departments of French, German., and Comparative Literature; Center for French Civilization and Culture; Dean of Humanities; The Humanities Initiative); Princeton University (Department of French and Italian; Office of the President); Cardozo Law School; TVTS; Cultural Services of the French Embassy.
Tuesday, April 15 – 7:00 p.m.
SPECIAL EVENT
COLLEGE DES BERNARDINS:
A New Center in Paris for Cultural Dialogue on 21st Century Issues
Presentation by
FATHER PATRICK DUBOIS
President, Yahad-in-Unum; director, French Bishops’ Conference for Jews; adviser to the Vatican’s Commission for religious relations with Jews; director of research, Collège des Bernardins
Built in the 13th century, by the Cistercian monks, the Collège des Bernardins was for many centuries a center of Western thought. It is currently undergoing a spectacular renovation to recover its original beauty. At the initiative of the Catholic Church, it will become a special place for dialogue, debate and research on critical issues in today’s society.
Wednesday, April 16 - 6:30 p.m.
Institute of French Studies Colloquium
SIHEM HABCHI
President, Ni Putes, Ni Soumises
Le Mouvement Ni Putes, Ni Soumises aujourd'hui
Thursday, April 17 – 7:00 p.m.
Co-sponsored by the Department of Comparative Literature
TIMOTHY J. REISS
Professor Emeritus of Comparative Literature, Distinguished Scholar in Residence, NYU; author of Against Autonomy: Global Dialectics of Cultural Exchange; Mirages of the Selfe: Patterns of Personhood in Ancient and Early Modern Europe
“From the birds I learned ...”:
Jean de Léry on Violence, Religion, and the Colonial
Monday, April 21– 7:00 p.m.
LINDA NOCHLIN
Lila Acheson Wallace Professor of Modern Art, Institute of Fine Arts, NYU; author of Realism and Tradition in Art, 1848-1900; The Politics of Vision; Representing Women; Bathers, Bodies, Beauty; Courbet
Courbet’s Realism
Thursday, April 24 – 7:00 p.m.
FREDERIC VIGUIER
Sociologist; assistant director, Institute of French Studies, NYU
De la Cause du peuple à la cause des pauvres
Monday, April 28 – 7:00 p.m.
A Florence Gould Lecture
GUY SORMAN
Journalist, economist, philosopher; author of Le progrès et ses ennemis; Made in USA; L’Année du coq; The Empire of Lies
The Truth About China in the 21st Century
Wednesday, April 30, 1:00 p.m.
PEN World Voices:
The NY Festival of International Literature
Co-sponsored by La Maison Française, The Banff Centre, and the Délégation Générale du Québec
A Servant of Two Masters:
Bringing Theater to New Audiences in Translation
MICHEL TREMBLAY
Playwright, novelist, screenwriter; author of Les Belles-soeurs; A Toi, pour toujours, ta Marie-Lou; Hosanna; Bonjour, là, bonjour; Albertine, en cinq temps; Encore une fois, si vous le permettez
in conversation with
LINDA GABORIAU
Translator
MICHAEL MOORE
Chair, PEN America Translation Committee
See www.pen.org for full schedule of PEN World Voices events.
Friday, May 2 – 8:00 p.m.
CONCERT
THE DAN TEPFER TRIO
Improvisational Contemporary Jazz
Dan Tepfer, piano; Jorge Roeder, double bass; Richie Barshay, drums
Tickets: $10. Reservations: 212-998-8750
New York-based pianist Dan Tepfer is the Cole Porter Fellow of the American Pianists Association and won first prize as well as the audience prize in the 2006 Montreux Jazz Festival Solo Piano Competition. Originally from Paris, he has been touring and performing internationally with Peruvian bassist Jorge Roeder and American drummer Richie Barshay for more than four years. The concert will feature original compositions and new arrangements of jazz standards that emphasize improvisational freedom.
Monday, May 5 – 7:00 p.m.
A Florence Gould Event
French Literature in the Making
Simultaneous translation available. More info...
MICHEL SCHNEIDER
Writer; magistrate, Cour des Comptes; psychoanalyst; former director of music, French Ministry of Culture; author of Marilyn, dernières séances (Prix Interallié); La Tombée du jour; Maman; Morts imaginaires (Prix de l’Essai Médicis)
in conversation with
OLIVIER BARROT
Journalist, Un livre un jour (France 3); publisher, Senso
Presented with the support of Directours, l’Avion, the Cultural Services of the French Embassy, and CulturesFrance.
Monday, September 8 – 7:00 p.m.
A Florence Gould Event
French Literature in the Making
In French.
SYLVAIN TESSON
Writer; geographer; author of Petit Traité sur l’immensité du monde; Eloge de l’énergie vagabonde
in conversation with
OLIVIER BARROT
Writer; journalist; Un livre un jour (France 3); publisher, Senso
The author, Sylvain Tesson, is a geographer and a world traveler. On foot, on bicycle, and on horseback, he has explored the steppes of Central Asia, Siberia, and many other areas of the earth that have been relatively neglected. He has published numerous accounts of his expeditions and his Petit traité sur l'immensité du monde (Equateurs, 2005) and Eloge de l'énergie vagabonde (Equateurs, 2006) have been hailed as veritable manifestos. Sylvain Tesson is an honorary member of the Institut de Recherche sur les Expériences Extraordinaires and a member of the Executive Committee of the French Society of Explorers.
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Presented with additional support from L’Avion, Directours, CulturesFrance, and the Cultural Services of the French Embassy.
September 15 – 20
Simone de Beauvoir Week
A Florence Gould Event
International conference, performances, and films. In French and in English.
Complete schedule of events here
Monday, September 22 - 6:00 p.m.
Co-sponsored by La Maison Française of NYU and the AIA – New York
Location: The Center for Architecture, 536 LaGuardia Place, between West 3rd and Bleecker Streets
Reservations: rsvp@aiany.org
ALISTAIR LENCZNER
Partner, Foster + Partners
The Viaduct at Millau, France, by Foster + Partners
Completed in 2004, the Millau Viaduct is a first wonder of the 21st Century. The highway viaduct, which spans the Tarn River valley in the southwest of France, is the world’s tallest bridge and has overtaken the Eiffel Tower as France’s highest structure. The last link in the A75 autoroute from Paris to Barcelona, it is the product of a long planning process to find the most compatible route across the deep valley in the Parc Naturel Régional des Grands Causses. Since its opening, the project has been widely acclaimed for its synthesis of engineering and architectural design, and the bridge has established itself as a major tourist destination in its own right.
Alistair Lenczner, partner with Foster + Partners and supervising architect for the Millau Viaduct project, will present a detailed account of viaduct design development, including the collaboration with its French engineer, Michel Virlogeux. He will describe how the viaduct was built and its impact on both the local environment and the community of Millau, France. He will also provide a review of other infrastructure design work by Foster + Partners.
Related links: http://www.aiany.org/ - http://www.fosterandpartners.com
Wednesday, September 24 – 6:30 p.m.
Institute of French Studies Colloquium
ESTHER BENBASSA
Professor of History, Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes, Paris; visiting professor, NYU; author of The Jews of France
Les Juifs en France aujourd’hui: Portrait historique d’un groupe minoritaire en mutation
In French.
Thursday, September 25 – 7:00 p.m.
A Florence Gould Event
DENISE EPSTEIN
in conversation with
Olivier Corpet and Emmanuelle Lambert of IMEC (l’Institut Mémoires de l’édition contemporaine)
Denise Epstein will discuss the work of her mother, Irène Nemirovsky, author of Suite française.
50 years after her mother's death, Denise Espstein discovered and transcribed the first two parts of the remarkable, unfinished five-part novel, Suite française, now a worldwide bestseller.
In French.
Friday, September 26 - 4:00 p.m.- 6:00 p.m.
“Feeding Frenzy”
Education of a Chef: What does French training mean for chefs today?
A round table discussion with Olivier Muller (DB Bistro Moderne), Peter Hoffman (Savoy Restaurant), Cynthia Billeaud (HR Director for the Restaurants of Daniel Boulud), Mitchell Davis (Vice President, The James Beard Foundation), Marvin Taylor, (moderator; Director, Fales Library and Special Collections NYU).
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This event is part of the interdisciplinary conference “Feeding Frenzy: Explorations in Food and Culture," which is co-sponsored by the Departments of Cinema Studies and of Performance Studies in the NYU Tisch School of the Arts and by NYU Steinhardt School’s Department of Nutrition, Food Studies, and Public Health.
Thursday, October 2 – 7:00 p.m.
Co-sponsored by the Vice Provost for Globalization and Multicultural Affairs
and the AIA-NY
Film Screening
Location: Cantor Film Center, 36 East 8th Street
In English.
Maison Tropicale
(2008; 58 minutes)
A film by MANTHIA DIAWARA
University Professor, NYU; author of We Won’t Budge recently translated in French as Bamako, Paris, New York; documentary filmmaker
Discussants: Richard Sennett, NYU; Anthony Vidler, Cooper Union
In the late 1940’s, builder and architect Jean Prouvé designed three prefabricated aluminum maisons tropicales as prototypes for the housing of French colonial administrators in Africa. One was sent to Niamey, Niger and two to Brazzaville, Congo. Recently they were removed and have since been exhibited in Europe and North America, and sold for millions of dollars.
In 2007, Ângela Ferreira made an installation on the maisons tropicales for the Portuguese Pavilion at the Venice Biennale. Manthia Diawara’s documentary is a complement to the Ferreira artistic project, and brings to life the hidden stories and memories of those left behind in Africa when the maisons tropicales were removed. It is a postcolonial excavation into African identity, art, and the notion of cultural patrimony.
October 3 & 4
Institute of French Studies Colloquium. Organized by The National September 11 Memorial & Museum and Le Mémorial de Caen
Memory and Trauma: The Stakes of a Memorial Museum
In French.
Friday, October 3
9:30 a.m.
Introduction:
Denis Peschanski, CNRS
History, Memory, Resilience, Event and Representation : The Stakes of Research
Panel 1 - Perception and Representation
Max Page, University of Massachusetts-Amherst
The Future of the City’s End: New York’s Fears and Fantasies After 9/11
Gérard Rabinovitch, CNRS
A Memorial Challenge : The Distinction Between Terrorism and Resistance
Henry Rousso, CNRS
What Future for Memory?
2:00 p.m.
Panel 2 - History and Memory
David Blight, Yale University
The Divided United States : War and Race as the Faultlines of American Memory
Annette Becker, University of Paris X
From the Great War to September 11th : Cultures of war and memories
James Young, University of Massachusetts-Amherst
Historical Events and Their Memorial Stages : Berlin and New York
Jean-Marcel Humbert, the Directorate of Museums of France
Memory and History in French Museums
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Saturday, October 4
10:00 a.m.
Panel 3 - Trauma and Resilience
Gretty Mirdal, University of Copenhagen
Dis-membered memories – Re-membered memories in post-traumatic reactions.
Grady Bray, Disaster Human Services, Inc.
Community Resilience : The Trauma That Does Not Bleed
Patrick Weil, CNRS
Traumatic Memories : Jews, Blacks and Algerians
Henri Parens, Jefferson Medical College
Resilience in Coping With Trauma
12:30 p.m. - Lunch
2:00 p.m.
Panel 4 - Making the Memorial Museum
Richard Jezierski, Memorial Center of Oradour-sur-Glane
Memories of Civilians : Oradour
Kari Watkins, Oklahoma City National Memorial & Museum
A Lesson in Hope : The Resilience a City Found in Creating the Oklahoma City National Memorial & Museum
Stéphane Grimaldi, Director, Le Memorial de Caen
Communicating with new publics : What kind of memorial for those weren’t there ?
Alice Greenwald, National September 11th Memorial & Museum
Passion on All Sides: Planning a Memorial Museum at Ground Zero
Monday, October 6 – 5:00 p.m. (note time)
FREDERIC VALABREGUE
Writer; author of La Ville sans nom; Agricole et Béchamel; Le Vert-Clos; Asthme; Les Mauvestis
Using Vernacular Language
In French.
Thursday, October 9 – 7:00 p.m.
Round Table
The 50th Anniversary of the French New Wave:
The Crossroads of Film and Politics
In English.
Dudley Andrew, (Yale); Philip Watts, (Columbia); Alan Williams, (Rutgers); Ivone Margulies, (Hunter); Sam Di Iorio, (Hunter); Ludovic Cortade, (NYU; moderator)
Monday, October 13 – 7:00 p.m.
A Florence Gould Event
French Literature in the Making
In French with simultaneous translation.
BENOIT DUTEURTRE
Writer; music critic; author of Gaieté parisienne; Le Voyage en France (Prix Médicis), La Petite Fille et la cigarette
in conversation with
OLIVIER BARROT
Writer; journalist; Un livre un jour (France 3); publisher, Senso
Presented with the additional support of Directours, L’Avion, CulturesFrance, and the Cultural Services of the French Embassy
Tuesday, October 14 – 7:00 p.m.
**CANCELLED**
EDOUARD GLISSANT
Writer; Distinguished Professor, CUNY Graduate Center
Speaking on Aimé Césaire (1913-2008)
In French.
Wednesday, October 15 – 6:30 p.m.
Institute of French Studies Colloquium
JEAN-ROBERT DANTOU
Photographer; author of Paysages de campagne
Paysages de campagne: Les élections présidentielles en France et aux Etats-Unis
In French.
Thursday, October 16 – 7:00 p.m.
Lecture / Concert
TRISTAN MURAIL
Composer; Professor of Music, Columbia University; Grand Prix du Président de la République, Académie Charles Cros (1992)
MARILYN NONKEN
Pianist; director, Piano Performance Studies, NYU
In English.
Tuesday, October 21 – 7:00 p.m.
BENOIT BOLDUC
Associate Professor of French, NYU; author of Andromède au rocher. Fortune théâtrale d’une image en France et en Italie (1587-1712)
Jouer vrai: pratiques actuelles de déclamation, gestuelle et scénographie “baroques”
in French.
Monday, October 27 – 7:00 p.m.
A Florence Gould Lecture
PASCAL BRUCKNER
Essayist; novelist; author of La Tentation de l’innocence; L’Amour du prochain; La Tyrannie de la pénitence
Faut-il aimer son pays?
In French.
Tuesday, October 28 – 7:00 p.m.
VINCENT DEBAENE
Assistant Professor of French, Columbia University; editor, Claude Lévi-Strauss, Oeuvres (Bibliothèque de la Pléiade, 2008)
Claude Lévi-Strauss. A propos d’une Pléiade et d’un centenaire
In French.
Wednesday, October 29 – 6:30 p.m.
Co-sponsored by the Institute of French Studies
Claude Lévi-Strauss Across the Disciplines
Vincent Debaene (French, Columbia); Thomas O. Beidelman (Anthropology, NYU); Denis Hollier (French, NYU), Susan C. Rogers (Anthropology, NYU), Suzanne Said (Classics, Columbia)
In English.
Thursday, October 30 – 7:00 p.m.
GUY WALTON
Professor Emeritus of Fine Arts, NYU; author of Louis XIV’s Versailles
When Versailles Was Furnished in Silver
In English.
Thursday, November 6 – 7:00 p.m.
Illustrated Lecture
MICHELE CONE
Professor of Art History, School of Visual Arts; author of Artists under Vichy; French Modernisms
Surrealist Masculinity
Friday, November 7 – 4:00 p.m.
ALAIN BADIOU
Philosopher; author of La Théorie du sujet; L’Etre et l’événement; Le Siècle
Théâtre et philosophie
Discussants:
Martin Puchner
Professor of English, Columbia University; editor, English edition of Alain Badiou’s Rhapsodie pour le théâtre, forthcoming in Theatre Survey, 49:2
Bruno Bosteels
Associate Professor of Romance Studies, Cornell University; translator, Rhapsodie pour le théâtre
In French.
Presented with support from the Dept. of Comparative Literature, the Dept. of French, the Humanities Initiative at NYU, and the NYU Council for Media and Culture.
Monday, November 10 – 7:00 p.m.
A Florence Gould Event
French Literature in the Making
MARIE NIMIER
Novelist; author of Sirène (Prix de l’Académie française); La Girafe; Anatomie d’un chœur; La Reine du silence (Prix Médicis); Les Inséparables
in conversation with
OLIVIER BARROT
Writer; journalist, Un Livre un jour (France 3); publisher, Senso
Marie Nimier is widely acclaimed as a writer in multiple
genres. She has written extensively for the stage, has
penned lyrics for several composers, has written works for
children and young adults. But she is best known as a
novelist. Her first novel, Sirène earned her prizes both
from the Académie Française and the Société des Gens de
Lettres (1985) ; for La Reine du silence, an evocation of
her father, the novelist Roger Nimier, she was awarded
the Prix Médicis (2004). Other novels (all at Gallimard)
include La Girafe, Vous dansez ?, and, this fall, Les
Inséparables (Prix Georges Brassens).
In French. Simultaneous translation available for this event.
Presented with the additional support of Directours, L’Avion, CulturesFrance, and the Cultural Services of the French Embassy.
Wednesday, November 12 – 6:30 p.m.
Institute of French Studies Colloquium
Film screening
Paris: Vélo Liberté
Karena Albers and Tad Fettig (Kontentreal, 2008, 30 min.)
Round table
Bike Share: From Paris to New York?
Véronique Bernard
Senior Producer, Kontentreal
Rosemary Wakeman
Fordham University
Caroline Samponaro
Director of Bicyle Advocacy, Transportation Alternatives
Ellen Cavanagh
Urban Planner, Governors Island Preservation and Education Corporation
Thursday, November 13 – 7:00 p.m.
Co-sponsored by the Institut des Hautes Etudes Scientifiques
MARC CHAPERON
Mathematician; professor, Université de Paris 7 – Denis Diderot
Art and Catastrophes: René Thom’s Legacy
Illustrated lecture on the influence of René Thom’s theories on various art forms; held in conjunction with the scientific conference at the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences.
Friday, November 14 – 4:00 p.m.
Co-sponsored by L’Opéra Français de New York (OFNY)
Kurt Weill in Paris
A discussion, with musical selections, investigating the life and artistic output of Kurt Weill during his 18-month exile in Paris.
Yves Abel
Conductor; music director, OFNY
Jean-Philippe Clarac and Olivier Deloeuil
Stage directors; artistic directors, OFNY
Kim Kowalke
President, Kurt Weill Foundation for Musics
Presented in conjunction with the U.S. premiere of Marie Galante, Weill’s only work in French, at the French Institute Alliance Française: www.fiaf.org
Monday, November 17 – 7:00 p.m.
Surrealism and the Caribbean
A discussion of Martinique – Charmeuse de Serpents, by André Breton and André Masson, to celebrate the publication of the first full English translation.
David Seaman
Professor of French, Georgia Southern University; translator, Martinique Snake Charmer (University of Texas Press, 2008)
Martica Sawin
Art historian and critic; author of Surrealism in Exile and the Beginning of the New York School
J. Michael Dash
Professor of French, NYU; author of The Other America: Caribbean Literature in a New World Context
Thursday, November 20 – 7:00 p.m.
Illustrated lecture
PHYLLIS GALEMBO
Artist/Photographer; author of Divine Inspiration from Benin to Bahia; Vodou: Visions and Voices of Haiti
Magic of the Masquerade: Africa and the Caribbean
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Presented in conjunction with the exhibitions The Poetics of Cloth: African Textiles/Recent Art (Grey Art Galley); The Essential Art of African Textiles: Design Without End (Metropolitan Museum of Art) and Shrines and Masquerades (Washington Square East Galleries)
Friday, November 21 – 4:00 p.m.
Illustrated Lecture in French.
NICOLAS DE CRECY
Writer and illustrator of graphic novels: Le Bibendum céleste; Léon La Came; Prosopopus; Période glaciaire
Bandes Dessinées
Tuesday, November 25 – 6:00 p.m.
Co-sponsored by the AIA – New York
Albi Cathedral and the Architecture
of Louis Kahn
The program will present Albi Cathedral and explore Louis Kahn’s life-long fascination with and inspiration by the paradoxical ideal of thick-walled structures as givers of light. The lecture will focus on Kahn’s trip to Europe in the summer of 1959 to attend the CIAM 11 conference in the Netherlands, after which he visited Albi and the nearby walled town of Carcassonne; as well as on the design by Kahn which was most directly related to this ideal of the light-giving walls: the Mikveh Israel Synagogue in Philadelphia. This generative ideal in Kahn’s work will also be explored through brief examinations of projects and built works including the Trenton Jewish Community Center Bath House, the University of Pennsylvania Medical Research Towers, the First Unitarian Church in Rochester, the Meeting House at Salk Institute, the Bangladesh National Capital at Dhaka, and the Exeter Library. The general theme of the lecture will be on the manner in which Kahn engaged history, not as a source of formal influence, but rather as an eternal yet living tradition in which he was deeply immersed, and out of which he forged appropriate spaces for our time.
Opening Remarks
Nathaniel Kahn, Documentary Filmmaker My Architect
Carol Krinsky, Professor of Architectural History, NYU Department of Art History
Fortified Gothic, Not Textbook Gothic
Robert McCarter, Ruth & Norman Moore Professor of Architecture, Washington University in St. Louis;
author of Louis I. Kahn and other books on 20th century architecture
Embossings of the Sky: Louis I. Kahn and the Light Giving Wall
Respondents
Sue Ann Kahn, Musician & Flute Faculty, Mannes College the New School for Music
Alexandra Tyng, Artist & Author of Beginnings: Louis I. Kahn’s Philosophy of Architecture
This program is part a Global Dialogues series on the art and architecture in France organized by AIA New York with La Maison Française of NYU, and is supported by the AIA New York 2008 Inaugural Fund.
Location: Center for Architecture, 536 LaGuardia Place, between West 3rd and Bleecker Streets
RSVP: To register, go to the Calendar at www.aiany.org
Tuesday, December 2 – 7:00 p.m.
MICHEL DEGUY
Poet; philosopher; critic; editor, Po&sie; author of Biefs; Interdictions du séjour; Figurations; Tombeau de Du Bellay
Fin de la culture française? Faux-problème, erreur de jugement ou médisance?
In French.
Thursday, December 4 – 7:00 p.m.
ROBERT HARVEY
Professor of French and Comparative Literatures, SUNY at Stony Brook; author of Search for a Father: Sartre, Paternity and the Question of Ethics; Témoins d'artifice
Why Beckett Never Gave up on English, Despite (His) French
THEATER
Sunday, December 7 – 3:00 p.m.
Monday, December 8 – 7:00 p.m.
Les Justes by Albert Camus
Dramatic reading by NYU students. In French.