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.
Thursday, January 29 – 7:00 p.m.
Co-sponsored by the Depts. of French, History, Near Eastern Studies, Gender and Sexuality Studies, and the Medieval and RenaissanceCenter
E. JANE BURNS
Distinguished Professor, Women’s Studies, University of North Carolina; author of Sea of Silk: A Textile Geography of Women’s Work in Medieval French Literature; Courtly Love Undressed
Women's Silk Work: A Textile Geography of Old French Literature
Friday, January 30 – 6:00 p.m.
Co-sponsored by La Maison Française of NYU, the AIA – New York, and the American Society of Landscape Architects
Location: The Center for Architecture, 536 LaGuardia Place, between West 3rd and Bleecker Streets
Reservations: http://aiany.org/calendar/rsvp.php?id=1008906
RANDALL WHITE
Professor of Anthropology, NYU
Lascaux Cave: The Complex Story of an Ice Age Sanctuary
Since its discovery in September of 1940, Lascaux Cave has had a long and tortured history of interpretation and conservation. Professor White will document the history of Lascaux's discovery during the Vichy regime and will discuss Lascaux's chronology in relation to other important art sites in Europe. He will then provide a richly illustrated description of the paintings and engravings themselves, emphasizing remarkable aspects of technique and appropriation of the complex cave architecture by the Paleolithic painters. Professor White will conclude with an elaboration of the causes and consequences of the conservation problems that have plagued the cave since 2001; problems that place this most extraordinary example of prehistoric art at great risk.
Professor Randall White is Professor of Anthropology at NYU and since 1994 has directed excavations at Abri Castanet, France where, in 2007, his team discovered paintings and engravings dated to 33,000 years ago. He has conducted archaeological research in the Dordogne region of France for the past 30 years. Recently, he has served as a consultant concerning Lascaux's conservation problems and in February, 2009, he will participate in a symposium dedicated to Lascaux's problems at UNESCO headquarters in Paris.
Respondents: Simon Carr, painter; Ass't. Professor of Art, Borough of Manhattan Community College; Terence P. Moran, Professor of Culture and Communication, NYU; James McCullar, FAIA, Immediate Past President, AIA New York; David Bennett, FAIA, Representative, International Tunneling & Underground Space Association
Tuesday, February 3 – 7:00 p.m.
PIERRE PACHET
Writer, essayist; author of Autobiographie de mon père; Adieu; Loin de Paris; Devant ma mère; Les Baromètres de l’âme, naissance du journal intime
Le Journal intime: naissance d'une forme d'écriture
Wednesday, February 4 – 7:00 p.m.
Institute of French Studies Colloquium
PAP NDIAYE
Professor of History, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales; author of La Condition noire. Essai sur une minorité française
Blacks and Blackness in France: A Historical and Sociological Perspective
Concert
Thursday, February 5 – 7:00 p.m.
Celebrating The Hudson Review Translation Issue
Poetry into Music: Yves Bonnefoy
Canzoni de La grande neige by
MIRCO DE STEFANI
based on the poetry of Yves Bonnefoy
World Premiere
Elizabeth Dabney, soprano
Daniel Ragone, piano
Remarks by Emily Grosholz, translator of La grande neige,
and by the composer
Reservations: 212-998-8750
Saturday, February 7
CONFERENCE
DIDEROT TODAY: Literature, Philosophy, and Aesthetics
2:00 p.m. – 3.30 p.m.
Madeleine Dobie (Columbia)
Going Global: Diderot, 1770-1784
Andrew Curran (Wesleyan)
Logics of the Human in Diderot's Supplément au Voyage de Bougainville
Andrew Clark (Fordham)
The Changing Landscape of Genius in Diderot
4:00 p.m. – 5.30 p.m.
Julie Candler Hayes (Univ. Mass. Amherst)
Diderot’s Late Style
Joanna Stalnaker (Columbia)
Diderot's Literary Testament
Lytle Shaw (NYU)
Temporalities of Landscape: The Limits of Generic Reading in Diderot’s Salons
6:00 p.m. – 7.30 p.m.
Lucien Nouis (NYU)
Diderot and His Brother
Pierre Saint-Amand (Brown)
Diderot’s Dressing Gown, Philosophy in the Cabinet
Anne Deneys-Tunney (NYU)
Novel, Philosophy, and Pornography in Diderot's Les Bijoux indiscrets
Monday, February 9 – 7:00 p.m.
A Florence Gould Event
French Literature in the Making
ERIC FOTTORINO
Writer; journalist; director, Le Monde; author of Coeur d’Afrique; Rochelle; Korsakov; Baisers de cinéma (Prix Femina); Petit éloge de la bicyclette; Nordeste
in conversation with
OLIVIER BARROT
Writer; journalist, Un Livre un jour (France 3); publisher, Senso
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, February 11 – 7:00 p.m.
An evening with
AMELIE NOTHOMB
Novelist; author of Le Sabotage amoureux (Loving Sabotage); Stupeur et tremblements (Fear and Trembling) (Grand Prix de l’Académie Française); Biographie de le faim (The Life of Hunger); Ni d’Eve, ni d’Adam (Tokyo Fiancée; Europa Editions, 2008)
In French.
Tuesday, February 17 – 7:00 p.m.
LUCIEN NOUIS
Assistant Professor, Dept. of French, NYU; author of Compelle intrare: Michel Foucault et l’hérésie à l’âge classique (Papers on 17th Century French Literature)
Froide hospitalité: modernité et lien social au siècle des Lumières
Wednesday, February 18 – 6:30 p.m.
Co-sponsored by the Institute of French Studies, the Program in Museum Studies, La Maison Française
Roundtable
Paris/New York: Expositions, Worlds Fairs and the International
Exchange of Ideas in the Early 20th Century
Donald Albrecht
Curator of Architecture and Design, Museu m of the City of New York, Curator of Paris/New York: Design Fashion Culture 1925-1940 (MCNY, through Feb. 23, 2009)
Miriam Basilio
Assistant Professor of Art History and Museum Studies, NYU
Jean-Louis Cohen
Professor, History of Architecture, Institute of Fine Arts, NYU
Shanny Peer
Author of France on Display: Peasants, Provincials,
and Folklore in the 1937 Paris Worlds Fair
Moderator: Jeffrey Trask
Assistant Professor/Faculty Fellow, Museum Studies, NYU
Friday, February 20, 9:00 am - 6:30 pm
CONFERENCE
Sponsored by NYU (Department of French, Humanities Initiative, Dean for the Humanities) and Université de Grenoble III
ADELPHIQUES
Frères et soeurs dans la littérature du XIXe siècle Brothers and Sisters in
Nineteenth-Century French Literature
Organized by Claudie Bernard, Chantal Massol, and Jean-Marie Roulin
9:00 a.m. - Noon
Opening Remarks: Judith Miller (Chair, Dept. of French, NYU)
Claudie Bernard (NYU)
Le lien adelphique entre l’ancien et le nouveau régime familial
Dominique Massonnaud (Univ. de Grenoble)
Différence ou variation d’arrangements ? La pensée de Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire au travail dans la construction de relations adelphiques balzaciennes
Xavier Bourdenet (Univ. de Paris IV)
Frères et sœurs dans Illusions perdues de Balzac
Evelyne Ender (Hunter College)
‘Mon semblable, mon frère’ : Ballanche et Nerval autour d’Antigone
2:00 – 4:00 p.m.
Aude Déruelle (Univ. de Nice)
Frères et sœurs dans Les mystères du peuple d’Eugène Sue
Julia Przybos (Hunter College)
Les sœurs de lait ou les vicissitudes du progrès social
Jean-Marie Roulin (Univ. de Saint-Etienne)
Sœurs et frères de lait : communauté du sein et disparité de destins
4:40 – 6:30 p.m.
Chantal Massol (Univ. de Grenoble)
A l’ouest d’Eden : rivalité fraternelle et récits fondateurs dans Pierre et Jean de Maupassant
Marta Caraion (Univ. de Lausanne)
Fécondité de Zola : La fraternité aux dépens de l’intrigue
Monday, February 23 – 7:00 p.m.
MICHELE GENDREAU-MASSALOUX
Head, Presidential Commission for Universities, Research, and Professional Training, Union for the Mediterranean; former Rector of the Académie de Paris and Chancellor of the Universities of Paris; former Rector of the Agence Universitaire de la Francophonie
Le Rôle de l'Union pour la Méditerranée dans un monde multipolaire
SPECIAL EVENT
February 26-28
Festival of New French Writing:
French & American Authors in Conversation
Sponsored by the Center for French Civilization and Culture, NYU in partnership with CulturesFrance, the Cultural Services of the French Embassy, and the Jean-Luc Lagardère Foundation
Curated by Olivier Barrot & Tom Bishop
Location: Tishman Auditorium and Greenberg Lounge, Vanderbilt Hall
40 Washington Square South (corner of MacDougal St.) Simultaneous translation available for this event.
Full details on festival website: www.frenchwritingfestival.com
Thursday, February 26 - Tishman Auditorium
7:00 p.m. Opening
7:30 p.m. Olivier Rolin & E.L. Doctorow
Moderated by Sam Tanenhaus
8:45 p.m. Marie N’Diaye & Francine du Plessix Gray
Moderated by Lila Azam Zanganeh
Friday, February 27 - Tishman Auditorium
2:00 p.m. Marie Darrieussecq & Adam Gopnik
Moderated by Deborah Treisman
3:15 p.m. Abdourahman Waberi & Philip Gourevitch
Moderated by Lila Azam Zanganeh
4:30 p.m. Bernard-Henri Lévy & Mark Danner
Moderated by Caroline Weber
7:00 p.m. Jean-Philippe Toussaint & Siri Hustvedt
Moderated by Olivier Barrot
8:15 p.m. Marjane Satrapi & Chris Ware
Moderated by Françoise Mouly
**Please note**: Marjane Satrapi & Chris Ware session has been moved to a larger venue: NYU SKIRBALL CENTER 566 LaGuardia Place (at Washington Square South)
Saturday, February 28 - Greenberg Lounge
2:00 p.m. Emmanuel Carrère & Francine Prose
Moderated by Caroline Weber
3:15 p.m. David Foenkinos & Stefan Merrill Block
Moderated by Violaine Huisman
4:30 p.m. Frédéric Beigbeder & Paul Berman
Moderated by Tom Bishop
5:45 p.m. Chantal Thomas & Edmund White
Monday, March 2 – 7:00 p.m.
Rethinking 19th Century French Studies: Smuggling, Scams, and Semites
Emily Apter
Professor of French, English, and Comparative Literature, NYU
Maurice Samuels
Professor of French, Yale
Richard Sieburth
Professor of French and Comparative Literature, NYU
Tuesday, March 3 – 6:00 p.m.
Co-sponsored by La Maison Française of NYU and the AIA – New York
JEAN-LOUIS COHEN
Professor, History of Architecture, NYU; curator, L’Aventure Le Corbusier (1987, Centre Georges Pompidou); author of Le Corbusier and the Mystique of the USSR; Le Corbusier, la planète comme chantier; introduction, Le Corbusier Le Grand (Phaidon, 2008)
Le Corbusier: Latest News from the Front
Location: The Center for Architecture
536 LaGuardia Place, between West 3rd and Bleecker Streets
Reservations: www.aiany.org
Thursday, March 5 – 7 :00 p.m.
YVES HERSANT
Director, Groupe de recherches sur l’Europe, EHESS; visiting professor, NYU; author of Mélancolies: De l’Antiquité au XXe siècle; La Métaphore baroque
« L’Avenir appartient aux fantômes »: Jacques Derrida et les spectres
Rendez-Vous with French Cinema 2009
Screenings presented in cooperation with Unifrance, The Film Society of Lincoln Center, and the IFC Center
Location: IFC Center, 323 Avenue of the Americas (at West 3rd Street). Tel: 212-924-7771, www.ifccenter.com
Tickets: $12.50 general public; $10. with NYU i.d. (these screenings only)
Saturday, March 7 - 4:00 p.m.
SERAPHINE
France/Belgium, 2008; 125 min. in French with English subtitles
Followed by Q & A with director
MARTIN PROVOST
Yolande Moreau returns to Rendez-Vous as outsider artist Séraphine de Senlis in first-time director Martin Provost’s ambitious biopic. Moreau, Provost, and several Séraphine artists are currently nominated for top honors, including best picture, at this year’s César Awards, France’s equivalent to the Academy Awards. New York Premiere. A Music Box release.
Monday, March 9 - 7:00 p.m.
THE APPRENTICE / L’apprenti
France, 2008; 82 min., in French with English subtitles
Followed by Q & A with director
SAMUEL COLLARDEY
The Apprentice, winner of the prestigious Louis Delluc Prize for best first film, follows 15-year-old student Mathieu (Mathieu Bulle) as he develops a warm, close relationship with farm owner and mentor Paul (Paul Barbier) that provides a partial refuge from the emotional chaos of his parents’ failed marriage. North American Premiere.
Rendez-Vous with French Cinema runs from March 5 through March 15, presenting the New York premieres of 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
Tuesday, March 10 – 7:00 p.m.
MARILYN HACKER
Poet; author of Presentation Piece (National Book Award); Winter Numbers; Desesperanto; First Cities; translator of Claire Malroux; Guy Goffrette; Roi des Cent Cavaliers/King of a Hundred Horsemen by Marie Etienne (Robert Fagles Translation Prize, National Poetry Series)
Translating Contemporary French Poetry
Wednesday, March 11 – 6:30 p.m.
Institute of French Studies Colloquium
PIERRE BIRNBAUM
Professor Emeritus of Political Science, Université de Paris I; visiting professor, The New School; author of les Fous de la République; Le Moment anti-Sémite; Un Récit de “meurtre ritual” au Grand Siècle: L’Affaire Raphaël Lévy, Metz, 1669
The Raphaël Lévy Case:
An Accusation of “Ritual Murder” in 17th Century France
SPECIAL EVENT
Wednesday, March 25 - 7:00 pm
Presented in cooperation with Symphony Space, the French Institute Alliance Française, and the Cultural Services of the French Embassy
SELECTED SHORTS
A Celebration of the Short Story Passport to Paris
Experience three lustrous and varied portraits of Paris as read in English by Broadway and Hollywood actors. Stories include A Parisian Affair by Guy de Maupassant and a selection from Faïza Guène’s Kiffe Kiffe Tomorrow.
Location: Symphony Space, 2537 Broadway at 95 Street (2 stops from Times Square on the #2 or 3)
Tel: 212-864-5400
Tickets:
Special $15 discount tickets available to friends of La Maison Française.
Use discount code SSP253 at www.symphonyspace.org or at the box office.
Thursday, March 26 – 6:30 p.m.
Co-sponsored by the Institute of French Studies and the Department of French
Round Table in French and English
Translating as a Profession: From the 1970’s to the Present
Gisèle Sapiro, Sociologist, CNRS, Paris; editor of Translatio: Le marché de la traduction en France à l’heure de la mondialisation
Esther Allen, Executive Director, Center for Literary Translation, Columbia
Linda Asher, Translator
Jeanine Herman, Translator
Judith Miller, Chair, Department of French, NYU; translator
CONFERENCE
Friday & Saturday, March 27 & 28
Graduate Student Conference - Department of French
Unbecoming Masters: Scenes of Mastery and Their Undoing in French Literature, Theory, Politics, History, and Art
Monday, March 30 – 7:00 p.m.
FLORENCE DELAYde l’Académie Française
Actress; novelist; critic; dramatist; author of Riche et légère (Prix Fémina); Etxemendi; Dit Nerval; Mon Espagne. Or et Ciel; Graal théâtre (with Jacques Roubaud)
Florence Delay will trace the origins of the word “graal”, from its first appearance in Chrétien de Troyes’ verse narrative Perceval ou le Conte du Graal at the end of the twelfth
century, to its acquired autonomy as a capitalized common name. She will show the widespread
influence of the concept on a vast literary corpus thoughout the whole of Europe during the Middle Ages.
Un Mythe européen: la quête du Graal
Wednesday, April 1, 6:30 p.m.
Institute of French Studies Colloquium
Round Table in French and English
France in the Global Economic Crisis
Herrick Chapman, Associate Professor of History and French Studies, NYU; Brigitte Gaïti, Professor of Political Science, Université Paris-Dauphine; Yves-André Istel, Senior Advisor, Rothschild Inc.;Thomas Philippon, Assistant Professor of Finance, Stern School of Business, NYU
Thursday, April 2, 7:00 p.m.
Co-sponsored by the Department of French and the Department of Media, Culture,
and Communication
New French Philosophy and Media Theory
BERNARD STIEGLER
Philosopher; director of cultural development, Centre Georges-Pompidou; author of La Techique et le temps; De la misère symbolique; Mécréance et discrédit; Prendre soin. De la jeunesse et des générations
Respondents: AVITAL RONELL, Professor of German, English, and Comparative Literature, NYU; ALEXANDER GALLOWAY, Professor of Media, Culture, and Communication, NYU; Moderator: EMILY APTER, Professor of French, English, and Comparative Literature, NYU
Friday, April 3 - 10:00 a.m.
Translating Georges Perec
IAN MONK Writer; member of the French writing group Oulipo; translator of Georges Perec; Daniel Pennac; Marie Darrieussecq; Raymond Roussel
DAVID BELLOS Professor of French and Comparative Literature, Princeton University; translator of Georges Perec (Life A User’s Manual; W or the Memories of Childhood); author, Georges Perec: A Life in Words
Tuesday, April 7 – 7:00 p.m.
Book Launch and Bilingual Readings
PAULA JACQUES
Novelist, journalist; radio producer; author of Lumière de l’œil; Deborah et les anges dissipés (Prix Femina); Gilda Stambouli souffre et se plaint
SUSAN COHEN-NICOLE
Translator
On the occasion of the publication of the English translation of Lumière de l’œil (Light of My Eye, Holmes & Meier, 2009), a discussion of the book’s evocation of the life of Egyptian Jews in Cairo in the fraught period of the 1950’s.
Monday, April 13 – 7:00 p.m.
A Florence Gould Event
French Literature in the Making
FREDERIC MITTERRAND
Writer; journalist; filmmaker; television presenter and producer;director, French Academy in Rome; author of La mauvaise vie; Lettres d’amour en Somalie
in conversation with
OLIVIER BARROT
Writer; journalist, Un Livre un jour (France 3); publisher, Senso
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, April 15 - 7:00 p.m.
Institute of French Studies Colloquium
JACQUES REVEL
Global Distinguished Professor, NYU; directeur d'études, EHESS; author of Un parcours critique. Douze essais d’histoire sociale
Les Historiens face aux enjeux de mémoire en France aujourd'hui
CONFERENCE
A Florence Gould Event
Thursday – Saturday, April 16 -18
Land of Refuge, Land of Exile: French Artists and Writers in the U.S. During the Occupation
When France fell to the Germans in 1940, a number of French writers, intellectuals and artists fled France and found refuge in the U.S. mostly in New York and on the East Coast. Some worked for the U.S. government, some militated for Free France, most continued their creative work. Many of the French were happy during the American exile, others were deeply disturbed in this country. All longed for France to be free again. Among those who spent the war years here are St.John Perse, André Masson, Simone Weil, André Breton, André Maurois, Claude Lévi-Strauss, Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
http://french.as.nyu.edu/object/landofrefuge.html
Thursday, April 16
7:00 - 9:00 p.m.:
Opening Remarks: TOM BISHOP, NYU; conference director; OLIVIER CORPET, IMEC
Keynote:
EMMANUELLE LOYER, Sciences-Po; Planète sans visa. Histoire d’un exil de guerre
JEFFREY MEHLMAN, Boston University, Saint-John Perse at NYU: Legacies of Briand
Friday, April 17
2:30 - 4:30 p.m.:
JEAN-JACQUES LEBEL, Paris, An exiled kid in N.Y.C during the Second World War
MARTICA SAWIN, Art historian, “Painting is a Wager” Reciprocal Transformations During the American Years of André Masson
VINCENT DEBAENE, Columbia University, Claude Lévi-Strauss in New York
5:00 - 7:00 p.m.:
LAURE ADLER, Paris, Simone Weil : l’exil un déracinement
ANNIE COHEN-SOLAL, NYU, Autour de Dolorès Vanetti, un personnage inconnu et incontournable
PHILIPPE ROGER, CNRS; EHESS, "Je reviens": Découverte de l'Amérique ou retour des stéréotypes ?
8:00 - 9:15 p.m.: Performance
OLIVIER PY, Actor, director; director of the Théâtre National de l’Odéon
A dramatic reading of a text on Simone Weil by Laure Adler
Location: Auditorium, Room 102, 19 University Place (between 8th St. & Washington Square)
Saturday, April 18
2:30 - 5:30 p.m.:
MARK POLIZZOTTI, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, The Soluble Fish Out of Water: Breton’s American Journey
JUDITH FRIEDLANDER, Hunter College, CUNY, The École Libre des Hautes Études at the New School for Social Research
JEANNINE PLOTTEL, Hunter College, CUNY, The American Exile of Henry Bernstein, André Maurois and Jules Romains
CAROL RIGOLOT, Princeton University, Dateline New York: French Exiles and the Press
Organized in conjonction with the exhibition on view at the New York Public Library Between Collaboration and Resistance: French Literary Life Under Nazi Occupation
This Conference is made possible by the generous principal support of the Florence Gould Foundation, with additional support from the Cultural Services of the French Embassy and the Fribourg Family Foundation.
Wednesday, April 22 – 7:00 p.m.
Institute of French Studies Colloquium
The 2009 Strike in Guadeloupe and Martinique
J. MICHAEL DASH
Professor of French and Social and Cultural Analysis, NYU
WILLIAM MILES
Professor of Political Science, Northeastern University
Kristen STROMBERG-CHILDERS
Assistant professor of History, University of Pennsylvania
Stella VINCENOT
Doctoral candidate in French and French Studies, NYU
Thursday, April 23 – 7:00 p.m.
Film Screening & Discussion
Flesh in Ecstasy: Gaston Lachaise and the Woman He Loved
2008. USA. Directed by George Stoney, David Bagnall
In English, French; English subtitles. (21 min.)
Taking as its focus Gaston Lachaise’s striking Standing Woman statue, the film explores the artist’s relationship with his model for the work: his wife and muse, Isabel Dutaud Nagel.
Followed by documentation of the statue’s recent recasting at the Modern Art Foundry.
GEORGE STONEY
Professor of Film, Tisch School of the Arts, NYU; writer, director, producer: All my Babies; Southern Voices; Images of the Great Depression; The Uprising of 34
DAVID BAGNALL
Filmmaker
JEFFREY SPRING
Modern Art Foundry
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PEN WORLD VOICES: Festival of International Literature |
Wednesday, April 29 – 6:30 p.m.
BERNARD COMMENT
Essayist; novelist; editor, Fiction & Cie (Seuil); author of L’Ombre de mémoire; Roland Barthes, vers le Neutre; Florence, retours; The Panorama; Un Poisson hors de l’eau; screenwriter, with Alain Tanner, of Fourbi; Requiem; Jonas et Lila, à demain; Paul s’en va
Roland Barthes and the Invention of Modernity
Thursday, April 30 – 8:00 p.m.
MURIEL BARBERY
Novelist; author of Une Gourmandise; L’Elégance du hérisson
(The Elegance of the Hedgehog; Europa Editions, 2008)
in conversation with
ADAM GOPNIK
Writer; essayist; author of Paris to the Moon; Through the Children’s Gate; Angels and Ages: A Short book about Darwin, Lincoln, and Modern Life
Location:
Cantor Film Center (Theater 101)
36 East Eighth Street (between University Place and Greene Street)
Tickets: $10. (this event only)
www.smarttix.com or 212.868.4444
PEN World Voices Festival of International Literature: A week-long celebration of world literature, featuring 160 writers, from 41 countries, speaking 18 different languages, exploring the theme of Evolution/Revolution. New York City, April 27-May 3, 2009. See www.pen.org for full schedule of PEN World Voices events.
Tuesday, May 5 – 7:00 p.m.
Film Screening & Discussion
Ariane Lopez-Huici: Très Près du Corps
USA. 2008; U.S. premiere. Directed by Marilia Destot (38 min.)
MARILIA DESTOT
Filmmaker; photographer
ARIANE LOPEZ-HUICI
Photographer
FALL 2009
Friday, September 11 - 5:30 pm
Film screening
PARIS
(by Cédric Klapisch, 2008, 124 min.). In French with English subtitles.
Location: Cantor Film Center, 36 East 8th Street. 2nd floor
PARIS, is a cinematic love letter to the city that seems to hide a story behind every shop window, small alley, street market or grand apartment building.
Actress Juliette Binoche and filmmaker Cédric Klapisch will be present.
Tuesday, September 15 – 7:00 p.m.
SYLVIE WEIL
Niece of philosopher Simone Weil and daughter of Simone’s brother, André Weil (co-founder of the Nicholas Bourbaki group, which would dramatically change modern mathematics), Sylvie Weil has taught French literature at several American universities and is the author of numerous novels and collections of stories, including A New York il n’y a pas de tremblements de terre; Le Jardin de Dima; and Les Reines du Luxembourg.
Her family memoir, Chez les Weil: André et Simone, a twofold portrait of a pair of extraordinary personalities who played a key role in the history of 20th-century ideas, has been recently published in France.
Chez les Weil: André et Simone
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Wednesday, September 16 – 7:30 p.m.
Concert
ALLIANCE PLAYERS
Violinist and director of Alliance Players Nurit Pacht (http://www.nuritpacht.com)
Cellist Caroline Stinson
Flutist Sato Moughalian
Pianist Molly Morkoski
A program in celebration of Nadia Boulanger’s birthday, including works by Virgil Thomson, Elliot Carter, Astor Piazzola, LouiseTalma, and Nadia Boulanger.
Tickets: $20., $10. NYU students with current i.d.
Reservations: 212-998-8750 or maison.francaise@nyu.edu
Thursday, September 17 – 7:00 p.m
Florence Gould Lecture
Location: 13-19 University Place, The Auditorium (Rm. 102)
JEAN-FRANÇOIS COPÉ
Leader of the majority party (UMP), French National Assembly; Mayor of Meaux; former Minister of the Budget; author of Promis, j'arrête la langue de bois; Un député, ça compte énormément
The Political Situation in France Today
Monday, September 21 – 7:00 p.m.
Florence Gould Event
French Literature in the Making
CHARLES DANTZIG
Best known as a novelist and essayist, Charles Dantzig has also translated F. Scott Fitzgerald and Oscar Wilde. His novel Nos vies hâtives (2001) won both the Prix Roger Nimier and the Prix Jean Freustié; his oddly named Dictionnaire égoïste de la littérature française earned him three major prizes in 2005: the Grand Prix des Lectrices de Elle, the non-fiction prize of the Académie Française, and the Prix Décembre. Other works include Un film d’amour (2003), Je m’appelle François (2007) and the even more oddly named Encyclopédie capricieuse du tout et du rien (2009).
Olivier Barrot and Charles Dantzig. Photo credit: Taylor Poulin
in conversation with
OLIVIER BARROT
Writer; journalist, Un Livre un jour (France 3); publisher, Senso
In French. Simultaneous translation available for this event.
Presented with the additional support of Directours, Open Skies, Sofitel, CulturesFrance, and the Cultural Services of the French Embassy.
Photo Credits: Taylor Poulin
Tuesday, September 22 – 7:00 p.m.
New Lecture Series
Defining French Taste:
Tradition, Quality, and Innovation in the Decorative Arts
The Manifestation of French Splendor and the Italian Influence
FLORENCE DE DAMPIERRE
Decorative arts historian; interior designer; author of The Best of Painted Furniture; The Decorator; Chairs: A History; French Chic: The Art of Decorating Houses
WOLFRAM KOEPPE
Curator in the Department of European Sculpture and Decorative Arts, The Metropolitan Museum of Art; co-author, Art of the Royal Court: Treasures in Pietre Dure from the Palaces of Europe; European Furniture in the Metropolitan Museum of Art
Wednesday, September 23 – 7:00 p.m.
Film Screening
Un Certain Goût de l’Amérique: Daniel Boulud
(Thierry Bellaïche, 2008; 49 min.) In French with English subtitles.
A film tracing Daniel Boulud’s path from his family’s farm in the village of St. Pierre de Chandieu to a career as one of America’s most respected chefs and restaurateurs.
Location: Cantor Film Center, 36 East 8th Street
Tickets: $10. $ 5. NYU students with current i.d.
Reservations: 212-998-8750 or maison.francaise@nyu.edu
Followed by
DANIEL BOULUD
in conversation with
DOROTHY CANN HAMILTON
Founder & CEO, The French Culinary Institute
Tuesday, September 29 – 6:00 p.m.
Co-sponsored with the AIA/NY
Wake Up the Cit[ies]: Recent Work by Christian de Portzamparc
Pritzker Prize-winning architect Christian de Portzamparc discusses his recent work in Paris, Brussels, Los Angeles, and New York.
** Reservation list for this event has been filled.**
Wednesday, September 30 - 6:30 p.m.
Institute of French Studies Colloquium
JILL JONNES
Writer; historian; author of Empires of Light; Conquering Gotham; Eiffel’s Tower
Eiffel’s Tower
Thursday, October 1 – 7 :00 p.m.
Film Screening
C’est Gradiva qui vous appelle
(2006, 119 min.) In French with English subtitles.
Friday, October 2 – Afternoon and Evening
Florence Gould Event
A Salute to Alain Robbe-Grillet (1922-2008)
With Catherine Robbe-Grillet, Paul Auster, Tom Bishop, Royal Brown, Georges Borchardt, Olivier Corpet, Richard Foreman, Richard Howard, Emmanuelle Lambert, Bernard-Henri Lévy, Barney Rosset, Edmund White.
AFTERNOON
Location: La Maison Française, 16 Washington Mews (at University Place)
3 p.m. -
Opening Remarks Tom Bishop
Film
A la rencontre d’Alain Robbe-Grillet,
documentary by Sabrina Meneux, 52’ (in French)
4:00 p.m.
Conversation
Emmanuelle Lambert and Catherine Robbe-Grillet (in French)
4:15 p.m.
Cross Reading (in French)
Readings from Catherine Robbe-Grillet : Jeune mariée et
Alain Robbe-Grillet : Le Miroir qui revient ; Angélique ou l’enchantement ; Les derniers jours de Corinthe
Readers: Catherine Robbe-Grillet and Ronald Guttman
5:00 p.m.
Musical Composition
Heiner Goebbels, La Jalousie – Noises from a Novel
5:15 p.m.
FILM : Alain Robbe-Grillet, by Nayoto Yoda, 28’
5 :45: End afternoon Session
EVENING
**NOTE VENUE CHANGE**
Location: 19 West 4th street (corner Mercer Street, EAST of Washington Square)
Room 101 (The Auditorium)
7:00 p.m.
Film
Rehearsal and performance scenes from Freshwater by Virginia Woolf, with Alain Robbe-Grillet and all-star amateur cast.
7:30 p.m.
Recollections
Paul Auster Olivier Corpet Bernard-Henri Lévy
Tom Bishop Arielle Dombasle Philippe Roger
Georges Borchardt Richard Foreman Barney Rosset
Royal Brown Richard Howard Edmund White
Emmanuelle Lambert
9 :30 p.m. – End of evening session
Tuesday, October 6 – 7:00 p.m.
FRANÇOISE GAILLARD
Professor, Université de Paris-VII; visiting professor, NYU
« Nue mais pas à poil »: peinture et misogynie fin de siècle
Thursday, October 8 – 7:00 p.m.
HENRI MITTERANDProfessor Emeritus, Columbia University and La Sorbonne Nouvelle; editor of Emile Zola’s Les Rougon-Macquart and Œuvres complètes; author of L’Illusion réaliste; La Littérature française du XXe siècle
Critique génétique: la dimension scénarique
Monday, October 12 – 7 :00 p.m.
Florence Gould Event
French Literature in the Making
CATHERINE CUSSET
Trained as a specialist in French 18th century literature (École normale supérieure) Catherine Cusset taught for a decade at Yale. As her novels and essays earned her an ever greater following in France, she gave up her academic career to devote herself fully to writing. Her books include En toute innocence (1995), Le problème avec Jane (1999), published in English as The Story of Jane (2001), La haine de la famille (2001), Un brilliant avenir (2008—Prix Goncourt des lycéens) and most recently, New York – Journal d’un cycle (2009). Catherine Cusset lives in New York.
in conversation with
OLIVIER BARROT
Writer; journalist, Un Livre un jour (France 3); publisher, Senso
In French. Simultaneous translation available for this event.
Presented with the additional support of Directours, Open Skies, Sofitel, CulturesFrance, and the Cultural Services of the French Embassy.
Friday, October 16 - 10:30 a.m.
A Symposium co-organized by NYU's Center for the Study of Gender and Sexuality (CSGS) and Institute of French Studies (IFS). Presented with the support of the Cultural Services of the French Embassy and the Centre Pompidou
**NOTE**
The originally planned Thursday Oct. 15 session has been cancelled.
All the sessions are now concentrated on Friday, Oct. 16.
Feminism/s Without Borders:
Perspectives from France and the United States
This symposium will put scholars from te U.S. and France into conversation to explore how feminist movements have been divided over such differences as class, religion, sexuality, and race; how feminisms have been institutionalized by the state and by global institutions; and what kinds of alliances are possible across difference (including national difference). Different social and political contexts in France and in the U.S. have come to shape different feminist agendas and alliances in these countries. While French feminisms had to deal with the rhetorical frame of universal and secular Republicanism, U.S. feminisms were faced with the specifics of their racial history as well as the dismantling of the welfare state. Yet, French and American feminisms have constantly fueled each other, from the influence of Beauvoir in the U.S. to the recent importation by French feminists of the notions of postcolonialism and intersectionality. Invited speakers will address and speak from their national contexts, but will also move beyond the national to get to questions about feminisms and the transnational. As a transnational feminist project, then, this symposium moves to ask how ideas travel, what (and who) gets lost in translation, how and which global institutions (for example, the UN, NGOs, internationalized universities) come to shape feminist agendas in different countries.
10:30 a.m:
Welcoming remarks and introduction
Edward Berenson (History & IFS, NYU), Dean Catharine R. Stimpson (GSAS, NYU), Frédéric Viguier (IFS, NYU)
11:00 a.m. - 12:30 a.m.:
Institutional Legacies of Second-Wave Feminism
Laure Bereni (IFS, NYU); Rana Jaleel (American Studies, NYU);
Discussant: Victoria Hesford (Women’s Studies, SUNY Stony Brook)
2:00 p.m. – 3 :30 p.m.
Feminism and Religion: Current Controversies
Nacira Guénif-Souilamas; James McBride (Liberal Studies; NYU);
Discussant: Ann Pellegrini (CSGS, NYU)
4:00 p.m. to 5:30 p.m.:
The Future of Intersectionality
Elsa Dorlin (Université de Paris 1- Panthéon Sorbonne); Robert Reid-Pharr (Graduate Center, CUNY); Discussant: Nacira Guénif-Souilamas (Université Paris 13 / IFS, NYU)
6:00 p.m. to 7:30 p.m.:
Keynote Lecture: Feminism’s Difference Problem
Joan W. Scott (Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton)
Wednesday, October 21 - 6:30 p.m.
Institute of French Studies Colloquium
JACK LANG
Member of the French National Assembly; former Minister of Culture (1981-1986, 1988-1992) former Minister of Education (1992-1993; 2000-2002); author of Demain comme hier; Le choix de Versailles: témoignage sur la révision de notre constitution
Les Institutions de la 5e République
Monday, October 26 - 7:00 p.m.
STEFANOS GEROULANOS
Assistant Professor, NYU
Frames without Mirrors, ‘Eyes without a Face’ (Face Transplants, Opacity, Fury, and Modernity in Georges Franju's Horror Film)
Thursday, October 29 – 7:00 p.m.
Florence Gould Lecture
Location: Kimmel Center, 60 Washington Square South, Rosenthal Pavilion, 10th floor.
JACK LANG
Member of the French National Assembly; former Minister of Culture (1981-1986, 1988-1992) former Minister of Education (1992-1993; 2000-2002); author of Demain comme hier; Le choix de Versailles: témoignage sur la révision de notre constitution
La Situation politique en France aujourd'hui
en dialogue avec Tom Bishop, NYU
Monday, November 2, 7:00 p.m.
YVES CHARLES ZARKA
Professor of political philosophy, Université de Paris Descartes (Sorbonne); founder and director, Cités
La Légitimité en régime démocratique
In French. English transcript of this lecture will be available.
Presented with the additional support of the Center for French Civilization and Culture, the Institute of French Studies, and the Consortium for Intellectual and Cultural History (NYU and Columbia).
Wednesday, November 4, 6:15 p.m.
Co-sponsored by the Department of Cinema Studies
Location: Tisch School of the Arts, 721 Broadway
(between Waverly Place and Washington Place), Rm. 648
LAURENT JULLIER
Professor, Université de Paris III-Sorbonne Nouvelle; author of Lire les images de cinéma; L'Analyse de séquences; Le Son au cinéma
French Contemporary Cinema and the Music Video Effect
Thursday, November 5, 7:00 p.m.
Air France Lecture
ANKA MUHLSTEIN
Writer; author of Napoléon à Moscou; A Passion for Freedom: The Life of Astolphe de Custine, Elisabeth d’Angleterre et Marie Stuart ou les périls du mariage
Balzac, Restaurants, and Gastronomy
In English. Followed by a conversation with
OLIVIER MULLER
Chef de Cuisine, DB Bistro Moderne
Friday, November 6, 5:00 p.m.
Co-sponsored by the Department of French and the Humanities Initiative
Series in "New French Philosophy"
Rethinking Nineteenth-Century French Studies:
Rancière's Nineteenth Century
Bruno Bosteels, Cornell University
Patrick Bray, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Bettina Lerner, CUNY, City College
Gabriel Rockhill, Villanova University; director, Atelier de Théorie Critique (Paris)
Emily Apter, NYU, moderator
In English.
Tuesday, November 10, 7:00 p.m.
Florence Gould Event
French Literature in the Making
ERIC REINHARD
Writer; author of Demi-sommeil; Moral des ménages; Existence; Cendrillon; freelance editor/publisher of art books whose collaborators include choreographer Angelin Preljocaj, architect Christian de Portzamparc, and shoe designer Christian Louboutin
in conversation with
Olivier BARROT
Writer, journalist, Un Livre un jour (France 3); publisher, Senso
In French. Simultaneous translation available for this event.
Presented with the additional support of Directours, Sofitel, Open Skies, CulturesFrance, and the Cultural Services of the French Embassy.
Thursday, November 12, 6:30 p.m.
Institute of French Studies Colloquium
Roundtable discussion in English
Living Undocumented in Europe
Awam AMKPA, Associate professor of Drama, Social and Cultural Analysis (NYU); author of Theatre and Postcolonial Desires (2003); co-curator of They Won’t Budge. Africans in Europe (MoCADA, 10/01/2009 - 01/19/2010)
Annalisa BUTTICI, Post doctoral fellow, Department of Social and Cultural Analysis, Africana Studies Program (NYU); author of "African Journey: Life Trajectories and Migratory Routes towards the New Italian Ghetto"; co-curator of They Won’t Budge. Africans in Europe
Madala HILAIRE, Social and Cultural Analysis, African Studies Program (NYU); co-curator of They Won’t Budge. Africans in Europe
Smaïn LAACHER, Sociologist (Centre d’études des mouvements sociaux, CNRS-EHESS), Adjudicator (United Nations High Commissioner of Refugees); author of Mythologie du Sans-papier (2009), Le Peuple des clandestins (2007)
Miriam TICKTIN, Assistant professor of Anthropology and International Affairs (New School University); author of Moral Emergency Complex: Humanitarianism, Sexual Violence and the Politics of Immigration in France (forthcoming); co-editor of In the Name of Humanity (forthcoming)
Moderated by Laure BERENI, political sociologist (Institute of French Studies/NYU)
EXHIBITION
Friday, November 13, 6:00 – 8:00 p.m.
Opening Reception & Gallery Talk
Intertwined: French Hand-Painted Photographs, circa 1841-1889
Sara Cleary-Burns Collection
This unique collection of hand-painted photographs, produced in Paris in the late 19th century, is on view for the first time in the United States. Mounted in their original frames, these images reveal the partnership of French painters and photographers at the beginning of a new art form.
Exhibition continues November 17 – December 18
Monday – Friday, 10:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m.
Call to verify hours. There are occasional closings for university events.
Monday, November 16, 7:00 p.m.
Remembering Christian Bourgois (1933-2007)
A Celebration
Location: Kimmel Center, 60 Washington Square South, Rm. 914
With Dominique Bourgois, Toni Morrison, Anka Muhlstein, Alan Pauls,
Jean-Christophe Bailly, Barbara Epler, Jonathan Galassi, Uri Eisenzweig,
Olivier Corpet, Victoire Bourgois, Tom Bishop, Breyten Breytenbach
In English.
SPECIAL EVENT
November 16 & 17
Architecture and Urban Policy: A French Season in New York
Une saison autour de l'architecture et de la politique urbaine
Planners and policymakers from Paris and New York convene to discuss the major challenges of contemporary urban planning.
Monday, November 16, 6:30 to 9:00 p.m.
Location: The Cooper Union, 41 Cooper Square Frederick P. Rose Auditorium
Politics & Policies
Participants include Amanda Burden, Jean-Louis Cohen, Mireille Ferri, Pierre Mansat, Tony Vidler.
Tuesday, November 17, 8:30 a.m. to 6:00 p.m.
Location: Center for Architecture, 536 LaGuardia Place, between Bleecker St. and West 3rd St.
Plans & Programs
Participants include Rohit Aggarwala, Dominique Alba, Emeline Bailly, Rick Bell, Adrien Benepe, Annick Bizouerne, Jean-Louis Cohen, Alexandre Chemetoff, Antoine Grumbach, David Mangin, Sherida Paulsen, Alex Washburn, Tom Wright
Additional details available on following webpages:
http://www.frenchculture.org
http://cfa.aiany.org
Organized by the Cultural Services of the French Embassy in partnership with the American Institute of Architects New York Chapter and Center for Architecture; the Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation at Columbia University; the Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art; and La Maison Française of New York University.
Thursday, November 19, 7:00 p.m.
Florence Gould Lecture
Eugène Ionesco Centennial (1909-1994)
MARIE-FRANCE IONESCO
Eugène Ionesco s'interroge:"Pourquoi j'écris"
In French.
THEATER
Monday, November 23 , 7:00 p.m.
Tuesday, November 24, 7:00 p.m.
Eugène Ionesco Centennial (1909-1994)
Requiem pour Ionesco
Based on Le Roi se meurt (Exit the King) and L'Impromptu de l'Alma
(Improvisation or The Shepherd's Chameleon)
In French and English.
Directed by Cécile Cotté; Music by Stéphane Scott
With NYU students Brian Miskell, Lindsay Phillips, Rebecca Davis, Daniele Ciandella, Lindsi Seegmiller, Olivier Ames, Steven Northrup, Dawn Glaves
Reservations: 212-998-8750 or maison.francaise@nyu.edu
Tuesday, December 1, 7:00 p.m.
MARIELLE MACÉ
CNRS-EHESS; visiting professor, NYU; author of Le Savoir des genres; Le Temps de l'essai. Histoire d'un genre littéraire en France au XXe siècle; Le Genre littéraire
La Littérature et les formes de l'individuation
In French.
Wednesday, December 2, 6:30 p.m.
Institute of French Studies Colloquium
EDWARD BERENSON
Director, Institute of French Studies, NYU; author of The Statue of Liberty (forthcoming), Heroes of Empire: Manliness, Media, and Charisma in Europe's Conquest of Africa
The Statue of Liberty: Symbol of a Tempestuous Relationship between France and the United States
In English.
Thursday, December 3, 7:00 p.m.
LOUIS BEGLEY
Louis Begley is a bestselling novelist and a lawyer who retired after a forty-five-year career as partner in one of America’s great law firms. His fiction includes Wartime Lies, About Schmidt, and, most recently, Matters of Honor.
Why the Dreyfus Affair Matters
"No other work in English on the Dreyfus Affair matches the clarity, the concision, and the passion of this one. A lawyer and novelist, Louis Begley explains the legal technicalities and untangles a byzantine narrative. He shows why this abuse of power should still concern us today."- Robert O. Paxton
"I can't imagine a more unequivocal, socially acute, or legally astute book about the whole hateful Dreyfus Affair than Louis Begley's "Why Dreyfus Matters." Add to that the limpidity, the novelist's eye, the moral passion, and the very considerable narrative gifts that have made Begley's fiction famous, and you have one of French history's most tellingly muddled moments, distilled and restored to the drama it in fact was for the country it divided."- Jane Kramer
In English.
Thursday, December 10, 7:00 p.m.
Defining French Taste:
Tradition, Quality, and Innovation in the Decorative Arts
Illustrated Lecture
Louis XIV: Daily Minutiae of Royal Life, from the Levee to Table Settings and Everything In-between
FLORENCE DE DAMPIERRE
Decorative arts historian; interior designer; author of The Best of Painted Furniture; Chairs: A History; French Chic: The Art of Decorating Houses
WOLFRAM KOEPPE
Curator in the Department of European Sculpture and Decorative Arts, The Metropolitan Museum of Art; co-author, Art of the Royal Court: Treasures in Pietre Dure from the Palaces of Europe; European Furniture in the Metropolitan Museum of Art
In English.
Tickets for lecture and Reception: $10
Reservations: 212-998-8750 or maison.francaise@nyu.edu
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The building re-opens a half-hour before evening programs.
All events are open to the public and free of charge unless otherwise indicated.
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