6:00 PM–7:30 PM    Maison Française East Gallery, Buell Hall

Panel Discussion:

The Department of Missing Persons

Ruth Zylberman, in conversation with Marianne Hirsch

To RSVP, please click here. Ruth Zylberman talks about La Direction de l’absent, her debut novel about how the memory of Holocaust still haunts Paris, being published in English translation as The Department of Missing Persons. Thirty-six...   Read More

6:30 PM–9:00 PM    Maison Française East Gallery, Buell Hall

Film/Panel Discussion:

Façade - 209 rue Saint Maur

Ruth Zylberman, 2017, 90 min.

*Film screening and Q&A with director Ruth ZylbermanTo RSVP, please click here. This documentary is an exploration of a Parisian building that is layered with the memories of human lives. Zylberman reconstituted the...   Read More

6:00 PM–7:30 PM    Maison Française East Gallery, Buell Hall

Lecture:

Tunisia: An Arab Anomaly

Safwan Masri, in conversation with Steve Coll

To RSVP, please click here. The Arab Spring began and ended with Tunisia. In a region beset by brutal repression, humanitarian disasters, and civil war, Tunisia's Jasmine Revolution alone gave way to a peaceful transition to a functioning democracy. Within four...   Read More

6:30 PM–8:00 PM    Maison Française East Gallery, Buell Hall

Film:

La Chinoise

Jean-Luc Godard, 1967, 90 min.

To RSVP, please click here. Free and open to the public. Subtitles are in English A group of French students embrace Maoist ideals and try and incite revolution thorugh terrorist violence. When the group eventually plots to assassinate a high-ranking...   Read More

6:00 PM–7:30 PM    Maison Française East Gallery, Buell Hall

Lecture/Panel Discussion:

Erica Jong on Colette, Writing, and Sex in Literature

To RSVP, please click here. Writer Erica Jong joins Elisabeth Ladenson for a lively discussion about the French author Colette.  Erica Jong is an American novelist and poet, whose reputation was first established with Fear of Flying, published in...   Read More

1:00 PM–2:00 PM    Maison Française East Gallery, Buell Hall

Performance:

Music at the Maison Française (M@MF)

A concert by Harvey Wu (piano) and Alec Hon (cello)

To RSVP, please click here. Program: Composer: Franz Schubert (1797-1828)Piece: Sonata in a minor “Arpeggione” D. 8211. Allegro Moderato2. Adagio3. Allegretto Composer: Maurice Ravel (1875-1937)Piece: Sonatine (1903-1905)1....   Read More

   Maison Française East Gallery, Buell Hall & Lenfest Center for the Arts, Katharina Otto-Bernstein Screening Room

Film/Panel Discussion:

Cinema of Resistance

A Film Series Curated by Nora Philippe and presented by the Columbia Maison Française and School of the Arts

Films are free and open to the public.  Subtitles are in English. For decades, France has been and remains a country where directors immigrate from all over the world to make political films freely, and French productions have continuously challenged forms of power...   Read More

6:30 PM–9:00 PM    Maison Française East Gallery, Buell Hall

Film/Panel Discussion:

Tahrir: Liberation Square

Stefano Savona, 2012, 91 min.

To RSVP, please click here. Free and open to the public. Subtitles are in EnglishScreening followed by discussion with Jane Gaines and curator Nora Philippe From facebook thumbs up to the battle of stones, a history of hope, fear,...   Read More

6:30 PM–9:30 PM    Maison Française East Gallery, Buell Hall

Film/Panel Discussion:

The Battle of Algiers (La Bataille d’Alger)

Gillo Pontecorvo, 1966, 120 min.

To RSVP, please click here. Free and open to the public. Subtitles are in English.Screening followed by discussion with Madeleine Dobie and curator Nora Philippe The Battle of Algiers reconstructs the events that...   Read More

7:00 PM–9:00 PM    Maison Française 2nd Floor, Buell Hall

Book Club:

Book Club

Chanson douce by Leila SlimaniModerated by Ninette Lukashok   Read More

6:30 PM–11:30 PM    Maison Française East Gallery, Buell Hall

Film:

La Commune (Paris, 1871)

Peter Watkins, 2000, 345 min.

To RSVP, please click here. Free and open to the public. Subtitles are in English.Screening introduced by Emmanuelle Saada. On a stage-like set, more than 200 actors interpret characters of the 1871 Paris Commune, especially the...   Read More

7:00 PM–10:00 PM    Lenfest Center for the Arts, Katharina Otto-Bernstein Screening Room, 129th and Broadway

Film/Panel Discussion:

Army of Shadows (L’Armée des ombres)

Jean-Pierre Melville, 1969, 145 min.

To RSVP, please click here. Free and open to the public. Subtitles are in English.Screening followed by a discussion with Richard Pena and Robert Paxton. Surely the most famous and subtle French production about underground Resistance fighters in...   Read More

12:30 PM–1:30 PM    Maison Française East Gallery, Buell Hall

Lecture:

Literature as an Ark: on the Stylistic and Ethical Aspects of Zoopoetics

A talk by Anne Simon, moderated by Eliza Zingesser

To RSVP, please click here. Zoopoetics aims to highlight the plurality of stylistic, linguistic and narrative tools used by writers to express the plurality of animal activities, affects and worlds, as well as the intricacies of the interactions between humans and...   Read More

6:30 PM–9:00 PM    Maison Française East Gallery, Buell Hall

Film:

Mustang

Deniz Gamze Ergüven, 2015, 97 min.

To RSVP, please click here.Free and open to the public. Subtitles are in English.Screening followed by discussion with Alessia Palanti and Nora Philippe.It is the beginning of summertime in the Turkish countryside. When five orphan sisters...   Read More

6:30 PM–9:00 PM    Maison Française East Gallery, Buell Hall

Film/Panel Discussion:

The Assembly (L’assemblée)

Mariana Otero, 2017, 98 min.

To RSVP, please click here. Free and open to the public. Subtitles are in English.Screening followed by discussion with Bernard Harcourt and Etienne Balibar. This documentary examines how the Nuit Debout (Arise at Night)...   Read More

7:00 PM–9:30 PM    Lenfest Center for the Arts, Katharina Otto-Bernstein Screening Room, 129th and Broadway

Film/Panel Discussion:

Swagger 

Olivier Babinet, 2016, 90 min.

  TO RSVP, please click here. Free and open to the public. Subtitles are in English.Screening followed by discussion with director Olivier Babinet. The public housing projects in the banlieues outside Paris have been the setting...   Read More

6:00 PM–7:30 PM    Maison Française East Gallery, Buell Hall

Lecture/Panel Discussion:

The Safe House

Christophe Boltanski

To RSVP, pease click here. In this book Christophe Boltanski creatively explores his personal history, using each room of the family home as a pretext to recall anecdotes and capture the atmosphere of this unusual family. Boltanski comes from a long line of...   Read More