Film Series:

Films on the Green 2019 

French and Francophone Female Directors in 13 Different Movie Screenings

In light of the recent passing of French filmmaker, feminist and pioneer of the French New Wave, Agnès Varda, Films on the Green dedicates this special 12th edition of “Women Behind the Camera” to her memory. This year’s program, highlighting...   Read More

7:30 PM–9:30 PM    Columbia University, Low Library steps

SPECIAL OUTDOOR CINEMA EVENT: OLIVIA (FILMS ON THE GREEN)

Jacqueline Audry, 1951, 95 min.

*In French with English subtitles No RSVPs necessary for this event, seating on the steps of Low Library is plentiful.   Set in 1890, an innocent English teenager, Olivia (Olivia), arrives at a small boarding school outside Paris. The majority of the pupils...   Read More

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

Conference:

WHAT IS SUFFERING WORTH?
PERSPECTIVES ACROSS DISCIPLINES ON THE TREATMENT OF VICTIMS

Franco-American Conference in Law, Criminology, Economics, History and Philosophy

This interdisciplinary symposium explores a crucial but little-studied issue with growing importance today: what is the value of harm suffered by victims, whether of terrorism, crime or natural disasters. In law, politics, economics and public opinion, answers differ widely, and...   Read More