7:00 PM–8:00 PM    ONLINE EVENT

Book Club:

En compagnie des hommes by Véronique Tadjo  

Moderated by Thomas W. Dodman, Columbia University

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1:00 PM–2:00 PM    A live virtual transatlantic event

Lecture à domicile : Gaël Faye

A Live Transatlantic Performance and Interview in French, moderated by Fanny Guex

To sign up, please click here. Gaël Faye, rappeur et écrivain franco-rwandais, nous reçoit chez lui le temps d’une lecture exclusive. Nous lui avons donné carte blanche pour nous inspirer, nous transporter, nous émouvoir, lors...   Read More

   Virtual Cinema

Film:

Africa on the Seine, L'Envers du décor, A Nation is Born, Lamb (Afrique sur Seine, L'Envers du décor, Une Nation est née, Lamb)<

Presented as part of the Columbia Maison Française Tournées Film Festival. Paulin Soumanou Vieyra, 1955-1981, 89 min.

To RSVP and get a link to watch the film, click HERE.    Screening window begins: Sunday, March 14, 2021 12 pm EST. Screening window ends: Sunday, March 21, 2021 11 pm EST.  This program of documentary shorts...   Read More

1:00 PM–2:00 PM    A live virtual transatlantic event

Panel Discussion:

Sex, Love, and Letters: Writing Simone de Beauvoir

A Panel with Judith G. Coffin, Gisèle Sapiro, Susan Pedersen, Judith Surkis, moderated by Camille Robcis and Stephanos Geroulanos

To RSVP, please click here. Sex, Love, and Letters is the first study of a virtually unexplored cache of letters to Simone de Beauvoir, the brilliant, magnetic, and polarizing French feminist and philosopher from ordinary women and men around the world....   Read More

1:00 PM–2:00 PM    A live virtual transatlantic event

Film/Panel Discussion:

A Conversation about films by Paulin Vieyra, with Stéphane Vieyra, Souleymane Bachir Diagne, Mamadou Diouf, and Nora Philippe

Africa on the Seine/L'Envers du décor/A Nation is Born/Lamb

To sign up, please click here. Stéphane Vieyra, son of Beninese/Senegalese filmmaker Paulin Soumanou Vieyra, joins Columbia Professors Souleymane Bachir Diagne and Mamadou Diouf to discuss Africa on the Seine and other short documentary films...   Read More

   Virtual Cinema

Film:

Faat Kiné

A film by Ousmane Sembene, 2001, 120 min.

To RSVP and get a link to watch the film, click HERE.    Screening window begins: Sunday, March 21, 2021 at noon (12 pm EST). Screening window ends: Sunday, March 28, 2021 11 pm EST.  Like Borom Sarret, Black...   Read More

1:00 PM–2:00 PM

Roundtable Discussion:

A Conversation about Faat Kiné by Ousmane Sembene 

With actress Mariama Baldé, Souleymane Bachir Diagne, Mamadou Diouf, and Nora Philippe

In this conversation about Faat Kiné, a 2001 film directed by Senegalese filmmaker Ousmane Sembene, Mariama Baldé, a Senegalese actress who plays a role in this film, and who previously studied the films of Ousmane Sembene, joins with Columbia Professors...   Read More

6:30 PM–7:30 PM    Virtual event

Panel Discussion:

White Freedom: the Racial History of an Idea

Tyler Stovall, with Michele Moody-Adams, Brent Edwards, and Madeleine Dobie

To RSVP for this webinar, click here. The era of the Enlightenment, which gave rise to our modern conceptions of freedom and democracy, was also the height of the trans-Atlantic slave trade. America, a nation founded on the principle of liberty, is also a nation built on African...   Read More

7:00 PM–8:00 PM    ONLINE EVENT

Book Club:

Pars vite et reviens tard by Fred Vargas

Moderated by Laetitia Marie Ndiaye, Columbia University

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