JAN 19 – 25
VIRTUAL CINEMA
Virtual Cinema
Film:
To RSVP and get a link to watch the film, click here. After spending several years in prison for allegedly setting a wildfire, Amador returns to his elderly mother’s farm in the mountains of Galicia. He lives quietly, resisting his well-meaning... Read More
JAN 19
1:00 PM–2:00 PM
ONLINE EVENT
1:00 PM–2:00 PM ONLINE EVENT
Panel Discussion:
Participants in this session will discuss democratic participation in Europe, with a focus on the EU institutions (the so-called "democratic deficit") and on the EU's response to challenges to democracy within member states. January 19, 2021: Thierry Grillet... Read More
JAN 25 – 31
VIRTUAL CINEMA
Virtual Cinema
Film:
To RSVP and get a link to watch the film, click here. Varda by Agnès, the last film by the late great Agnès Varda, is a typically joyous, digressive, and revealing ramble through the director’s work, based on a series of... Read More
JAN 28
ONLINE EVENT
ONLINE EVENT
Virtual Event recommendations /Performance/Panel Discussion:
Including interviews of Souleymane Bachir Diagne, Barbara Cassin and Christia Mercer
Columbia Maison Française is delighted to participate in the Night of Ideas 2021 on January 28: a virtual 24-hour marathon of philosophical debate and artistic performances coordinated by the Institut Français, Paris and co-produced by the Cultural Services of the... Read More
FEB 1 – 7
, DAILY
VIRTUAL CINEMA
, DAILY Virtual Cinema
Film:
Mia Hansen-Løve, 2007, 105 min.
To RSVP and get a link to watch the film, click here. Writer-director Mia Hansen-Løve is recognized as one of the brightest talents in contemporary French film for the way she has renewed the tradition of the intimate cinema of ideas and emotions epitomized... Read More
FEB 2
1:00 PM–2:00 PM
ONLINE EVENT
1:00 PM–2:00 PM ONLINE EVENT
Panel Discussion:
Thierry Grillet interviews writer Kamel Daoud (pre-recorded in French).
This session will explore whether the EU integration process has forged a sense of common identity (culturally and politically) among Europeans. Participants will also discuss how minorities and migrants relate to such an identity. February 2, 2021: Thierry... Read More
FEB 3
6:30 PM–7:30 PM
VIRTUAL CONVERSATION
6:30 PM–7:30 PM VIRTUAL CONVERSATION
Panel Discussion:
Frédéric Viguier in conversation with Emmanuelle Saada
To RSVP, please click here. Frédéric Viguier traces the history of the "cause des pauvres" -- defense of the poor peoples' rights -- since 1945 in France. He describes efforts by organizations such as ATD Quart Monde and the Federation working on... Read More
FEB 6
10:30 AM–12:30 PM
ONLINE EVENT
10:30 AM–12:30 PM ONLINE EVENT
Conference:
Annual Columbia University Department of French and AATF Workshop for Teachers of French
To RSVP, please click here. This year's free, annual workshop for teachers of French, co-presented by the Columbia French Department and the Metropolitan Chapter of the American Association of Teachers of French, will feature presentations on the theme of "Les... Read More
FEB 8
7:00 PM–8:00 PM
ONLINE EVENT
7:00 PM–8:00 PM ONLINE EVENT
Book Club:
FEB 11
6:15 PM–7:30 PM
ONLINE EVENT
6:15 PM–7:30 PM ONLINE EVENT
Panel Discussion:
New Books in the Arts & Sciences: Celebrating Recent Work by Clémence Boulouque
Another Modernity is a rich study of the life and thought of Elia Benamozegh, a nineteenth-century rabbi and philosopher whose work profoundly influenced Christian-Jewish dialogue in twentieth-century Europe. Benamozegh, a Livornese rabbi of Moroccan descent, was a prolific... Read More
FEB 18
1:00 PM–2:00 PM
A LIVE VIRTUAL TRANSATLANTIC EVENT
1:00 PM–2:00 PM A live virtual transatlantic event
Roundtable Discussion:
Lucienne Peiry in conversation with Camille Robcis
To sign up for this conversation, click here. Self-taught Outsider artists ("Art Brut") develop personal systems of expression to produce paintings, sculptures, drawings or textile works outside of official artistic circles. Sometimes unaware of social... Read More
MAR 2
1:00 PM–2:00 PM
ONLINE EVENT
1:00 PM–2:00 PM ONLINE EVENT
Panel Discussion:
Thierry Grillet interviews journalist Pierre Haski, founder of Rue 89 (pre-recorded in French).
Three years ago, President Macron called for "a sovereign, democratic, and united Europe". For her part, Chancellor Merkel emphasized that "Europeans must take their fate into their own hands.” Participants in this session will discuss whether Europeans have made progress... Read More
MAR 8
7:00 PM–8:00 PM
ONLINE EVENT
7:00 PM–8:00 PM ONLINE EVENT
Book Club:
MAR 16
1:00 PM–2:00 PM
A LIVE VIRTUAL TRANSATLANTIC EVENT
1:00 PM–2:00 PM A live virtual transatlantic event
Panel Discussion:
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
APR 19
7:00 PM–8:00 PM
ONLINE EVENT
7:00 PM–8:00 PM ONLINE EVENT
Book Club:
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