7:00 PM–9:00 PM    Cowin Auditorium (Horace Mann Hall 147) in Teachers College

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Film/Panel Discussion:

MAUVAIS GENRES. FRENCH CINEMA TAKES ON GENDER

Columbia Maison Française Film Festival

Mauvais Genres: French Cinema Takes on Gender is produced and presented by Columbia Maison Française and curated by Nora Philippe. RSVP HERE With additional support provided by Cultural Services of the French Embassy,...   Read More

7:00 PM–9:00 PM    Cowin Auditorium (Horace Mann Hall 147) in Teachers College

Film/Roundtable Discussion:

The Lives of Thérèse by Sébastien Lifshitz (2016)

MAUVAIS GENRES: Columbia Maison Française Film Festival

Documentary, 60 minutes*In French with English subtitles The screening will be followed by an in-person discussion with director Sébastien Lifshitz, and Professor Marianne Hirsch, moderated by Nora Philippe and Shanny Peer. Open to Columbia...   Read More

12:00 PM–2:00 PM    A live virtual transatlantic event

Panel Discussion:

Revolution 3/13 Gramsci, Sartre, and the "Engaged" Philosopher

Join Professors Étienne Balibar and Bernard Harcourt for a seminar on on Antonio Gramsci, Jean-Paul Sartre, and Max Weber

RSVP HERE Étienne Balibar and Bernard E. Harcourt read and discuss: Prison Notebooks [1947] by Antonio Gramsci (   Read More

7:00 PM–9:30 PM    Cowin Auditorium (Horace Mann Hall 147) in Teachers College

Film/Roundtable Discussion:

Little Girl by Sébastien Lifshitz (2020)

MAUVAIS GENRES: Columbia Maison Française Film Festival

Documentary, 80 minutes*In French with English subtitles Please note this screening is now scheduled for October 28.  It was  originally scheduled for October 25 but was postponed due to the flash flood warning for New York Region. The screening...   Read More

7:00 PM–9:00 PM    Cowin Auditorium (Horace Mann Hall 147) in Teachers College

Film/Roundtable Discussion:

Adam by Maryam Touzani (2019)

MAUVAIS GENRES: Columbia Maison Française Film Festival

Fiction, 88 minutes*In Arabic with English subtitles The screening will be followed by a discussion with Professor Madeleine Dobie, Nora Philippe and Shanny Peer. Open to Columbia University Community only.RSVP with CUID required. To RSVP click    Read More

7:00 PM–9:00 PM    Cowin Auditorium (Horace Mann Hall 147) in Teachers College

Film/Roundtable Discussion:

Ladies of the Wood by Claus Drexel (2021)
NYC Preview

MAUVAIS GENRES: Columbia Maison Française Film Festival

Documentary, 90 minutes *In French and Portuguese with English subtitles The screening will be followed by a discussion with director Claus Drexel and Professor Tey Meadow, moderated by Nora Philippe and Shanny Peer. Open to Columbia University Community...   Read More

7:00 PM–9:30 PM    Cowin Auditorium (Horace Mann Hall 147) in Teachers College

Film/Roundtable Discussion:

Hyenas by Djibril Diop Mambéty (1992)

MAUVAIS GENRES: Columbia Maison Française Film Festival

Fiction, 110 minutes*In French and Wolof with English subtitles The screening will be followed by a discussion with Professor Souleymane Bachir Diagne and Professor Mamadou Diouf, moderated by Nora Philippe and Shanny Peer. Open to Columbia University...   Read More

7:00 PM–8:00 PM    Zoom video conference

Book Club:

Un Océan, deux mers, trois continents by Wilfried N’Sondé


Moderated by Fanny Guex, Columbia University

The book club is held one Monday a month at 7 p.m. on Zoom until further notice. It is open to Columbia University students and faculty with a valid and current CUID, and to members of the Société des Amis de la Maison Française.   Read More

1:00 PM–2:30 PM    A live virtual transatlantic event

Panel Discussion:

Des empires sous la terre: Is There a Secularocene?

Mohamad Amer Meziane, in conversation with Etienne Balibar, Souleymane Bachir Diagne, and Ann Stoler, moderated by Emmanuelle Saada

RSVP HERE. Why is secularization never connected to climate change? And why is climate change not connected to secularization? If modernity is the Anthropocene and if secularization is a defining feature of modernity’s birth, then it is natural to ask: did...   Read More

7:00 PM–8:00 PM    Zoom video conference

Book Club:

Un fauteuil sur la Seine by Amin Maalouf

Moderated by Catherine Pointelet

The book club is held one Monday a month at 7 p.m. on Zoom until further notice. It is open to Columbia University students and faculty with a valid and current CUID, and to members of the Société des Amis de la Maison Française.   Read More

7:00 PM–8:00 PM    Zoom video conference

Book Club:

L’Anomalie by Hervé Le Tellier

Moderated by Lewis Lipsey

The book club is held one Monday a month at 7 p.m. on Zoom until further notice. It is open to Columbia University students and faculty with a valid and current CUID, and to members of the Société des Amis de la Maison Française.   Read More

7:00 PM–8:00 PM    Zoom video conference

Book Club:

Souvenirs dormants by Patrick Modiano

Moderated by Irène Bernstein-Pechmèze

The book club is held one Monday a month at 7 p.m. on Zoom until further notice. It is open to Columbia University students and faculty with a valid and current CUID, and to members of the Société des Amis de la Maison Française.   Read More

7:00 PM–8:00 PM    Zoom video conference

Book Club:

De nos frères blessés by Joseph Andras

Moderated by André L. Pettman, Columbia University

The book club is held one Monday a month at 7 p.m. on Zoom until further notice. It is open to Columbia University students and faculty with a valid and current CUID, and to members of the Société des Amis de la Maison Française.   Read More