SEP 25
12:00 PM–1:00 PM
MAISON FRANçAISE EAST GALLERY, BUELL HALL
12:00 PM–1:00 PM Maison Française East Gallery, Buell Hall
Roundtable Discussion:
A Dialogue between Rémy Rioux and Scott Barrett
To RSVP, please click here. Two days after the United Nations Climate Action Summit in New York, Rémy Rioux, Director of the French Development Agency will be in conversation with Scott Barrett, Vice-Dean of SIPA, to take the pulse on current efforts to... Read More
SEP 25
6:00 PM–9:00 PM
MAISON FRANçAISE EAST GALLERY, BUELL HALL
6:00 PM–9:00 PM Maison Française East Gallery, Buell Hall
Roundtable Discussion:
Horkheimer and Adorno with Axel Honneth and Bernard E. Harcourt
To RSVP, please click here. Seminar session on the early Frankfurt School with Professors Axel Honneth and Bernard E. Harcourt discussing Max Horkheimer's 1937 essay, "Traditional and Critical Theory," and Theodor Adorno's 1931 essay, "The Actuality of... Read More
SEP 26
6:30 PM–8:30 PM
MAISON FRANçAISE EAST GALLERY, BUELL HALL
6:30 PM–8:30 PM Maison Française East Gallery, Buell Hall
Film:
To RSVP, please click here. Raoul Peck (I Am Not Your Negro) offers a soul-shaking account of the Rwandan genocide as seen through the eyes of a Hutu man fighting to save his Tutsi wife and children as the unstoppable tide of violence... Read More
OCT 2
6:00 PM–8:00 PM
MAISON FRANçAISE EAST GALLERY, BUELL HALL
6:00 PM–8:00 PM Maison Française East Gallery, Buell Hall
Panel Discussion:
Laurent Cohen-Tanugi in conversation with Adam Gopnik
To RSVP, please click here. Laurent Cohen-Tanugi and Adam Gopnik explore ideas about current threats to democracy, the meaning and value of liberalism, and the rise of populism in the U.S., France, Great Britain and beyond, explored in their recent books,... Read More
OCT 3
1:00 PM–3:00 PM
MAISON FRANçAISE EAST GALLERY, BUELL HALL
1:00 PM–3:00 PM Maison Française East Gallery, Buell Hall
Lecture:
A Talk by Hans Bruyninckx. Introduction by Lisa Dale
To RSVP, please click here. Europe is responding to the climate challenge and the Paris Agreement with a strong vision on a low carbon society. Building on 20 years of developing climate policies, it has formulated a ‘net zero emissions’ target... Read More
OCT 3
6:30 PM–9:00 PM
MAISON FRANçAISE EAST GALLERY, BUELL HALL
6:30 PM–9:00 PM Maison Française East Gallery, Buell Hall
Film/Panel Discussion:
Olivier WIEVIORKA and David KORN-BRZOZA, 2016, 90 min.
To RSVP, please click here. Documentary film screening and discussion with historian and co-director Olivier Wieviorka about the role of the historian in creating documentary films. In the five years that separated the end of the Second World War from the... Read More
OCT 7
6:00 PM–7:30 PM
MAISON FRANçAISE EAST GALLERY, BUELL HALL
6:00 PM–7:30 PM Maison Française East Gallery, Buell Hall
Panel Discussion:
Olivier Wieviorka, with responses by Robert O. Paxton and Mark Mazower
To RSVP, please click here. Olivier Wieviorka talks about his newly translated book, The Resistance in Western Europe, 1940–1945 (Columbia University Press, 2019), a sweeping analytical history of the underground anti-Nazi forces during... Read More
OCT 10
6:30 PM–8:30 PM
MAISON FRANçAISE EAST GALLERY, BUELL HALL
6:30 PM–8:30 PM Maison Française East Gallery, Buell Hall
Film:
Christian Rouaud, 2011, 118 min.
To RSVP, please click here. How did a group of isolated farmers, clueless about politics, manage to win a fight against the French government’s decision to extend a military camp over their land? This documentary focuses on a 10-year long struggle... Read More
OCT 14
6:00 PM–8:00 PM
MAISON FRANçAISE EAST GALLERY, BUELL HALL
6:00 PM–8:00 PM Maison Française East Gallery, Buell Hall
Roundtable Discussion:
Nadia Urbinati, Frederico Finchelstein, and Adam Tooze
To RSVP, please click here. What distinguishes populism from run-of-the-mill democratic politics? And why should we be concerned by its rise? In Me the People, Nadia Urbinati argues that populism should be regarded as a new form of... Read More
OCT 16
6:00 PM–7:30 PM
MAISON FRANçAISE EAST GALLERY, BUELL HALL
6:00 PM–7:30 PM Maison Française East Gallery, Buell Hall
Lecture:
Joshua Cole, with response by Emmanuelle Saada
To RSVP, please click here. Joshua Cole talks about his new book, Lethal Provocation: The Constantine Murders and the Politics of French Algeria (Cornell UP, 2019), that explores an episode of anti-Jewish violence in the Algerian city of... Read More
OCT 18
9:00 AM–5:00 PM
ITALIAN ACADEMY, AMSTERDAM AVENUE
9:00 AM–5:00 PM Italian Academy, Amsterdam Avenue
Conference:
To RSVP, please click here. In November 2018, Felwine Sarr and Bénédicte Savoy released a report that had been prepared for the President of France entitled The Restitution of African Cultural Heritage. Toward a New Relational... Read More
OCT 21
7:00 PM–9:00 PM
MAISON FRANÇAISE 2ND FLOOR, BUELL HALL
7:00 PM–9:00 PM MAISON FRANÇAISE 2ND FLOOR, BUELL HALL
Book Club:
OCT 23
6:00 PM–7:30 PM
MAISON FRANçAISE EAST GALLERY, BUELL HALL
6:00 PM–7:30 PM Maison Française East Gallery, Buell Hall
Lecture:
To RSVP, please click here. The April 2019 fire that nearly destroyed the Cathedral of Notre-Dame revived a polemic with resonance well beyond France. Should the edifice be reconstructed “as it was” or is the very idea of Gothic... Read More
OCT 24
6:30 PM–8:30 PM
MAISON FRANçAISE EAST GALLERY, BUELL HALL
6:30 PM–8:30 PM Maison Française East Gallery, Buell Hall
Film:
Maïwenn, Emmanuelle Bercot, 2011, 127 min.
To RSVP, please click here. Winner of the Jury Prize at the 2011 Cannes Film Festival and nominated for 13 César Awards, Polisse follows the daily lives of a tight-knit team of men and women working in the Child Protection Unit of the... Read More
OCT 29
6:00 PM–7:30 PM
MAISON FRANçAISE EAST GALLERY, BUELL HALL
6:00 PM–7:30 PM Maison Française East Gallery, Buell Hall
Lecture:
To RSVP, please click here. In this intimate family history that spans from the 1930s to today, Audrey Celestine traces fragments of the lives of three generations of the same family. The history moves from the Caribbean to Algeria and the Mediterranean... Read More
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