JAN 27
7:00 PM–8:00 PM
MAISON FRANÇAISE 2ND FLOOR, BUELL HALL
7:00 PM–8:00 PM MAISON FRANÇAISE 2ND FLOOR, BUELL HALL
Book Club:
JAN 28
6:30 PM–8:30 PM
MAISON FRANCAISE EAST GALLERY
6:30 PM–8:30 PM Maison Francaise East Gallery
Performance:
Concert and Conversation with Rebecca Cypess and the Raritan Players, introduced by Julia Doe
To RSVP, please click here. The Raritan Players, led by Rebecca Cypess, invite listeners into the musical world of Anne-Louise Brillon de Jouy (1744-1824), a French composer and keyboardist whose reputation extended throughout Europe and across the Atlantic. Her... Read More
JAN 29
6:15 PM–8:45 PM
MAISON FRANCAISE, BUELL HALL EAST GALLERY
6:15 PM–8:45 PM Maison Francaise, Buell Hall East Gallery
Conference/Panel Discussion/Roundtable Discussion:
To RSVP, please click here. The seminar Critique 13/13 in 2019-20 returns to brilliant texts in critical theory: Adorno, Althusser, Arendt, de Beauvoir, Du Bois, Fanon, Foucault, Freire, Horkheimer, Lorde, Said, Sartre, and others, in order to examine the current... Read More
JAN 30
6:30 PM–8:30 PM
MAISON FRANCAISE EAST GALLERY
6:30 PM–8:30 PM Maison Francaise East Gallery
Film Series:
Mia Hansen-Løve, 2016, 100 min.
To RSVP, please click here. What happens when the life you've worked so hard to build suddenly crumbles? In Things to Come, Oscar nominee Isabelle Huppert, in "a career-best performance" (Jordan Hoffman, Vanity Fair), portrays Nathalie, a... Read More
FEB 3
12:00 PM–1:00 PM
MAISON FRANCAISE EAST GALLERY, BUELL HALL
12:00 PM–1:00 PM Maison Francaise East Gallery, Buell Hall
Conference:
A new genealogy of neoliberalism. History and pertinence of the Lippmann-Dewey debate
To RSVP, please click here. Where does this sneaking, yet ever more oppressive and widely experienced sense of a generalized lagging behind come from? A feeling which is only strengthened by the perpetual decree that evolution must be preceded by... Read More
FEB 4
6:30 PM–8:00 PM
MAISON FRANCAISE EAST GALLERY, BUELL HALL
6:30 PM–8:00 PM MAISON FRANCAISE EAST GALLERY, BUELL HALL
Lecture:
In conversation with Carol Gluck
To RSVP, please click here. Xiaolu Guo presents her work in words and film, and draws connections to her own life, in conversation with Carol Gluck. Xiaolu Guo is a British Chinese novelist, essayist and filmmaker. Her memoir, Nine Continents, received the... Read More
FEB 6
6:30 PM–8:30 PM
MAISON FRANCAISE EAST GALLERY
6:30 PM–8:30 PM Maison Francaise East Gallery
Film Series:
To RSVP, please click here. Following the coup d’état of December 2, 1851, President Louis Napoleon Bonaparte was crowned Emperor Napoleon III, setting off a bloody campaign of repression to root out his opponents. In some regions, entire villages were... Read More
FEB 7
1:00 PM–2:00 PM
MAISON FRANCAISE EAST GALLERY
1:00 PM–2:00 PM Maison Francaise East Gallery
Performance:
A Music @ the Maison Française Concert
To RSVP, please click here. This guitar and piano duo will perform pieces by Olivier Messiaen, Tristan Murail, Pierre Boulez, and Maurice Ravel. Presented as part of the Music Performance Program, by the Department of Music and Maison... Read More
FEB 13
6:30 PM–8:30 PM
MAISON FRANCAISE EAST GALLERY
6:30 PM–8:30 PM Maison Francaise East Gallery
Film Series:
Mathieu Amalric, 2017, 107 min.
To RSVP, please click here. “The legendary French chanteuse known only as Barbara, gifted with a tremulously expressive voice and striking stage presence, is an enduring icon of French culture. In this tantalizing tribute from actor-director Mathieu Amalric,... Read More
FEB 20
6:00 PM–8:00 PM
MAISON FRANCAISE EAST GALLERY
6:00 PM–8:00 PM Maison Francaise East Gallery
Conference:
To RSVP, please click here. As ecocriticism has burgeoned in literary studies and throughout the humanities, its presence has been somewhat limited in the field of French and Francophone literature. This panel will open with a discussion of the state of the field... Read More
FEB 21
1:00 PM–2:00 PM
MAISON FRANCAISE EAST GALLERY
1:00 PM–2:00 PM Maison Francaise East Gallery
Performance:
A Music @ the Maison Française Concert
To RSVP, please click here. The Fluffy Bao Trio performs music by Camille Saint-Saëns, Claude Debussy, Ludwig van Beethoven, and Paul Schoenfield. Presented as part of the Music Performance Program by the Department of Music and Maison... Read More
FEB 24
7:00 PM–8:00 PM
MAISON FRANÇAISE 2ND FLOOR, BUELL HALL
7:00 PM–8:00 PM MAISON FRANÇAISE 2ND FLOOR, BUELL HALL
Book Club:
FEB 27
6:30 PM–8:30 PM
MAISON FRANCAISE EAST GALLERY
6:30 PM–8:30 PM Maison Francaise East Gallery
Film Series:
To RSVP, please click here. A hardened, streetwise 12-year-old Lebanese boy sues his parents in protest of the life they have given him. A portrayal of extreme poverty and the daily life of a scrappy and intelligent child trying to find fairness in life. Nadine... Read More
FEB 28
9:00 AM–7:00 PM
MAISON FRANCAISE EAST GALLERY
9:00 AM–7:00 PM Maison Francaise East Gallery
Conference:
An interdisciplinary conference
To RSVP, please click here. While the cultural, political, legal and social aspects of French colonialism have received much attention over the past 30 years, the political economy of the French colonial empire has been largely neglected. This conference will bring... Read More
MAR 11
6:15 PM–8:45 PM
MAISON FRANCAISE EAST GALLERY
6:15 PM–8:45 PM Maison Francaise East Gallery
Conference/Panel Discussion/Roundtable Discussion:
Seminar session on Edward Said's Orientalism, with Professors Homi Bhabha and Bernard E. Harcourt
To RSVP, please click here. The seminar Critique 13/13 in 2019-20 returns to brilliant texts in critical theory: Adorno, Althusser, Arendt, de Beauvoir, Du Bois, Fanon, Foucault, Freire, Horkheimer, Lorde, Said, Sartre, and others, in order to examine the current... Read More
MAR 23
7:00 PM–8:00 PM
MAISON FRANÇAISE 2ND FLOOR, BUELL HALL
7:00 PM–8:00 PM MAISON FRANÇAISE 2ND FLOOR, BUELL HALL
Book Club:
APR 20
7:00 PM–8:00 PM
MAISON FRANÇAISE 2ND FLOOR, BUELL HALL
7:00 PM–8:00 PM MAISON FRANÇAISE 2ND FLOOR, BUELL HALL
Book Club:
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