THURSDAY, MARCH 22, 4-6 p.m. A conversation with exhibition curator Christian Delage 
Christian Delage discusses the exhibition he curated for the Museum of Jewish Heritage, Filming the Camps, which opens on March 22. The exhibition tells for the first time the story shared by three great Hollywood directors, John Ford, Samuel Fuller, and George Stevens, who served with the U.S. Armed Forces during World War II, and filmed the war and liberation of Nazi concentration camps.
Christian Delage is a Professor of History at the University of Paris 8 and Sciences Po Paris and a director, curator, and expert on the use of film as historical document. Event featured For more information on the exhibition at the Museum of Jewish Heritage, please visit http://www.mjhnyc.org/ftc/findex.html |
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 4, 5-6:30 p.m. Lecture by Roland Marchal, moderated by Professor Ousmane Kane While up to the late 1990s, the Somali crisis had been managed as a fundamentally humanitarian crisis, post-9/11 events and the Global War on Terror have reshaped the conflict into a more transnational and international narrative. Roland Marchal is a senior research fellow at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS). His research focuses on armed conflicts and power politics in Africa. Ousmane Kane is Professor of Political Science at Columbia. Event co-sponsored by the Institute of African Studies and the Alliance Program |
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 11, 5-8 p.m. Short films and roundtable discussion with French filmmakers Sylvain George, Stéphane Elmadjian and Soufiane Adel, moderated by Charles Burnett Films in French with English subtitles; discussion in French and English with translation The Ghett'Out Film Festival coming to New York (at BAM) and Boston will reveal independent French talents emerging on the outskirts of the classic system in France. Mostly self-educated, from diverse cultural backgrounds and often deprived neighborhoods, these filmmakers are the pioneers of an underground Nouvelle Vague. Three young filmmakers present short films and converse about their work with U.S. filmmaker Charles Burnett and Phil Watts. Partial support provided by the Cultural Services of the French Embassy and the French-American Foundation For more information on the Ghett'Out Film Fesitval, please visit www.ghettoutfilms.com. To read about the event in France-Amerique, please click here. |
THURSDAY, MARCH 22, 6-8 p.m. 
Amos Gitai in conversation with Christian Delage Filmmaker Amos Gitai, based in Israel, the United States and France, has produced an extraordinary, wide-ranging, and deeply personal body of work of both documentary and fiction, exploring the layers of history in the Middle East and beyond, including his own personal history, through such themes as homeland and exile, religion, social control and utopia. Christian Delage is a Professor of History at the University of Paris 8 and Sciences Po Paris and a director, curator, and expert on the use of film as historical document. Event co-sponsored by the Institute for Israel and Jewish Studies at Columbia University, Cardozo Law School, and the New York Consulate of Israel
Please join us on WEDNESDAY, MARCH 21 for the screening of Amos Gitai's film, One Day You'll Understand (Plus tard, tu comprendras), followed by a Q & A with the director. To read an article in France-Amerique about this event, please click here. |
MONDAY, MARCH 19-THURSDAY MARCH 22 10 a.m.-1 p.m. and 2-7 p.m. A conference organized by Jean-Baptiste Barrière Lectures by Jean-Baptiste Barrière, Jacopo Baboni-Schilingi, Hans Tutschku, Orjan Sandred, Johannes Kretz, Julien Vincenot, Philippe Essling, Mika Kuuskankare, Killian Sprotte, Paolo Aralla, Christopher Trapani, Jaime Oliver, Steve Lehman, Fabien Lévy. Jean-Baptiste Barrière is a composer, multimedia artist and visiting professor at Columbia University. For full conference program, please click here. For more information on the festival, please click here. |
| THURSDAY, MARCH 29, 5-7 p.m. 
Historian Edward Baring (Drew University) discusses his new book, The Young Derrida and French Philosophy, 1945-1968 (Cambridge University Press, 2011), in conversation with Warren Breckman (University of Pennsylvania), Taylor Carman (Columbia), Ethan Kleinberg (Wesleyan), and Gayatri Spivak (Columbia). Co-sponsored by the Consortium for Intellectual and Cultural History at Columbia |
THURSDAY, APRIL 5, 7:30 p.m. Please note: This film was originally scheduled for April 26, but will now be shown April 5. Please join us as well on April 26 for a screening of An Ordinary Execution. 
Pascal Thomas, 2005, 104 min. There's an elderly woman who disappears. A village that, behind all its gossip, hides a dark secret, a house split in half, tombs that are better left untouched, a doll that reappears from the past, a terrifying lawyer who wears a death mask. It will take some doing for Prudence and Bélisaire Beresford, who have Hercule Poirot's patience and Agatha Christie's humor, to uncover the astounding truth. |
SATURDAY, MARCH 24, free concert at 7 p.m. Musical Interactivity: From Boulez to the Next Generation: An International Exploration of Muscial Trends Event Location: Miller Theatre, 2960 Broadway at 116th Street (entrance on Broadway) A free concert event at Miller Theatre presented by Jean-Baptiste Barrière, composer, multimedia artist and visiting professor at Columbia University. Pieces by Boulez, Baboni-Schilingi, Brook, DiCastri, Diels, Goutfreind, Jacobs, Krueger, Sandred, Trapani, Tutschku, Pitsiokos, Oliver, Vincenot, Young 11 world premieres, 4 classics, including a work with sculpture and two with video Performed by the Ensemble de Musique Interactive (France). Full program available here. The Ensemble de Musique Interactive will also be performing on FRIDAY, MARCH 23rd at 7 p.m. Location: Prentis Hall, Columbia University Computer Music Center |
TUESDAY, MARCH 20, 7:30 p.m. Event Location: Presidential Ballroom, 3rd Floor of Faculty House Main entrance at 64 Morningside Drive, north of 116th Street Also accessible from main campus by crossing bridge over Amsterdam Avenue. Please click here for campus map. Eugene J. Sheffer Distinguished Lecture 
In his remarkable memoir, The Patagonian Hare, newly translated into English, Claude Lanzmann offers a visionary testimonial of his own life and of eighty years of contemporary history. Born to a Jewish family in Paris in 1925, Lanzmann hid with his family in wartime France and joined the communist Resistance as a teenager. After the Liberation, he studied philosophy at the Sorbonne and met Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir. Lanzmann recalls his seven-year love affair with the older de Beauvoir and his role as the editor of Les Temps Modernes. His memoir also recounts his discovery of Israel shortly after the war and the making of his masterpiece, Shoah, including harrowing interviews with former Nazis filmed with artfully hidden cameras. The Patagonian Hare, a critically acclaimed bestseller in France in 2009, is published this month in the U.S. by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. 
Charlie Rose is an acclaimed interviewer and broadcast journalist who engages the best thinkers and newsmakers in interviews and roundtable discussions. His interview with Claude Lanzmann will air on Charlie Rose on PBS. To read more about Claude Lanzmann, and for a review of The Patagonian Hare in the Chronicle of Higher Education, please click here. To read an article about Claude Lanzmann's interview at Columbia in France-Amerique, please click here. |
THURSDAY, APRIL 5, 8-10 p.m. Performance and discussion From Hip Hop to Reggae, African Diaspora music is influencing political protest on the African continent. The Center for African Education at Teacher's College Columbia University invites you to an evening of performances and discussion by NYC musical artists and academics. Please click below for event program. | | Read more... |
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