Events

http://www.renoir-thefilm.com

Gilles Bourdos's exquisite new film RENOIR, chronicles the celebrated artist's twilight years, his relationship with his son - the future director Jean Renoir - and the two men's relationship with Andrée, the painter's final muse and future wife of Jean.

Selected in the 2012 Cannes Film Festival’s Un Certain Regard and Lincoln Center’s Rendez-Vous with French Cinema, RENOIR is scheduled to open in New York (Lincoln Plaza Cinema) and Los Angeles on Friday, March 29 followed by a national release.

Set on the French Riviera in in the summer of 1915, Gilles Bourdos’ lushly atmospheric drama RENOIR tells the story of celebrated Impressionist painter Pierre-Auguste Renoir, in declining health at age 74, and his middle son Jean, who returns home to convalesce after being wounded in World War I. The elder Renoir is filled with a new, wholly unexpected energy when a young girl miraculously enters his world. Blazing with life, radiantly beautiful, Andrée  (César-nominated newcomer Christa Théret)

Spring 2013 
April 1–June 15 
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This spring, French is in the air!

Take a class at our flagship on 60th Street in Manhattan, in Montclair, NJ, or at our Brooklyn location.

French classes for Toddlers, Kids, Teens, and Adults start April 1.

11-Week Session Session Dates

April 1–June 15 
Once or twice a week 
1½, 2, or 3 hours per week

5½-Week Sessions 
April 1–May 7 
May 8–June 13 
Twice a week 
6 hours per week

2-Week Immersion 
May 20–May 30 
June 3–June 14 
Monday–Friday, 
mornings or evenings 
15 hours per week

Times TBA

Limited seating: RSVP required; Information coming soon

Conference opens on April 10th at 3 p.m. with keynote by Marianne Hirsch and Leo Spitzer

In connection with this conference, there will be an art exhibition April 10-May 4: Cambodia, The Memory Workshop: Artworks by Vann Nath, Séra, and Emerging Cambodian Artists

The aftermath of mass murders is felt not only by the victims and their families but also by their descendants, who find themselves in the paradoxical situation of suffering the psychological effects of events they did not experience themselves.

It is this transmission of trauma that the notion of postmemory – developed in 1997 by Marianne Hirsch in her book Family Frames: Photography Narra­tive and Postmemory – attempts to describe. Hirsch demonstrates how an indirect form of memory may develop in individuals who did not experience a traumatic event personally but feel its active presence within their family.

Since postmemory is unable to draw on precise recollection

In connection with this exhibit, will be a conference at the Maison Francaise, April 10-12 on Creation and Postmemory

Two Locations of exhibit:

Columbia Maison Francaise, East Gallery, Buell Hall

Campus entrance at Broadway and 116th st.

Works by Vann Nath and Séra

**Exhibit opening April 10, 6-8 p.m. Performance by Séra at 6:30 p.m. RSVP required for opening, information coming soon.

The Maison Francaise will be used for the related conference April 10-12 (RSVP required). Exhibit open for public viewing April 13-May 4. Generally open Mondays-Fridays, 12-5:30 p.m., plus first and last Saturdays (April 13 and May 4, 12-5:30 p.m.). Please check back here for any exceptions or changes to this schedule.

The Italian Academy for Advanced Studies

1161 Amsterdam Avenue (south of 118^th Street)

www.italianacademy.columbia.edu

Drawings by Séra and works by 12 young Cambodian Artists: Bor Hak, Both Sonrin, Chea Serey Roth, Chin Borey, Kong Channa, Long Reaksmey, Nov Cheanick, Pen Robit, Sok Chanlina, Tieth

9:00     Check in (pre-registration required) and Coffee
9:30    Introduction by Joelle Reilly, Sean Lynch, Head of School, Lycee Francais de New York and Antonin Baudry, Cultural Counselor, Embassy of France

9:40-11:15   Panel 1: Language, Emotions, and the Bilingual Brain
Panelists:

    Ellen Bialystok, Department of Psychology, York University
    Regina Sullivan, Emotional Brain Institute, Nathan Kline Institute for Psychiatric Research, NYU
    Sean Lynch, Head of School, Lycée Français de New York
    Elisabeth Cros, Speech Therapist, Ecole Internationale de New York

Moderator: Sylvie Ozon, Science Teacher, Lycée Français de New York

11:15-11:30    Coffee Break

11:30-1:00   Panel 2: Regards Croisés: Crossing Perspectives on Bilingualism
Panelists:

    Nancy Rhodes, Director, Foreign Language Education at the Center for Applied Linguistics (CAL)
    Jane Ross, President, the French Heritage Language Program
    Ofelia García, Professor, CUNY Graduate Center
    Marie Bouteillon, C

Bestselling author Tom Reiss will join the French-American Foundation to discuss The Black Count: Glory, Revolution, Betrayal and the Real Count of Monte Cristo, his recently released portrayal of General Thomas-Alexandre Dumas, the mix-raced son of a French nobleman and Haitian slave whose status of military hero during the French Revolutionary Wars was immortalized in the legendary works of his son, Alexandre Dumas.

Space is limited for this discussion, and a reservation is required. 

Copies of The Black Count will be available for $22 at the discussion.

Like the previous two industrial revolutions, the digital revolution has radically changed public space: it has become borderless and open to all individuals.This technological revolution offers huge democratic opportunities that confront state authorities and economic powers.

The event will use the French experience ofMediapart–a digital newspaper, that is both independent and participatory–to reflect upon the political Internet.

Friday, April 12, 6:00 p.m.
CO-SPONSORED BY INSTITUTE OF AFRICAN-AMERICAN AFFAIRS AND INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC KNOWLEDGE

Location: Institute for Public Knowledge, NYU, 20 Cooper Square, 5th floor

EDWY PLENEL
Journalist; co-founder and CEO, Mediapart; former editor-in-chief, Le Monde; author of Le Droit de savoir

Révolution numérique, revolutions démocratiques
Digital Revolution, Democratic Revolutions

Comme les deux précédentes révolutions industrielles, la révolution numérique modifie radicalement l'espace public: il est devenu sans frontières et il s'est ouvert aux individus. Ce bouleversement technologique offre d'immenses opportunités démocratiques qui affrontent les pouvoirs étatiques et les puissances économiques. A partir de l'expérience française de Mediapart, journal numérique, indépendant et participatif, une réflexion sur les enjeux politiques d'Internet.

Like the previous two industrial revolutions, the digital revolution has radically changed public space: it has become borderless and