Monday, February 4, 2019 (2)

Feb 4, 2019
January 24, 2019
Thursday
  • French Literature & Cinema: From Page to Screen Workshop Series

  • Jan 24, 2019 at 1:00pm to Feb 21, 2019 at 3:00pm
  • Location: The Yard Williamsburg
  • Description:

    Translating a novel to film is a language in itself – a dialect in discovery. Join Learn French Brooklyn in an exploration of five 19th Century Novels brought to life in full cinematic glory.

    Each week includes informed, expert instruction and discourse centering on pivotal aspects of each novel and the corresponding film. The successes, the discrepancies, interpretations, and surprises – we tackle and interpret them all!

    Classes may be taken as a series or one workshop at a time. Pre-registration required. This workshop is in English, films subtitled.

    Workshop Schedule

    • January 24th Les Misérables 6:30 – 8 PM
    • January 31st Madame Bovary 6:30 – 8 PM
    • February 7th Les Liaisons Dangereuses 6:30 – 8 PM
    • February 14th Hiroshima, mon Amour 6:30 – 8 PM
    • February 21st La Pirogue 6:30 – 8 PM
  • Created by: Magda Lahliti
February 4, 2019
Monday
  • En langage maternel francoys: Naturalizing the French Language

  • Feb 4, 2019 from 2:00pm to 3:30pm
  • Location: La Maison Française of NYU
  • Description:

    How does the king’s language become the mother tongue of a nation?  This talk will explore the cultural politics of the French language around 1540, examining the famous Edict of Villers-Cotterêts—the law issued by François I that codifies the langage maternel francoys as the exclusive language of justice in France—alongside the visual aesthetic of Fontainebleau and the phonetic spelling reforms of Jacques Peletier du Mans in order to understand how French becomes “naturalized” as a national idiom.

    Katie Chenoweth is Assistant Professor of French at Princeton University.  Her research focuses on the history of books and other media, with a concentration on the sixteenth century.  Her first book, The Prosthetic Tongue: Printing Technology and the Rise of the French Language, is forthcoming in the Material Texts series with the University of Pennsylvania Press.  At Éditions du Seuil in Paris, Katie Chenoweth is the director of the Bibliothèque Derrida collection, which publishes the semin

  • Created by: La Maison Française of NYU