Events

Bonjour NY invite you to our Open House event at SLA International School, on Saturday March 9th, at 10:30 am.

Click here to register for the Open House Event https://goo.gl/SXtczG

Bonjour NY French Immersion Summer Camp in July and August for children ages 3.5 to 11 in Downtown Brooklyn with daily bus transportation.

Bonjour NY invites you to our Open House event at Lyceum Kennedy next Thursday, March 7, 2019 at 5.30 PM.
Click here to register for the Open House Event https://goo.gl/C81ign

Bonjour NY French Immersion Summer Camp in July and August for children ages 3.5 to 11
Two locations: Downtown Brooklyn and Upper West Side Manhattan with daily transportation to and from Lyceum Kennedy

Bonjour NY invite you to our Open House event at Lyceum Kennedy next Thursday, March 7, 2019 at 5.30 PM.
Click here to register for the Open House Event https://goo.gl/C81ign

Bonjour NY French Immersion Summer Camp in July and August for children ages 3.5 to 11
Two locations: Downtown Brooklyn and Upper West Side Manhattan with daily transportation to and from Lyceum Kennedy

FREE COMEDY SHOW

Unpublished text read by the author (in French)

Exclusive presentation in the U.S. 
 

Des lotissements. Des parkings. Une centrale nucléaire. Pas tout à fait aujourd’hui. Pas tout à fait d’un autre temps. Des images d' une « utopie pavillonnaire », à la fois rythmée et aléatoire. Et l’écrivaine Marie Darrieussecq se tient à la jointure de ces images choisies par elle et le cinéaste Laurent Perreau. Un récit familial, intime, d’enfance et de jeunesse. Un père. Une vie dans l’angle de l’Europe. Une vie française, en trente minutes. Un texte inédit et voué à le rester, qui n’est écrit que pour vous être lu. 

Ce spectacle créé à Arles en écho à l’exposition 'Levitt France', dans le cadre des Rencontres de la photographie (2017), a tourné depuis dans divers festivals et théâtres en France. 

Essayiste, romancière, dramaturge, autrice d’albums jeunesse et psychanalyste, Marie Darrieussecq est née au Pays basque en 1969. Normalienne, agrégée de lettres, elle soutient en 1997 sa thèse de doctorat s

Thinking Space in Cinema and Literature
Penser l’espace dans le cinéma et la littérature

During this international colloquium, participants will be exploring the question of the relations between cinema and literature through the prism of space on the basis of three approaches:
- The Geography of literary and cinematic creation examines the spatial context in which works are produced from a historical, social and cultural point of view;
- Geocriticism explores spatial narratives as the result of perception and the substance of an imaginary. would study the relations between space, forms and genres, both literary and cinematic;
- Geopoetics studies the relations between space, forms and genres, both literary and cinematic. The semiotic perspective of texts takes on spatial modalities: typography and the materiality of the book considered as object, spectatorship and modalities of the apparatus.

Co-organized by Ludovic Cortade (NYU, Department of French Literature, Thought and Culture) and Gui

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 session 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

• March 3rd: Les Misérables (2:00 – 4:00 PM)
• April 7th: Madame Bovary (2:00 – 4:00 PM)
• May 5th: Les Liaisons Dangereuses (2:00 – 4:00 PM)
• June 2nd: Hiroshima, mon Amour (2:00 – 4:00 PM)
• July 7th: La Pirogue (2:00 – 4:00 PM)

Workshop Instructor: Souad Bouhayat

Location: The Yard (33 Nassau Ave. 11222)

Fee: Single Class: $40 | 5-Class Series: $175  

Please join us for this exceptional concert at the Cultural Services of the French Embassy.

Onadek Winan, soprano

Thomas Staninat, double bass

Virgil Boutellis-Taft, violin

Filip Pogody, violin

Emmanuel Ceysson, harp

Will be performing:

Bach, Debussy, Glière, Saint-Saëns, Hossein

On March 2^nd at 5pm.

Cocktail Reception to follow

© Christophe Raynaud de Lage, Festival d’Avignon

TILT 2019 opens at FIAF with The Young Girl, the Devil and the Mill, a musical written and directed by celebrated theater director of the world-renowned Festival d’Avignon, Olivier Py.

Musical Theater • Ages 7 & up • 50 min • In English

For more information and tickets, visit www.tiltkidsfestival.org

Drag Queen Story Hour captures the imagination and play of the gender fluidity of childhood and gives kids glamourous, positive, and unabashedly queer role models.

Ages 3-8 • In English • 60 mins

For more information, visit www.tiltkidsfestival.org 

Bonjour NY invites you to our Open House event at Solomon Schechter School, on Saturday March 9th at 2:00 pm.

Bonjour NY French Immersion Summer Camp in July and August for children ages 3.5 to 11
In Upper West Side Manhattan, with daily bus transportation.

Click here to register for the Open House Eventhttps://bonjourny.com/open-house/

Roundtable

Previous studies have covered in great detail how the modern state slowly emerged from the early Renaissance through the seventeenth century, but we know relatively little about the next great act: the birth and transformation of the modern democratic state. Demos Assembled (University of Chicago Press, 2018) provides us with a fresh, transatlantic understanding of that political order’s genesis, and sheds new light on the subsequent reciprocal influence that American thinkers and politicians had on the establishment of post-revolutionary regimes in France. Sawyer argues that the emergence of the stable Third Republic (1870–1940), which is typically said to have been driven by idiosyncratic internal factors, was in fact a deeply transnational, dynamic phenomenon.

With Stephen W. Sawyer, professor and chair of history, and director of the Center for Critical Democracy Studies at the American University of Paris, editor of the Tocqueville Review and associate editor of the Annal

Bonjour NY invite you to our Open House event at SLA International School, on Wednesday February 27th, 6:30 pm.

Bonjour NY French Immersion Summer Camp in July and August for children ages 3.5 to 11 in Downtown Brooklyn with daily bus transportation.

Click here to register for the Open House Event https://goo.gl/SXtczG

Bonjour NY French Immersion Summer Camp in July and August for children ages 3.5 to 11 in Downtown Brooklyn with daily bus transportation.

FREE COMEDY SHOW

Bonjour NY invite you to our Open House event at SLA International School, on Wednesday February 27th, 6:30 pm.

Click here to register for the Open House Event https://goo.gl/SXtczG

Bonjour NY French Immersion Summer Camp in July and August for children ages 3.5 to 11 in Downtown Brooklyn with daily bus transportation.

With director Amandine Gay in conversation with art historian Sandrine Colard (African Art History, Rutgers), and poet/scholar Sylvie Kandé as respondent.

African and African Diaspora writers and artists have met the 21st century with unprecedented new images and visions of Africa and the world. From Lagos, Johannesburg and Dakar to Paris, New York, London, or Berlin, writers and artists of African descent are mobilizing the resources available to them, wherever they are, to think with the world and redefine the contemporary in their own images. They are re-engendering themselves and acquiring new and active identities, social, political and sexual, in their writing and artistic processes.

In this installation of the 21st Century/New African and African Diaspora Writings and Arts, women of African descent in France and Belgium converse about what it means to be a woman today and belong to the Afro community in the documentary film Speak Up (Ouvrir la voix, 2017) by Amandine Gay. By shari

Come learn about our graduate programs in French, from the MA in French Studies and teacher certification to the new MA and certificate programs in Professional French translation! Attendees will receive a $60 application waiver toward Fall 2019 or Spring 2020 enrollment.

Venez nombreux!

https://apply.montclair.edu/register/gr-open-house

Can't make it on Feb. 24? Consider enrolling for an online summer course: "17th-century French literature" taught by Dr. Kathleen Loysen (15 July-8 August)

In this course, we will study the major innovations and trends of seventeenth-century French literature. Crossing genre boundaries from prose and poetry to theater, we will investigate such areas as the development of the roman d’analyse and the epistolary novel; salonnier and communal writing productions such as poetry, letters, and moralist literature; the establishment of the norms of tragedy and comedy; the interplay between movements toward linguistic purity stemming from the Académie française and

Does the contemporary French novel have anything to say about climate change? This talk is part of a larger project that considers literature as an ambiguous witness of humans' fragile earthly predicament.

Thangam Ravindranathan is Associate Professor of French Studies at Brown University. She is the author of Behold an Animal. Four Exorbitant Readings (forthcoming, Northwestern University Press, 2019), Là où je ne suis pas. Récits de dévoyage (Presses Universitaires de Vincennes, 2012), and co-author (with Antoine Traisnel) of Donner le change: L'impensé animal (Editions Hermann, 2016). 

In English

Sponsored by Department of French Literature, Thought, and Culture