FREE COMEDY SHOW
Józef Czapski (1896–1993) lived many lives during his ninety-six years: student in Saint Petersburg during the Russian Revolution, painter in Paris in the roaring twenties, Polish reserve officer fighting the invading Nazis at the onset of World War II. When taken prisoner of war in a Soviet camp, and with nothing but memory to go on, he brought Marcel Proust’s In Search of Lost Time to life for an audience of prison inmates. In a series of lectures, Czapski described the arc and import of Proust’s masterpiece, sketched major and minor characters in striking detail, and movingly evoked the work’s originality, depth, and beauty. Eric Karpeles has translated this remarkable feat of the critical imagination into English in addition to authoring the first biography of this towering figure. Anka Muhlstein joins Karpeles in a conversation about this singular project and astoundingly complex figure.
ERIC KARPELES
Painter, writer; author of Paintings in Proust; Almost Nothing: The 20th-Century
Cohen Media Group is proud to announce the release of Claude Lanzmann's final documentary SHOAH: FOUR SISTERS, a selection of the Cannes and New York Film Festivals, scheduled to open in New York on Wednesday, November 14 at The Quad Cinema followed by a national roll out. Composed of four segments, The Hippocratic Oath, The Merry Flea, Noah’s Ark, and Baluty, SHOAH: FOUR SISTERS will be released theatrically in two parts.
Starting in 1999, Claude Lanzmann made several films that could be considered satellites of SHOAH, comprised of interviews conducted in the 1970s that did not make it into the final, monumental work. In the last years of the director’s life, he decided to devote a film to four women from four different areas of Eastern Europe with four different destinies, each finding herself improbably alive after war’s end: Ruth Elias from Ostravia, Czechoslovakia (The Hippocratic Oath); Paula Biren from Lodz, Poland (Baluty); Ada Lichtman from further south in Krakow (The Merry F
Guadeloupean novelist and theatre director Gerty Dambury will be in conversation about her novel Les Rétifs (Les Editions du Manguier, 2012) with Professor Judith Miller, of NYU's Department of French Literature, Thought and Culture. Based on an historical event, Les Rétifs follows a child as she waits for her father to return from the bloody construction worker's strike of 1967. Dambury weaves a portrait of class, race, and political activism in the Francophone Caribbean through the family's story. Dambury and Miller will also read excerpts in French and in English, from Miller's recent translation of the novel (The Restless, The Feminist Press, 2018).
In French
Betrayal and its cognates are burdened with a negative connotation, decried as the destruction of established social, political, cultural or affective ties. Yet the potential for rupture opened up by acts of betrayal also provides opportunities for narratives of change and progress. Along with considering acts of betrayal as they are or have been experienced or portrayed, the conference will consider scholarly interdisciplinarity as its own sort of methodological betrayal—and innovation. What are our responsibilities toward our research subjects and our institutional traditions? What are the risks and rewards of subverting conventional boundaries? Two-day conference organized by the IFS doctoral cohort. With historian Todd Shepard and literary scholar Kaoutar Harchi as keynote speakers.
Presentations in English or in French
Join the French faculty of Montclair State University in a free online webinar on Nov. 9 at 12pm to learn more about our graduate programs!
In addition to our customizable MA in French with a concentration in French Studies, which can include short or longer-term study abroad with universities in Bordeaux, Nice, Laval, and Montréal, we offer specialized programs in professional translation. The new four-course graduate certificate in Professional French Translation (starts in January) hones the skills necessary for translating from English to French and French to English in industries such as health, law, business, media, and culture. It is provides a good introduction to our MA in French with a concentration in Professional French Translation.
We look forward to meeting you virtually during the Nov. 9 webinar on Nov. 9 at noon (EST).Just a note: the webinar signup has options to connect by phone or by Internet.
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New research in a new field, the history of books, goes back to a question raised by Daniel Mornet in a famous article of 1910: What did the French read on the eve of the Revolution? This lecture is intended to answer that question and to explore related issues in cultural history by explaining how publishing and the book trade actually operated under the Ancien Régime.
Robert Darnton is Carl H. Pforzheimer University Professor, Emeritus and University Librarian, Emeritus, Harvard University. He has written and edited many books, including The Business of Enlightenment: A Publishing History of the Encyclopédie (1979), The Great Cat Massacre and Other Episodes in French Cultural History (1984), The Forbidden Best-Sellers of Prerevolutionary France (1995), The Case for Books (2009), The Devil in the Holy Water, or The Art of Slander in France from Louis XIV to Napoleon (2009), Censors at Work: How States Shaped Literature (2014), A Literary Tour de France: the World of
FREE COMEDY SHOW
Delacroix and Music
Featuring mezzo-soprano Samantha Hankey and pianist Brian Zeger.
Tickets start at $50. Use code DaM18 and save $10 on each ticket!*
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This musical evening highlights the creative and personal connection between giants of French Romanticism, including Chopin and Berlioz. Pianist Brian Zeger, one of today's leading collaborative artists, is joined by mezzo-soprano Samantha Hankey, hailed for her "lushly distinctive" voice (Opera News), in this program that brings to life the deep friendship and creative synergy uniting these astounding artists.
Grace Rainey Rogers Auditorium
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
1000 Fifth Avenue
New York, NY 10028
Presented in conjunction with The Met’s exhibition Delacroix. On view through January 6, 2019.
*restrictions apply. Not to be combined with any other offers.
In 1941, a few Polish men, including Raphael Lemkin, a Jewish lawyer, and Jan Karski, a Catholic resistant, foresaw the intensity and the specific nature of the destruction of the European Jews among other war crimes. They tried to convey what they knew, but they were met with indifference and rejection. Based on Annette Becker’s most recent book, Les messagers du désastre (Fayard, 2017), this talk explores the fights of these two men and situates these fights in the 20th-century history of “messengers of disaster,” who, since the genocide of the Armenians, have tried to alert the world to ongoing genocides.
Annette Becker is Professor of History at Université Paris Nanterre. She has written extensively on the two World Wars and the extreme violence they nurture, with an emphasis on military occupations and the two genocides, against the Armenians and the Holocaust. She has devoted research to humanitarian politics, trauma and memories, particularly among intellectuals and artists. Her
The Travels of Babar
Presented by Source Music
A Magical hour for the whole family (6 years and +)
US Premiere (IN ENGLISH) : November 3rd, 2018 at 2:00 and 4:00pm
Florence Gould Hall
Don't miss an acclaimed new production of American composer Raphael Mostel’s Travels of Babar, a multimedia composition based on the much-loved classic French book by Jean de Brunhoff.
This LIVE performance will feature the complete original version of the score. Ensemble conducted by Neal Goren. FIAF Board Member Leah Pisar will narrate all shows.
FIAF Members save 10% with code FIAF10
Tickets start at $25 - TicketMaster
The Travels of Babar
Presented by Source Music
A Magical hour for the whole family (6 years and +)
US Premiere (IN ENGLISH) : November 3rd, 2018 at 2:00 and 4:00pm
Florence Gould Hall
Don't miss an acclaimed new production of American composer Raphael Mostel’s Travels of Babar, a multimedia composition based on the much-loved classic French book by Jean de Brunhoff.
This LIVE performance will feature the complete original version of the score. Ensemble conducted by Neal Goren. FIAF Board Member Leah Pisar will narrate all shows.
FIAF Members save 10% with code FIAF10
Tickets start at $25 - TicketMaster
The Travels of Babar
Presented by Source Music
A Magical hour for the whole family (6 years and +)
US Premiere (IN FRENCH) : November 2nd, 2018 at 7pm
Florence Gould Hall
Don't miss an acclaimed new production of American composer Raphael Mostel’s Travels of Babar, a multimedia composition based on the much-loved classic French book by Jean de Brunhoff.
This LIVE performance will feature the complete original version of the score. Ensemble conducted by Neal Goren. FIAF Board Member Leah Pisar will narrate all three shows.
Friday's performance will be followed by a book signing with the author’s son Laurent de Brunhoff.
FIAF Members save 10% with code FIAF10
Tickets start at $25 - TicketMaster
Join us Friday, November 2nd from 6-8pm for a New Wave Cinema Workshop at The Yard Williamsburg! We’ll go behind the scenes and see in full color all the style, influences and methods of the radical artists and visionaries responsible for this seminal movement in French Cinema.
$30 pp / $50 for 2
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Organized by Denis Hollier and Zakir Paul
In Fall 2018, Fordham University Press will publish Maurice Blanchot: A Critical Biography, a translation of Christophe Bident’s groundbreaking life of the writer and critic, as well as Death Now, the final volume of of Blanchot’s Chronicles of Intellectual Life, written from 1941-1944. Finally, Minuit has recently published Jean-François Hamel's, Nous sommes tous la pègre (Les années 68 de Blanchot), an essay based on archival research into Blanchot’s involvement with the political tracts and events of May ’68, alongside Mascolo, Duras, Antelme, and many others. Spurred by these recent publications, this symposium focuses on Blanchot’s writing from the thirties to the sixties and beyond, offering an occasion to reconsider not only his often-contested political trajectory from the non-conformist extreme right to the radical left, but also the evolving concerns of his literary and critical works.
9:40 a.m. Introductory Remarks
Denis Hollier (NYU
A child of the Great Depression, Elaine Mokhtefi left the United States in the early 1950s. She was on the run from McCarthyism and from the provincialism she'd encountered as a student in segregated Georgia. After time in Paris, she moved to Algiers which, following independence in 1962, has become a beacon and safe haven for radicals all around the world. Freedom fighters, anti-fascists and political exiles flocked to it from Spain, Portugal South Africa, Brazil, Argentina, Venezuela and the United States. Mokhtefi, a journalist and translator, found her home here. She helped establish the International Section of the Black Panther Party, organised the first Pan-African Cultural Festival, translated for Julius Nyerere, befriended Frantz Fanon, appeared in Gilles Pontercorvo's The Battle of Algiers, and crossed paths with the likes of Eldridge Cleaver, Ahmed Ben Bella, Miriam Makeba, Jomo Kenyatta and Stokely Carmichael.
Join Mokhtefi and writer Adam Shatz as they evoke revolutionary
FREE COMEDY SHOW
CLARE FITZGERALD
Associate Director for Exhibitions and Gallery Curator, Institute for the Study of the Ancient World, NYU
The lecture, presented at La Maison Française, is held in conjunction with the exhibition Devotion and Decadence: The Berthouville Treasure and Roman Luxury from the Bibliothèque nationale de France, on view at NYU’s Institute for the Study of the Ancient World, 15 East 84th St., from October 17 to January 6.
Details about the exhibition at isaw.nyu.edu/exhibitions/berthouville
Co-sponsored by the Institute for the Study of the Ancient World and La Maison Française
French choreographer Pascal Rioult’s RIOULT Dance NY, accompanied by vocals from Broadway star and TONY nominee Christine Andreas, will offer a brilliant evening of dance and song conjuring French chanteuse Edith Piaf’s dramatic, inspiring life, as she rose from the dark streets of Paris to the glamorous lights of Broadway. Backed up by live musicians, Andreas performs Piaf’s iconic songs, as RIOULT Dance NY's stellar company bring her story to life with newly created choreography from Founder and Artistic Director Pascal Rioult— who also stars in a featured role.
October 27, 2018
8:00 PM
Dance
Tickets: $34/$39
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Founded in 1994, RIOULT Dance NY is an established name in modern dance with a reputation for presenting the sensual, articulate, and exquisitely musical works of Pascal Rioult. RIOULT Dance NY has performed throughout North America including NY City Center, Lincoln Center, American Dance Festival, and the Kravis Center. International touring has
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