Events

Organized by Frédérique Aït-Touati (CNRS, EHESS, Sciences Po) and Phillip John Usher (NYU)

As Emmanuel Macron’s call to “Make the Planet Great Again” reminds us, there is a cultural aspect to climate change—each culture maps its understanding of the physical world (nature, physis) in different ways. This conference-festival titled “French Natures” thus asks: what do French and Francophone literature, film, visual art, theater, and philosophy make of our planet? How can they help us understand our world marked by environmental catastrophe?

Schedule at as.nyu.edu/maisonfrancaise/events/2018/french-natures

Sponsored by The Cultural Services of the French Embassy; NYU Center for French Language and Cultures; The Florence Gould Foundation; Department of French Literature, Thought, and Culture NYU; Centre de Recherches sur les Arts et le Langage (EHESS); NYU Center for the Humanities; La Maison Française NYU

Organized by Frédérique Aït-Touati (CNRS, EHESS, Sciences Po) and Phillip John Usher (NYU)

As Emmanuel Macron’s call to “Make the Planet Great Again” reminds us, there is a cultural aspect to climate change—each culture maps its understanding of the physical world (nature, physis) in different ways. This conference-festival titled “French Natures” thus asks: what do French and Francophone literature, film, visual art, theater, and philosophy make of our planet? How can they help us understand our world marked by environmental catastrophe?

Schedule at as.nyu.edu/maisonfrancaise/events/2018/french-natures

Sponsored by The Cultural Services of the French Embassy; NYU Center for French Language and Cultures; The Florence Gould Foundation; Department of French Literature, Thought, and Culture NYU; Centre de Recherches sur les Arts et le Langage (EHESS); NYU Center for the Humanities; La Maison Française NYU

Photo: Spring Flooding in the Botanical Gardens of Dijon
Phillip John Usher © 2018

BOOK LAUNCH EVENT
Rated Agency (Zone Books, 2018)

The hegemony of finance compels a new orientation for everyone and everything: companies care more about the moods of their shareholders than about longstanding commercial success; governments subordinate citizen welfare to appeasing creditors; and individuals are concerned less with immediate income from labor than with appreciation of their capital goods, skills, connections, and reputations. That firms, states, and people depend more on their ratings than on the product of their activities also changes how capitalism is resisted. For activists, the focus of grievances shifts from the extraction of profit to the conditions under which financial institutions allocate credit. In this new book, Feher articulates the new political resistances and aspirations that investees draw from their rated agency.

With Michel Feher, author of Powerless by Design: The Age of the International Community, editor of Nongovernmental Politics and Europe at a

The Now, the first featured art presentation at Coolture Impact, the largest interactive public art platform on the windows of the Port Authority Bus Terminal in Times Square, offers a journey into magical worlds, intertwining reality and fantasy, opening doors to hidden places and participatory environments. The Now explores transitory spaces and unseen parallel realities, in a cinematic voyage to visually striking realms, live painting, and animated characters with evolving narratives. Visitors are invited to walk, move and unravel the different storylines.

The Now was created by filmmakers and video artists Laia Cabrera and Isabelle Duverger (Laia Cabrera & Co) through video art, animation, video mapping and interactivity. Interactivity is provided by designers Lorne Covington and Bill Saiff (NoirFlux) and immersive experience developer Karan Parikh.

About Coolture Impact

At the edge of new digital frontiers, Coolture Impact is an incubator that explores and exploits new technologies,

Le NYU Center for French Language and Cultures lance cette année sa nouvelle série sur l’écriture contemporaine en langue française, Machines à écrire. Chaque saison annuelle sera confiée à une personnalité saillante de la culture française qui invitera quatre écrivains à se rendre à la Maison Française de NYU afin de discuter autour d’un thème choisi. Ces entretiens se feront un lundi soir ; le lendemain les auteurs invités donneront des lectures publiques en ville, et leurs ouvrages seront intégrés au programme d’un cours à NYU. Grâce au goût de notre animateur, à la fécondité du thème qu’il aura choisi, à l’appréciation des auditeurs et de nos étudiants, et surtout au talent des auteurs, nous découvrirons ainsi au cours des années à venir ce qui fait résonner les machines à écrire de langue française.


Saison 2018-2019

ENTENDRE LE FRANÇAIS PAR SES DIFFÉRENCES


La saison inaugurale 2018-19 sera dirigée et animée par François Noudelmann, auteur d’un livre récent sur Édouard Glissant,

NOVEMBER 4th at 7:00 PM 

The New Rangers will host International Night Presented by Delta, celebrating our players and fans of all nationalities!

Montclair State University, a vibrant campus 13 miles from New York City, is accepting applications to a new graduate certificate in Professional French Translation. This 4-course graduate program 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 serves as a stand-alone certificate and as a good introduction to our MA in French with a concentration in Professional French Translation.  A flexible combination of required and elective courses covers topics such as Computer-Assisted Translation, Practicum in Translation and Interpreting, and workshops dedicated to French translation in business, marketing, health, law, and media.

This new program complements 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 also offer many New York area cultural activities

Organized by Lucien Nouis (NYU)

L’imaginaire de l’asile, du refuge, du sanctuaire de l’accueil fait aux persécutés, aux souffrants, de l’hospitalité offerte à l’étranger, traverse la pensée du long xviiiesiècle, de la révocation de l’Édit de Nantes jusqu’à la fin de la Révolution. Mais c’est souvent sous le signe de la perte que cet imaginaire se déploie, comme si les pratiques d’accueil, les espaces protégés, devaient désormais appartenir au passé ou aux marges. Dans l’article Refuge de l’Encyclopédie, qui définit le concept comme « un sanctuaire ou asile, où un homme qu’on persécute cherche sa sûreté », Diderot explique ainsi la disparition des églises où l’accueil était offert inconditionnellement comme l’effet d’une souveraineté politique refusant de tolérer la présence d’un espace où son pouvoir rencontrerait sa limite. « Charlemagne avait donné aux asiles une première atteinte en 779, par la défense qu’il fit, qu’on portât à manger aux criminels qui se retireraient dans les église

Join us this Wednesday, 10/17 for an Open House at The Yard Williamsburg for a lesson in survivalist French. Get a taste for our classes, served with a side of FAQs, and topped off with wine and cheese hors-d'oeuvres for all. Learn a little, drink a little, laugh, and fall in LOVE with Learn French Brooklyn. Free to attend!

RSVP: https://learnfrenchbrooklyn.com/rsvp-oh-la-la/

FREE COMEDY SHOW

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Après New-York, San Francisco, San Diego... les Diplômés des Ecoles Centrale et Supelec sont invités aux Alumni Days de Boston ! Avec un programme riche centré autour de l'entrepreneuriat, ponctué par de nombreux moments conviviaux, cet événement est ouvert à tous les Alumni des Ecoles Centrale et Supélec, et plus largement à tous les diplômés des grandes Ecoles (emlyon, HEC, Mines, Polytechnique...).

PROGRAM :

Friday october 12th pm :

// Visit of local companies - INSCRIPTION OBLIGATOIRE à UNE DES 7 VISITES : ICI

An exploration of poetic imagery, symbolist, surreal, and sensual, through the ears of five contemporary composers, in the company of Poulenc's iconic 1956 song cycle, Le travail du peintre. Additional works by Barbara Jazwinski, Friedrich Kern, Louis Karchin, Andrew MacDonald and Guy Sacre.  

JEREMY HUW WILLIAMS, baritone


PAULA FAN, piano

Artists' bios at as.nyu.edu/content/dam/nyu-as/maisonFrancaise/documents/williams-and-fan-concert-bios.pdf.

Co-sponsored by the League of Composers-ISCM; FAS Department of Music and La Maison Française, NYU

FREE COMEDY SHOW

Come Party with the #TooSweet Bad Guys (Todd Montesi & Rich James) of the East Village as they bring YOU that Sunday Night Comedy BOOM BAP!

Join Learn French Brooklyn on October 5th for a French Wine Workshop at The Yard! Taught by a French Wine Specialist, we'll explore wines from various regions, pair them with cheese and mingle with friends - new & old! This workshop is perfect to take with a friend or a date!

FREE COMEDY SHOW

Successeur de la culotte, le pantalon symbolise la masculinité et, partant, le pouvoir, comme en témoigne le dicton « porter la culotte ». Au cours de la Révolution, il se charge d’une signification républicaine. Mais l’Ancien Régime continue pour les femmes, qui n’accèdent ni à la liberté ni à l’égalité. Privées de droits, assignées à résidence dans leur genre, elles sont interdites de pantalon. Rien de tel qu’un interdit pour susciter le désir… Le pantalon accompagne toutes les transgressions qui jalonnent la route de l’émancipation des femmes. Artistes, féministes, révolutionnaires, voyageuses, actrices, lesbiennes, sportives, innombrables sont les femmes connues et inconnues qui s’approprient l’habit masculin.

Christine Bard is a visiting professor at the Institute of French Studies, NYU, and professor of History at the Université d’Angers, where she holds one of the very few chairs in France in the history of women, gender and feminism. Her scholarship encompasses works on: feminis

UG! COMEDY SHOW!! is having its 10 Year Anniversary and it's going to do it up with a HUGE BANG!!

Not only will we be featuring our favorite comics (Open stage for comics, everyone gets 5 minutes) But we'll also have special surprise performances and guests!