16 Washington Mews (corner of University Place)
New York, NY 10003
Tel. 212-998-8750
Email: maison.francaise@nyu.edu
Web: www.nyu.edu/maisonfrancaise
Monday, March 8, 7:30 p.m.
Concert
Alliance Players
A program in celebration of the birthday of Maurice Ravel (March 7, 1875 - December 28, 1937), featuring the Sonata for Violin and Cello and the Piano Trio.
- Nurit Pacht, director, Alliance Players; violin
- Caroline Stinson, cello
- Priya Mayadas, piano
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Priya Mayadas and Nurit Pacht | Caroline Stinson |
Tickets: $20.; $10.students with current i.d.
Reservations: 212-998-8750; maison.francaise@nyu.edu
Tuesday, March 9, 7:00 p.m.
The Talented Miss Highsmith:
The Queen of Crime's French Connections
JOAN SCHENKAR
Playwright; biographer; author of The Talented Miss Highsmith: The Secret Life and Serious Art of Patricia Highsmith (St. Martin's Presss, 2009)
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in (illustrated) conversation with
JUDITH MILLER
Professor of French, NYU
" Throughout nearly 700 pages of lustrous text, Schenkar's prose is as supple and shapely as Highsmith's was flat and functional. The Talented Miss Highsmith is both dazzling and definitive... Its scope and scholarship are unassailable, and its vigor indefatigable. It's a volume as original as its contemptible, miserable, irresistible
subject." - Daniel Mallory, The Los Angeles Times
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Wednesday, March 10, 7:00 p.m.
Institute of French Studies Colloquium
Panel in English and French
Rethinking Nineteenth-Century French Studies:
New Approaches to the Press
Aaron Freundschuh
Lecturer and Faculty Fellow (Princeton University), author of Crime, Colonial Migration, and the Investigative Imagination in Paris, 1881-1889 (in progress)
Judith Surkis
Associate Professor of History and History and Literature (Harvard University); author of Sexing the Citizen: Morality and Masculinity in France, 1870-1920 (2006)
Marie-Eve Thérenty
Professor of Literature (Université de Montpellier III), visiting professor (IFS/NYU); author of La littérature au quotidien. Poétiques journalistiques au XIXe siècle (1829-1836) (2007), Mosaïques. Etre écrivain entre presse et roman (2003); co-author of Presse et plumes. Journalisme et littérature au XIXe siècle (2004), 1836: L’'An I de l’'ère médiatique. Analyse littéraire et historique du journal La Presse (2001)
Stéphane Gerson,
moderator; Associate Professor of French and French Studies (NYU); author of The Pride of Place: Local Memories and Political Culture in Nineteenth-Century France (2003); co-editor of Why France? American Historians Reflect on an Enduring Fascination (2007)
This is the latest in a series of roundtables exploring new research directions into nineteenth-century France. While the press has long interested students of French politics and culture, a younger cohort of scholars is revisiting it with new questions and methodological approaches. They will discuss sexual scandals, liberal subjectivity, crime writing, mass media, the interface between journalism and fiction, colonial power, and more.
Thursday, March 11, 6:30 p.m.
Location: Fales Library, 70 Washington Square South,
3rd Floor
Continental Philosophy andAmerican Culture Semiotext(e)
between Philosophy, Art and Politics -- A Celebration
The 2010 Fales Lecture celebrates the acquisition of the Sylvère Lotringer Papers and Semiotext(e) Archive.
Sylvère Lotringer,
co-founder of Semiotext(e); professor emeritus, Columbia University
Gregg Bordowitz, School of the Art Institute of Chicago
Lynne Tillman, University of Albany
Avital Ronell, NYU
Tim Griffin, editor, Artforum
Emily Apter, NYU; moderator
Denis Hollier, NYU; respondent
Rendez-Vous with French Cinema 2010
Screenings presented in cooperation with Unifrance, The Film Society of Lincoln Center,and the IFC Center.
Location: IFC Center, 323 Avenue of the Americas (at West 3rd Street)
Tickets: $15. General Public $11. with NYU i.d. (These screenings only)
Tel: 212-924-7771; www.ifccenter.com
Saturday, March 13 at 4:00 p.m.
The Hedgehog (Le hérisson)2009, 100 min. In French with English subtitles.
A timely fable about Paloma, a young girl bent on ending it all before
she becomes an adult, who learns a thing or two about life from her
building's coarse, unkempt concierge (Josiane Balasko).
Based on Muriel Barbery's novel.
Followed by Q&A with director
MONA ACHACHE
Tuesday, March 16 at 7:00 p.m.
Restless (Le bel âge)2009, 97 min. In French with English subtitles.
Claire, a tomboyish teenager feeling the stirrings of first love, and
her grandfather, Maurice, a former Resistance fighter (Michel
Piccoli), share a house but soon discover much else as well.
Followed by Q&A with director
LAURENT PERREAU
Rendez-Vous with French Cinema runs from March 11 through March 21, presenting the New York premieres of new French films. Screenings take place at the Walter Reade Theater, at BAM, and at the IFC Center.
For a complete schedule, visit www.filmlinc.com and www.ifccenter.com.
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