Frédéric Gros, professeur d'humanités politiques à Sciences-po Paris, est un spécialiste de la pensée de Michel Foucault dont il a édité les derniers cours au Collège de France (1980-1984) et dirigé l'édition des oeuvres dans la Bibliothèque de la Pléiade.
Banished Children of Eve: A Novel of Civil War New York, originally published in 1995, traces that event as it gripped New York City. The cast is drawn from every strata: a likable and laconic Irish American hustler, an ambitious and larcenous Yankee stockbroker, an immigrant serving girl, a beautiful and mysterious biracial actress and her white minstrel lover as…
Pierre Bayard is best known to the general public for his essay "How to speak about books that we have not read?" (2007) where he criticizes the received idea that there is a clear border between reading and non-reading, and invites the reader to build a freer, less complex relationship with the literary text.
Loosely based on the journalist and writer Chawki Amari’s travelog Nationale 1, Hassan Ferhani’s film creates such intimacy that we feel we are sitting next to the proprietor. Through Malika's exchanges with her customers, portrait of a woman, a landscape, and even a country emerges. One hundred virtual seats available.
Deutsches Haus at NYU and the Consulate General of Germany New York present a moderated panel discussion among Angelika Bammer, Andrew Gross, Susanne Rohr, Cornelius Schwalm, and James Young in the context of the recent publication of Susanne Rohr’s new book, Von Grauen und Glamour: Repräsentationen des Holocaust in den USA und Deutschland .
Please join us as Julie Metz engages in conversation with Ariana Neumann, who in similar fashion wrote about her family's past as Jews living in Prague at the time of the Nazi occupation. Both women in their work bring to light answers to questions that they had learned, growing up in their families, were not to be asked.
Born in 1978, Pierre Vesperini is a Researcher at the CNRS with a HDR (Habilitation à Diriger des Recherches = Accreditation to Supervise Research). An alumnus of the École normale supérieure de la rue d’Ulm and the École française de Rome, he authored four books: La philosophia et ses pratiques d’Ennius à Cicéron (2012) ; Droiture et mélancolie. Sur les écrits de Marc Aurèle (2016) ;…
Director Hassen Ferhani will be in conversation in French about his documentary film 143 rue du désert (2019) with Madeleine Dobie. This event, held in conjunction with the course "Remapping Algeria", is open to the public. The Columbia Maison Française is presenting 143 rue du désert online from April 7 and April 15. There are only 100 virtual seats available. For more information about the film, and…
Isabelle Queval is a university professor in education and training at INSHEA-Université Paris Lumières and director of Grhapes (Research group on disability, accessibility and educational and school practices - UR 7287). Former high-level athlete (tennis), associate of philosophy, she devoted her thesis to "a philosophical history of the notion of surpassing oneself".