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Film Series: Blackness in French and Francophone Film

La Maison Française (Columbia) Buell Hall, 515 West 116th Street, New York City

A Film Series Presented by the Columbia Maison Française, co-sponsored by School of the Arts and curated by Nora Philippe with the participation of Maboula Soumahoro Films are free and open to the public. Subtitles are in English. France doesn’t have an equivalent word for speaking about “blackness” and has just removed the word “race” from its Constitution. However, a…

Film: Speak Up (Ouvrir la voix) – Screening & Discussion with Amandine Gay

La Maison Française (NYU) 16 Washington Mews, New York City

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…

The Restitution Debate: African Art in a Global Society

Italian Academy (Columbia) 1161 Amsterdam Avenue, New York City

In November 2018, Felwine Sarr and Bénédicte Savoy released a report that had been prepared for the President of France entitled The Restitution of African Cultural Heritage. Toward a New Relational Ethics. This report has set in motion a debate that could have a profound impact on the status of African art held in collections around the world. During this…