Latest Past Events

Anthropologies Imaginaires/Imaginary Anthropologies

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

To RSVP, please click here.  French Canadian Gabriel Dharmoo's musical practice defies easy pigeon-holing – and sometimes description – going beyond the limits of composition, performance, research, and vocal improvisation. His Imaginary Anthropologies is unpredictable, challenging, and amusing, floating in the fine space between satire and seriousness, between tradition and novelty, between cleverness and folly. In this solo vocal performance, Dharmoo…

Religion and Rituality

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

Religion and Rituality Fourth Annual Conference of the Francophone Society of the Philosophy of Religion To RSVP, please click here.  Rites are a privileged subject matter for anthropology as they allow to subsume under the same concept of religion various practices by which human societies manifest the systems of belief around which they are organized; they also signify, within the succession of…

Film/Panel Discussion: Jean Rouch and Modernity

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

To RSVP, please click here. To mark the 100-year anniversary of the birth of anthropologist and filmmaker Jean Rouch, the Maison Française presents a selection of unfinished, unpublished films by the filmmaker, including “Monsieur Albert, Prophète” (Côte d’Ivoire, 1962-63) and “Moi fatigué debout, moi couché” (Niger, 1996-97). These will be presented and discussed by three specialists of Jean Rouch’s work. In…

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