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Film: Mariannes noires

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

Documentary screening followed by Q&A with director Mame-Fatou Niang, in conversation with Sophie Queuniet What is it to be Black in France? Black and French? Mariannes noiresfollows seven French women of African and Caribbean descent. They are filmmakers, dancers, entrepreneurs and intellectuals whose Frenchness is rooted in a cultural space stretching from metropolitan France to Africa and its many diasporas. The…

The Invention of Celebrity: A Roundtable Conversation with Historian Antonio Lilti

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

Though our world is infatuated with celebrities, the notion has much older roots. In The Invention of Celebrity, Antoine Lilti argues that the mechanisms of celebrity were developed in Europe during the Enlightenment, well before films, yellow journalism, and television, and then flourished during the Romantic period on both sides of the Atlantic. Published in France in 2014, this book has…

Talks: French Literature in the Making, Cecile Coulon

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

At age 27, Cécile Coulon is the author of eight novels and a book of short stories, and the recipient of several literary prizes. She has published five novels with Éditions Viviane Hamy:  Méfiez-vous des enfants sages (2010), Le Roi n’a pas sommeil (2012, Prix Mauvais Genres France Culture / Le Nouvel Observateur), Le Rire du grand blessé (2013), Le Cœur du Pélican (2015), and Trois saisons d’orage (2017, Prix des…