Monday, March 2 – 7:00 p.m.

Panel (in English)

Rethinking 19th Century French Studies: Smuggling, Scams, and Semites

Emily Apter, Professor of French, English, and Comparative Literature, NYU

Maurice Samuels, Professor of French, Yale

Richard Sieburth, Professor of French and Comparative Literature, NYU

 Tuesday, March 3 – 6:00 p.m.

Co-sponsored by La Maison Française of NYU and the AIA – New York Lecture (in English)

Jean-Louis Cohen, Professor , History of Architecture, NYU; curator, L’Aventure Le Corbusier (1987, Centre Georges Pompidou); author of Le Corbusier and the Mystique of the USSR; Le Corbusier, la planète comme chantier; introduction, Le Corbusier, Le Grand (Phaidon, 2008)

Le Corbusier: Latest News from the Front

Respondents to be announced.

Location: The Center for Architecture | 536 LaGuardia Place, between West 3rd and Bleecker Streets

Reservations: www.aiany.org

 Thursday, March 5 – 7 :00 p.m.

Lecture (in French)

Yves Hersant, Director, Group de recherches sur l’Europe, EHESS; visiting professor, NYU; author of Mélancolies: De l’Antiquité au XXe siècle; La Métaphore baroque

L’Avenir appartient aux fantômes: Jacques Derrida et les spectres

 March 7 & 9

Rendez-Vous with French Cinema 2009

Screenings presented in cooperation with Unifrance, The Film Society of Lincoln Center, IFC Center

Location: IFC Center | 323 Avenue of the Americas (at West 3rd Street) | Tel: 212-924-7771 | www.ifccenter.com

$12.50 general public; $10. with NYU i.d. (these screenings only)

 Saturday, March 7 – 4:00 p.m.

Film Screening

Seraphine

France/Belgium, 2008; 125 min. In French with English subtitles.

Followed by Q & A with director MARTIN PROVOST

Yolande Moreau returns to Rendez-Vous as outsider artist Séraphine de Senlis in first-time director Martin Provost’s ambitious biopic. Moreau, Provost, and several Séraphine artists are currently nominated for top honors, including best picture, at this year’s César Awards, France’s equivalent to the Academy Awards. New York Premiere. A Music Box release.

 Monday, March 9 – 7:00 p.m.

Film Screening

The Apprentice | L’Apprenti

France, 2008; 82 min. In French with English subtitles.

Followed by Q & A with director SAMUEL COLLARDEY

On the boundary of fiction and documentary, Samuel Collardey’s marvelous The Apprentice, winner of the prestigious Louis Delluc Prize for best first film, follows 15-year-old student Mathieu (Mathieu Bulle) as he develops a warm, close relationship with farm owner and mentor Paul (Paul Barbier) that provides a partial refuge from the emotional chaos of his parents’ failed marriage. North American Premiere.

Rendez-Vous with French Cinema runs from March 5 through March 15, presenting the New York premieres of new French films. Screenings take place at the Walter Reade Theater and at the IFC Center. For a complete schedule, visit www.filmlinc.com and www.ifccenter.com

 Tuesday, March 10 – 7:00 p.m.

Book Launch (Readings in French and English)

ROI DES CENT CAVALIERS/ KING OF A HUNDRED HORSEMEN

Bilingual edition (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2008)

With the author Marie Etienne, Poet; novelist and Marilyn Hacker, Poet; translator; winner, for this translation, of the Robert Fagles Prize, National Poetry Series

 Wednesday, March 11 – 6:30 p.m.

Institute of French Studies Colloquium

Lecture (in French)

Pierre Birnbaum, Professor Emeritus of Political Science, Université de Paris I; author of Le Moment anti-Semite; Un Récit de “meurtre ritual” au Grand Siècle: L’Affaire Raphaël Lévy, Metz, 1669

The Raphaël Lévy Case: An Accusation of “Ritual Murder” in 17th Century France

 Wednesday, March 25 - 7:00 pm

Special Event

Presented in cooperation with Symphony Space, the French Institute Alliance Française, and the Cultural Services of the French Embassy

Selected Shorts

A Celebration of the Short Story: Passport to Paris

Experience three lustrous and varied portraits of Paris as read in English by Broadway and Hollywood actors. Stories include A Parisian Affair by Guy de Maupassant and a selection from Faïza Guène’s Kiffe Kiffe Tomorrow. :

Location: Symphony Space, 2537 Broadway at 95th Street (2 stops from Times Square on the #2 or 3) | Box Office: 212-864-5400

Tickets: Special $15 discount tickets available to friends of La Maison Française.

Use discount code SSP253 at www.symphonyspace.org or at the box office.

 Thursday, March 26 – 6:30 p.m.

Co-sponsored by the Institute of French Studies and the Department of French Round Table in French and English

Translating as a Profession: From the 1970’s to the Present Gisèle Sapiro, sociologist, CNRS, Paris; editor of Translatio: Le marché de la traduction en France à l’heure de la mondialisation; Esther Allen, Executive Director, Center for Literary Translation, Columbia University; Linda Asher, translator; Jeanine Herman, Translator; Judith Miller, Chair, Department of French, NYU; translator

 Friday & Saturday, March 27 & 28

Department of French – Annual Graduate Student Conference

Unbecoming Masters: Scenes of Mastery and Their Undoing in French Literature, Theory, Politics, History, and Art

Full schedule at: www.nyu.edu/maisonfrancaise

 Monday, March 30 – 7:00 p.m.

Lecture

Florence Delay, de l’Académie Française, Actress; novelist; critic; dramatist; author of Riche et légère (Prix Fémina); Etxemendi; Dit Nerval; Mon Espagne. Or et Ciel; Graal théâtre (with Jacques Roubaud)

Un Mythe européen: la quête du Graal

SPONSORS: The Florence Gould Foundation, The American Society of the French Legion of Honor, The Grand Marnier Foundation, The Evelyn Sharp Foundation, The Cultural Services of the French Embassy, CulturesFrance.

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