Press release
A Free Event Co-Presented by the Cathedral of St. John the Divine, World Monuments Fund, and The Columbia University
Maison Française
Featuring Philippe Villeneuve, Chief Architect,
Notre-Dame Restoration Project
Communiqué de presse
CYCLE DE CONFÉRENCES
DU 25 NOVEMBRE
AU 9 DÉCEMBRE 2024
Chaque année, depuis 2009, la Chaire du Louvre invite un grand penseur de notre temps à poser son regard sur le musée, son histoire et ses collections. Elle est cette année confiée au philosophe Souleymane Bachir Diagne, professeur à l’université Columbia de New York, dont les travaux portent en particulier sur le dialogue des cultures et le nomadisme des œuvres d’art.
Is It Fascism? A Leading Historian Changes His Mind.
Robert Paxton thought the label was overused. But now he’s alarmed by what he sees in global politics — including Trumpism.
By Elisabeth Zerofsky
New York Times, Oct. 23, 2024
Over 100 pro-Palestinian students were arrested on campus last week as the university moved to hybrid classes for the rest of the semester, a few days after the university president's congressional hearing on antisemitism.
By Arnaud Leparmentier (New York (United States) correspondent at Le Monde)
Full article in French here
Like many Columbia students, I have commitment issues—with languages, that is. When I came to campus in August, I flirted with Turkish, tried out Arabic, and finally committed to Italian. And yet, my heart continued to wander. So when a friend told me about Café Conversation, Columbia’s French conversation club, I decided that the time was ripe to improve my previously unremarkable conversational skills in la langue française.
Columbia Spectators "THE EYE | FEATURES"
Beyond Buell Hall: The Lives and Legacies of Bloomingdale Insane Asylum
By Sarah Yang
New York Times Review by Concepción de León
In a new documentary, a filmmaker turns his lens on his grandparents during a pivotal moment in the history of the Democratic Republic of Congo.
In “Colette and Justin,” directed by Alain Kassanda, the French-Congolese filmmaker uncovers a tangled and pivotal era in Congolese history and the central role his grandfather had in the country’s path toward independence in 1960.
Film screening at the 2023 Maison Francaise Film Festival Across Generations, followed by a Q&A with Director Alain Kassanda and Madeleine Dobie on Oct. 5
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Élu à l’Académie française le 17 février 2022, l’universitaire, essayiste, spécialiste de Proust et ancien Professeur au Collège de France, a été reçu hier par Pierre Nora. Il a rendu un hommage émouvant à son prédécesseur au fauteuil numéro 35, l’ophtalmologue Yves Pouliquen.
Throughout her four-decade literary career, the Guadeloupean writer has explored a global vision of the Black diaspora, and placed Caribbean life at the center.
Maryse Condé’s long life and career — at 86, the Guadeloupean writer has published more than 20 books — has been shaped by some of the world’s biggest political and cultural upheavals.
And she, in turn, has played a role in interpreting those shifts. With roots in Guadeloupe, but encompassing the years she spent in Africa, Europe and North America, her work has explored the many threads of the Black diaspora — always keeping…
L’historien franco-britannique et maître de conférences à l’université Columbia de New York a publié une éclairante étude sur la nostalgie, émotion aujourd’hui investie à souhait par le monde politique et culturel.
Une émotion hante toute l’Europe, occupe temps et espace, jouit d’un spectaculaire retour en grâce, n’épargne plus aucun domaine – marketing, mode, consommation, culture, y compris de masse, tout y passe. Sans oublier la politique, qui utilise elle aussi très largement ce ressort.
Quand les soirées rétro affichent salle comble, c’est de la nostalgie…