For the 2023 Night of Ideas, Columbia University’s Maison Française and Department of French are teaming up with Villa Albertine to host a collective public reading of Happening by Annie Ernaux, French author and winner of the 2022 Nobel Prize in Literature.
French Ambassador in the U.S. Philippe Étienne, serving as such since September 2019, is a former diplomatic advisor to French President Emmanuel Macron, gave a talk with students about Europe and the French-American relationship. Co-sponsored by Columbia Maison Française, European Institute, Department of French and Alliance Program.
Film screening followed by responses by Souleymane Bachir Diagne, Professor of French and Philosophy, and Mamadou Diouf, Professor of History and African Studies, moderated by Shanny Peer.
Environmentalist and author Bill McKibben was among the first journalists to sound the alarm about the perils of climate change over 30 years ago. Marie Toussaint is a jurist and French member of the European Parliament in the Green Party and a founder of Notre affaire à tous.
They reflected together on the roles policymakers, activists, journalists, and artists need to play alongside scientists in mobilizing people to care and amplifying the call to action.
Co-sponsored by the Maison Française, Sabin Center for Climate Change Law, SIPA, European Institute, Alliance Program, the Earth Institute, and School of the Arts for Columbia | Year of Water.
A conversation with Jean-Yves Le Drian, Minister for Europe and Foreign Affairs of France, and Heiko Maas, Minister for Foreign Affairs of Germany
On April 1, 2014, French chef Jacques Pépin visited the Maison Française for a conversation with Adam Gopnik, reminiscing about his life as a chef on two continents, and a cooking demonstration in the newly renovated Maison Française kitchen. Photo credit: Bruce Gilbert
On Thursday, November 7, 2013, Maison Française held a reception to celebrate its Centennial and 100 years of French-American academic and cultural exchange.
On this occasion, the inaugural Centennial Medal of the Columbia Maison Française was awarded to François Delattre, French Ambassador to the U.S.
Photo credit: Michael Dames
September 10, 2013: Columbia Maison Française Centennial 1913-2013: Celebrating a Century of French Culture and Ideas at Columbia University in New York
Curated by Shanny Peer, and co-organized by the Maison Française and Rare Book & Manuscript Division of Columbia Libraries.
This exhibition celebrates the 100-year anniversary of the Columbia Maison Française, founded in 1913 and the first French academic and cultural center on an American campus.It presents a wonderful collection of unpublished photographs, documents, program materials, and AV archives. These are woven into a narrative celebrating the rich history of the Maison Française and the role it has played in exposing Americans to notable French thinkers and artists, disseminating French and Francophone culture and ideas in the U.S., and nurturing strong ties between Columbia University, France, and the Francophone world.
Photo credit: Michael Dames
The Centennial Exhibition of the Maison Francaise, displaying photos, documents and objects from its illustrious 100 year history. The exhibit was on display in Buell Hall from September 101October 2013.
Photo credit: Marc Blaustein
A parachute from the Vietnam War, transformed by Cambodian artist Leang Seckon into an emblem of reconciliation, is the centerpiece of a public peace gathering involving Vietnamese and Cambodian survivors of that war as well as U.S. veterans at Columbia University on May 1, 2013.
Photo credit: Juliette de Marcillac
Exhibition of artworks by Cambodian Artists, on display at the Maison Francaise April 10-May 4, 2013. This exhibit featured seventy works of visual arts made by the great contemporary artists Vann Nath and Séra (both survivors of the genocide), as well as works by emerging artists who were invited to create artworks evoking the genocide during three "memory workshops" held between 2008 and 2012. The opening reception featured a live perfomance painting by the Franco-Cambodian artist Séra.
Photo credit: Michael Dames
The cinema of resistance series has lead to vivid discussions and interesting exchanges, especially for the screening of Army of Shadows, at the Lenfest Center of the Arts.
