Monday, September 26, 7:00 p.m.
Florence Gould Event

French Literature in the Making
(in French)

Marc Dugain
Novelist; author of La Chambre des officiers; La Malédiction d’Edgar; Heureux comme Dieu en France; Une exécution ordinaire; L’Insomnie des étoiles

in conversation with
Olivier Barrot
Writer, journalist, Un Livre un jour (France 3)

Marc Dugain was born in 1957 in  Senegal, but his family moved back to France when he was 7. While still a child, Marc accompanied his grandfather on a visit to La maison des Gueules cassées, a chateau that housed soldiers from World War I who had been victims of facial mutilations. This became the subject of Dugain’s first novel, La Chambre des officiers (1998) (The Officer’s Ward, 2003), a best seller that won some twenty literary prizes including the prestigious Prix des Libraires, Prix des Deux-Magots and Prix Roger Nimier. 

Presented with the additional support of Open Skies, Sofitel, Institut Français, Cultural Services of the French Embassy.

Tuesday, September 27, 7:00 p.m.

Marielle Macé
CNRS-EHESS; visiting professor, NYU; author of Le Savoir des genres; Le Genre littéraire; Façons de lire, manières d’être

Styles animaux

La question de l’animalité est au centre de la pensée actuelle, et témoigne d’une inquiétude de l’humain.  Mais elle conduit aussi à une anthropologie élargie, et en révèle la dimension esthétique : la nécessité de faire attention aux « manières » de l’être, aux « phrasés » du vivant, à des vies qui sont tout entière  contenues dans leur style, leur mode, leur expressivité. Avec Balzac et Ponge, avec Uexküll et Portmann,  on observera les leçons de style que donnent les animaux, et la façon dont la littérature moderne sait se rendre attentive à cette foule de styles et de manières d’être.

Friday, September 30, 2:00 p.m.
Institute of French Studies colloquium. Co-sponsored by NYU Center for European & Mediterranean Studies

Common Currency, Divided Nations: The Euro and its Future

Damien Chalmers
Professor of European Law, London School of Economics; Fellow, Straus Institute for the Advanced Study of Law & Justice, NYU
Marc Flandreau
Professor of International History and International Economics, Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Geneva
Jeanne Lazarus
Research Fellow, CNRS - Sciences Po, Paris
Christiane  Lemke
Max Weber Visiting Professor of European and Mediterranean Studies, German, NYU
Grigore Pop-Eleches
Assistant Professor of Politics and Public and International Affairs, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University
George W. Ross
ad personam Chaire Jean Monnet, Université de Montréal; Morris Hillquit Professor in Labor and Social Thought, Emeritus -Brandeis University

Has the Eurozone crisis gotten out of hand? Panelists will explore the legal, social and political dimensions of inter-governmental negotiations throughout the history of the European Monetary Union while contrasting different meanings of this common currency in various national contexts. 

Saturday, October 1, 4:00 p.m.

CONCERT

Conservatoire Américain de Fontainebleau 90th Anniversary Event
Fontainebleau Contemporain: Composers of the Last 25 Years 

Works by Joshua Fineberg, Fabien Lévy, Richard Carrick, Amit Gilutz, Michel Galante, Tristan Murail

Performed by
The Argento Chamber Ensemble
Michel Galante, director

Reservations: 212-998-8750; maison.francaise@nyu.edu

Tickets: $20. General admission $10. Fontainebleau alumni; students with i.d.