February Events | French in New York

| Lectures & Conferences          

Tuesday, February 17, 7:00 pm

“Reading Patrick Modiano”
A conversation with Mark Polizzotti, David R. Godine, Sam Sacks, and Sal Robinson
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Albertine
972 Fifth Avenue
New York, NY

Events @ Albertine
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Wednesday, February 18, 12:30 pm

“Qui est Charlie ? Press freedom, radicalism & the impact of Paris’s recent tragedy”
Panel discussion hosted by the French-American Foundation
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Speakers:

Floyd Abrams,
 partner, Cahill Gordon & Reindel LLP & expert on First Amendment law
Sylvie Kauffmann, 
editorial director & columnist, Le Monde
Michael Oreskes,
 senior managing editor, The Associated Press
Bret Stephens,
 Pulitzer Prize-winning foreign-affairs columnist & deputy editorial page editor, The Wall Street Journal

Baker & McKenzie
452 Fifth Avenue (entrance on 40th street)
18th floor conference room
New York, NY

Events @ French-American Foundation
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Wednesday, February 18, 6-7:30 pm

“Françoise Giroud, Marguerite Duras and Florence Aubenas: Journalists and Writers”
Talk by Marie-Eve Thérenty (in French)
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East Gallery, Buell Hall
Columbia University Maison Française
515 West 116th Street
New York, NY

Events @ Columbia’s Maison Française
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Wednesday, February 18, 6:30-8:30 pm

“Perspectives on the Paris Attacks”
Panel discussion hosted by New York University’s Institute of French Studies
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Speakers:

Zvi Ben-Dor, History & Middle Eastern Studies, NYU
Edward Berenson, History & French Studies, NYU
M’hamed Oualdi, Near Eastern Studies & History, Princeton
Thomas Philippon, Stern, NYU
Emmanuelle Saada, French & History, Columbia
Frédéric Viguier, French Studies, NYU
Larry Wolff, History & European Studies, NYU

NYU Meyer Hall of Physics
Room 121
4 Washington Place
New York, NY

Events @ NYU’s Institute of French Studies
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| Art

February 4, 2014 – March 15, 2015

“Making Pottery Art”
The Robert A. Ellison Jr. Collection of French Ceramics (ca. 1880–1910)
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The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Gallery 521
1000 Fifth Avenue (at 82nd Street)
New York, NY

Exhibitions @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art
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| Concerts

Tuesday, February 24, 8:00 pm

Le Couleur
(Canadian disco & electro trio)
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Pianos
158 Ludlow Street
New York, NY

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