31Mar

April 14, 4 pm (LC): Masterclass with Award-winning French actor Vincent Lindon

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Join us for this masterclass with Vincent Lindon, who was awarded earlier this year a Palme d’Or for Best Actor at the Cannes Film Festival for his performance in The Measure of a Man (to be released April 15 at the Metrograph, http://metrograph.com/film/film/118/the-measure-of-a-man Vincent Lindon’s career started in the 1980s, and now includes over 60 films, spanning both auteur […]

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16Mar

April 20 at 7 pm (French Embassy): Prix d’Eloquence 2016

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On April 20, 2016, 5 students representing Fordham University will compete with 10 students from Barnard College and Columbia University in an eloquent battle of words and ideas about the virtues of fidelity, faithfulness, loyalty, faith and commitment. Come support them as they share their passion for the French language! For further details, click on Albertine […]

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16Mar

March 17 and 18, 2016 (CUNY/Graduate Center): Colloquium “Impunity, Responsibility and Citizenship – HAITI”

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For more details, click on Colloquium Program Special Guest Lecturer: Etienne Tassin, Professeur de Philosophie politique Paris-Diderot Bibliography: https://goo.gl/M3QGYA Vidéography : https://goo.gl/Y9u8iS Respondent Guest Lecturer: William O’Neill, Director of Conflict Prevention and Peace Forum (CPPF), SSRC/ UN Bibliography: http://forums.ssrc.org/haiti/author/bill-oneill/ http://www.ssrc.org/staff/o-neill-william/ The 2016 Conference on Impunity comprised three major components. The first is a series of classroom […]

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11Mar

A Conversation with Melvil Poupaud in a packed Kehoe Theater

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On Wednesday, March 9, over fifty people, including Fordham students and faculty members as well as visitors from outside filled up the Kehoe Theater for an insighful conversation with French actor Melvil Poupaud about his career, art cinema and acting. Initiated by co-moderators Hélène Godec and Audrey Evrard, both members of the Department of Modern Languages […]

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10Mar

Dr Lise Schreier Awarded a Children’s Literature Association Diversity Research Grant for her manuscript chapter, “Toying with Blackness.”

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The Diversity Research Grant is a grant to support research related to children’s and young adult cultural artifacts (including media, culture, and texts) about populations that have been traditionally underrepresented or marginalized culturally and/or historically.

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