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La Maison Française, New York University
Founded in 1957, La Maison Française, the French cultural center of New York University, continues in the 21st century its preeminent role in the intellectual and artistic exchange between France and the United States.
La Maison Française is the public face of the university’s Center for French Civilization and Culture, which is the most comprehensive American academic complex devoted to the culture of France. For its principal mission, that of training graduate and undergraduate students of French language, literature, civilization, and Francophone studies, the Center boasts a nationally and internationally renowned faculty and a sizable corps of superior students.
Through its extraordinarily wide range of public activities - lectures, symposia, art exhibits, films, concerts, theatre, and special events – La Maison Française serves the university, business, government, and professional communities, as well as the general public, in the New York metropolitan area.
Distinguished speakers presented by La Maison Française have included Raymond Barre, Roland Barthes, Pierre Boulez, Jacques Chirac, Jacques Derrida, Michel Foucault, Françoise Gilot, Françoise Giroud, Eugène Ionesco, Jean-Marie Cardinal Lustiger, François Mitterrand, Edgar Morin, Alain Robbe-Grillet, Michel Rocard, and Nathalie Sarraute. Recent events have included lectures and discussions with Robert Badinter, Sandrine Bonnaire, Patrick Chamoiseau, Jean Daniel, Claire Denis, Assia Djebar, Pascal Dusapin, Annie Ernaux, Isabelle Huppert, Julia Kristeva, Jack Lang, Jorge Lavelli, Bernard-Henri Lévy, Andreï Makine, Daniel Mesguich, Plantu, Philippe Roger, Josyane Savigneau, Philippe Sollers, Guy Sorman, and Michel Tremblay.
For support of its activities, La Maison Française of New York University seeks gifts and grants from individuals, foundations, and corporations which value its leadership contributions to French-American relations.
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