Upcoming Lectures & Talks
4 upcoming lectures and talks from French Library, with dates, venues and ticket links taken from the organization’s own pages and refreshed weekly. All lectures in Greater Boston →
Tue Oct 6 · 6:30pm
Critic Emily Eakin on The Frenchmen: Or, My Life in Theory, her account of arriving at Harvard in the late 1980s and falling under the spell of Derrida, Foucault, Barthes, Althusser, Deleuze and Lacan. MIT's Bruno Perreau joins her on what those ideas still do in the culture wars.
Tue Oct 27 · 6:00pm
Claude Cernuschi, Professor of Art History at Boston College and a past chair of its Art, Art History, and Film Department, lectures on Picasso's career and his part in shaping twentieth-century art, in conjunction with the Museum of Fine Arts exhibition Picasso, Miró, Dalí: Unbound. Cernuschi has published studies of Jackson Pollock, Oskar Kokoschka, Egon Schiele and Abstract Expressionism. The lecture has been rescheduled.
Tue Nov 10 · 6:30pm
French tenor Morgan Manifacier and pianist Corinne Penner trace Paul Verlaine's poetry through its musical settings, on an international tour marking 130 years since his death: songs by Saint-Saëns, Debussy, Hahn, Poldowski, Tosti and Britten, ending with Fauré's La Bonne Chanson, Op. 61, on nine of Verlaine's poems. Both teach at Baylor University; Manifacier is a two-time American Prize winner in voice.
Tue Nov 24 · 6:00pm
Pierre-Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais wrote The Barber of Seville and The Marriage of Figaro, and also talked Louis XVI into a covert operation arming the American rebels. Robert Allison on the watchmaker-courtier who ran guns to the colonies while writing the comedies.
