The Cultural Service of the French Embassy in Houston, in collaboration with the CIEP (Centre International d'Etudes Pédagogiques) is offering a teacher training session in phonetics.
The workshops will take place on :

May 16th at the Alliance Française de Dallas. Please register at admin@afdallas.org

May 17th at the Alliance Française de Houston. Registration is open until May 16th, 12pm : please contact the Cultural Service

May 18th at El Dorado High School in El Paso. Please register with the Alliance Française d'El Paso

The University of Franche-Comté is hosting a summer training program. If you are an educator, a teacher trainer or an educational official and wish to develop your skills and discover new practices, take part in the CLA's education training courses this summer.

July: Workshops for language center directors. Find out more here

Summer: Eduational workshops for teachers and trainers. Find out more by clicking here

The Cultural Service of the French Embassy in Houston congratulates Ally Zhang, a student at Plano West High School (10th grade) and Obie Amudo, a student at The John Cooper School (9th grade) on winning the Texas French Symposium 2016. They will be awarded a two week stay in the Planète Langues Junior Campus program in Rambouillet, France, sponsored by the Cultural Service of the French Embassy in Houston. The third winner, Diego Morales, a student at The Woodlands High School (12th grade) will be taking a trip to France in a host family, organized by ORCA. Congratulations to all three!

The Transatlantic Friendship and Mobility Intitiative, a joint declaration made on May 13, 2014 by the U.S. Department of State and the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Development, established the United States and France’s common interest in doubling and diversifying student mobility by 2025. A second bilateral meeting was held in Paris on March 7-8, 2016.

The HEC Paris Summer School offers university-level students and recent graduates access to leading professors and courses at HEC Paris, a world-renowned business school located at the backdoor of Paris. Intensive, 2-week HEC Paris Summer Programs showcase the best of HEC Paris.

Tournées Film Festival is a program of the FACE Foundation, in partnership with the Cultural Services of the French Embassy, which aims to bring French cinema to American college and university campuses. In 2016-2017, we are proud to offer a wide variety of films that represent the best of French cinema distributed in the U.S., including acclaimed filmmakers (Arnaud Desplechin, Philippe Garrel, Bertrand Bonello) and new talents that recently emerged on the international scene (Lucie Borleteau, Thomas Lilti).

New Faces of French Animation, a program launched by the Cultural Services of the French Embassy in the US and Canada in 2015, offers non-commercial theaters a selection of short animated films that were presented at the most recent Annecy International Animation Film Festival and is returning in 2016 for its second year.
 

YOUNG FRENCH CINEMA is a program of UniFrance films, in partnership with the Cultural Services of the French Embassy, which aims to bring French films with no US distribution to art house cinemas, film societies, the Alliance Française network, and American universities.

The debut novel of mathematician, author, and Oulipo member Michèle Audin, One Hundred Twenty-One Days retraces the lives of French mathematicians over several generations during World Wars I and II. The author's publisher, Deep Vellum is based out of Dallas.