Children's books author and pop-up book designer Marion Bataille presents her work followed by a book signing at Brazos Bookstore in partnership with the Cultural Services of the French Embassy and FACE Foundation.

Razmig Keucheyan is an assistant professor in sociology at the University of Paris-Sorbonne. He has recently edited a selection from Antonio Gramsci’s Prison Notebooks in French. He is also the author of Le constructivisme: Des origines à nos jours; Nature is a Battlefield (Polity Books, 2016); and The Left Hemisphere: Mapping Critical Theory Today (Verso 2013).

Ivan Jablonka, professor of contemporary history at the Université Paris-XIII-Nord and  novelist, is one of the editors-in-chief of La Vie des idées/Books and Ideas and editorial director with Pierre Rosanvallon of the collection La République des Idées for the French publisher Le Seuil. His latest book, Laëtitia ou La fin des hommes (Seuil, 2016), selected for the Renaudot and Goncourt Prizes, received the Prix Médicis, the Prix Le Monde as well as the Prix des prix littéraires. His essay, L'Histoire est une littérature contemporaine (Le Seuil, 2014) will be published by Cornell University Press in the fall of 2017.

Tiphaine Samoyault is professor of Comparative Literature at the Université Sorbonne Nouvelle, Paris 3. She is the author of numerous essays and novels including Montre cassée, forme et signification d'un motif dans les arts du temps (Verdier, 2004), Météorologie du rêve, (Le Seuil, 2000), Les Indulgences (Le Seuil, 2003), La Main négative (éditions Argol, 2008), Bête de cirque (Le Seuil, 2013). Her Barthes: A Biography, originally published by Le Seuil in 2015, was just released by Polity books.

Charif Majdalani, born in Lebanon in 1960, is often compared to a Lebanese Proust. Majdalani lived in France from 1980 to 1993 and now teaches French literature at the Université Saint-Joseph in Beirut. The original French version of his novel Moving the Palace won the 2008 François Mauriac Prize from the Académie Française as well as the Prix Tropiques.

The Book Department is now accepting applications for its three biannual translations programs. You can submit your applications for the French Voices awards, Hemingway grants, and Acquisition of rights through a single application page.

A French family with two daughters, Laure and Jeanne, moves to a new neighborhood. With her Jean Seberg haircut and tomboy ways, Laure is immediately mistaken for a boy by the local kids and passes herself off as Michael. Filmmaker Céline Sciamma brings a light and charming touch to this drama about childhood gender identification screening at the Ciné-Club of the Alliance française of Austin.

Magnolia at The Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, an ongoing series featuring critically acclaimed films, screens The Brand New Testament by director Jaco Van Dormael. God exists, lives in Brussels, and is horrible to his wife and daughter. To get even, his daughter sends everyone in the world their date of death.

Master jazz vocalist and songwriter with a groove that never quits, Gregory Porter’s lyrics often speak as dreams do, in the languages of image and emotion, to communicate thoroughly though not always directly.

This art history course, taught by Anna Tahinci at the Glassell School of Art of the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, examines how French artist Auguste Rodin interacted with his contemporaries and why the origins of modern sculpture are traced to him. The course aims to increase visual literacy and deepen the student’s awareness of the cultural and conceptual framework in which Rodin’s sculptures were made and used.

The Institut français, the Cultural Services of the French Embassy in the United States, and FACE Foundation are joining forces to launch a new program: Etant donnés Residencies. This program supports French visual artists seeking to spend 2 to 4 months in the United States, in order to develop specific research or projects in collaboration with an American organization.