Boston University Center for the Study of Europe (Pardee School of Global Studies) will host a panel discussion on the franco-german bond and the future of the European Union on Thursday, February 22 at 4 PM.

Valéry Freland, Consul General of France in Boston, and Ralf Horleman, Consul General of Germany in Boston, will discuss Franco-German relations and the EU in a conversation moderated by Vesko Garcevic, Professor of the Practice of International Relations and former Ambassador of Montenegro in Brussels (NATO) and Vienna (OSCE), and William Keylor, Professor of History and International Relations at Boston University. For more information on the panel discussion, please visit this link.

This event is free and open to the public but please be aware that seating is limited.

Three exciting conferences sponsored by the Cultural Services of the French Embassy in the United States will take place at the Center for European Studies of Harvard University in the upcoming weeks. Check the links below for more information:

* Resisting Neoconservatism: Explaining the Intellectual Evolution of Stanley Hoffmann's Relationship with Raymond Aron
February 20, 4:15 PM - Hoffmann Room, Adolphus Busch Hall - Harvard Colloquium for Intellectual History

* How France Is Fighting Long-term Unemployment: What an Innovative Experiment Can Teach Advanced Economies
February 22, 4:15 PM - Lower Level Conference Room, Adolphus Busch Hall - CES Seminar on Social Exclusion and Inclusion
- Laurent Grandguillaume, President of "Territoires zéro chômeur de longue durée" and former Deputy of the French National Assembly (2012-2017), will be talking about the "Zero Unemployment Bill" he helped craft and pass in February 2016 and share preliminary results.

* Occupying Paris: 1968 and the Spaces of Protest
March 7, 4:15 PM - Lower Level Conference Room, Adolphus Busch Hall - CES Special Event & Art Exhibit Opening
- This panel discussion marks the fiftieth anniversary of the 1968 Paris protests and will focus on the ongoing legacy of the 1968 "occupation" of public space in contemporary politics. Among the speakers will be Dr. Lilian Mathieu, Senior Researcher (Sociology) at the CNRS (National Center for Scientific Research) in France.

The European Conference 2018 is the sixth edition of an event dedicated to Europe. It is presented by graduate students at Harvard, MIT Sloan and the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy.

Entitled this year "Europe: Winds in the Sails", this student-led conference, the largest of its kind in North America, will bring together a thrilling and unique combination of policy, academic and business leaders to explore what, going forward, the “European way” might be: its challenges, opportunities, and specifics.

For more information about the program, the speakers and the tickets for the event, please visit the website of the European Conference 2018.

Dominique de Villepin, former Prime Minister of France (2005-2007), will give a lecture entitled "Can we still save the two-state solution?" at Fletcher School (Tufts University) on Tuesday, March 6.

This lecture is part of the Issam M. Fares Lecture Series, and will be followed by a conversation with Fletcher's Dean James Stavridis and a reception.

The event is free but please RSVP to rsvpevents@tufts.edu as space is limited.

Each year, the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum offers a series of presentations from leading voices in the field of landscape architecture. In this context, internationally renowned designers present their recent work articulating landscape as a medium of design for the social, cultural, and ecological life of the city.

This March, Michel Desvigne, an internationally recognized French landscape architect, will take part in this engaging series by giving a lecture at the museum.

Book your seat online to attend this event on Thursday, March 8.

The MIT European Career Fair will be back this year on the 24th of February. This annual recruiting event is the largest of its kind in the United States with 100 expected companies, universities and research organizations from the Science, Technology, Engineering and the Finance/Consulting sector representing exciting opportunities in Europe.

No matter what you are looking for - from summer internships to leading management positions - at the European Career Fair 2018 you can find it all.

Registration, résumé upload and entry to the fair are for FREE – we invite everyone who is interested to sign up! Our online platform enables you to interact with the organizations and companies even if you cannot attend the fair in person. Students, PostDocs, young professionals from all over the US are welcome and encouraged to submit their résumé prior to the fair to be selected for interviews and a complimentary résumé workshop.

For questions contact us support_ecf2018@mit.edu.

Together with the Film Study Center and the McMillan-Stewart Foundation, the Harvard Film Archive welcomes French-Senegalese film director and screenwriter Alain Gomis as the winner of the Film Study Center’s 2018 Geneviève McMillan-Reba Stewart Fellowship in Distinguished Filmmaking.

The film series will present various films directed by Alain Gomis: L'Afrance, Andalucia, Félicité, Aujourd'hui (Tey), and Little Light (Petite Lumière).

Gomis will appear in person at 7 p.m. screenings of “Félicité” on March 2 and “Aujourd’hui” on March 3.

Admission is free.

French director Agnès Varda will be giving two lectures as part of the Charles Eliot Norton Lectures. Entitled "Cinema: The Language of the Century" (February 26) and "Crossing the Borders" (February 27), these lectures will be given at 4:00 pm at Sander's Theatre, Harvard University (45 Quincy street, Cambridge).

On top of that, a retrospective of her movies is organized by the Harvard Film Archive. The screenings will take place from January 26 to March 5 at the Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, Harvard University (24 Quincy street, Cambridge). In addition to the screening of twelve of her films, two special events ("Agnès Varda in Person"), held in February, will feature the filmmaker herself. Click here for more info and details about the movies.

This year, the Providence French Film Festival, presented by Brown University, will feature 15 movies between February 24 and March 3.

All screenings will take place at Cable Car cinema. Admission is $7 for students and $9 for others, with the possibility to buy passes. Online ticketing is available on Cable Car website, but not for passes or student reductions.

Click here for a description of the 15 films in English.
And click here for the descriptions in French.

Like every year, Belmont World Film, a nonprofit corporation that promotes cross-cultural understanding through film screenings, will offer an International Film Festival in the spring. For two months, one movie will be presented every Monday evening.

For its 17th edition, BWF International Film Festival will feature four French films! For more information, stay tuned on the BWF website.

Jeanne d'Arc au Bûcher (Joan of Arc at the Stake), a large-scale dramatic production written by Swiss composer Arthur Honegger with text by French poet Paul Claudel, will be performed by Odyssey Opera on February 17, 2018, at Sanders Theatre in Cambridge. Click here for more information about this opera performance that will feature the 50+ voices of the Harvard-Radcliffe Collegium Musicum.

Click here to buy tickets.

World-renowned French-Canadian pianist Paul-André Bempéchat will give a piano recital on Saturday, February 24th to benefit the First Church in Belmont, Massachusetts.

The program includes pieces by Chopin, featuring all 4 Ballades, and all 24 Preludes. Admission is by voluntary contribution to the instrument fund.

In February, come listen to an all-French program at the Boston Symphony Orchestra!

French pianist Jean-Yves Thibaudet and the Tanglewood Festival Chorus will perform works by Debussy and Ravel. These concerts, offered on the 15, the 16 and the 17 of February, will mark the 90th anniversary of Ravel's conducting the BSO at Symphony Hall while visiting America in 1928. No doubt these concerts will delight French classical music lovers!

Additional performances in March / April:
- "Boston Symphony Chamber Players at Jordan Hall with Jean-Yves Thibaudet, piano" (March 11, 3:00 pm)
- "Andris Nelsons conducts Bernstein and Shostakovich featuring pianist Jean-Yves Thibaudet" (March 22, 8:00 pm / March 23, 1:30 pm / March 24 and 27, 8:00 pm).
- "Andris Nelsons conducts the BSO at Carnegie Hall featuring pianist Jean-Yves Thibaudet" (April 11, 12 and 13 at 8:00 pm).

Simon Ghraichy, a talented young French pianist who has played among the most prestigious concert halls all over the globe, will perform a piano recital for the closing ceremony of the European Conference 2018 on Sunday, March 4.

The piano recital will be built on the program of his 2015 concert at Carnegie Hall “Liszt’s and the Americas”, confronting the 19th European composer’s most famous works to his American counterparts such as Villa Lobos, Gershwin, Godowsky and Ernesto Lecuona.

For its 2017-2018 season, Festival Ballet Providence offers this March performances of two works based on French books:

* The multi-media adaptation of Le Petit Prince by choreographer Boyko Dossev - based on the book by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, this event will be performed on March 3, 4, and 11 in the afternoon. Click on this link to book a seat.

* Gianni Di Marco's popular one-act adaptation of La Dame aux Camélias - based on the book by Alexandre Dumas fils, Lady of the Camellias will be performed among other works during two weekends of March (9-10-11, and 16-17-18). This event is part of the acclaimed Up Close on Hope series of the Festival Ballet Providence. To book a seat, click on this link.

On Wednesday, March 7th, come discover at the French Cultural Center an exclusive interpretation of "L'Alchimie du Verbe"  by French playwright and comedian Laurent Godet.

The play, which received critical acclaim in Paris and beyond, invites the public to navigate Rimbaud's universe and to delve into some of the most beautiful writings of this enigmatic and fascinating poet.

Presented in French, the play will be followed by a cocktail reception.

Throughout the month of February, the French Cultural Center offers an annotated photo exhibit focusing on the events of May 1968 in France. Entitled “May '68: When Paris Erupted in Protest,” the exhibit features works by French photographer Marc Riboud (1923-2016).

Every year, the Month of the Francophonie is celebrated in March. A series of cultural events with partner institutions are organized in New England, aiming to promote francophone cultures for every age and every audience.

On March 1st, 2018, come join us at the French Cultural Center to celebrate the launch of this annual celebration! This free event will offer you a great opportunity to learn about each of Boston's attending Francophone Institutions, and to discover their community offerings, calendar of events, visa programs and travels, studies, and work opportunities.

Ranked among Unesco’s world heritage list, the château de Chambord is a matchless example of architecture of the French Renaissance. To anticipate the 500th anniversary of the château in 2019, American Friends of Château de Chambord is launching a campaign to adopt a vine in Chambord’s historic vineyard, planted in 1518 at the direction of Francis I.

Chambord is reinvigorating the vineyard by planting 12 hectares of three varietals originally chosen by King Francis I. They are offering these vines for “adoption”, along with the ability to leave your name – or a loved one’s – on the vine for the next century. In addition to making your mark on an exceptional example of French patrimony, adopters receive priority access to the wine made from the first harvest in 2019, and an exclusive invitation to visit the vineyard during a special event. To learn more, and to adopt a vine, click here.