Modern France
Past Zoom lectures
Recording
A Political, Artistic and Cultural History of Modern France
From the Pre-Revolutionary period to the 3rd Republic 1770-1870 - Part II
30 November 2022
Recording
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“Dangerous Liaisons”:
Libertinage in 18th Century French Literature and Painting
with Sylvie Koneski
7 December 2022
Recording
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Ladies of the Enlightenment and the Revolution:
The Paris “Salonnières”, 1760-1799
14 December 2022
Recording
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All 3:
Wednesday 30 Nov.-7-14 Dec. 2022
Recorded Zoom lectures
All 3, Wed. 30 Nov.-14 Dec. 2022
- Dangerous Liaisons
- Ladies of the Enlightenment
- Art and Revolution
New cycle Modern France starting Wednesday, 26 October 2022
A Political, Artistic and Cultural History of Modern France
From the Pre-Revolutionary period to the 3rd Republic 1770-1870 - Part I
Wednesday, 26 October 2022
5:00-6:40 pm Paris time
Zoom lecture
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Marie-Antoinette: Fashion Icon
with Sylvie Koneski
Wednesday, 9 November 2022
5:00-6:40 pm Paris time
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Wednesday, 16 November 2022
5:00-6:40 pm Paris time
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The Neoclassical Revolution:
David and French Painting before the French Revolution
with Chris Boïcos
All 3:
Wednesday 26 Oct.-9-16 Nov. 2022
Zoom lectures
All 3 - 26 Oct.-9-16 Nov. 2022 lectures
- Marie-Antoinette: Fashion Icon
- The Petit Trianon
- J.L. David - The Neoclassical Rev.
History of Modern France
The Third French Republic 1870-1940.
Part 14
Wednesday, 28 September 2022
5:00-6:40 pm Paris time
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The French New Wave:
“All you need to make a movie is a girl and a gun.” - Jean-Luc Godard
French cinema
1954-1963
with Sylvie Koneski
Wednesday, 5 octobre 2022
5:00-6:40 pm Paris time
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Yves Klein and Radical Art in 1960s Paris
Wednesday, 12 October 2022
5:00-6:40 pm Paris time
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All 3:
Wednesday 28 Sept.-5-12 Oct. 2022
Zoom lectures
All 3 - 28 Sept.-5-12 Oct. 2022 lectures
- Yves Klein (Recording)
- The French New Wave (Recording)
- May 1968 (Recording)
18 May 2022
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25 May 2022
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The Art World in Postwar Paris:
The Triumph of Abstraction and “Art Brut”, 1945-1960
1 June 2022
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All 3: 18, 25 May & 1 June 2022
Zoom lectures
All 3 - 18, 25 May-1 June 2022 lectures
- The Left Bank group: French cinema
- The Triumph of Abstraction
- Paris is Back! The New Look
20 April 2022
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Modern Masters after the War: Picasso, Matisse, Braque & Léger, 1944-1960
with Chris Boïcos
27 April 2022
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Left Bank Paris in the 1950s, Part 1: Existentialism and Jazz
with Sylvie Koneski
4 May 2022
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French Artists in Exile in New York, Cultural Capital of the Free World
1940-1947
All 3: 20, 27 April & 4 May 2022
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All 3 20 April-4 May lectures
- Modern Masters after the War
- Left Bank Paris in the 1950s,
- French Artists in Exile in New York
16 March 2022
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The Persecution of Jews in Vichy France.
Part 2: From the “Vel’d’Hiv” to the Liberation of the Camps, 1942-1945
with Chris Boïcos
23 March 2022
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The German Occupation Revisited: French films of the 1970s and 1980s
with Sylvie Koneski
30 March 2022
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The art world in occupied Paris, 1940-1944
All 3: 16, 23 & 30 March 2022
Zoom lectures
All 3 March lectures
- Persecution of Jews in Vichy France 2
- The German Occupation Revisited
- The art world in occupied Paris
16 February 2022
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23 February 2022
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French Cinema under the Nazi Occupation: 1940-1944
with Sylvie Koneski
2 March 2022
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Art in France under the German Occupation. Part 1: Flight, 1940-1941
All 3: 16, 23 Feb. & 2 March 2022
Zoom lectures
All 3 Feb-March lectures
- The Persecution of Jews in Vichy France
- French Cinema under the Nazi Occupation
- Artists in exile
12 January 2022
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19 January 2021
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Europe on the Brink: The Art and Politics of the 1937 Paris Exposition
26 January 2022
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12, 19 & 26 January 2022
Zoom lectures
All 3 January lectures
- Paris Photographed
- 1937 Paris Exposition
- Gold Age of French Cinema