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SUMMARY:In Conversation with David Diop\, International Booker Prize Winner 2021
DESCRIPTION:French author David Diop will be in conversation with his English translator\, Anna Moschovakis\, on his book Frère d’âme (At Night All Blood Is Black) which won the International Booker Prize 2021. \nThe book will be published in Malayalam by DC Books with the support of the French Institute’s Publication Assistance Programme (PAP Tagore). \nThe discussion will be moderated by Jaya Bhattacharji Rose\, Ace Literary Consulting and Associate Professor\, School of Modern Media Studies\, UPES. The conversation will be followed by a Q&A with the audience. \nThis event is in collaboration with the University of Petroleum and Energy Studies (UPES). The French Institute in India set up an Espace France at UPES in 2019. \nClick here to watch the full conversation\nAbout the panellists\nDavid Diop was born in 1966 in Paris. He grew up in Senegal and then returned to France for his higher studies. He is now a lecturer on 18th century French literature at the University of Pau and the Adour Region. He manages an international research group on the European representations of Africa and Africans in the 17th and 18th centuries. This also irrigates his fictional accounts. \nHis second novel\, Frère d’âme (At Night All Blood is Black)\, now translated into more than twenty languages\, was awarded the Goncourt Prize by high school students in France and was also the recipient of the Goncourt Choice of Spain\, the Orient Algeria\, Slovenia\, China\, Tunisia\, Serbia and Brazil. He has just received the very prestigious INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZE. His new novel\, La Porte du voyage sans retour\, will be published on August 19\, 2021. \n Anna Moschovakis is a New York-based poet\, novelist\, and translator\, most recently of David Diop’s At Night All Blood Is Black (Frère D’Âme). Her next novel\, Participation\, will be published in 2022. [Photo credit: Heather Phelps-Lipton]  \nJaya Bhattacharji Rose has been associated with the publishing industry since the early 1990s. She has worked with literary magazines\, independent presses\, feminist presses\, multi-national firms\, and academic journals. \nAs the founder of ACE Literary Consulting\, she has written reports on the publishing industry in India for the Publisher’s Association of the UK and Canada Livre Books. She provides strategic papers\, in-depth reports and analysis to social media strategy; offering professional expertise on publishing to individuals\, firms and start-ups; and curation of literary events. ACE helps free authors from boring administrative details -essential to their existence but very disruptive. \nHer blog focuses on the business of publishing\, interviews with authors and book reviews. Some of the authors interviewed include Charlotte Wood\, Markus Zusak\, Lord Jeffrey Archer\, Kamila Shamsie\, Cornelia Funke\, Namita Gokhale\, Vivek Shanbhag\, Eka Kurniawan\, Michael Bhaskar\, Daisy Rockwell\, Chitra Bannerjee Divarkurni\, Maha Khan Phillips\, and Randa Abdel-Fattah. \nJaya’s columns on the business of publishing include Bibliobibuli (Times of India online)\, and previously PubSpeak (BusinessWorld online) and Literati (The Hindu Literary Supplement). She also has extensive corporate editorial experience including stints with Zubaan\, Routledge\, and Puffin.
URL:https://www.institutfrancaisindia.in/event/conversation-david-diop-international-booker-prize-winner-2021/
LOCATION:Online event
CATEGORIES:Books,Books & Ideas,Event
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DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Kolkata:20210919T210000
DTEND;TZID=Asia/Kolkata:20210919T210000
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SUMMARY:SPOTLIGHT EP. 2
DESCRIPTION:SPOTLIGHT is a series of virtual showcases that promote high-quality music from India\, France & Switzerland. Spotlight sheds light on some amazing musical acts coming out of these countries and also provides artists to connect with audiences & fans through this virtual showcase.  \nSPOTLIGHT EP. 2\nThis episode will feature: \n\nSAHIL VASUDEVA – pianist / composer (India)\nHOT SUGAR BAND & NICOLLE ROCHELLE – swing jazz / a tribute to Billie Holliday (France)\nTHE GREAT HARRY HILLMAN – post-jazz / improv-rock (Switzerland)\n\n\nFree Event | Open to all\nRegistration by RSVP\n\nRSVPOrganised by Gatecrash India in collaboration with SkillBox\, French Embassy in India\, Institut Français\, French Institute in India\, & Pro Helvetia Swiss Arts Council
URL:https://www.institutfrancaisindia.in/event/spotlight-ep-2/
LOCATION:Online event
CATEGORIES:Event
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DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Kolkata:20210924T160000
DTEND;TZID=Asia/Kolkata:20210925T210000
DTSTAMP:20260614T193013
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SUMMARY:Choose France Tour
DESCRIPTION:Campus France India and French Institute in India are pleased to bring Indian students face-to-face with leading French institutes and universities in India.\nRegister now to be part of our upcoming virtual Choose France Tour! On 24-25 September 2021\, dozens of French schools and institutions will gather to meet you on a virtual platform. This includes management and engineering schools\, public universities and specialized schools in hospitality and arts. From the safety of your home\, you get a unique opportunity for one-on-one meetings with the schools. These individual e-meetings will allow you to share your CV and receive free counselling\, directly from the schools\, on how to apply next year! Choose France Tour will take place on a virtual platform with various spaces to connect: \n\nvarious thematic showrooms for school booths\, for one-on-one meetings\nthree e-auditorium for live events\, during which institutions and alumni will reply live to your questions on various themes: thematic fields of studies\, visas\, scholarships\, application processes. Games and quiz with various exciting prizes and vouchers will also be organized.\n\nChoose France Tour is a unique opportunity to connect with your future while staying safe at home! \nRegistration\nVisit the Campus France India website to know about Higher Education in France\, Application procedure\, Pre-departure sessions\, and Scholarships.  \nWatch videos
URL:https://www.institutfrancaisindia.in/event/sep2021-choose-france-tour-2021/
LOCATION:Online event
CATEGORIES:CF events,Cooperation in Higher Education,Event
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DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Kolkata:20210929T170000
DTEND;TZID=Asia/Kolkata:20210929T190000
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SUMMARY:No City for Women?
DESCRIPTION:“How would our cities be different if not designed for and by fully grown\, able bodied men but for people of all ages. abilities\, gender\, sexual preferences\, class and caste?” \n‘No City for Women?’ is a series of online events held for students of design & architecture from Chandigarh and Jaipur\, to reimagine their cities from the lens of gender. \nIt culminates in a public symposium where the students will showcase their work\, followed by a panel discussion on gender and city making. \nDuring the 3 days of workshop that preceded the symposium\, participants unpacked the concepts of gender-sensitive design\, gender-mainstreaming and inclusivity from the lens of class\, caste\, age\, abilities and gender. The complexity of gender equality in public spaces was delved into which might involve advocating for mixed spaces such as inclusive public spaces and gender neutral toilets\, on one hand and on the other\, creating dedicated spaces for women ranging from women-only metro and train coaches to dedicated play spaces for teenage girls. \nOrganized by the Alliance Française Chandigarh and French institute in India\, the event has been designed by Social Design Collaborative and hosted as a part of the United Nations programming for 2021 under the label of Forum Generation Equality. \nRegister\n\nRegistrations are closed for this event \n\nFree entry | Open to all \n\nLanguage of event: English \nWatch the trailer\nOur partners\nSocial Design Collaborative\nSocial Design Collaborative is a Delhi based interdisciplinary design organization that works at a grassroots as well as policy level on issues of social justice from housing rights to gender equality.\nParticipating Universities\n\nChandigarh College of Architecture\nChitkara University\nAayojan School of Architecture\nManipal University Jaipur\nIndian Institute Of Crafts & Design\n\nAbout the panelists\nCzaee Malpani\nCzaee Malpani is currently the Undergraduate Programme Coordinator for the B.Des Interior pathway at the Jindal School of Art ad Architecture and an Associate Professor\, as well as the Deputy Director for the Jindal Centre for Social Design. Her work critically examines the intersections of Gender and (Modernist) architectural representations in the form of orthographic architectural drawings. \nClaire Hancock\nClaire Hancock is Professor of geography at Université Paris-Est Créteil (UPEC) and a member of the Lab’Urba. She has been researching gender issues in cities since the late 1990s\, with fieldwork in Mexico City\, Barcelona\, Berlin and Paris. \nChris Blache\nChris Blache is an urban anthropologist. She co-founded and co-manages Genre et Ville with Urban Designer Pascale Lapalud.  She is an expert in urban innovation and more specifically in strategies and tools to promote gender equality in the territories. \nHugo Ribadeau Dumas\nHugo is a PhD candidate from EHESS\, the School for Advanced Studies in Social Sciences\, Paris. His study investigates the impact of urbanisation on socialisation in small cities in India: how do men and women develop friendships in different urban contexts\, and how does it matter in their life? Hugo’s research also focuses on the representation of gender and cities in Indian cinemas. \nMadhavi Desai\nMadhavi Desai is an architect\, researcher\, writer and a teacher. She was an adjunct faculty at CEPT University\, Ahmedabad\, India (1986-2018). She has had Research Fellowships from ICSSR\, Delhi\, the Aga Khan Program for Islamic Architecture\, MIT\, USA\, Sarai\, Delhi and the Getty Foundation\, USA. She is a also a founder member of Women Architects Forum. \nSarover Zaidi\nSarover Zaidi is a philosopher and a social anthropologist. She works at the intersections of critical theory\, anthropology\, art\, architecture\, and material culture studies. She has extensively worked on religious architecture and urbanism in the city of Bombay\, and has previously worked on women’s health across rural India. Zaidi currently teaches at the Jindal School of Art and Architecture\, Sonipat\, India. \nAnuradha Chatterjee\nDr. Anuradha Chatterjee is an Indian-born Australian feminist academic practitioner in architecture and design based in Australia and India. She has Dip. Arch from TVB School of Habitat Studies (1998)\, Master of Architecture (History and Theory of Architecture\, 2000)\, and PhD in Built Environment (2008) from the University of New South Wales. Dr Chatterjee is Professor and Dean at Faculty of Design\, Manipal University in Jaipur\, and erstwhile Dean Academics at Avani Institute of Design. \nAnu Sabhlok\nTrained as an architect\, geographer and feminist scholar\, I am currently an Associate Professor of Humanities and Social Sciences at the Indian Institute of Science Education and Research Mohali (IISER Mohali). My research lies at the interface of feminist theory\, urban and labour geography\, and the emerging area of critical infrastructure studies. The regional context of my research is South Asia. I hold a dual PhD from Pennsylvania State University: in Geography and Women’s Studies\, and have worked as a faculty member in the US and in India now for over 10 years. \nSwati Janu\nSwati Janu is an architect\, artist and writer based in Delhi. Her practice is rooted in social justice and human rights\, combining grassroots engagement with policy advocacy. She is the Founder of the interdisciplinary practice Social Design Collaborative which was recently awarded the Beazley Design of the Year 2020 in Architecture. A graduate from School of Planning and Architecture\, New Delhi\, Swati also holds an MSc in Sustainable Urban Development from University of Oxford\, UK
URL:https://www.institutfrancaisindia.in/event/no-city-for-women/
LOCATION:Online event
CATEGORIES:Event,French in Jaipur
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SUMMARY:Café Philo: Resilience Through Creative Arts
DESCRIPTION:Art in all its forms does not only have an aesthetic quality but also has the therapeutic ability to heal the soul. \nJoin us for an insightful conversation with French novelist and clinical art therapist Susanna Crossman as she talks about clinical art therapy and mental health with Sreejita Biswas\, an Indian comic artist\, and Shikha Mani\, Salaam Baalak Trust. \nThe author will also talk about her book L’île sombre\, (Dark Island)\, which explores how our presents are haunted by our pasts\, and what happens when boundaries are crossed and frontiers are closed\, leading to tyranny\, violence and breakdown. \nThe conversation will be moderated by Brinda Jacob-Janvrin\, an expressive arts therapist and a contemporary dancer. \n\nCafé Philo is a series of philosophical debates on diverse subjects between French and Indian authors\, experts\, public intellectuals and artists around a common theme and connected throughout the network. \nPractical details\n\nRegistration based online event \n\nFree entry | Open to all \n\nLanguage of event: English \nAbout the panelists\nSusanna Crossman\nSusanna Crossman is an Anglo-French fiction writer\, essayist and clinical art therapist. Her debut novel\, l’île Sombre (Dark Island) has just been published by La Croisée/Delcourt (trans. Carine Chichereau).  Susanna has recent work in Aeon\, Paris Review\, MAI Journal\, Neue Rundschau\, S. Fischer (translated into German)\, We’ll Never Have Paris\, Repeater Books\, Trauma\, DodoInk\, 3:AM Journal\, & more… Co-author of the French book\, L’Hôpital Le Dessous des Cartes (LEH 2015)\, she regularly collaborates in international hybrid arts projects working with cartoonists\, musicians\, filmmakers and contemporary artists. Currently\, she’s a guest editor for Lucy Writers (University of Cambridge) with her series The Dinner Party Reloaded and working with the organization Awe Curation on a digital art project. She hosts and conceives arts events online and in person. \nWhen she’s not writing\, Susanna works internationally as a clinical art therapist\, lecturer and consultant. Specialised in mental health\, for the past two decades\, she has been a keynote speaker and run projects linking arts therapy and culture on three continents with ONGs\, hospitals and health care facilities\, been a Visiting Professor at Sarah Lawrence College (NY)\, Kangwong University (South Korea) and published work in Germany\, Portugal\, France and elsewhere.  She’s represented by Jessica Craig\, NY. \nFor more\, see: https://susanna-crossman.squarespace.com\nhttps://www.editions-lacroisee.fr/livres/lile-sombre/\nhttps://www.rfi.fr/fr/podcasts/litt%C3%A9rature-sans-fronti%C3%A8res/20210119-lionel-duroy-%C3%A9crire-pour-vivre \nBrinda Jacob-Janvrin\nBrinda Jacob-Janvrin is a movement-based expressive arts therapist and a contemporary dancer/choreographer with more than 25 years of performing experience. A qualified counsellor\, she has been working extensively with movement and arts therapies since 2003.  A practitioner and facilitator for Authentic Movement and Natural Dreamwork\, Brinda is passionate about the arts\, the mysterious workings of the Psyche-Soma and connections between the Body and Earth. \nBrinda is the founder and managing trustee of the Studio for Movement Arts and Therapies Trust\,  a registered charitable Trust created in January 2011 with the following vision and mission:- \nVision: With resilient and empowered individuals\, a healed world emerges.\nMission: We craft creatively alive spaces to nurture & catalyse self-inquiry\, expression & its integration. \nShikha Maini\nShe is a part of the Salaam Baalak Trust family for the past 10 years. Initially\, she joined them as a psychologist intern and today\, she is a part of the Executive Council. She has a Masters degree in Psychology and is a certified arts-based therapist. She also oversees the mental health program of the foundation. \nSreejita Biswas\nSreejita aka Solo is a writer and illustrator from Bangalore. She makes cartoons about mental health\, feminism\, gender and sexuality. She has worked with CREA\, USAID\, Royal Veterinary College\, UK and others to spread awareness about education\, health\, medicines\, and disability among other things.\nWhen she’s not doing her daytime job\, she writes fantasy and sci-fi comics.
URL:https://www.institutfrancaisindia.in/event/cafe-philo-clinical-arts-mental-health/
CATEGORIES:Books & Ideas,Event
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