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“The French Striptease : Feminism, Nationalism and the Burqa”

Elsa Dorlin is a professor of philosophy at the University of Paris I, Panthéon Sorbonne.

Her work centers on feminist philosophy gender studies and sexuality.

Here comes the fall season, and along with it the second edition of French Cinema Now, our French film festival in the Bay Area.

Launched in 2008 with the support of the local foundation French American Cultural Society, Unifrance USA and the French Consulate in San Francisco, and organized by the San Francisco Film Society, French Cinema Now offers the possibility to the general audience to discover the most recent productions from France.

In this program of film shorts, experimental filmmaker (and SFMOMA's own head projectionist) Clipson screens high-art takes on low subjects.

Luis Buñuel's Las Hurdes (aka The Land Without Bread, 1933, 30 min., 16mm, b/w)

Each Labor Day weekend, the tiny mountain village of Telluride, Colorado triples in size.

Summer in America is typically the season of blockbusters. If you are looking for something more independent, film festivals and film organizations offer plenty of alternatives.

On July 12, the San Francisco Silent Film Festival will offer a special presentation of Jean Epstein's film from 1928, The Fall of the House of Usher.

NEXMAP has been producing "Binary Cities" events in San Francisco for the past four years, bringing together artists from different countries to perform together with artists in the Bay Area.

Having grown up in Shanghai during the Cultural Revolution of the 60s and 70s, felt the first flickers of the post–Mao Zedong reforms, and then moved to France in 1980 (first to Paris, then to Dijon, where he still lives), Yan Pei-Ming is an apt representative of a generation of global citizens who have at once weathered the alienating mutations of late-twentieth-century geopoli

With this new year begins a new season of exciting events related to French and Francophone culture.

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French-Morrocan photographer Yto Barrada will present her work, along with Leo Rubinfien, Judith Joy Ross and Guy Tillim.

Face of Our Time presents the work of four artists aligned for their shared interest in making pictures about the current condition of our world. Yto Barrada looks at the transformations occurring in northern Morocco as the area becomes a tourist destination and the local culture is disrupted.

The "Recovering Afghanistan's Past: Cultural Heritage in Context" conference will focus on Afghanistan's cultural heritage in its past and present contexts and bring together scholars from various disciplines to address, among others, the following issues:
-The recovered objects from the National Museum