Events are open to the public and free (with the exception of the films).

Tuesday, Sept. 25, 2007, 4:30-6:00 p.m.
Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections
Samuel L. Hirshland Exhibition Gallery
2B Carl A. Kroch Library

 

The Marquis de Lafayette on Film

America
Monday, Oct. 1, 7:00 p.m.
Willard Straight Theatre
$6.50 general/$5 seniors/$4 students
Description
D.W. Griffith's 1924 silent film. Introduction by Laurent Ferri, Lafayette exhibition curator, with live piano accompaniment by Dr. Philip Carli.

Jefferson in Paris
Sunday, Oct. 14, 7:30 p.m.
Willard Straight Theatre
$6.50 general/$5 seniors/$4 students
Description
Nick Nolte plays Jefferson and Lambert Wilson plays the Marquis de Lafayette.

 

Music for Lafayette!  A Lecture-Pianoforte Concert

Saturday, Oct. 20, 7:30 p.m.
Sunday, Oct. 21, 3:00 p.m.
Guerlac Room, A.D. White House, Cornell University
A reception will follow the Saturday performance.

Performers
Pianist:  Damien-Gerard Mahiet, a Ph.D. student in music, Cornell University
Recitant:  Professor Marie-Claire Vallois, associate professor of romance studies, English Department, Cornell University

Description
This event combines two formats: lecture and concert. It features pieces that were composed or arranged between 1794 and 1830, including battle music, popular marches and a "musical painting" with a narrative honoring General Lafayette.

 

Lecture: “Lafayette and the Emergence of American National Identity”

Tuesday, Oct. 30, 4:00-5:00 p.m.
(40 minute lecture followed by Q&A)
Kroch Library Lecture Room, 2B Kroch Library
Speaker
Lloyd Kramer, Dean Smith Distinguished Term Professor and chair of the history department, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Professor Kramer will examine the ways in which Lafayette's European cultural status and life history gave him a unique role in the emergence of American nationalism.  His support for the American Revolution and his famous return visit to the United States in 1824 affirmed an emerging American view of the new nation's exceptional mission in world history and its political and cultural differences with Europe.  The American praise for Lafayette thus became also a celebration of early and enduring components of American national identity.