The Center for Research on English-speaking Worlds (CREW) at Université Sorbonne Nouvelle and the Center for Black Visual Culture (CBVC) at New York University are delighted to invite you to the event “French-American Artistic Conversations”, featuring photographer Carla Williams at the Sorbonne.

The conversation will bring together Carla Williams with Dejha Carrington (NYU), Amandine Nana (Palais de Tokyo), Deborah Willis (NYU), Clémentine Tholas (USN), and Laurence Cossu-Beaumont (USN).

French-American Artistic Conversations is a research collaboration between two institutions deeply engaged with culture and the arts and committed to developing a shared reflection on Black and diasporic visual arts, as well as on the principles of equity, diversity, and inclusion. The project builds on a series of encounters with artists organized at the Sorbonne by the CREW research team since2024. The new edition continues this initiative while opening our research activities more broadly to students at all levels and to the general public, as part of a commitment to open research and public engagement.

The event will take place on Tuesday, November 10, 2026, at 5.00 p.m. in the Amphithéâtre Liard at the Sorbonne (17 rue de la Sorbonne, 75005 Paris). It will be followed by a reception, offering members of the audience an opportunity to continue the conversation with the speakers in a more informal setting.

The event is free and open to all, but registration is required: https://forms.gle/vdTMjZRPs9nGP7128. If you cannot attend inperson, the conversation will also be livestreamed on Université Sorbonne Nouvelle’s YouTube channel.