Cajal and the Enchanted Loom, by Rodolfo Llinás

King Juan Carlos I of Spain Center 53 Washington Square South, New York

Rodolfo Llinás is Thomas and Suzanne Murphy Professor of Neuroscience and Chairman Emeritus of the Department of Physiology & Neuroscience at the NYU School of Medicine. More on Dr. Llinás This event is part of the exhibit The Beautiful Brain: The Drawings of Santiago Ramón y Cajal, held at NYU Grey Art Gallery between January 9 and March 31, 2018. The exhibit was…

Andreas Bernard’s “Persons of Interest: The Status of the Self in Digital Cultures”

Deutsches Haus NYU 42 Washington Mews, New York City

Deutsches Haus at NYU presents a conversation between Andreas Bernard and Alexander Galloway about Bernard's book Persons of Interest: The Status of the Self in Digital Cultures. What is striking about today’s methods of self-representation and self-perception – the profiles of social media but also the various locational functions on smartphones or the bodily measurements of the “quantified-self movement” – is the…

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Mystery and Truth of “Pasolini’s Bodies and Places”

Casa Italiana Zerilli-Marimò (NYU) 24 West 12th Street, New York City

Panelists: Ara Merjian (NYU) Ann Goldstein (The New Yorker) Breixo Viejo (Columbia University) Benedikt Reichenbach (editor, English edition of Pasolini's Bodies and Places) In 1980 in Rome, two film critics - Michele Mancini and Giuseppe Perrella - produced an elaborate, 600-page volume of images taken from Pasolini’s films and organized into an extensive taxonomy of “bodies” and “places”: Pier Paolo Pasolini: Corpi e luoghi. Reviews of…

Pénélope Bagieu & Mona Eltahawy in Conversation

Albertine 972 5th Avenue, New York

Graphic novelist Pénélope Bagieu and award-winning writer Mona Eltahawy discuss Bagieu’s latest book Brazen (Culottées) just out in the US with First Second. Throughout history and across the globe, one characteristic connects the daring women of Brazen: their indomitable spirit. With her characteristic wit and dazzling drawings, celebrated graphic novelist Pénélope Bagieu profiles the lives of these feisty female role models, some world…

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Hâtez-vous déesse puissante! – Concert of Music of Élisabeth Jacquet de la Guerre (1665-1729)

La Maison Française (NYU) 16 Washington Mews, New York City

Elizabeth Jacquet de La Guerre (1665-1729) was undoubtedly one of the most important and progressive composers of her generation. She was one of the first French composers (alongside François-Couperin, Sébastien de Brossard and Jean-Féry Rebel) to devote herself to the sonata form, and her cantatas broke new ground in France. With her relatively early work Jeux à l'honneur de la victoire,…

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