A panel of experts to discuss the results of the Italian elections taking place on March 4. Panelists: Ruth Ben-Ghiat (NYU) Federico Rampini (La Repubblica) Alexander Stille (Columbia) Moderator: David Forgacs (NYU) Reserve a seat here. In ENGLISH.
Please join the Harriman Institute for a screening of the documentary film Art Is a Weapon (2017), followed by a discussion with director Andrea Simon. The event will be introduced and moderated by Martin Marinos, Postdoctoral Research Scholar at the Harriman Institute. Run time: 85 minutes Language: English, Bulgarian, Russian and German with English subtitles This provocative documentary portrait of the Bulgarian Sephardic film artist,…
A conversation between David Bellos and Robert Priest, moderated by Stéphane Gerson David Bellos, a literary scholar, and Robert Priest, a historian, have both devoted their recent books to the lives and afterlives of foundational books in nineteenth-century France: Victor Hugo’s Misérables and Ernest Renan’s Life of Jesus. While Hugo’s novel and Renan’s essay came out a year apart (in 1862 and 1863, respectively), it is the convergence between Bellos’…