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The Essential Fictions of Isaac Babel: New Translations by Val Vinokur

Jordan Center for the Advanced Study of Russia 19 University Place, 2nd Floor, New York City

Please join us on Thursday, March 8th for “The Essential Fictions of Isaac Babel: New Translations by Val Vinokur”. This talk is part of the Occasional Series, sponsored by the NYU Jordan Center for the Advanced Study of Russia. Isaac Babel was born in 1894 into multicultural Odessa’s thriving Jewish community. Working as a journalist, he witnessed the Bolshevik Revolution…

The Disciplines, to Scale: Bibliography between Spain and Italy

The European Institute at Columbia University 420 W 118th St #1205, New York City

Presenter: Seth Kimmel, Columbia University Respondent: Erin Rowe, Johns Hopkins University Moderator: Pier Mattia Tommasino, Columbia University When sixteenth-century Iberian humanists such as Juan Páez de Castro, Juan Bautista Cardona, Benito Arias Montano, and Antonio Agustín imaged what King Philip II’s royal library—eventually established during the 1560s and 1570s in San Lorenzo as part of the Escorial monastery complex—ought to look like, they…

Film Screening: NSU: The Victims

Goethe-Institut New York 30 Irving Place, New York City

German History X In September 2000, 14-year-old Semiya is woken in her boarding school at 4am. Her father, Enver Simsek, has apparently had an accident. Only in the hospital does she learn that he’s in a coma after being shot eight times. He dies two days later. The police get to work, highly motivated to solve the case as quickly…

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Les Cahiers Dogons – Performance

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

Astrid Bas is a French actress, dancer, and director. She has worked with renowned theater directors Georges Lavaudant, Christophe Perton, Anatoli Vassiliev, Helene Vincent, Moise Toure, Frederic Fisbach, Jean Marie Patte, and Yves Beausnene, and has appeared in films directed by Benoît Jacquot, Edward Niermans, Frederic Berthes, and Jean Dominique de la Rochefoucauld, among others. As a director she has staged works ranging from Chekov’s Three…

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