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Open to Reason: Muslim Philosophers in Conversation with the Western Tradition

La Maison Française (Columbia) Buell Hall, 515 West 116th Street, New York City

What does it mean to be a Muslim philosopher, or to philosophize in Islam? In Open to Reason, Souleymane Bachir Diagne traces Muslims’ intellectual and spiritual history of examining and questioning beliefs and arguments to show how Islamic philosophy has always engaged critically with texts and ideas both inside and outside its tradition. Through a rich reading of classical and modern…

Kino Polska: New Polish Cinema

Peter Jay Sharp Building 30 Lafayette Ave, Brooklyn

Kino Polska: New Polish Cinema features seven films, including three New York premieres, highlighting directors who are revitalizing contemporary Polish cinema. The series brings together the best new works by Poland’s boundary-pushing women filmmakers. The series opens with Agnieszka Holland and Katarzyna Adamik’s „Spoor” (2017). The critically acclaimed eco-thriller was Poland’s 2018 Oscar submission and winner of the Silver Bear…

La stanza verde

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

La stanza verde Autobiografia di Sandro Manzo (2017, Electa) by Fiamma Arditi Author Fiamma Arditi and Sandro Manzo in conversation with artists Vincenzo Amato, Shoja Azari, Phong Bui. Moderated by Stefano Albertini (NYU). La stanza verde is the amazing journey in the art world and behind its scenes of Sandro Manzo, who founded the gallery Il Gabbiano in Rome in 1967, moved to New…

Europe and the state of the Kingdom of Spain: Current Challenges, Future Promise

Lipton Hall 110 West 3rd Street, New York City

On behalf of the Jean Monnet Center for International and Regional Economic Law & Justice, you are cordially invited to attend the Fourteenth Annual Emile Noël Lecture on the State of the (European) Union on Thursday September 20th at 6:30 p.m. This year’s lecture “Europe and the state of the Kingdom of Spain: Current Challenges, Future Promise”will host Josep Borrell Fontelles, Minister of Foreign Affairs,…

The Kidnappers of Nonexistent Time: Czech Surrealism in the 1930’s and its Influence

Bohemian National Hall 321 E 73rd St., New York

Illustrated presentations by Meghan Forbes, Ph.D., and the artist Gabriel Levicky. Organized as a part of the centennial celebration of the founding of Czechoslovakia in 1918. In the period between the two World Wars, various artistic and poetic strategies in Europe reflected the absurdity of recent violence and optimism for a more utopic future. In this brief window of openness…

WHAT IS A SPACE FOR ETHICS? – ROBERT HARVEY

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

A roundtable on Sharing Common Ground (Bloomsbury, 2017) Sharing Common Ground makes a compelling contribution to an important emerging field that affects a broad swath of humanities. It uses historical, photographic, and literary examples, including an entirely new translation of a little known work by Marguerite Duras, presented here in full, to showcase the ethical capacity of art. Robert Harvey deploys critical tools…