Globalization vs Authenticity: The Future of Italian Restaurants

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

Gruppo Italiano's original seminar series entitled Italian Table Talks - Food and Restaurants for Tomorrow deals with the Italian restaurant and hospitality industry, and how different issues affect the ardent cuisine enthusiasts (essentially the general public). This third chapter of the series features: Maurizio Forte, Director Italian Trade-Agency, New York Stefano Pezzini, Director of Latteria San Pietro, Mantova Davide Paolini, Italian Food…

Future Humanities: Translating World Literatures

Hagop Kevorkian Center 255 Sullivan Street, New York City

“Future Humanities” is a public conversation on the stakes, challenges, and rewards of editing and translating premodern texts from the world’s great literary traditions. Mariët Westermann moderates a panel featuring the general editors of six groundbreaking publishing projects that specialize in facing-page translations. Topics of discussion include the parameters and methodologies for establishing parallel-text translation series in Arabic, Chinese, Greek,…

WESTWORLD’S SHAKESPEARE: A CASE FOR SERIAL READING

Deutsches Haus NYU 42 Washington Mews, New York City

The Department of German at NYU and Deutsches Haus at NYU present a talk by Professor Elisabeth Bronfen who will speak on "Westworld's Shakespeare: A Case for Serial Reading." Event information Westworld, a postmodern splice between artificial intelligence fantasy and the classic Western, quotes no text more often than Shakespeare's plays. This lecture explores how the serial return of these citations reflects on the seriality…

Koffieuurtje-Dutch Coffee Hour

Deutsches Haus Columbia 420 West 116th Street, New York City

Join us for Koffieuurtje, our open Dutch conversation hour for speakers at all proficiency levels. Beginners welcome! Free and open to the public. Contact Information Peggy Quisenberry pq2@columbia.edu UPCOMING EVENTS September 21, 2018 Scientific Curating: Museums in Germany as a Professional Field for Young Scholars September 21, 2018   From Deutsches Haus Columbia