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Henning Christiansen Perspective at Blank Forms

Blank Forms 55 Walker St, New York

Blank Forms presents a Henning Christiansen retrospective, marking the first institutional survey of his work in America. Henning Christiansen (1932-2008) was a Danish composer, musician, and artist best known as a pivotal member of the Nordic avant-garde. Enamored with, but not beholden to, the Fluxus movement he helped shape, Christiansen’s simple conception of music as sound organized in time continues to provide…

Women’s Voices, Women’s Stories

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

Women's Voices, Women's Stories Jeanne Balibar in conversation with historians Anne-Emmanuelle Demartini, Emmanuelle Loyer, and Charlotte de Castelnau-L’Estoile, moderated by Emmanuelle Saada   To RSVP, please click here. Violette Nozière, the criminal, Delphine Seyrig, the actress, Páscoa, the slave. French actress Jeanne Balibar grapples with these three figures in a roundtable conversation with three French historians who have researched and written…

Avant-Garde Post– : Radical Poetics after the Soviet Union

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

On Friday, October 12th please join us for a talk with Marijeta Bozovic from Yale University on :Avant-Garde Post– : Radical Poetics after the Soviet Union”. This study examines the poetic and theoretical output of a constellation of contemporary leftist Russian poets—linked by way of the journal , Kraft chapbook series, Free Marxist Press, and a number of poetry festivals and events…

Gender and Transformation: Women in Europe Workshop

Center for European and Mediterranean Studies (NYU) 53 Washington Square South, 3rd Floor East, New York

With Christopher Edling. From the Center for European and Mediterranean Studies at NYU.   

Dismantling Concepts. A Conversation On The Paintings of Gerhard Richter

Deutsches Haus NYU 42 Washington Mews, New York City

Deutsches Haus at NYU and the University Alliance Ruhr present a conversation with Frances Guerin, Professor of Film and History of Art at the University of Kent in Paris, and John J. Curley, Associate Professor of Art History at Wake Forest University on "Dismantling Concepts. A Conversation on the Paintings of Gerhard Richter." About the talk: Guerin and Curley will discuss Richter's career-long interrogation of the medium…

The Most Learned Woman

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

The story of Elena Lucrezia Cornaro Piscopia, the first woman ever to receive a doctorate from a university By and with Laura Caparrotti (Narrator) And with Nyssa Duchow (Violin) Set by Sarah Edkins 1678, Padua. Elena Cornaro Piscopia becomes the first woman to obtain a doctorate from a university.  Her story begins in Venice, in a beautiful palace on the water.…