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The New Energy History: Energy Transitions in the 20th and 21st Centuries

Remarque Institute 60 Fifth Avenue, 8th Floor, New York

Over the past two centuries energy transitions have occurred across the world at a seemingly relentless pace, reshaping forms of social life, economic organization, and political governance. This conference will explore the causes, courses, effects, and aftershocks of energy transitions—both those that succeeded and those that failed—in North America and Europe during the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. CONFERENCE PROGRAM THURSDAY,…

Film Editing as Women’s Work: Esfir Shub, Elizaveta Svilova, and the Culture of Soviet Montage

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

Please join us on Thursday, November 1st for “Film Editing as Women’s Work: Esfir Shub, Elizaveta Svilova, and the Culture of Soviet Montage”, a talk with Lilya Kaganovsky, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. This event is part of the Occasional Series, sponsored by the NYU Jordan Center for the Advanced Study of Russia. This study takes as its point of departure the history…

Adventures in Italian Opera with Fred Plotkin

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

A Conversation with Sherrill Milnes The second Adventure in Italian Opera with Fred Plotkin of this season features renowned American baritone Sherrill Milnes, whose commanding stage presence and majestic voice starred over 650 times at the Met placing him in the all time operatic Hall of Fame. In ENGLISH. From the Casa Italiana Zerilli-Marimo.

Book talk: Lake Success by Gary Shteyngart

Center for Jewish History 15 W. 16th Street, New York City

Join us for a book talk celebrating the publication of Gary Shteyngart's new novel Lake Success. Shteyngart will be in conversation with Suketu Mehta, NYU Professor of Journalism. Narcissistic, hilariously self-deluded, and divorced from the real world as most of us know it, hedge-fund manager Barry Cohen oversees $2.4 billion in assets. Deeply stressed by an SEC investigation and by…

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The American Letters

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

A biopic that offers an intimate insight into the family life of Antonin Dvorak who wrote his Cello Concerto while in New York City. The third movement was a tribute to his sister-in-law, Josefína, who had written him a letter saying she was seriously ill. Director: Jaroslav Brabec, 2015, 102 min, Czech Republic. In Czech with English subtitles. Free and…

Book Launch: Uwe Johnson’s Anniversaries

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

To celebrate the first complete English translation of Uwe Johnson’s magnum opus Anniversaries (New York Review Books, 2018) translator Damion Searlsjoins critics Renata Adler and Liesl Schillinger for a reading and discussion of this German postwar classic, examining both its significance a unique literary document of New York in the 1960s, and its continued resonance 50 years later in a world of increasing inequality, authoritarianism, and violence.…

Book Event: Algiers, Third World Capital – Elaine Mokhtefi in conversation with Adam Shatz

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

A child of the Great Depression, Elaine Mokhtefi left the United States in the early 1950s. She was on the run from McCarthyism and from the provincialism she'd encountered as a student in segregated Georgia. After time in Paris, she moved to Algiers which, following independence in 1962, has become a beacon and safe haven for radicals all around the…

Irish Arts Center Poetryfest 2018

Irish Arts Center 553 West 51st Street, New York City

The 10th annual PoetryFest celebrates Ireland and America's great literary connection by showcasing some of the best poets working today. Presented with and at the Irish Arts Center. Curated by Nick Laird. Thursday, November 1 7pm: The Tom Quinlan Lecture in Poetry with Seamus Heaney Centre for Poetry Prize-winner Richard Osmond. Click here for more information and registration. Friday, November 2 Favorite Poems Tickets…