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Tatiana Smoliarova – A wondrous linkage: around one metaphor in early Karamzin

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

Please join us on Wednesday, February 20th, for a talk by Tatiana Smoliarova of the University of Toronto. This event is part of the Occasional Series, sponsored by the NYU Jordan Center for the Advanced Study of Russia. “A clever machine, a wondrous linkage/ Of countless wheels, a product of the mind…” – Nikolai Karamzin used this mechanical image to describe the…

Adventures in Italian Opera with Fred Plotkin

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

A Conversation with Nadine Sierra The fourth Adventure in Italian Opera with Fred Plotkin of this season features American soprano Nadine Sierra, performing this season at The Metropolitan Opera in Verdi's Rigoletto. In ENGLISH. From the Casa Italiana Zerilli-Marimo. 

A Woman Looking at Men Looking at Women

Albertine 972 5th Avenue, New York

On Wednesday, February 20, join prize-winning writer Siri Hustvedt and French novelist Clémence Boulouque as they discuss Hustvedt’s compelling and radical collection of essays on art, feminism, neuroscience, psychology, and philosophy. Why is there such a wide chasm between the world of literary intellectuals and that of empirical scientists? In A Woman Looking at Men Looking at Women, Hustvedt, encouraged by…

Marco Fusi / Kukuruz Quartet

Italian Academy (Columbia) 1161 Amsterdam Avenue, New York City

This concert is featured in The New York Times' "8 Classical Music Concerts to See in N.Y.C. This Weekend" Marco Fusi, violin, viola d’amore Kukuruz Quartet: Philip Bartels, Duri Collenberg, Simone Keller, Lukas Rickli Guest appearance by Adam Tendler Salvatore Sciarrino: Fra sé Giacinto Scelsi: Xnoybis I, II, III Sciarrino: Capriccio di una corda John Cage: The ten thousand things…

Film: The Return Across Borders

Scandinavia House 58 Park Avenue, New York City

In this docu-fictional film, two Danish-Korean adoptees, Karoline and Thomas, separately return to the country they were born in to seek out answers about their birth parents, where they meet at a guesthouse for returning Koreans. As they each embark on their own personal quests for answers, they also begin seeking out the personal stories of fellow adoptees who they…