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Film: The Workshop (L’Atelier)

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

Robin Camillo, Laurent Cantet, 2017, 113 min. To RSVP, please click here. In The Workshop, acclaimed writer-director Laurent Cantet takes an illuminating approach to a variety of key issues haunting contemporary France. Olivia, a successful Parisian novelist, has been hired to spend the summer in La Ciotat, a beautiful but economically battered town on the Mediterranean, teaching a writing workshop for a diverse…

Globalization, a missed opportunity (La globalizzazione, un’occasione perduta)

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

Giovanni Bazoli, president emeritus of Intesa Sanpaolo This talk in Italian will be accompanied by a translation in English. Speaker Giovanni Bazoli is the president emeritus of Intesa Sanpaolo, president of the Giorgio Cini Foundation, and emeritus professor of law, Università Cattolica di Milano. His restructuring of the Banco Ambrosiano after the troubled 1980’s brought him onto the world stage…

How Fascism Works

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

Date/TimeMonday, April 1, 2019, 7 p.m.–9 p.m.VenueForchheimer Auditorium (map) Center for Jewish History 15 West 16th St. New York, NY 10011AdmissionsLBI/CJH/Partner Members, Students, Seniors: $15 General: $15 As a professor of philosophy at Yale, a scholar of propaganda, and the child of World War II Jewish Refugees, Jason Stanley understands how democratic societies can be vulnerable to fascism. Alarmed by the pervasive rise…

Dear Erich: A Jazz Opera by Ted Rosenthal

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

Dear Erich is inspired by 200 newly discovered letters written in Germany between 1938 and 1941 by Herta Rosenthal to her son Erich, the composer's father. Dear Erich tells a refugee story for our times. How can a family cope as the walls of their nation's hatred close in around them? For those who escape, what lies ahead? Even in…