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The Black Experience in French Cinema – Film Festival and Conference

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

Organized by Isabelle Boni-Claverie (French film director, screenwriter, visiting professor at NYU in Spring 2019) and Frédéric Viguier (Institute of French Studies, GSAS) Presented by Institute of French Studies and Cinema Studies APRIL 11 - COMING TO TERMS WITH THE COLONIAL EXPERIENCE The first film ever made by black people, Afrique sur Seine, was directed in 1956 by a group of African…

Beyond Mourning?

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

A Reading of Eugenio Montale's Arletta Poems A lecture by Adele Bardazzi, University of Oxford Focusing on Eugenio Montale’s ‘ciclo di Arletta’, in particular La casa dei doganieri  (Le occasioni, 1939), this lecture will discuss the nature of the poetic subject’s mourning for Arletta and how it challenges traditional views on elegy. Mourning in Montale’s poetry is intermittent but, nevertheless,…

Concert: Swingin’ to Freedom

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

  In celebration of the 30th anniversary of the Velvet Revolution of 1989, swing singer Katerina Steinerova has been invited to present her program "Swingin' to Freedom." She will be accompanied by remarkable jazz pianist Jiri Ruzicka. Katerina Steinerova, musical theater actress, singer, choreographer, and swing and tap teacher, recorded in 2015 her debut album "I Love Peggy Lee." Upon…

Out in East Berlin: Lesbians and Gays in the GDR

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

Unlike the Federal Republic, by 1968 the German Democratic Republic’s penal code had de-criminalized homosexuality. But the “workers’ and farmers’ state” did not exactly welcome its gay and lesbian citizens with open arms; their sexuality was taboo and they were often marginalized from public life. The generation of gay men and women who had seen the war and were now…