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Vice, Crime, and Poverty: How the Western Imagination Invented the Underworld

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

To RSVP, please click here. Winner of the 2013 Prix Mauvais genres, Les Bas Fonds examines the underworld of 19th and 20th century France. The underworld, a zone outside of the law, populated by beggars, prostitutes, criminals and convicts and where every form of social ill seems to coexist, regularly haunts our imagination. From Batman’s Gotham to Eugène Sue’s Paris, Kalifa explores how journalism, literature,…

Adventures in Italian Opera with Fred Plotkin

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

A Conversation with Leah Crocetto The seventh and final Adventure in Italian Opera with Fred Plotkin of this season features American soprano Leah Crocetto, one of the top young stars in the current generation of opera singers. She has sung leading roles at the Met, Washington, Seattle and Frankfurt, excelling in the core repertory of Verdi and Puccini. In ENGLISH. From the…

France in the World: A New Global History

Albertine 972 5th Avenue, New York

Join us for a panel discussion to celebrate the release of France in the World, the English-Language translation of the bestselling Histoire mondiale de la France, a volume conceived and mastered by leading French academic and Collège de France professor, Patrick Boucheron. France in the World combines the intellectual rigor of an academic work with the liveliness and readability of popular history. This…

Film screening: The Distant Barking of Dogs

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

Director: Simon Lereng Wilmont, 2017, 90 min, Denmark/Sweden/Finland. "The Distant Barking of Dogs" is set in Eastern Ukraine on the frontline of the war. The film follows the life of 10-year-old Ukrainian boy Oleg throughout a year, witnessing the gradual erosion of his innocence beneath the pressures of war. Oleg lives with his beloved grandmother, Alexandra, in the small village…