New Fellows 2019-20

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

Fall 2019 and Spring 2020            Dušan Borić Nomis Foundation Fellow University of Cambridge (U.K.) On the move: prehistoric mobility and the spread of agriculture in Eurasia Alessia Mastrodonato Alexander Bodini Research Fellow in Developmental and Adolescent Psychiatry Columbia University: Research Foundation for Mental Hygiene, Inc., New York State Psychiatric Institute (NYSPI; U.S.A.) Identifying the neural correlates of fear generalization during…

Film: Me and Kominski

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

"You are famous. You wanted to be. Being famous means having someone like me." - Sebastian Zöllner Germany just before the turn of the millenium. Sebastian Zöllner (Daniel Brühl), art journalist and master of overconfidence, plans his big coup: a tell-all book about the legendary but nearly forgotten painter Manel Kaminski (Jesper Christensen), student of Matisse and friend of Picasso,…

The 9th Annual Chekhov Variety Show

City Winery NYC 155 Varick Street

Please join us for the 9th annual Chekhov Variety Show, NYC’s longest-running annual celebration of Anton Chekhov’s birthday. Click here to buy tickets. “Heroes are as necessary as the sun.” —Anton Chekhov This year’s event celebrates artist-heroes like Chekhov (one of history’s most effective prison reform advocates) and features a performance by free expression activist Mai Khoi, known as Vietnam’s Lady Gaga, Bjork…

$15 – $25