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Where Evil Leans Hard on Good

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

Italy's Migrant Detention Centers and Colonial Concentration Camps A lecture by Stephanie Malia Hom Followed by a conversation between the author and Prof. Ruth Ben-Ghiat (NYU) Stephanie Malia Hom presents an excerpt from her new book, Empire’s Mobius Strip: Historical Echoes in Italy’s Crisis of Migration and Detention (Cornell UP, 2019). Italy’s current crisis of Mediterranean migration and detention has…

Phil Rosenthal in Conversation with Marjorie Ingall

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

Everyone knows Phil Rosenthal loves to eat. The star of the hit series, Somebody Feed Phil, and co-creator of Everybody Loves Raymond, travels the world to taste the best local cuisine. So, what will we feed Phil at the Center for Jewish History? With hundreds of vintage Jewish cookbooks here in the archives, we have a few recipes in mind.…

Remembering November ’89

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

Screening of a Slovak documentary film “Spytaj sa vasich ’89” (Ask at Home ’89) that brings an insight into the lives of people in the former Czechoslovakia in the context of major social changes during the Velvet Revolution in November 1989. The screening is followed by an interactive Q&A with the director Barbora Bereznakova, engaging audience in the conversation through…

Mannes Sounds Festival: 30 Years of Freedom

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

A concert featuring the music of Dvořák, Smetana, Janáček, Martinů, Fišer, and an original composition "A Musical Tribute to Václav Havel" for cello and pianoby Lora Al Ahmad. Since 1999, Mannes has presented a year-long music festival every year. Each festival has a theme and a program of more than 20 concerts, performed by the Mannes School of Music's gifted…