To RSVP, please click here. Elaine Sciolino’s new book explores the history and mythology, the romantic and the everyday life of the magical Seine river that runs through the heart of Paris. In the spring of 1978, as a young journalist in Paris, Elaine Sciolino was seduced by a river. In The Seine, she tells the story of that river through its rich…
Deutsches Haus at NYU presents a talk by DAAD Visiting Scholar Susanne Rohr about the desire for continuity, identity, and belonging in one’s own family history and her interpretation of Katja Petrowskaja’s collection of stories, Maybe Esther. About the event: A topic that is being broadly discussed in contemporary German and U.S.-American literature is a desire for continuity, identity, and…
Short Films from the Naples Film Festival In collaboration with the Naples Film Festival. The following films were selected specifically for Casa Italiana by a special jury made up of students of the NYU Department of Italian Studies: Ciruzziello by Ciro D'Aniello La Gita by Salvatore Allocca Alma by Michelangelo Fornaro La scelta by Giuseppe Alessio Nuzzo Scenario by Jay…
Mon, November 25, 2019 at 7:00 pm at Bohemian National Hal,cinema 321 E 73 St, New York City The Czech-American Emmy Award-winning filmmaker and writer will discuss three of her major films Voices of the Children (1996), A Trial in Prague (2000), and Czech Women: Now We Are Free (1993) Moderated by Helena Fisera and Christopher Harwood Limited seating! RSVP:…
The point of departure for this talk is the controversial hypothesis that Les Œuvres de Louise Labé was not the work of a woman author, but rather a literary hoax by a group of male poets. Rather than weighing in on this on-going polemic, however, Krause asks to what extent the conditions underlying the Labé hypothesis apply more generally to…