Economic Crisis in Europe: East and West European Dimensions

Marshall D. Shulman Seminar Room 420 W 118th Street, #1219 International Affairs Building, New York City

Please join the Harriman Institute and the European Institute for a talk with Klaus Segbers, Adjunct Professor of International & Public Affairs, SIPA/Harriman Institute; Director of the Center for Global Politics, Freie Universität Berlin. The EU is experiencing perhaps its most difficult period since its foundation. External pressure is significant, and internal constraints and quarrels cannot be overlooked, with East European EU…

Nordic Book Club Hotel Silence by Auður Ava Ólafsdóttir

Scandinavia House 58 Park Avenue, New York City

Read and discuss Scandinavian literature in translation as part of our Nordic Book Club. Each month we select a novel from some of the best Nordic literary voices. Discussions typically take place the last Tuesday of the month in the Halldór Laxness Library at Scandinavia House and online in our Goodreads group during the last week of the month. This…

Southern Crossings: Composition and Collaboration

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

To RSVP, please click here. This event is part of a series of talks organized by the Institute for Ideas and Imagination at Reid Hall in Paris and the Maison Française.  It is also co-sponsored by the Heyman Center for the Humanities and Society of Fellows. A meeting of minds? A missed encounter? In 1836, as the abolition of slavery came into…

A Celebration of Romania’s National Day

Harriman Institute 420 West 118th St., New York City

Please join the Harriman Institute and the East Central European Center for a celebration of Romanian language and culture, on the occasion of Romania's National Day. Organized by Mona Momescu, N. Iorga Chair for Romanian Language and Culture. We are honored to have, among our guests, the Consul General of Romania, high-ranking diplomats from the Mission of Romania to the…

RESONANT CITY: VENICE

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

Madrigals for cello, choir, and city by Andrea Liberovici Wick Simmons, cello; Fractio Modi, vocal quartet Andrea Liberovici's music for solo cello and electronics is inspired by music of Vivaldi to evoke the mysterious, fragile city of Venice. Also featured in the evening's program are works by Strozzi and Vivaldi (for choir and continuo). Resonant City: Venice is brought to…

Film: Anna & Edith

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

Anna and Edith work together at an insurance company and get closer as they fight the patriarchy at home and in the office. This 1970s classic was the first film to show a love story between two women in a positive light on German television. We are excited to present it for the first time with English subtitles, produced by…

Spanish Republican Exile / Intimate Portraits: Las Sinsombrero (2015)

King Juan Carlos I of Spain Center 53 Washington Square South, New York

Las Sinsombrero (2015) Documentary , Dir. Tània Balló, Manuel Jiménez Núñez, Serrana Torres Runtime: 56 minutes In Spanish, with English subtitles. US premiere Las Sinsombrero recovers the legacy and memory of a group of women who lived during the first decades of the 20th Century, demonstrating how their ideas, work, and actions were and are fundamental for understanding the culture…

Film: Golden Sting

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

This sports drama explores the turbulent history of basketball in the former Czechoslovakia amid the social turmoil caused by various dictatorships. In this environment, fair play gets thrown out the window. Golden Sting takes us back to the period before World War II to the year 1938, and leads up to the year 1951 when Czechoslovakia was ultimately and firmly…