Angela Schanelec in person February 7 & 8 German director Angela Schanelec’s films have a rhythm and tone all their own—mysterious yet moving, they unearth the metaphysics rumbling beneath the placid surface of everyday life. Her work with actors is like that of no other filmmaker, a radical approach to performance that draws on her own background in theater traditions…
From the Center for European and Mediterranean Studies.
Join the Harriman Institute and the Institute for the Study of Religion, Culture and Public Life (IRCPL) for a talk with author Victoria Smolkin about her book A Sacred Space Is Never Empty: A History of Soviet Atheism (Princeton University Press, 2018). When the Bolsheviks set out to build a new world in the wake of the Russian Revolution, they expected religion to…
Abbandonata e condotta a morire: Handel in Italy Europa’s Opera: Three Acts is a collaboration among three of NYU’s International Houses: NYU Casa Italiana Zerilli-Marimò, Deutsches Haus at NYU, and La Maison Française of NYU, and will showcase productions by three of New York City’s most innovative opera companies. In the late 16th century, in what could be described as…
In his latest multiple award-winning book Forgetful Remembrance: Social Forgetting and Vernacular Historiography of a Rebellion in Ulster, (Oxford University Press, 2018) Professor Guy Beiner (Ben-Gurion University) compellingly uses the 1798 rebellion to illustrate the dynamics of social forgetting and the paradoxes involved when communities persistently endeavour to forget inconvenient events. Guy Beiner is a professor of modern history at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev. He…
Singer, songwriter and lyricist Michal Hrůza and his Kapela Hruzy will peform in Bohemian National Hall. Hruza has been a personality of the Czech music scene for twenty years now. He and his band will be playing in the USA for the first time, performing in New York and Washington, D.C. Hruza was a founding member and longtime frontman of…
Join the East Central European Center at the Harriman Institute for a screening of the film The Goat Horn (Козият рог, 1972, dir. Metodi Andonov). Film runtime: 103 min. The Goat Horn is a 1972 Bulgarian dramatic feature film, starring Anton Gorchev and Katya Paskaleva. The film is set in 17th-century Bulgaria, where Kara Ivan’s wife is raped and killed by four local Ottoman…