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New Political Poetry in Russian: A Seminar

Deutsches Haus Columbia 420 West 116th Street, New York City

Please join us for a seminar on contemporary political poetry in Russian with leading European, Russian, and US experts. Presentations will be in English and Russian. The seminar is organized by the Harriman Institute in collaboration with the DFG-Centre for Advanced Studies Russian-Language Poetry in Transition project. Russian political poetry is back, and the spectrum of political subjects nowadays is broader than ever, including questions…

End. Words from the Margins. New York City

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

Antonio Rovaldi in conversation with Dr. Steven Handel For this artist talk, organized by Magazzino Italian Art and Casa Italiana Zerilli-Marimò in collaboration with GAMeC - Galleria d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Bergamo, Italian artist Antonio Rovaldi presents his photographic series, End. Words from the Margins. New York City, winner of the 5th edition of the Italian Council, and his book, The Sound of the Woodpecker Bill: New York City.…

Concert: Cornet, Viktor Ullmann’s Legacy from Theresienstadt

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

A concert with Dan Franklin Smith (piano) and Gregorij von Leitis (recitation) presenting the last compositions, which the Austrian-Jewish composer Viktor Ullmann was able to finish in the ghetto and concentration camp Theresienstadt, before he was transported to Auschwitz and killed there. His melodram "The Lay of Love and Death of Cornet Christoph Rilke" for recitation and piano is hauntingly…