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Women Buy Sex Too: Chippendales and the Rise of the Gigolo with Hallie Lieberman

Schermerhorn Irwgs Seminar Room, Columbia University, 1200 Amsterdam Ave, New York

In 1979, near the height of second-wave feminism, a thirty-one-year old Indian immigrant started one of the first male strip clubs for women in Los Angeles. Within a few years The Chippendales spread to New York, and a touring show brought the oiled, muscled studs to fly-over country. During the 1970s and 1980s, the Chippendales were more than mere entertainment:…

Russian Formalism: The Theory of Literary Estrangement and the Estrangement of Social Practices

International Affairs Building Columbia

Join us for a talk with Ilya Kalinin, Associate Professor at Saint Petersburg State University (Department of Liberal Arts and Sciences), and Associate Professor at the National Research University Higher School of Economics. Radical socio-cultural transformation constituted the very material and style, the texture and technique, of Russian Formalism. Estrangement, shift, deformation, struggle between old and new genres, mutual antagonism of successive literary…

Dante’s Prayerful Pilgrimage

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

Typologies of Prayer in the Comedy Presented with NYU Department of Italian Studies and The Colloquium in the Humanities Dante's Prayerful Pilgrimage Typologies of Prayer in the Comedy (Brill, 2019) by Alessandro Vettori, Rutgers University Introduced by Maria Luisa Ardizzone, NYU In Dante’s Prayerful Pilgrimage, Alessandro Vettori provides a comprehensive analysis of the prayerful phenomenon in Dante’s Commedia and considers…