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Adventures in Italian Opera with Fred Plotkin

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

A Conversation with Ailyn Pérez The second Adventure in Italian Opera with Fred Plotkin of this season features award-winning American soprano Ailyn Pérez, who regularly sings leading roles at the world’s top opera houses, including the Met and La Scala. This season at the Met she will be Mimì in La Bohème (October 25-November 21) and Amelia in Simon Boccanegra (April 10-25). Ailyn Pérez appears…

Defying Stereotypes: Stories of Roma in America

405 Schermerhorn Hall Columbia

Join the Harriman Institute, the Roma Peoples Project, and the Oral History Master of Arts Program at Columbia University for a book talk with Martha Aladjem Bloomfield, author of Romanies in Michigan (Michigan State University Press, 2019). Bloomfield will discuss her book, Romanies in Michigan, a collection of oral histories from Hungarian-Slovak Roma in Detroit, Michigan.

Victorious Love – Alain Badiou

La Maison Française (NYU) 16 Washington Mews, New York City, NY, United States

Ranging across a number of poems and narrative texts, Alain Badiou will address the topic of love.  His talk, "Victorious Love," departs from Rimbaud's famous phrase "love must be reinvented," which appears in the "Vierges folles" section of A Season in Hell. He will be introduced by Emily Apter. Alain Badiou is a philosopher, playwright, and writer. His many books include: The…

“Tolerance… is in Our Blood”: The Politics of Tolerance in Putin’s Russia

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

Join us for a talk with Nikolay Sarkisyan, PhD candidate, Department of Literature, University of Oslo, Norway and Visiting Scholar at the Harriman Institute. Nikolay Sarkisyan will present the results of his PhD project on the formation, implementation, and decline of the politics of tolerance in Russia in 2000-2010s. In his research, he argues that the politics of tolerance became possible…

The Wayward Girl:Evening With Liv Ullmann

Scandinavia House 58 Park Avenue, New York City, NY, United States

In celebration of Liv Ullmann, recipient of the 2019 ASF Gold Medal, Scandinavia House presents two special evenings with the acclaimed actress and director, followed by a retrospective of her roles and work with leading auteurs. At tonight’s opening event, Jan Erik Holst and Liv Ullmann will discuss her life and career on screen, stage, and behind the camera, as…

$15

Cultural Diplomacy and Conflict Resolution

Columbia International Affairs Building 420 W. 118th St., New York, NY, United States

Cultural Diplomacy and Conflict Resolution Featuring Helena Finn Visiting Scholar, Institute for the Study of Human Rights, Columbia University & Former Minister-Counselor for Public Affairs, U.S. Embassy in Berlin Dr. Helena Kane Finn is a former career diplomat of the Department of State who served as Minister-Counselor for Public Affairs at the U.S. Embassy in Berlin; as Counselor for Public…

Cultural Diplomacy and Conflict Resolution

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

Join the European Institute, the Harriman Institute, the Department of History, and the Institute for the Study of Human Rights for a talk organized by Professor Victoria Phillips, featuring Helena Finn, Visiting Scholar at the Institute for the Study of Human Rights. Registration is required. Please click here to register. Dr. Helena Kane Finn is a former career diplomat of the Department of…

The Humanities and the Sciences

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

Their Epistemologies A lecture by Richard Foley, NYU Introduction by Maria Luisa Ardizzone (NYU) Respondent: Jane Tylus (Yale) Should inquiries in the basic sciences and the humanities have different aims? Here are two closely related questions: Are the values informing these inquiries typically different and should they be? In his book, The Geography of Insight: The Sciences, the Humanities, How They Differ,…

Miss Julie: Evening With Liv Ullmann

Scandinavia House 58 Park Avenue, New York City, NY, United States

In celebration of Liv Ullmann, recipient of the 2019 ASF Gold Medal, Scandinavia House presents two special evenings with the acclaimed actress and director, followed by a retrospective of her roles and work with leading auteurs. At tonight’s event, Liv Ullmann returns to present and discuss her last cinematic project as a director, the 2014 film Miss Julie /Frøken Julie, based…

$15

The Future of the EU and the European Project

Woolworth Building 233 Broadway, New York, NY, United States

The Future of the EU and the European Project Co-sponsored with NYU Center for European and Mediterranean Studies Thursday, November 14, 6.30 - 7.45 pm RSVP here 15 years ago, ten countries joined the European Union, making the bloc of 28 the second largest economy in the world and a co-pillar of the liberal international order and its collective security…