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Mitchell B. Merback: Dürer’s “Melancholia I” and Therapeutic Images Before Modernity

Deutsches Haus NYU 42 Washington Mews, New York City, NY, United States

Deutsches Haus at NYU and the NYU Department of German present "Dürer's Melencolia I and Therapeutic Images Before Modernity." In dialogue with Professor Shira Brisman, Mitchell B. Merback discusses the concepts and inspiration behind his new book, Perfection's Therapy: An Essay on Albrecht Dürer's Melancholia I (Zone Books, 2017), placing Albrecht Dürer's famously inscrutable engraving, "Melencolia I," at the intersection of Renaissance art, medicine, and philosophy. About Perfection's Therapy…

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Power on Pointe: Russian Ballet from Petersburg to Paris

Jordan Center for the Advanced Study of Russia 19 University Place, 2nd Floor, New York City, NY, United States

In her book Power on Pointe, Natalie Rouland argues that during the late imperial period, ballet as the embodiment of power and literature as the voice of protest transformed the reputation of Russian art and culture in the twentieth century. In the space of the heated debate over the future of Russian identity, the imperial ballet, its fanatics, and its critics…

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Hungary: A Post-Election Analysis

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

Monday, April 9, 2018 6:15pm 1201 International Affairs Building (12th Floor, 420 W 118th St) Please join the Harriman Institute, the East Central European Center, and the European Institute for a talk with Kristóf Szombati, Istvan Deak Visiting Professor of Political Science at the Harriman Institute. Professor Andrew Arato, Dorothy Hart Hirshon Professor in Political and Social Theory at the New School for Social Research, will…

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“The Hour Between Dog and Wolf:” Silke Scheuermann in Conversation with Lucy Jones & Susan Bernofsky

Deutsches Haus NYU 42 Washington Mews, New York City, NY, United States

Deutsches Haus at NYU presents a reading of Silke Scheuermann's "The Hour Between Dog and Wolf," and a conversation between the author and her English translator, Lucy Jones, moderated by the award-winning translator Susan Bernofsky. Synopsis: A young woman who has been living abroad, returns to her hometown of Frankfurt am Main in Germany. Her sister Ines—a beautiful, impetuous painter—who still…

US Movie Premiere: I Siciliani

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

 I Siciliani (2016, Italy, 120 min.) In ITALIAN with ENGLISH subtitles Directed by Francesco Lama With Antonio Emanuele, Tony Sperandeo, Maria Grazia Cucinotta, Leo Gullotta [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QsaS5ihZ38Q] In a little village in the center of Sicily there is a boy, Ignazio Bonaventura (Antonio Emanuele) working sporadic and, of course, illegal jobs, receiving unemployment benefits. Tired of his condition, he decides to write a book about Sicilians, thus setting…

Power of Gentleness: Meditations on the Risk of Living

Albertine 972 5th Avenue, New York, NY, United States

Key moments of our lives, especially at the beginning and end, are marked by gentleness—but the simplicity of that concept is misleading. Gentleness is an active passivity that may become an extraordinary force of resistance within ethics and politics. In this powerful rethinking by a renowned philosopher and psychoanalyst, whose untimely death captured worldwide attention, gentleness becomes a series of…

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“Person Place Thing” with Guest Edmund White

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

Join host Randy Cohen – author and broadcaster – for a special live taping of his podcast Person Place Thing. Guests talk about one person, one place, and one thing important to them. The result? Surprising stories from great talkers. Edmund White has written some twenty-five books and edited several anthologies. He is perhaps best known for his biography of French writer Jean Genet, for…

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The CIA and the Covert Cold War — Cold War Power series

1219 International Affairs Building 420 West 118th Street, New York City, United States

David Robarge Chief Historian, Central Intelligence Agency Free and open to the public, please RSVP here. Organized by Prof. Victoria Phillips. Co-sponsored by The European Institute, The Harriman Institute, and The History Department.

Pierre Bourdieu: A Heroic Structuralism

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

To RSVP, please click here. Jean-Louis Fabiani’s recent book, Pierre Bourdieu: Un Structuralisme héroïque, offers a remarkable intellectual portrait of the great French sociologist, and has been very well received in France as a major contribution to understanding Bourdieu’s work. Fabiani traces the genealogy of Bourdieu’s major concepts—le champ, la distinction, le capital—and the genesis of his method within the space of…

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Film Screening & Discussion: The Living Fire

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

Please join the Ukrainian Film Club at Columbia University for a screening of the documentary film The Living Fire (2014) by Ostap Kostiuk. Ukrainian with English subtitles. Professor Yuri Shevchuk will introduce the film and moderate the discussion. This stunningly beautiful and poetic film chronicles three generations of Ukrainian Carpathian shepherds who struggle to keep their ancient trade alive in the face…