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Talk: Humanitarianism And The Century Of Wars

The New School 6 East 16th Street, New York, United States

Historians Davide Rodogno (The Graduate Institute) and Sergio Luzzatto (University of Turin) will present and discuss their current research on cases in which, during the century that was theater to two world conflicts, the notion of humanitarian intervention took shape and and shaped the societies that received it as well as those that practiced it. Admission: this program is primarily meant for an academic audience.…

Lecture: Italian Incompleteness (A lecture by Roberto Esposito)

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

A lecture by Roberto Esposito, Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa Italy is a country trapped in an incurable state of incompletion, condemned to the eternal pursuit of something that has always eluded it, incapable of achieving development that corresponds to its potential. The challenge is to work on this incompletion, on the energy contained in potentiality that has never been…

May Made Me

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

The mass protests that shook France in May 1968 changed European politics to this day. Students demonstrated, workers went on general strike, factories and universities were occupied. At the height of its fervor, it brought the entire national economy to a halt. Fifty years later, Mitch Abidor and Todd Gitlin will delve into the oral testimonies of those young rebels…

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Film Festival: Panorama Europe 2018

Museum of the Moving Image 36-01 35th Avenue, Astoria, New York

Panorama Europe 2018, the 10th edition of the essential festival of new and vital European cinema, includes fiction and documentary works that present a portrait of contemporary Europe during a period of tremendous flux. The festival, which launched in 2009 by Czech Center New York, continues to give New Yorkers an eclectic overview of the current European film scene. In…

$15

Ola Rondiak: Identity, Interrupted

Ukrainian Institute of America 2 East 79th Street, New York, NY, United States

Reception for the artist: Friday, May 4 from 6:00 to 8:00 PM RSVP to attend. Art at the Institute concludes its 2017–18 season with an exhibition of mixed media works by American-born Ola Rondiak, titled Identity, Interrupted, in which the artist uses traditional cut-and-paste collage and painting techniques to touch on influences ranging from personal history, womanhood, ethnic and national identity, politics,…

“Berlin Alexanderplatz”: An Evening with Ian Buruma and Michael Hofmann

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

"Berlin Alexanderplatz" cover On the occasion of the publication of Michael Hofmann's new translation of Alfred Döblin’s novel Berlin Alexanderplatz, Deutsches Haus at NYU and New York Review Books present a reading and conversation between Hofmann and Ian Buruma, the editor of The New York Review of Books. Alfred P. Doblin, the author’s grandson, will read a short part of the new translation and share some remarks at…

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Symposium: Marx Now

Goethe-Institut New York 30 Irving Place, New York City, NY, United States

Co-presented with the Brooklyn Institute for Social Research Karl Marx is 200 years old. And yet, whenever Marx seems dead and buried, a new moment of economic or political crisis brings Marx’s critical understanding of capitalism back to the fore. In Marx Now, a two-day symposium co-presented by the Goethe-Institut New York and the Brooklyn Institute for Social Research, leading…

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Connacht GAA Football Senior Championship

Gaelic Park 201 W 240th St., Bronx, New York

Connacht GAA Football Senior ChampionshipSun, May 6, 2018 New York vs. Leitrim  2:15 @ Gaelic Park 201 W 240th St, Bronx, NY

$15

Epoque Quartet Concert

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

A unique musical experience of fusion between classical string quartet sound and jazz, rock and funk. The Prague string quartet Epoque Quartet was founded at the beginning of the year 1999. Four excellent soloists and chamber musicians with abundant stage experiences brang not only their unanimity in musical opinions and the relationship in their artistic nature together, but even their…

Political Exiles, Transnational Repression and Global Authoritarianism in Eurasia and Beyond

#1512 International Affairs Building 420 West 118th Street, New York City, NY, United States

This event is supported by a grant from the Carnegie Corporation of New York. It is part of our Russian Studies & Policy event series. As authoritarian regimes have consolidated their position in Eurasia and the Middle East, many members of the political opposition, independent media and civil society have gone into exile. But as political struggles have moved beyond borders, so…