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“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

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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…

HAUS-FEST CONCERT: TIMO VOLLBRECHT FLY MAGIC

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

Deutsches Haus at NYU presents an open-air concert in our courtyard to celebrate our 41st HAUS-FEST fearuting Timo Vollbrecht FLY MAGIC. Concert information Saxophonist Timo Vollbrecht returns to Deutches Haus' HAUS-FEST, this time alongside his quartet FLY MAGIC (with guitarist Keisuke Matsuno, bassist Martin Nevin, and drummer Nathan Ellman-Bell). Their new album, Faces in Places, is available on Spotify. About the musicians Timo Vollbrecht is a…

The Carmignano Visitation

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

A lecture by Bruce L. Edelstein (NYU). The Carmignano Visitation, a unique masterpiece by one of sixteenth-century Italy’s greatest painters, Jacopo da Pontormo, will be seen for the first time outside of Italy in the exhibition, Pontormo: Miraculous Encounters, at The Morgan Library & Museum in New York (September 7, 2018, to January 6, 2019) and The J. Paul Getty…

Adam Michnik Discusses Antisemitism In 20th Century Poland

YIVO Institute for Jewish Research 15 West 16th Street, NYC, New York City, NY, United States

Polish-Jewish relations have once again become an important topic. In February this year, the Polish parliament passed a law making it an offence, with up to three years imprisonment or a fine, for anyone who accuses the Polish state or people of participating in the Holocaust or other Nazi crimes. This attempt to re-write history and criminalize historical discourse caused…

The Lucullan Reading Circle

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

Written in 1940 as a radio play by the poet and dramatist Bertolt Brecht, The Trial of Lucullus features the Roman general Lucullus facing judgment by a People’s Court in the underworld. Norwegian artist Per-Oskar Leu revisits this lesser-known Brecht work through a participatory performance, offering a contemporary reflection on the artist’s relationship to legal institutions, politics, and ideology. From…

SPECIAL OUTDOOR CINEMA EVENT: THE GROCER’S SON (Le Fils de l’épicier)

LOW LIBRARY STEPS at Columbia

It is summer, and Antoine (Nicolas Cazalé) is forced to leave the city to return to his family in Provence. His father is sick, so he must assume the lifestyle he thought he had shed—driving the family grocery cart from hamlet to hamlet, delivering supplies to the few remaining inhabitants. Accompanied by Claire (Clotilde Hesme), a friend from Paris whom…