Vincenzo Boccia, President of Confindustria (The General Confederation of Italian Industry). Introduced by Stefano Albertini (NYU) and Letizia Airos Soria (Editor in chief of i-Italy Network). Vincenzo Boccia was born in Salerno in 1964 and graduated in Economics and Commerce. He is the CEO of Arti Grafiche Boccia and, on May 25th 2016, he was elected the 30th President of…
Claude Lévi-Strauss, our contemporary Emmanuelle Loyer, in conversation with Emmanuelle Saada and Camille Robcis To RSVP, please click here. *In French with English translation Emmanuelle Loyer recently published a widely acclaimed biography on French anthropologist Claude Lévi-Strauss, which has just been translated into English as Lévi-Strauss: A Biography. In this talk, she discusses how Lévi-Strauss took a critical perspective on the…
“100 years of Czechoslovakia and the USA as Partners: Democracy, Security and Market Economy,” a talk by Jan Machacek, a Czech columnist, musician and university lecturer. He covers political, economic, European and geopolitical issues. Currently he publishes his columns in the Czech daily newspaper Lidove noviny and writes his daily column called Monitor JM online. He also provides analysis for…
The notion of cultural translation as it was developed by postcolonial studies attempts to cope not only with the foreignness of language, but also with 'the other' as a foreigner. In order to overcome various shades of 'othering,' Homi Bhabha and other postcolonial theorists have conceptualized interactions between different cultures as processes of hybridization. I would like to propose an…
Blank Forms presents a Henning Christiansen retrospective, marking the first institutional survey of his work in America. Henning Christiansen (1932-2008) was a Danish composer, musician, and artist best known as a pivotal member of the Nordic avant-garde. Enamored with, but not beholden to, the Fluxus movement he helped shape, Christiansen’s simple conception of music as sound organized in time continues to provide…
Women's Voices, Women's Stories Jeanne Balibar in conversation with historians Anne-Emmanuelle Demartini, Emmanuelle Loyer, and Charlotte de Castelnau-L’Estoile, moderated by Emmanuelle Saada To RSVP, please click here. Violette Nozière, the criminal, Delphine Seyrig, the actress, Páscoa, the slave. French actress Jeanne Balibar grapples with these three figures in a roundtable conversation with three French historians who have researched and written…
On Friday, October 12th please join us for a talk with Marijeta Bozovic from Yale University on :Avant-Garde Post– : Radical Poetics after the Soviet Union”. This study examines the poetic and theoretical output of a constellation of contemporary leftist Russian poets—linked by way of the journal , Kraft chapbook series, Free Marxist Press, and a number of poetry festivals and events…
With Christopher Edling. From the Center for European and Mediterranean Studies at NYU.
Deutsches Haus at NYU and the University Alliance Ruhr present a conversation with Frances Guerin, Professor of Film and History of Art at the University of Kent in Paris, and John J. Curley, Associate Professor of Art History at Wake Forest University on "Dismantling Concepts. A Conversation on the Paintings of Gerhard Richter." About the talk: Guerin and Curley will discuss Richter's career-long interrogation of the medium…
The story of Elena Lucrezia Cornaro Piscopia, the first woman ever to receive a doctorate from a university By and with Laura Caparrotti (Narrator) And with Nyssa Duchow (Violin) Set by Sarah Edkins 1678, Padua. Elena Cornaro Piscopia becomes the first woman to obtain a doctorate from a university. Her story begins in Venice, in a beautiful palace on the water.…