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The Decline and Fall of Empires: Habsburg & Ottoman

Remarque Institute 60 Fifth Avenue, 8th Floor, New York, NY, United States

This event will recur Every Day until Nov. 11, 2018 RSVP is required—please follow this link. CONFERENCE PROGRAM FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 9 10:00–11:15: Opening Keynote Lecture:  Herzl on the Acropolis: Greece and Israel as Post-Ottoman Projects Katherine E. Fleming Alexander S. Onassis Professor of Hellenic Culture and Civilization   11:30–1:30: War and the End of Empire Mustafa Aksakal, Georgetown University, The Ottoman…

Assassins Against the Old Order

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

Italian Anarchist Violence in Fin De Siècle Europe Assassins against the Old Order Italian Anarchist Violence in Fin de Siècle Europe (University of Illinois Press, 2018) by Nunzio Pernicone and Fraser M. Ottanelli A Q&A with author Fraser M. Ottanelli. Blowing up entrenched ideas of a radical movement The image of the anarchist assassin haunted the corridors of power and…

A New Age of Transatlantic Relations – Civil Society and Political Engagement

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

Deutsches Haus at NYU presents a conversation on "The Death of Liberalism and its Rebirth: The Role of Civil Society and Political Engagement" among Boris Vormann, Professor of Politics and the head of the politics concentration at Bard College Berlin;  Mark Blyth, Professor of Political Science and International and Public Affairs at the Watson Institute of Brown University; Claudia Wiesner, Professor for Political…

A Concert for Caccini

The Fabbri Library of the House of the Redeemer 7 East 95th Street, New York, NY, United States

at The Fabbri Library of the House of the Redeemer Presented by Salon Sanctuary Concerts. This concert will take place at The Fabbri Library of the House of the Redeemer (7 East 95th Street) Tickets are available here. A limited number of free tickets are available to Members of Casa Italiana, who will receive a code via e-mail. Giulio il…

100 For 100: Musical Decades of Freedom

Carnegie Hall 57th St. and 7th Ave, New York, NY, United States

Oratorio Society @ Carnegie Hall International Contemporary Ensemble ICE @ Roulette Intermedium 1918 marked a special moment in Polish history: after 123 years of absence from the map of Europe, deprived of statehood, and with its cultural identity endangered, Poland regained its independence. In celebration of that euphoric moment, a hundred years later on November 11, 2018, the Ministry of…

100 for 100: Musical Decades of Freedom

Roulette Intermedium 509 Atlantic Ave., Brooklyn, NY, United States

1918 marked a special moment in Polish history: after 123 years of absence from the map of Europe, deprived of statehood, and with its cultural identity endangered, Poland regained its independence. In celebration of that euphoric moment, a hundred years later on November 11, 2018, the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage of the Republic of Poland together with PWM…

Portraiture and Enslavement at the Thresholds of Emancipation (A Caribbean Meditation)

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

A talk by Agnes Lugo-Ortiz For more information, please click here. This talk will address the only two extant oil portraits of enslaved women produced during the periods of emancipation in the French- and Spanish-speaking Caribbean. By underscoring the conflictive political and ideological forces, affective dynamics, and aesthetic principles at work in their composition, it will focus on the conditions that…

The Silk Tallit Renaissance

American Sephardi Fereation 16 W. 16th St., New York, NY, United States

Presenters: Dora Piperno, Celeste Pavoncello Piperno, Rav Umberto Piperno Tasting of kosher Italian bottarga, wine and citron sweets from Calabria Organzied by the American Sephardi Federation, Centro Primo Levi, Talled Di Seta. Seating is limited and reservation is required: info@primolevicenter.org Many of us remember well the years Rav Umberto Piperno spent in New York: his enthusiasm, wisdom and tireless efforts to…

New Italian Migrations to the United States

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

with Editors Laura Ruberto and Joseph Sciorra New Italian Migrations to the United States Volume 1: Politics and History since 1945 Volume 2: Art and Culture since 1945 Edited by Laura Ruberto and Joseph Sciorra Vol. 1 Contributors: Ottorino Cappelli, Donna Gabaccia, Stefano Luconi, Maddalena Marinari, James S. Pasto, Rodrigo Praino, Laura E. Ruberto, Joseph Sciorra, Donald Tricarico, and Elizabeth…

Les Rétifs – Gerty Dambury

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

Guadeloupean novelist and theatre director Gerty Dambury will be in conversation about her novel Les Rétifs (Les Editions du Manguier, 2012) with Professor Judith Miller, of NYU's Department of French Literature, Thought and Culture. Based on an historical event, Les Rétifs follows a child as she waits for her father to return from the bloody construction worker's strike of 1967.  Dambury weaves a portrait of class, race,…