A Novel by Antonio Monda Unworthy (Penguin Random House, 2018) by Antonio Monda English translation by John Cullen The author in conversation with Mary Karr and Fr. James Martin, S.J. “With storytelling finesse, Antonio Monda has written a compact and forceful book that might be a morbid erotic tale out of Boccaccio, exposing the tormented lust of the clergy.” –Philip…
Presenter: Pamela Ballinger (University of Michigan) Respondent: Victoria de Grazia (Columbia University) Moderator: Konstantina Zanou (Columbia University) Scholars have typically characterized Italy’s decolonization as abrupt and having little resonance in the peninsula at the time or subsequently. In this paper, I challenge this interpretation by demonstrating the visible and deeply felt impacts of repatriation by Italian settlers to the metropole at the time of events and…
Please join us for a talk with Milan Antonijevic, Executive Director, Open Society Foundation Serbia. Milan Antonijevic has been selected as the Open Society Foundation Serbia as the new Executive Director. Milan is a lawyer by training and has devoted his career to date to human rights protection, rule of law and European Union integration. Prior to joining OSF, he was the Director…
Join author Soledad Fox Maura, New Yorker journalist Jane Kramer, professor Vincent Crapanzano, and publisher Jeannette Seaver for a discussion on Exile, Writer, Soldier, Spy: Jorge Semprún, a gripping, authoritative biography by Fox Maura in which the author reveals the tumultuous true-life story of the Oscar-nominated screenwriter responsible for Z and The War Is Over. A man of many faces, Jorge Semprún perfectly personified the struggles and successes…
New Directions in Scholarship On the occasion of the publication of: Pier Paolo Pasolini, Framed and Unframed A Thinker for the Twenty-First Century (2018, Bloomsbury Academic) Edited by Luca Peretti and Karen Raizen This cross-disciplinary volume, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Framed and Unframed, explores and complicates our understanding of Pasolini today, probing notions of otherness in his works, his media image, and…
A film by Olivier Dion and Mélanie Laurent, 2015, 118 min. To RSVP, please click here. Film by Cyril Dion and Mélanie Laurent. As mankind is threatened by the collapse of the ecosystems, Cyril, Mélanie, Alexandre, Laurent, Raphäel and Antoine, all in their thirties, explore the world in search of solutions that can save their children, and with them, future generations.…
Futures of French is a seminar series exploring new directions in French Studies and highlighting the work of early career scholars. Anna Rosensweig is Assistant Professor of French at the University of Rochester. Her work focuses on early modern literature and culture, the intersections of literature and political theory, and performance studies. She is currently completing a book manuscript titled Tragic Opposition: Rights…
An Evening with Prof. Bill Johnston In a panoramic view of early 19th century Polish society, Pan Tadeusz interlaces various narrative threads, from the homecoming of the eponymous Pan Tadeusz from his studies in the city, to a feud between local families over ownership of a ruined castle, to clandestine preparations for Polish participation in Napoleon’s anticipated invasion of Russia,…
Music concert by Students of Columbia-Juilliard To RSVP, please click here. Presented as part of the Music Performance Program by the Maison Française and Department of Music Music concert by students of the Columbia-Juilliard Exchange Program. J.S. Bach Violin Sonata in C major, BMV 1005 I. Adagio II. Fuga. Alla breve Erika Hubbard, violin Chopin Nocturne, Op. 55, No. 1 Angela…
Lorena Luciano & Filippo Piscopo, 2018) It Will Be Chaos (2018, Documentary, 93 min.) In Italian, English, Arabic, and Tigrinya with English subtitles Directed by Lorena Luciano and Filippo Piscopo Followed by a Q&A with the directors, moderated by David Forgacs (NYU). Life in Southern Italy is thrown into a tailspin when refugees arrive by the thousands and the locals…