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The Politics of Urban Architecture – Anna Rosensweig & Mame-Fatou Niang

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

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…

On Translating “Pan Tadeusz”

The Kosciuszko Foundation 15 E. 65th Street, New York, NY, United States

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 Performance Program

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

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…

It Will Be Chaos

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

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…

Conserving Ukraine’s Cultural Heritage

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

Recently, two conservators, Olha Yarema Wynar of the Metropolitan Museum Textile Conservation Department and Yuri Yanchyshyn of Period Furniture Conservation visited Ukraine on a Fulbright, introducing textile and wooden objects conservation approaches and techniques at various Ukrainian institutions. This presentation will focus on their experiences, while highlighting the little known art of Ukraine, and outline perspectives for preserving it for…

Breaking Through the State Border as an Art Project

1219 International Affairs Building 420 West 118th Street, New York City, United States

Please join the Ukrainian Studies Program at the Harriman Institute, Columbia University for a presentation by Nazar Kozak (National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine). An example of border art, a politically motivated mode of art production, which is staged directly in site on state borders or has them in its primary focus, Maria Kulykivska's endurance The Raft Crimea (2016) emerged as the artist's personal reflection…

Managing an Exit: The End of the Merkel Era

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

Deutsches Haus at NYU, NYU's Center for European and Mediterranean Studies, and the American Council on Germany present "Managing an Exit: The End of the Merkel Era," a conversation between Joyce Mushaben (Curators' Distinguished Professor of Comparative Politics and College of Arts & Sciences first Professor of Global Studies at the University of Missouri-St. Louis), and Christian Martin (the current Max Weber Chair in…

Pre-“Fille du Regiment” Evening

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

For Students and Young Adults Only! Opera to the People is a group open to students or other young present and future audience members in order to delve into the world and language of opera, with the objective of fostering a new generation of attentive opera-goers. The group meets to watch and listen to recordings of a particular opera that…

The 2019 Telos-Paul Piccone Institute Conference

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

Deutsches Haus at NYU and the Telos-Paul Piccone Institute will jointly present the conference "Political Theology Today as Critical Theory of the Contemporary: Reason, Religion, Humanism," to be held at Deutsches Haus at NYU, from February 16-17. Wayne Hudson and Reverend Eugene F. Rivers III will deliver the two keynote speeches. For a detailed conference schedule, please click here. Across the globe the liberal logic of…

Lives in Transition: LGBTQ Serbia

1219 International Affairs Building 420 West 118th Street, New York City, United States

Please join us for a talk with Serbian born photographer and architect Slobodan Randjelović about his photobook Lives in Transition: LGBTQ Serbia (The New Press), with a discussion moderated by Professor Tanya Domi (SIPA, Harriman). In June 2001, Serbia witnessed its first LGBTQ pride parade in Belgrade’s Central Square. It was a short-lived march, as an ultranationalist mob quickly descended on the participants, chanting homophobic slurs and injuring…