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Why is it so Difficult to Talk about Islamophobia in France?

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

Discussion in French with Abdellali Hajjat and Marwan Mohammed, moderated by Emmanuelle Saada To RSVP, please click here. Why is it so difficult to recognize Islamophobia as a racist phenomenon in France? The talk will explore the reasons for that denial and analyze the way the "Muslim problem" has been forged in the public space and the lack of scientific debate…

Claire Messud Discusses Camus, Proust and Flaubert

Albertine 972 5th Avenue, New York, NY, United States

Author Claire Messud will discuss her work, including her most recent novel, The Burning Girl, as well as how French authors such as Albert Camus, Marcel Proust, and Gustave Flaubert have impacted her writings, with Cultural Counselor of the French Embassy in the United States, Bénédicte de Montlaur. Follow the event on Facebook. Watch on Livestream on Tuesday, February 26, 2019 at 6:30PM EST.…

Dante as Political Theorist

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

Reading "Monarchia" Presented with the NYU Department of Italian Studies and The Global Dante Project of New York Dante as Political Theorist: Reading Monarchia (2018, Cambridge Scholars Publishing) Edited and with an introduction by Maria Luisa Ardizzone (NYU) Moderator: Alessandro Vettori, Rutgers University Introduction: Teodolinda Barolini, Columbia University Presentation: Maria Luisa Ardizzone, NYU Conclusion: Alison Cornish, NYU Dante’s Latin treatise Monarchia…

LOST in AMERICA – Avant-garde writer Milada Souckova (1899-1983)

Bohemian National Hall 321 E 73rd St., New York, NY, United States

A talk by Zuzana Rihova. With reading by Alex Zucker, translator The talk will present the unique Czech avant-garde writer Milada Souckova and her journey from a natural sciences scholar, to a young writer married to modernist painter Zdenek Rykr, participating actively in the vibrant literary scene in 1930s Prague, to her émigré life in the USA. ?íhová will focus…

The Tony Judt Memorial Lecture with Ta-Nehisi Coates, “I tried to make the letter ‘M’: On identity politics and invisible wars.”

Skirball Center for Performing Arts 566 LaGuardia Place, New York

Tony Judt (1948-2010) was the Erich Maria Remarque Professor of European Studies at NYU and the founding director of the Remarque Institute at NYU. One of the great historians of Europe in his generation, his many books include Postwar: A History of Europe Since 1945. He wrote frequently for The New York Review of Books.   Ta-Nehisi Coates is a distinguished writer in residence…

Mio fratello rincorre i dinosauri

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

Casa Italiana hosts this book club that meets once a month to discuss contemporary Italian books in Italian. The Club is open to anyone and its purpose is to offer the possibility to practice the Italian language. Everybody is encouraged to speak. The group suggests the books, usually by contemporary Italian authors, that reflect the changes that have taken place…

Securing Europe after Napoleon – 1815 and the New European Security Culture

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

Ido de Haan, Beatrice de Graaf and Brian Vick, moderated by Adam Tooze To RSVP, please click here. After the French Revolution and the Napoleonic Wars, the leaders of Europe aimed to establish a new balance of power. The 1815 Congress of Vienna ushered in the emergence of a genuinely European security culture. Securing Europe after Napoleon offers new insights into the military…

Dante Without Footnotes

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

A lecture by Ron Herzman, SUNY Geneseo Why does Dante still speak to us with great urgency and power, and how is it that he remains accessible despite the seemingly-vast distance in time and culture between his world and ours? Ron Herzman is Distinguished Teaching Professor Emeritus at SUNY Geneseo and serves as the Director of Education and Outreach for the Dante…

Stephen W. Sawyer’s Demos Assembled: Democracy & the International Origins of the Modern State

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

Previous studies have covered in great detail how the modern state slowly emerged from the early Renaissance through the seventeenth century, but we know relatively little about the next great act: the birth and transformation of the modern democratic state. Demos Assembled (University of Chicago Press, 2018) provides us with a fresh, transatlantic understanding of that political order’s genesis, and sheds new…

Magdalena Baczewska, piano Music by R. A. Arjomand, Bach, Chopin, Debussy, and Schumann

Italian Academy (Columbia) 1161 Amsterdam Avenue, New York City, NY, United States

J.S. Bach/Busoni: Ich ruf zu dir, Herr Jesu Christ, BWV 639 Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme, BWV 645 J.S. Bach: Aria variata alla maniera italiana, BWV 989 Debussy: Estampes (Pagodes, La soiree dans Grenade, Jardins sous la pluie) Schumann: Kinderszenen Chopin: Barcarolle, Op. 60 R.A. Arjomand: Two Pieces for Piano (2017) Chopin: Polonaise, Op. 53 "Heroic" Polish-American pianist and…