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Book Talk. The Hungry Steppe: Famine, Violence, and the Making of Soviet Kazakhstan by Sarah Cameron

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

Please join us for a talk with Sarah Cameron (University of Maryland). The Hungry Steppe (Cornell University Press, 2018) examines one of the most heinous crimes of the Stalinist regime, the Kazakh famine of 1930–33. More than 1.5 million people perished in this famine—a quarter of Kazakhstan’s population—and the crisis transformed a territory the size of continental Europe. Yet its story has remained mostly hidden…

Adventures in Italian Opera with Fred Plotkin

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

A Conversation with Jamie Barton The fifth Adventure in Italian Opera with Fred Plotkin of this season features American mezzo-soprano Jamie Barton, who will be singing the role of Fricka in Wagner's Ring of the Nibelung at the Metropolitan Opera. Jamie Barton appears courtesy of the Metropolitan Opera. In ENGLISH. From the Casa Italiana Zerilli-Marimo. 

The Last Family

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

Beksiński is a gentle man with arachnophobia, despite his hardcore sexual fantasies and his fondness for painting disturbing dystopian works. Beksiński is a family man who wants only the best for his loving wife Zofia, neurotic son Tomasz and the couple’s aging mothers. His daily painting to classical music eventually pays off and he makes a name for himself in…

Labor in the Amazon Era: Heike Geissler in Conversation with Stephen Squibb

Goethe-Institut New York 30 Irving Place, New York City, NY, United States

German novelist Heike Geissler will discuss Seasonal Associate, a literary account of her experience working in an Amazon fulfillment center, with critic and author Stephen Squibb. In Seasonal Associate, Geissler takes a seasonal job at Amazon Order Fulfillment in Leipzig when she is no longer able to live on the proceeds of her freelance writing and translating income. But the job, intended…

Dance through Time: Antiquity and the Ballets Russes – Illustrated Lecture by Clare Fitzgerald

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

Clare Fitzgerald Associate Director for Exhibitions and Gallery Director, ISAW This lecture, presented at La Maison Française, is held in conjunction with the exhibition Hymn to Apollo: The Ancient World and the Ballets Russes, on view at NYU’s Institute for the Study of the Ancient World, 15 East 84th St., from March 6 to June 2. In English Co-sponsored by the Institute…

The Nordic Model: Finland and Education Chairman’s Lecture Series

Scandinavia House 58 Park Avenue, New York City, NY, United States

In this new series, speakers at Scandinavia House will explore the reasons why Nordic countries lead surveys of societies with high levels of trust, happiness, gender equality, and quality of life. By many measures, these countries are among the most successful societies worldwide. In these lectures, we’ll look at how individual countries have successfully addressed certain issues that confront all societies.…

Corporate Feminism and its Discontents

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

Panel discussion with Yasmine Ergas, Melissa Fisher, and Katherine Phillips, moderated by Janice Reals Ellig To RSVP, please click here. This round table will explore successes and limitations of policies to promote diversity and inclusion as well as successful strategies, roadblocks and backlash in the United States and across Europe. Event co-sponsored by the Center for Gender & Sexuality Law, the Center…

Leonora Bernardi’s “Clorilli”

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

Introducing the Renaissance Playwright and Her Pastoral Drama Rediscovered in 2010, this late Renaissance play was written by the multi-talented singer, musician, and poet Leonora Bernardi Belatti of Lucca (1559-1616), famous in her day but now almost entirely forgotten. Clorilli offers a fresh and witty take on the courtly genre of pastoral drama, made fashionable by Torquato Tasso’s Aminta (1573).  Evidence suggests…

The Privacy Paradox | The Alliance Series

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

Privacy is a primary concern for citizens today. Yet many of us willingly share vast quantities of personal information with private companies and on social media platforms even though they offer few safeguards. Cloud technology, for example, enables the storage of vast quantities of information – personal files, tax returns, family pictures, – while social media encourages us to express…

Film Screening & Discussion. An Unprecedented Campaign

Deutsches Haus Columbia 420 West 116th Street, New York City, NY, United States

Please join the Ukrainian Film Club at Columbia University for a screening of director Mikhail Kaufman's An Unprecedented Campaign (1931), followed by a discussion moderated by Professor Yuri Shevchuk. The film will be shown with English subtitles. An Unprecedented Campaign is the prominent avant-garde Soviet filmmaker Mikhail Kaufman's rare cinematographic documentation of Stalin's murderous campaign aimed at destroying Ukrainian peasantry. The film is about the 25,000 workers…