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…
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…
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…
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.…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Giuliano Amato, Anthony Appiah, Karen Barkey, Seyla Benhabib, Sheri Berman, Michael Walzer and more Please register: info@resetdoc.org (Free and open to the public) ResetDOC, an organization committed to connecting different viewpoints in scholarly research and convening experts, scholars and young professionals in sharing ideas across borders, cultures, religions, and languages, partners with the Italian Academy and the New York Review…
"Italian" Literature in the United States On the occasion of the publication of: Un biculturalismo negato La letteratura "italiana" negli Stati Uniti (2018, Franco Cesati Editore) by Anthony Julian Tamburri Dean, John D. Calandra Italian American Institute, Queens College, CUNY The author in conversation with Peter Carravetta (SUNY Stony Brook) Together with a theoretical introduction, this volume presents five examples…