Symbolic & Literal Labyrinth in Elena Ferrante's "My Brilliant Friend" A lecture by Stiliana Milkova, Oberlin College This talk explores Naples as the architectonic setting of Elena Ferrante’s novel My Brilliant Friend through the lens of classical mythology and urban sociology. It examines the city – and more specifically, the neighborhood or the rione – as a symbolic and literal…
Raoul Peck, 2017, 93 minutes To RSVP, please click here. Haitian filmmaker Raoul Peck's brilliant documentary on racism in America is an essential work for our era, drawing a clear line from the Civil Rights struggle to today's Black Lives Matter movement via the thought of James Baldwin, one of the most lucid, fearless American thinkers on race (and many other matters).…
Czech and Slovak artists, professionals, students, and scholars are challenged to introduce the subject of their project, research or studies in a short presentation limited to six minutes. In English. Suggested donation $5.00 Light refreshments. RSVP Moderated by Christopher Harwood, Ph.D., Columbia University Presenters: Jakub Lajmon (aerospace software), Martin Rybár (nuclear physics), Silvia Fishbaum (Jewish history), Jan Remšík (oncology), Maya…
By David Del Tredici (world premiere) Performed by Eric Moe, piano, and Robert Frankenberry, actor Generally recognized as the father of the Neo-Romantic movement in music, David Del Tredici has received numerous awards and has been commissioned and performed by nearly every major American and European orchestral ensemble. He was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 1980 for In Memory of…
Kirmen Uribe is a Basque language writer, and one of the most relevant writers of his generation in Spain. He won the National Prize for Literature in Spain in 2009 for his first novel Bilbao-New York-Bilbao, a work that was acclaimed as a literary event. The languages into which the novel has been translated already exceed fifteen, including French (Gallimard),…
Distinguished Lecture in the Just Societies Series, organized by Dean Fredrick Harris This event is full. It will be livestreamed. Check back for details. To find out more, please click here. Location: LOW LIBRARY ROTUNDA Thomas Piketty is Professor at EHESS and at the Paris School of Economics and the author of the international bestseller Capital in the 21st Century. He has done major historical and…
In the exhibition “Stone Puzzles,” Dominique Robin explores the projections of humankind on landscape and more generally on nature. At the opening reception on Thursday, March 28, guests will be invited to write a one-sentence “secret” on paper, which they will then cross out with pencil, revealing only a single word. Selected drawings will be displayed in the gallery space.…
AI and the GDPR March 28, 2019 Featuring Speakers Fanny Hidvegi, Policy Manager, Access Now Estelle Masse, Senior Policy Analyst, Access Now Etienne Maury, Legal & Policy Officer, Commission Nationale de l'Informatique et des Libertés (CNIL) Sponsored by the Technology, Media, and Communications (TMaC) Specialization at SIPA and by the European Institute, with the support of the Erasmus + Programme of the European Union.
The Many Lives of a Florentine Palazzo House of Secrets The Many Lives of a Florentine Palazzo (2019, Bloomsbury) by Allison Levy, Brown University Author Allison Levy in conversation with: Leonard Barkan, Princeton University Gerry Milligan, College of Staten Island/CUNY GC Alexander Stille, Columbia University House of Secrets tells the remarkable story of Palazzo Rucellai from behind its celebrated façade.…
Jews and Ukrainians: Myths and Stereotypes There is much that Ukrainians do not know about Jews and that Jews do not know about Ukrainians. As a result, Jews and Ukrainians who care about their respective ancestral heritages often view each other through distorted stereotypes, misperceptions, and biases. Professor Paul Robert Magocsi will shed new light on controversial issues in Ukrainian-Jewish…