A Gardener’s Journey

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

Join Marc Jeanson, curator of the French National Herbarium at the Musée National d’Histoire Naturelle in Paris and founder of The Friends of Pascal Cribier; Jean-Louis Cohen, architect and historian of urban cultures; Dorothée Imbert, head of landscape architecture at Ohio State University; and Hervé Brunon, historian of gardens and landscapes, to discuss A Gardener’s Journey by Pascal Cribier. Pascal Cribier was not…

The Art of the Leningrad Underground

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

Please join us for a lecture by Alexander V. Markov, Professor and Deputy Dean, Russian State University for the Humanities, Moscow. This talk will be in Russian. Russian literary theory holds that the Petersburg/Leningrad text in Russian culture plays a vital role in the creative arts. The international recognition of Nobel Laureate Joseph Brodsky points us toward an understanding of the Leningrad text,…

Collective Security and Multilateralism Today

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

A conversation with Jean-Yves Le Drian, Minister for Europe and Foreign Affairs of France, and Heiko Maas, Minister for Foreign Affairs of Germany   This event is full but the waitlist is still open: click here. A conversation with Jean-Yves Le Drian, Minister for Europe and Foreign Affairs of France, and Heiko Maas, Minister for Foreign Affairs of Germany, on the…

Fiume: How People Struggled Amongst the Nudists

Hamilton Hall 1130 Amsterdam Avenue, New York City, NY, United States

Presenter: Dominique Kirchner Reill (University of Miami) Respondent: Molly Greene (Princeton University) Moderator: Konstantina Zanou (Columbia University) Gabriele D’Annunzio, his legionnaires, and all the extremes of drugs, sex, nudism, and libertinism has put the port-city town of Fiume (today’s Rijeka in the Republic of Croatia) on the historiographical map. Often characterized as the site of proto-fascism or the “festival of the revolution,” Fiume has been marked…

Film: The City without Jews

Center for Jewish History 15 W. 16th Street, New York City, NY, United States

Jews are hounded by mobs and driven from Vienna in this 1924 expressionist film based on the satirical novel by Hugo Bettauer. The sensational film that anticipated the Holocaust and cost Bettauer his life was rediscovered in 2015. With commentary by film scholar Noah Isenberg (UT Austin) and a live score. Recently restored and featuring a new soundtrack, The City Without…

Rime: Dante’s Workshop of the Heart

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

An International Symposium The Global Dante Project of New York Directors Maria Luisa Ardizzone, NYU Teodolinda Barolini, Columbia University Morning Session 9am-1pm Italian Academy for Advanced Studies, Columbia University (1161 Amsterdam Avenue) Afternoon Session 3pm-6pm NYU Casa Italiana Zerilli-Marimò Presented by: NYU Department of Italian Studies NYU Casa Italiana Zerilli-Marimò NYU Medieval and Renaissance Center In Collaboration with: Columbia University, Department…

Tatiana Linkhoeva- Between the Hammer and the Anvil: Buriat-Mongols, the Soviet Union and Imperial Japan

Jordan Center for the Advanced Study of Russia 19 University Place, 2nd Floor, New York City, NY, United States

Please join us on Friday, April 5th for “Between the Hammer and the Anvil: Buriat-Mongols, the Soviet Union and Imperial Japan”, a presentation by Tatiana Linkhoeva, New York University. This event is part of the Colloquium Series, sponsored by the NYU Jordan Center for the Advanced Study of Russia. The Soviet Union and Imperial Japan have been viewed as being ideologically on…

Art, Theft and Restitution

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

3:00 PM–5:00 PM    MAISON FRANÇAISE EAST GALLERY, BUELL HALL ROUNDTABLE DISCUSSION: Art, Theft and Restitution A Roundtable with Ariella Azoulay, Souleymane Bachir Diagne and Brian Wallis, moderated by Marianne Hirsch and Andreas Huyssen To RSVP, please click here. The pivotal Savoy/Sarr report calls for thousands of artworks currently in French museums to be returned to the West African communities from which they…

Film: Think Herzog!

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

Deutsches Haus at NYU and the Colloquium for Unpopular Culture present "Think Herzog," to mark the publication of Richard Eldrige's book Werner Herzog: Filmmaker and Philosopher. Richard Eldridge will be in conversation with fellow Herzogian David LaRocca about seeing and knowing and laughing, about flares and abysses, about indifference and the sky. "Academia stifles cinema, encircling it like a liana vine wraps round a…

International Comics Spotlight: Aisha Franz and Florent Ruppert

Desert Island 540 Metropolitan Ave., Brooklyn, NY

Join internationally renowned cartoonists Aisha Franz and Florent Ruppert for a book signing and social at Desert Island Comics in Brooklyn.  Aisha Franz will present her third graphic novel Shit is Real (Drawn & Quarterly, 2018), which was recently nominated for an LA Times Book Prize. This event is on the eve of the 2019 MoCCA Arts Festival in New York (April 6-7),…