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The Crisis of Contemporary Capitalism: Oliver Nachtwey in Conversation

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

Join German sociologist Oliver Nachtwey and Ajay Singh Chaudhary for a conversation on how neoliberalism is causing a social crisis in Germany and the rest of Europe. Upward social mobility represented a core promise of life under the “old” West German welfare state, in which millions of skilled workers upgraded their Volkswagens to Audis, bought their first homes, and sent their children…

Henrik Pontoppidan’s Lucky Per Book Talk With Garth Risk Hallberg and Morten Høi Jensen

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

Garth Risk Hallberg and Morten Høi Jensen discuss this sweeping 1904 Modernist masterpiece known as “the great Danish novel,” recently released in its first English translation. In this bildungsroman about the ambitious son of a clergyman who rejects his faith and flees his restricted life in the Danish countryside for the capital city, Per is a gifted young man who…

Presentation and Panel Discussion on the European Elections 2019

Center for European and Mediterranean Studies (NYU) 53 Washington Square South, 3rd Floor East, New York, United States

Short presentation on the European Elections 2019 and the European Parliament Ryan Meilak , Public Diplomacy and Communications at EPLO Panel Discussion Christian Martin, Max Weber Chair in German and European Studies, CEMS, NYU Antoine Ripoll , Director at European Parliament Liaison Office in Washington DC This event is organized by the Center for European and Mediterranean Studies, NYU and the European Parliament…

Le lettere da Capri

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

Mario Soldati 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…

Verso Nuova York

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

Stories and Music of the Italian Migration Between the late 19th and early 20th centuries, hundreds of thousands of Italians left their country for the Americas. This performance uses words and music to tell their story: a story of hope and creativity that ended up changing those new lands into an appendix of the Italian motherland. This tale is told…

Film Screening & Discussion. Hunger for Truth: The Rhea Clyman Story

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 the film Hunger for Truth (2017), directed by Andrew Tkach. Professor Yuri Shevchukwill introduce the film and mediate the discussion. Hunger for Truth tells the story of Rhea Clyman, a brave Canadian reporter who uncovered a “crime of the century”— Stalin’s genocidal famine in Ukraine of 1932-33, also known as the…

Film: From Jim Crow to Swastika

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

General: $10 ($7 for seniors) The recent uptick in antisemitic, anti-immigrant, and racist rhetoric have created a burst of new interest in the acclaimed documentary, From Swastika to Jim Crow. Based on the book by Gabrielle Simon Edgcomb, the film tells the little-known story of two very different cultures, sharing a common burden of oppression. In the 1930s, German universities were…

Concert: Archduke Rudolph, Beethoven’s Pupil and Patron

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

Ignat Solzhenitsyn, piano, Korbinian Altenberger, violin, Na-Young Baek, cello. Illustrated talk by Ignat Solzhenitsyn. The most significant of Beethoven’s noble patrons during his years in Vienna was Archduke Rudolph of Austria, youngest brother of the Emperor Franz. Beethoven began teaching Rudolph piano in around 1803–04, and the archduke later became his sole composition student. He was also the only one…

Yves Saint Laurent: A life

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

Join Laurence Benaïm for a discussion on her book, Yves Saint Laurent: A Biography, the first major English-language biography of the artist since his death in 2008, featuring exclusive interviews of those who knew him best. Yves Saint Laurent’s impact on fashion is legendary, yet he remains an enigmatic and compelling figure. Tracing the development of Saint Laurent’s visionary work through his…

Curating Fascism

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

Exhibiting Art in Collapsing Democracies A lecture by Raffaele Bedarida, Cooper Union The recent exhibition, Post Zang Tumb Tuum, organized in 2018 by Germano Celant at Fondazione Prada in Milan, elicited admiring reviews.  Only a handful of critics noted, however, that the exhibition performed a kind of cultural seduction reminiscent of the Fascist regime itself.  Post Zang Tumb Tuum is the third major…