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Expanding the World of Literature

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

Expanding the World of Literature: Tash Aw, in conversation with Mark Mazower To RSVP, please click here.  How hard is it to remain within our comfort zones when we read and write? How does the writer’s gaze remain unwittingly locked by long-established conventions? As the world’s economic power bases have begun to shift away from Western nations of the past few decades,…

WeAreLeonardo

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

Da Vinci as a Young Man A presentation of WeAreLeonardo , a project by Italian mixed-media artist Vittoria Chierici focused on visually portraying Leonardo Da Vinci as a young man, on the occasion of the 500th anniversary of his death. Chierici will take the audience on a journey by virtually leaping into her photojournalistic suitcase, the final work that contains…

Prepositional Existence, or Perhaps Only a Preposition Can Save Us – Irving Goh

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

Irving Goh's talk will center around the preposition “to.” "Through conceptual phrases that mobilize that very preposition, namely Levinas’s “face to face,” Derrida’s democracy-, justice-, and hospitality- “to-come,” Irigaray’s I love toyou,” and Nancy’s “being-to,” I will draw out the preposition’s ontological, ethical, and political stakes. That is important today for our contemporary world, which, on the one hand, is so globally connected, and…

Mads Tolling & Jacob Fischer: A Tribute to Svend Asmussen

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

Danish jazz violinist Svend Asmussen, known worldwide as  “The Fiddling Viking,” was greatly loved throughout Scandinavia. From the age of 15 until Asmussen’s death last year, San Francisco-based Danish violinist Mads Tolling kept in frequent contact with the older musician, who counseled him on his early musical training. Asmussen later donated a large chunk of his music collection to Mads, including…

Dante and… Opera

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

Adventures in Italian Opera with Fred Plotkin / Dante and... Casa Italiana's two popular series Adventures in Italian Opera with Fred Plotkin and Dante and... meet up for their first event of the season, focusing on Dante's presence in the world of opera (and classical music in general). Fred Plotkin will be leading a conversation with American conductor Michael Hurshell, Artistic Director…

The Nordic Model: Norway’s Penal Reform

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.…

Daughters of 1968 by Lisa Greenwald – Book Presentation

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

Daughters of 1968 (University of Nebraska Press, 2019) is the story of French feminism between 1944 and 1981, when feminism played a central political role in the history of France. The key women during this epoch were often leftists committed to a materialist critique of society and were part of a postwar tradition that produced widespread social change, revamping the…

“West Germany and Israel:” A Conversation between Carole Fink and David Marwell

Taub Center For Israel Studies at NYU 14A Washington Mews (First Floor), New York, United States

Deutsches Haus at NYU co-presents together with the Taub Center for Israel Studies at NYU and Leo Baeck Institute a talk with Dr. Carole Fink about her book West Germany and Israel: Foreign Relations, Domestic Politics, and the Cold War, 1965–1974, and a conversation between the author and Dr. David G. Marwell, American historian and the former director of the Museum of Jewish Heritage…

Out of the Box – Paint, Pray, Love

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

Known for her paintings of erotic female nudes, Lene Schneider-Kainer divorced her husband in 1926 and set off on an artistic odyssey across Asia. Retracing Marco Polo’s journey, the intrepid artist travelled from opium dens in Isfahan to Buddhist temples in the Himalayas and from brothels in Agra to the Peking Opera. When she died, Schneider-Kainer left her travel diary,…

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Translating Visual Stories: Graphic Novels, Comics, Picture Books, and Illustrated YA

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

As part of the Brooklyn Book Festival 2019, one of America’s premier book festivals and the largest free literary event in New York City, Deutsches Haus at NYU presents together with the PEN Translation Committee, and PEN America's Children’s and Young Adult Books Committee the panel discussion Translating Visual Stories: Graphic Novels, Comics, Picture Books, and Illustrated YA with Kristi Fernandez, Lyn Miller-Lachmann,…