A panel of experts to discuss the results of the Italian elections taking place on March 4. Panelists: Ruth Ben-Ghiat (NYU) Federico Rampini (La Repubblica) Alexander Stille (Columbia) Moderator: David Forgacs (NYU) Reserve a seat here. In ENGLISH.
Please join the Harriman Institute for a screening of the documentary film Art Is a Weapon (2017), followed by a discussion with director Andrea Simon. The event will be introduced and moderated by Martin Marinos, Postdoctoral Research Scholar at the Harriman Institute. Run time: 85 minutes Language: English, Bulgarian, Russian and German with English subtitles This provocative documentary portrait of the Bulgarian Sephardic film artist,…
A conversation between David Bellos and Robert Priest, moderated by Stéphane Gerson David Bellos, a literary scholar, and Robert Priest, a historian, have both devoted their recent books to the lives and afterlives of foundational books in nineteenth-century France: Victor Hugo’s Misérables and Ernest Renan’s Life of Jesus. While Hugo’s novel and Renan’s essay came out a year apart (in 1862 and 1863, respectively), it is the convergence between Bellos’…
Please join us on Thursday, March 8th for “The Essential Fictions of Isaac Babel: New Translations by Val Vinokur”. This talk is part of the Occasional Series, sponsored by the NYU Jordan Center for the Advanced Study of Russia. Isaac Babel was born in 1894 into multicultural Odessa’s thriving Jewish community. Working as a journalist, he witnessed the Bolshevik Revolution…
Presenter: Seth Kimmel, Columbia University Respondent: Erin Rowe, Johns Hopkins University Moderator: Pier Mattia Tommasino, Columbia University When sixteenth-century Iberian humanists such as Juan Páez de Castro, Juan Bautista Cardona, Benito Arias Montano, and Antonio Agustín imaged what King Philip II’s royal library—eventually established during the 1560s and 1570s in San Lorenzo as part of the Escorial monastery complex—ought to look like, they…
German History X In September 2000, 14-year-old Semiya is woken in her boarding school at 4am. Her father, Enver Simsek, has apparently had an accident. Only in the hospital does she learn that he’s in a coma after being shot eight times. He dies two days later. The police get to work, highly motivated to solve the case as quickly…
Astrid Bas is a French actress, dancer, and director. She has worked with renowned theater directors Georges Lavaudant, Christophe Perton, Anatoli Vassiliev, Helene Vincent, Moise Toure, Frederic Fisbach, Jean Marie Patte, and Yves Beausnene, and has appeared in films directed by Benoît Jacquot, Edward Niermans, Frederic Berthes, and Jean Dominique de la Rochefoucauld, among others. As a director she has staged works ranging from Chekov’s Three…
Mario Martella (1917-2014), Knight of Labour and recipient of the Gold Medal for Civil Merit, was recognized as a Righteous Among the Nations by the Yad Vashem Holocaust Museum. He was an energetic, combative, and charismatic individual who only considered himself a lucky man, always protected by what he would call his "lucky star." Casa Italiana presents the English translation of…
Deutsches Haus at NYU and the NYU Department of German present a reading by the author and current DAAD Chair of Contemporary Poetics, Clemens Meyer, from his novel Bricks and Mortar (Im Stein), followed by a conversation with @neinquarterly's Eric Jarosinski. Bricks and Mortar is the story of the sex trade in a big city in the former GDR, from just before 1989 to the present day,…
Opening of the exhibition "muse muse" emphasizing the relationship between curator and artist— muse muse, a muse muse, muse amuse, muse muse muse—the alliteration itself is almost inspiring. Special performance by Jahmal B Golden curated in by India Salvor Menuez and movie screening by NY Times favorite Nemo Librizzi, curated in by Theo Constantinou. While the trope of the artist…