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The Essential Fictions of Isaac Babel: New Translations by Val Vinokur

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

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…

The Disciplines, to Scale: Bibliography between Spain and Italy

The European Institute at Columbia University 420 W 118th St #1205, New York City, United States

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…

Film Screening: NSU: The Victims

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

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…

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Les Cahiers Dogons – Performance

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

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…

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Screening and Book Presentation: The Lucky Star (La buona stella)

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

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…

“Bricks and Mortar:” A Conversation Between Clemens Meyer and Eric Jarosinski

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

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,…

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Exhibition Opening: Muse Muse

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

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…

Gaelic Mass

The Basilica of St. Patrick's Old Cathedral 263 Mulberry Street, New York City, NY, United States

The New York County Ancient Order of Hibernians and the Basilica of Saint Patrick’s Old Cathedral invite all to celebrate an: Irish-Language Mass Saturday, March 10, 12 p.m. Basilica of St. Patrick’s Old Cathedral Mott Street between Prince and Houston Streets Father Andrew O’Connor of St. Mary’s Church in Manhattan will be the celebrant. Liturgical music will be performed on the Basilica’s historic…

The German-Jewish Cookbook

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

The mother-daughter team behind The German-Jewish Cookbook (Brandeis University Press, 2017), Gabrielle Rossmer Gropman and Sonya Gropman, discuss their historical and gastronomic exploration of German-Jewish cuisine with the Gefilteria’s Jeffrey Yoskowitz and historian Atina Grossmann (Cooper Union). This event will include a reception (Kosher dairy) with a tasting menu of items from the book: Berches (German-Jewish challa) Liptauer (a classic cheese spread with Hungarian origins) Krautsalat (cabbage slaw) Orangentorte (0range cake) Wine, Beer, and…

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Lecture: Aging Gracefully. Restoring Carpaccio’s Saint Ursula Cycle

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

A lecture by Melissa Conn, Director Venice Office, Save Venice Inc. How to best care for Carpaccio’s princess bride has occupied conservation professionals for nearly 500 years, from the first documented restoration treatment in 1521, to Save Venice’s current conservation efforts. Now housed in the Accademia Galleries, this 15th-century narrative cycle of nine canvases illustrating the story of Saint Ursula suffers…