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The Soviet Moral Gray Zone: From Kantian Deontology to Maternal Ethics in Vassily Grossman’s Everything Flows

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

 On Wednesday, March 21st please join us for “The Soviet Moral Gray Zone: From Kantian Deontology to Maternal Ethics in Vassily Grossman’s Everything Flows”, a talk with Ani Kokobobo from the University of Kansas. This talk is part of the Occasional Series, sponsored by the NYU Jordan Center for the Advanced Study of Russia. In this presentation, I consider the ethical…

Film/Panel Discussion: Jean Rouch and Modernity

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

To RSVP, please click here. To mark the 100-year anniversary of the birth of anthropologist and filmmaker Jean Rouch, the Maison Française presents a selection of unfinished, unpublished films by the filmmaker, including “Monsieur Albert, Prophète” (Côte d’Ivoire, 1962-63) and “Moi fatigué debout, moi couché” (Niger, 1996-97). These will be presented and discussed by three specialists of Jean Rouch’s work. In…

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Book Presentation of “La stoffa dell’Italia” (with author Emanuela Scarpellini)

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

On the occasion of the publication of: La stoffa dell'Italia: Storia e cultura della moda dal 1945 a oggi (2017, Laterza) by Emanuela Scarpellini The author in conversation with Grazia d'Annunzio (US Special Projects Editor, Vogue Italia) and Eugenia Paulicelli(CUNY). In the course of the 20th century, Italy was able to become the worldwide point of reference for fashion, in spite of the historical…

6-Minute Challenge: Czech and Slovak academic show & tell

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

The eighth edition of the Czech and Slovak academic show & tell. Czech and Slovak artists, professionals, students and scholars at universities and institutions in the USA are challenged to present the subject of their project, their studies or research in a short presentation limited to six minutes. In English. Moderated by Christopher Harwood, PhD, Columbia University. Presenters: Veronika Cibulkova,…

Film Screening & Discussion. The Living Fire

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 documentary film The Living Fire (2014) by Ostap Kostiuk. Ukrainian with English subtitles. Professor Yuri Shevchuk will introduce the film and moderate the discussion. This stunningly beautiful and poetic film chronicles three generations of Ukrainian Carpathian shepherds who struggle to keep their ancient trade alive in the face…

“How (Not) to Make a Scene (With Words)” Conference

This event will recur Every Day until Mar. 23, 2018 Deutsches Haus at NYU and the NYU Department of German present "How (Not) to Make a Scene (With Words)." A full conference schedule is available here. Henry James’s A Small Boy and Others features a primal scene (Urszene) of making a scene: his aunt tells his cousin Marie, who does not want to go to bed,…

Tinghir-Jerusalem

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

Film in French, with English subtitles. To RSVP, please click here. Director Kamal Hachkar goes in search of a community that has vanished. A Berber Muslim born in Tinghir, Morocco and raised in France, Hachkar would return to Tinghir every summer with his family, but it would be years before he discovered that the town once had a thriving Jewish community.…

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Film Faction: Effi Briest

Deutsches Haus Columbia 420 West 116th Street, New York City, NY, United States

Oder: Viele, die eine Ahnung haben von ihren Möglichkeiten und Bedürfnissen und dennoch das herrschende System in ihrem Kopf akzeptieren durch ihre Taten und es somit festigen und durchaus bestätigen. 1974. Germany. Directed by Rainer Werner Fassbinder. With Hannah Schygulla, Wolfgang Schenck, Ulli Lommel, Karlheinz Böhm, etc. Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s Effi Briest (1974) does not merely take up the setting, characters, and…

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Oleksiy Lytvynenko: Silence

Ukrainian Institute of America 2 East 79th Street, New York, NY, United States

Reception for the artist: Friday, March 23 from 6:00–8:00 PM Please RSVP to attend. Art at the Institute is pleased to present Silence, an exhibition of paintings by Ukrainian artist Oleksiy Lytvynenko. Curated by Walter Hoydysh, PhD, director of Art at the Institute, this is the artist’s first solo exhibition with The Ukrainian Institute of America. Mr. Lytvyneko will be present at the…

Screening: The Tiger and the Snow (2005, Roberto Benigni)

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

This screening is part of the Center for Applied Liberal Arts' Spring 2018 Film Series From the Other Side: Foreign War Films. Click here for the complete calendar of screenings. La tigre e la neve (The Tiger and the Snow) (Italy, 2005, 116 min.) In ITALIAN with ENGLISH subtitles Written, directed and starring Roberto Benigni With Nicoletta Braschi, Jean Reno, Tom Waits Traditionally, war films tell only one…