Festival Neue Literatur brings New York audiences new writing from Austria, Germany, Switzerland, and the United States, as the first and only festival to spotlight German-language and American fiction. The 2018 festival invites our authors to tackle questions of identity and belonging in a fracturing Europe and beyond, using race, religion, immigration, status, politics, and even football hooliganism as lenses to…
Welcoming remarks: Consul General of Italy, Francesco Genuardi Alessandra Stanley, journalist, and former New York Times bureau chief in Rome and Moscow, Mario Calvo-Platero, writer and columnist for La Stampa, in conversation with the author, Alain Elkann and Giorgio Barba Navaretti on history, memory, and family. Italian novelist, essayist, and journalist Alain Elkann follows the flight from fascist Italy of an…
Sephardic music from the 16th to the 20th centuries, by Alonso Mudarra, Wolf Simoni, Alberto Hemsi, Roberto Pla, Zhul Levy, and Paul Ben-Haim, performed by Heather Buck, soprano; Janice Meyerson, mezzo soprano; Valeriya Sholokhova, cello; Lorne Richstone, piano; with commentary by Dr. Raymond Scheindlin. Ticket Info: $18 general; $12 ASJM/AJHS/ASF/CJH members; $9 seniors, students at www.smarttix.com or 212-868-4444 Tickets: Available online
Moravian folk artists from Breclav (Czech Republic), "malerecky" Marie Svigrova and Dagmar Benesova (a founder of Folk Academy), will discuss and present the art of traditional Easter egg decorating design and techniques. Please note that THIS IS NOT a classical workshop! But, we encourage you to bring your own supplies, paper, and markers to take notes. The artists will stop…
America is a land of opportunity or is it? Join writer Kirstin Valdez Quade, poet Lawrence Joseph and author and publisher John Freeman as they discuss Tales of two Americas: Stories of Inequalities in A Divided Nation. This collection of short stories, poems, autobiographical texts offers us a framework to look at inequalities in the US in different terms, from different…
FRÉDÉRIC BEIGBEDER Writer, literary critic, television presenter; author of Windows on the World (Prix Interallié); L’Égoiste Romantique; Au Secours pardon; Un Roman français (Prix Renaudot); Oona & Salinger in conversation with OLIVIER BARROT Writer, journalist, television producer and host, Un Livre un jour (France 3 and TV5); author of L’Ami posthume; Le Fils perdu; La Revue Blanche; Un Livre un jour, un livre toujours; Mitteleuropa; United States In French Books available for sale Florence Gould…
Trump's recent decision to reduce Bears Ears—and continuing threats to the integrity of Chaco—represent a further assault on indigenous heritage and history in the United States. This symposium is intended to set out and to protest the scale of the potential for damage to these precious sites. Invited speakers include: Angelo Baca, Amalia Cordova, Sandy Grande, Carrie Heitman, Elizabeth Hutchinson, Honor…
To RSVP, please click here. Why is national integration achieved in some diverse countries, while others are destabilized by political inequality between ethnic groups, contentious politics, or even separatism and ethnic war? Traversing centuries and continents from early nineteenth-century Europe and Asia to Africa from the turn of the twenty-first century to today, Andreas Wimmer delves into the forces that encourage…
On the occasion of the tenth anniversary celebrations of the creation of the Union for the Mediterranean and after the Conference "Perspectives on Sustainable Development Cooperation Towards the Eradication of Poverty and Youth Unemployment in the Mediterranean Sea Area”at the General Secretariat ONU, the concert “Amen Amin Aman” inaugurates the 2018 series of cultural events dedicated to the Promotion of…
Please join us for a screening of the documentary film The Saline: In the Net, a co-production of the Center for Investigative Journalism of Montenegro (CIN-CG) and TV Vijesti, followed by a discussion with one of its screenwriters, Milka Tadić Mijović. Run time: 38 minutes English subtitles The Saline: In the Net highlights the corruption that threatens to destroy one of the most important…