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Screening: Lettera al Presidente (Letter to the President)

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

Screening of the film Lettera al Presidente (Letter to the President) (2013, Italy, Documentary, 74 min.) In ITALIAN with ENGLISH subtitles. Directed by Marco Santarelli. Written by Teresa Bertilotti and Marco Santarelli. Followed by a conversation with Teresa Bertilotti. On the grounds of the residence of Italy’s president, three men are listening to a guide who is explaining the history of the gardens. Who are these three men? To…

Wrestling with Shylock: Jewish Responses to the Merchant of Venice

YIVO Institute for Jewish Research 15 West 16th Street, NYC, New York City, NY, United States

Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice occupies a unique place in world culture. As the fictional, albeit iconic, character of Shylock has been interpreted as exotic outsider, social pariah, melodramatic villain and tragic victim, the play, which has been performed and read in dozens of languages, has served as a lens for examining ideas and images of the Jew at various historical moments.…

$5 – $10

Polish Poet Ryszard Krynicki at PEN World Voices Festival

Ryszard Krynicki is one of Poland's most important living poets. For decades he has fought for freedom of speech and expression, battling against censorship in the days before democracy returned to Poland. Previously little-known in the English-speaking world, two major collections of his poetry have just been released. Our Life Grows, first published in 1978, was so politically incendiary to the…

Synagogues in Hungary—Genealogy, Typology and Architectural Significance

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

Rudolf Klein, professor of modern architectural history at Szent István University, Budapest, will give a talk on his new book, Synagogues in Hungary, 1867–1918 (Central European University Press, 2017). This is the first comprehensive study that systematically covers all synagogues in Hungary from the Edict of Tolerance by Joseph II to the end of World War I. Unlike prior attempts, dealing with…

$10

La Rhétorique des Dieux – Concert

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

CATHERINE LIDDELL, Baroque lute Tickets and details:  showclix.com/event/la-rhetorique-des-dieux Born out of the salons of the Grand Siècle, the 1652 manuscript called La Rhétorique des Dieux by Denis Gaultier offers an impressive synthesis of music, mythology, engraving, gold work, prose, and poetry. Weaving ravishing music with the spoken word, Boston-based lutenist Catherine Liddell mines the mythological roots of lute repertoire of Versailles, one golden…

$20 – $100

Irish Institute Lecture: Senator George Mitchell

Rosenthal Pavilion, Kimmel Center for University Life 60 Washington Square South

RESERVE TICKETS April 2018 marks the twentieth anniversary of Belfast's Good Friday Agreement. Senator George Mitchell, who played a pivotal role in this peace settlement, will reflect on how this historic milestone came to pass. Funding to endow this lecture series has been generously granted by the Irish Institute of New York, which has been dedicated to the support and promotion…

Free

Reluctant Monopolists: Religious Regulation and Political Mobilization in Central Asia

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

On Wednesday, April 18th please join us for a talk on “Reluctant Monopolists: Religious Regulation and Political Mobilization in Central Asia” with Pauline Jones Luong from the University of Michigan. This event is part of the Occasional Series, sponsored by the NYU Jordan Center for the Advanced Study of Russia. What is the relationship between religious regulation, religiosity, and political mobilization? According…

The State(s) We’re In: A New Age of Transatlantic Relations — Threats to Democracy

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

When Francis Fukuyama wrote about “the end of history” after the fall of the Berlin Wall and the end of the Cold War, he contended that Western liberal democracy is the “final form of human government.” Yet by all accounts, the past few years have witnessed a global backlash against liberal democracy. Most alarmingly, Western liberal democracies are facing threats…

Free

Performing Archaeology: The 1906-07 Fêtes de Carthage and a Vision of Empire

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

The pageants or fêtes de Carthage held in 1906 and 1907 were many things: a celebration of recent archaeological finds in the protectorate of Tunisia, including the Roman theatre in which they were held; an assertion of France’s place in a lineage of imperial conquest extending back over two millennia; and a demonstration of the cultural prowess of the members of the…