Panorama Europe 2018, the 10th edition of the essential festival of new and vital European cinema, includes fiction and documentary works that present a portrait of contemporary Europe during a period of tremendous flux. The festival, which launched in 2009 by Czech Center New York, continues to give New Yorkers an eclectic overview of the current European film scene. In…
Deutsches Haus at NYU presents an open-air concert in our courtyard to celebrate our 41st HAUS-FEST fearuting Timo Vollbrecht FLY MAGIC. Concert information Saxophonist Timo Vollbrecht returns to Deutches Haus' HAUS-FEST, this time alongside his quartet FLY MAGIC (with guitarist Keisuke Matsuno, bassist Martin Nevin, and drummer Nathan Ellman-Bell). Their new album, Faces in Places, is available on Spotify. About the musicians Timo Vollbrecht is a…
A lecture by Bruce L. Edelstein (NYU). The Carmignano Visitation, a unique masterpiece by one of sixteenth-century Italy’s greatest painters, Jacopo da Pontormo, will be seen for the first time outside of Italy in the exhibition, Pontormo: Miraculous Encounters, at The Morgan Library & Museum in New York (September 7, 2018, to January 6, 2019) and The J. Paul Getty…
Polish-Jewish relations have once again become an important topic. In February this year, the Polish parliament passed a law making it an offence, with up to three years imprisonment or a fine, for anyone who accuses the Polish state or people of participating in the Holocaust or other Nazi crimes. This attempt to re-write history and criminalize historical discourse caused…
Written in 1940 as a radio play by the poet and dramatist Bertolt Brecht, The Trial of Lucullus features the Roman general Lucullus facing judgment by a People’s Court in the underworld. Norwegian artist Per-Oskar Leu revisits this lesser-known Brecht work through a participatory performance, offering a contemporary reflection on the artist’s relationship to legal institutions, politics, and ideology. From…
It is summer, and Antoine (Nicolas Cazalé) is forced to leave the city to return to his family in Provence. His father is sick, so he must assume the lifestyle he thought he had shed—driving the family grocery cart from hamlet to hamlet, delivering supplies to the few remaining inhabitants. Accompanied by Claire (Clotilde Hesme), a friend from Paris whom…
France as a Laboratory of Culture: An International Workshop This program is organized by French Cultural Studies and hosted by the Columbia Maison Française. PROGRAM: 9:15 AM: Welcome and Introduction 9:30 AM – 11:00 AM: Session A - Nicole Rudolph (Adelphi University): ‘The Innovative State: Eco-Quartiers as French Laboratories of “Green Culture”’ - Zachary R. Hagins (University of Arkansas at Little Rock): ‘#ClichéContreCliché: Instagram and the…
On Friday, September 7th please join us for a book talk with Hilary Appel (Claremont McKenna College) and Mitchell A. Orenstein (University of Pennsylvania) on From Triumph to Crisis: Neoliberal Economic Reform in Postcommunist Countries. Hilary Appel and Mitchell Orenstein will present their new book entitled From Triumph to Crisis: Neoliberal Economic Reform in Postcommunist Countries(Cambridge University Press 2018), which accounts for…
As part of the CALA Fall 2018 Film Series “The Immigrant Experience: Visions of Diaspora on Film in America and Abroad,” the NYU Center for Applied Liberal Arts and Deutsches Haus at NYU present a screening of the 2008 German film "The Edge of Heaven.", directed by Dir. Fatih Akin. This multi-layered drama follows the stories of six people, four Turks and two Germans, as they…
Due Process In 2013, Rodricus Crawford was convicted and sentenced to death in Louisiana. Held in Angola, he was the second-youngest man on death row. Three years later, the conviction was overturned, and Crawford was ultimately exonerated. Crawford will be joined by multidisciplinary artist jackie sumell and Columbia Law professor Brett Dignam for a panel discussion on the experience of solitary confinement and the challenges of…