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WALKING TOUR Exploring Ladies Mile: A Look at the Merchants Who Built the City’s Grand Emporiums and the Fashionable Women Who Shopped There

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

Enjoy a storied stroll along Ladies Mile, a nine-block stretch once known for posh department stores and architectural grandeur. Join Esther Crain, writer of the award-winning Ephemeral New York blog and author of The Gilded Age in New York, 1870-1910, as she weaves in Jewish stories and Gilded Age tales about the people and places that once populated these historic blocks. Meet in the Center…

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Spoken Beats – Jurczok 1001

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

Deutsches Haus at NYU and the Consulate General of Switzerland New York present a spoken word performance by Jurczok 1001 and the book launch of Spoken Beats(Edition Patrick Frey, 2018). The performance will be followed by a conversation between the artist Roland Jurczok and Robert Cohen, Professor Emeritus of German Studies at NYU. Event Information Spoken Beats is Jurczok’s term for the way he presents his vision…

Gone Missing: A Conversation with Léonora Miano, Hisham Matar and Sam Sacks

Albertine 972 5th Avenue, New York, NY, United States

On Tuesday, September 18 at 6:30pm, join Cameroonian author Léonora Miano, Libyan writer Hisham Matar and Wall Street Journal literary critic Sam Sacks as they discuss the challenges of writing about those who have gone missing, based on their respective books, Season of Shadow (winner of the 2013 Femina Prize, Seagull Books), and The Return: Fathers, Sons, and the Land in between (winner of the 2017…

La gita a Tindari

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

Casa Italiana hosts this book club that meets once a month to discuss contemporary Italian books in Italian. The Club is open to anyone and its purpose is to offer the possibility to practice the Italian language. Everybody is encouraged to speak. The group suggests the books, usually by contemporary Italian authors, that reflect the changes that have taken place…

A Foreign Policy Forecast for the Balkan Peninsula in the Age of Presidents Vladimir V. Putin & Donald J. Trump

Harriman Institute 420 West 118th St., New York City, NY, United States

Please join us for a talk with Rudina Hajdari, a Member of Parliament aligned with the Democratic Party of Albania. Rudina Hajdari is a Member of Parliament aligned with the Democratic Party of Albania. She is also a member of the Foreign Policy Committee and the European Integration Committee. Her primary policy interest(s) surround human rights. Ms. Hajdari is a part-time lecturer at the…

GERMAN BOOK CLUB READS THOMAS MELLE

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

At the September German Book Club meeting we will discuss Thomas Melle's Die Welt im Rücken (Rowohlt, 2016, €9,99 ISBN: 978-3499272943). “If you’re bipolar, your life has no continuity anymore. The illness has wrecked your past, and it looms over your future even more threateningly. The life you knew is made more impossible with every manic episode. The person you think you…

The Blockbuster-Maker: Andrew Bolton in conversation with Grazia d’Annunzio

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

Andrew Bolton, Wendy Yu Curator in Charge of The Costume Institute of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, in conversation with Grazia d'Annunzio, special projects editor, Italian Vogue. The mastermind behind The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s successful Costume Institute exhibitions such as Alexander McQueen: Savage Beauty, China: Through the Looking Glass, Heavenly Bodies: Fashion and the Catholic Imagination, and many others, is a quintessential English scholar named Andrew Bolton, who happily transplanted in…

JUDGING MATTERS. THE CONSTITUTIONAL COURT IN CONTEXT

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

Deutsches Haus at NYU and New York University School of Law present a talk by the Hauser Distinguished Global Fellow, Justice Prof. Dr. Dr. hc. Susanne Baer, LL.M. on "Judging Matters. The Constitutional Court in Context," followed by a conversation with Dr. Christian Martin.  With the rule of law and democracy under pressure in many settings, constitutional law becomes more important…

The (Political) Forms of Technology

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

Industrial cinema in post WWII Italy aimed to present industrial facilities as active producers of wealth, development and democracy for the new Italian Republic. In particular, it wished to present Italian technical know-how and heavy industry as a young dynamic State, opposed to the traditional imagery of Italy as a sedated, immobilized country. Combining the style of old fascist propaganda with a more experimental language, industrial or corporate cinema established…

Miradas Paralelas (Parallel Looks). Iran-Spain: Photographers in the Mirror

King Juan Carlos I of Spain Center 53 Washington Square South, New York, United States

Conversation on the exhibit Miradas Paralelas/Parallel Looks. Iran-Spain: Photographers in the Mirror with curator Zara Fernández; photographers Soledad Córdoba (Spain) and Gohar Dashti (Iran); and Carmen Fernández-Távora, deputy director of the Three Cultures of the Mediterranean Foundation. The discussion will be in English and Spanish, with simultaneous interpretation in both languages. “Miradas Paralelas (Parallel Looks). Iran-Spain: Photographers in the Mirror,” curated by Zara Fernández…