a musical about Ignacy Jan Paderewski conceived by James Fluhr, Zoe Sarnak, and Ellie Heyman Between 28 November and 6 December seven extraordinary one-act musicals inspired by the figure and legacy of Ignacy Jan Paderewski will be presented to American audience. Focused on different aspects of his biography, they adopt diverse ways of bringing the famous composer back on stage.…
Wincent Weiss, one of the most successful newcomers in the German music scene, is launching his first North-America tour in early December and will stop for one night in New York City! Sponsored by the Goethe-Institut and the Initiative PASCH-Schools: Partners for the Future to celebrate the 10th anniversary of the initiative, the tour takes the rising star through Canada, the US and Mexico.…
Room 501, Hamilton Hall Presenter: Emilio Cocco (Università degli studi di Teramo, Italy-American University of Rome) Respondent: Naor Ben-Yehoyada (Columbia University) Moderator: Konstantina Zanou (Columbia University) In this talk—based on my book “I confini nel mare" (2016), co-authored with Fabiana Dimpflmeier—I will discuss the national self-representations and the description of otherness as they appear in the logbooks and diaries written by Italian Navy officers on duty in…
Vittorio De Sica (1948) In conjunction with the exhibition NeoRealismo: The New Image in Italy, 1932-1960 Ladri di biciclette (Italy, 1948, 89 min.) In ITALIAN with ENGLISH subtitles Directed by Vittorio De Sica Starring Lamberto Maggiorani, Enzo Staiola Introduced by Ara Merjian, NYU. Hailed as one of the greatest movies ever made, Vittorio De Sica’s Bicycle Thieves (1948) defined an era in cinema.…
Part of the film series "Blackness in French and Francophone Film" organized by the Columbia Maison Française and co-sponsored by the School of the Arts. Kena helps her father John Mwaura run a small convenience store in Nairobi as he campaigns for a local election. Kena lives with her mother, who isn't really on speaking terms with John. Kena starts…
Following his appearance at the New Literature from Europe Festival in New York, Jacek Dehnel will be touring three major US cities to promote Aperture, his first full-length poetry collection in English translation, as well as the translation of his novel Lala. Joining him on the tour will be acclaimed translator Karen Kovacik and Dehnel’s husband and sometime co-author Piotr…
With Morgane Cadieu (French, Yale), Minayo Nasiali (History, UCLA), and comments by Tony Haouam (French and French Studies, NYU). Morgane Cadieu is Assistant Professor of French at Yale University. She specializes in 20th and 21st century prose, randomness in literature and philosophy, space studies and materialism. The manuscript of her first book on Georges Perec, Samuel Beckett, Anne Garréta, Italo Calvino and Sophie Calle is called Marcher au hasard: déterminisme, clinamen…
Since making his first film nearly 30 years ago, Academy Award–winning director Pawel Pawlikowski has established himself as one of the most accomplished and adventurous filmmakers working today. Born in Warsaw, Poland, he emigrated to England as a teenager, and made his first films there—documentaries with peripatetic themes and titles (From Moscow to Pietushki: A Journey with Benedict Yerofeyev, Dostoevsky's…
To RSVP, please click here. Singing and workshop discussion with Anne Stone, Associate Professor of Music at CUNY Graduate Center This song lab includes singing from original notation at 5 P.M., followed by discussion of a paper by Anne Stone that will be precirculated for discussion. For more information and to get a copy of the paper please write to Eliza Zingesser…
The Story of a Chinese Patriarch Through the Eyes of His Italian Daughter-in-Law Goong-Goong: From Tuscany to Shanghai The Story of a Chinese Patriarch Through the Eyes of His Italian Daughter-in-Law Author Patrizia Chen in conversation with Nancy Yao Maasbach (Museum of Chinese in America) Goong-Goong is a remarkable book. Not exactly a memoir, or history, and not really even about its…