Tatiana Smoliarova – A wondrous linkage: around one metaphor in early Karamzin

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

Please join us on Wednesday, February 20th, for a talk by Tatiana Smoliarova of the University of Toronto. This event is part of the Occasional Series, sponsored by the NYU Jordan Center for the Advanced Study of Russia. “A clever machine, a wondrous linkage/ Of countless wheels, a product of the mind…” – Nikolai Karamzin used this mechanical image to describe the…

Adventures in Italian Opera with Fred Plotkin

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

A Conversation with Nadine Sierra The fourth Adventure in Italian Opera with Fred Plotkin of this season features American soprano Nadine Sierra, performing this season at The Metropolitan Opera in Verdi's Rigoletto. In ENGLISH. From the Casa Italiana Zerilli-Marimo. 

A Woman Looking at Men Looking at Women

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

On Wednesday, February 20, join prize-winning writer Siri Hustvedt and French novelist Clémence Boulouque as they discuss Hustvedt’s compelling and radical collection of essays on art, feminism, neuroscience, psychology, and philosophy. Why is there such a wide chasm between the world of literary intellectuals and that of empirical scientists? In A Woman Looking at Men Looking at Women, Hustvedt, encouraged by…

Marco Fusi / Kukuruz Quartet

Italian Academy (Columbia) 1161 Amsterdam Avenue, New York City, NY, United States

This concert is featured in The New York Times' "8 Classical Music Concerts to See in N.Y.C. This Weekend" Marco Fusi, violin, viola d’amore Kukuruz Quartet: Philip Bartels, Duri Collenberg, Simone Keller, Lukas Rickli Guest appearance by Adam Tendler Salvatore Sciarrino: Fra sé Giacinto Scelsi: Xnoybis I, II, III Sciarrino: Capriccio di una corda John Cage: The ten thousand things…

Film: The Return Across Borders

Scandinavia House 58 Park Avenue, New York City, NY, United States

In this docu-fictional film, two Danish-Korean adoptees, Karoline and Thomas, separately return to the country they were born in to seek out answers about their birth parents, where they meet at a guesthouse for returning Koreans. As they each embark on their own personal quests for answers, they also begin seeking out the personal stories of fellow adoptees who they…

The ‘Permanent Crisis’ of Migration by Sea: Maritime Border Control as a Form of Persecution

114 Avery Hall 1172 Amsterdam Avenue, New York City, NY

The ‘permanent crisis’ narrative employed by destination countries in Europe, North America, and Australia, has allowed them to structuralise ‘exceptional’ measures as part of their domestic apparatuses of border control in their war against irregular migration. (…) These initiatives have a well-documented negative impact on the rights of ‘boat migrants’ and fail to address the root causes of displacement. Instead,…

Rhythm is the Cure

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

Tambourine & Frame Drum Workshop Final Performance Final performance by the participants in the free workshop Rhythm Is the Cure Hands-On Tambourine & Frame Drum Workshop Taught by Internationally renowned singer and percussionist Alessandra Belloni REMO Signature Series Artist Based on her book & DVD Rhythm is the Cure with Mel Bay Publications The workshop takes place at Casa Italiana on: Wednesday,…

Karel Ruzicka Quartet: Grace & Gratitude

Bohemian National Hall 321 E 73rd St., New York, NY, United States

Fourteen years after his first solo album came out, he now brings out his new recording, entitled "Grace & Gratitude." The lineup whom he has invited to work with him in the studio is exceptional: John Patitucci on the double bass, Jon Cowherd on the piano and Nate Smith on the drums form a veritable “all-stars” team to whom the…

Lecture: Chris Gratien

Richard Ettinghouse Library 255 Sullivan St., New York, NY, United States

From the Center for European and Mediterranean Studies at NYU

The Second Exchange: The Treaty of Lausanne and the Deportation of Greek Americans

Hagop Kevorkian Center 255 Sullivan Street, New York City, NY, United States

During the 1920s and 30s, the US deported thousands of Greeks, and the Convention Concerning the Exchange of Greek and Turkish Populations at Lausanne (1923) inadvertently aided in the process. But was the role of the postwar international system in this "second exchange" mere coincidence? This paper explores how the Treaty of Lausanne enabled the US to deport Ottoman Greek…