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Civic Education In The US & France: Confronting Hatred and Threats to Democracy

Teachers College Columbia 525 W 120th St, New York, NY, United States

The conference will explore the teaching of civic education in France and the United States within the larger context of citizenship, identity, and immigration. How do our schools--institutions charged with preparing students to be civic participants--confront racism, discrimination, antisemitism, and extremism? This conference will bring together educators from France and the U.S. to discuss how to improve civic education and better prepare…

Exhibit Opening. Listen to Silence and Speak: The Leningrad Underground and Joseph Brodsky

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

Exhibit runs March 26 – May 10, 2019. Exhibit hours are Monday–Friday, 9:30AM – 5:00PM excluding university holidays. Please join us for a reception in celebration of the opening of the exhibit Listen to Silence and Speak: The Leningrad Underground and Joseph Brodsky, a photography exhibit curated by Natasha Sharymova. “In the late 1950s I met and befriended a group of young artists and poets. I devoted all my…

Language and Politics: Let’s Tell It Like It Is

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

Deutsches Haus at NYU and the Center for European and Mediterranean Studiespresents a conversation among Anastasia Colosimo, Wolfgang Freitag, and Christian Martin about "Politics and Language: Let's Tell It Like It Is." Language and politics are two spheres that, intuitively, seem to be closely intertwined. Yet, their exact relationship is open to contestation, thus becoming a matter of politics itself. In the most…

Nordic Journalist Panel: Approaches To Immigration

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

This Tuesday, Nordic-U.S. journalists based in NYC join Scandinavia House for a conversation on the changing landscape of immigration policies in the United States and in their home countries. What trends do they see as journalists occurring in Scandinavia and in the U.S.?  What challenges do they face, as foreign journalists, reporting in the U.S. compared to their own nations?…

Divine Diamonds: Gender, Embodiment, and Movement in the French Banlieue – Margaret C. Flinn

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

Two recent French films (Divines, Benyamina, 2016; Bande de filles, Sciamma), directed by women and featuring racially and ethnically marked girls’ bodies in movement, have achieved notable critical and popular success. Residents of the Parisian banlieue, these girls share a heritage of post/colonial immigration. This talk interrogates how these films represent gendered bodies and how those bodies are offered to be seen, but…

Ariadne and the Minotaur

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

Symbolic & Literal Labyrinth in Elena Ferrante's "My Brilliant Friend" A lecture by Stiliana Milkova, Oberlin College This talk explores Naples as the architectonic setting of Elena Ferrante’s novel My Brilliant Friend through the lens of classical mythology and urban sociology. It examines the city – and more specifically, the neighborhood or the rione – as a symbolic and literal…

Film: I Am Not Your Negro

La Maison Française (Columbia) Buell Hall, 515 West 116th Street, New York City, NY, United States

Raoul Peck, 2017, 93 minutes To RSVP, please click here. Haitian filmmaker Raoul Peck's brilliant documentary on racism in America is an essential work for our era, drawing a clear line from the Civil Rights struggle to today's Black Lives Matter movement via the thought of James Baldwin, one of the most lucid, fearless American thinkers on race (and many other matters).…

The 6-Minute Challenge, Vol.10!

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

Czech and Slovak artists, professionals, students, and scholars are challenged to introduce the subject of their project, research or studies in a short presentation limited to six minutes. In English. Suggested donation $5.00 Light refreshments. RSVP Moderated by Christopher Harwood, Ph.D., Columbia University Presenters: Jakub Lajmon (aerospace software), Martin Rybár (nuclear physics), Silvia Fishbaum (Jewish history), Jan Remšík (oncology), Maya…

Monsters

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

By David Del Tredici (world premiere) Performed by Eric Moe, piano, and Robert Frankenberry, actor Generally recognized as the father of the Neo-Romantic movement in music, David Del Tredici has received numerous awards and has been commissioned and performed by nearly every major American and European orchestral ensemble. He was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 1980 for In Memory of…

CWS Series | Conversation about the work of Kirmen Uribe

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

Kirmen Uribe is a Basque language writer, and one of the most relevant writers of his generation in Spain. He won the National Prize for Literature in Spain in 2009 for his first novel Bilbao-New York-Bilbao, a work that was acclaimed as a literary event. The languages into which the novel has been translated already exceed fifteen, including French (Gallimard),…