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Roving Revolutionaries: Armenians & Connected Revolutions in the Russian, Iranian, & Ottoman Worlds

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

Three of the formative revolutions that shook the early 20th century world occurred almost simultaneously in regions bordering one another. Though the Russian, Iranian, and Young Turk Revolutions all exploded between 1904 and 1911, they have never been studied through their linkages until now. Roving Revolutionaries probes the interconnected aspects of these three revolutions through the involvement of the Armenian…

Poetryfest

Irish Arts Center 553 West 51st Street, New York City, NY, United States

Curated by Nick Laird Presented in association with Glucksman Ireland House NYU Journey into an orbit of ideas and thoughts with some of the world’s most eminent poets from Ireland and North America. This year’s festival features a special tribute to Seamus Heaney in celebration of the US publication of 100 Poems, a seminal anthology of his work, and an exhibition of Heaney…

Conference. Five Years of War in the Donbas: Cultural Responses and Reverberations

#1512 International Affairs Building 420 West 118th Street, New York City, NY, United States

Join the Ukrainian Studies Program at the Harriman Institute, Columbia University for the conference Five Years of War in the Donbas: Cultural Responses and Reverberations. The conference will gather an international array of scholars to discuss the diverse ways that Ukrainian culture has been stirred by the recent war between Ukraine and Russia in the Donbas. At the bottom of…

Nov. 1 The Last Knight: The Art, Armor, & Ambition of Maximilian I, a Conversation with Pierre Terjanian

Remarque Institute 60 Fifth Avenue, 8th Floor, New York, NY, United States

A lunchtime conversation on the current Habsburg armor exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art with Curator Pierre Terjanian and Brigitte Bedos-Rezak, New York University Thomas DaCosta Kaufmann, Princeton University Elizabeth Pilliod, Rutgers University Pamela Smith, Columbia University Larry Wolff, New York University

Music concert by Dylan Band and Joe Block Duo: From Duke to Debussy

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

To RSVP, please click here. Presented as part of the Music Performance Program, by the Department of Music and Maison Française. Program: All Too Soon (Duke Ellington) Reflections in D (Ellington) Nuages (Claude Debussy) Melancholia (Ellington) Voiles (Debussy) Prelude to a Kiss (Ellington) Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune (Debussy) Take the “A” train (Billy Strayhorn) Dylan Band is a 22-year-old saxophonist…

Tom Quinlan Lecture in Poetry

Glucksman Ireland House NYU One Washington Mews, New York City, NY, United States

For the eighth year, Glucksman Ireland House will welcome the winner of one of the poetry world’s most coveted prizes, the Seamus Heaney Centre for Poetry Prize for First Full Collection as judged by a select committee at Queens University Belfast. This year’s judges were Professor Nick Laird, Chair of Creative Writing at the Seamus Heaney Centre; Professor Edna Longley, critic and Professor…

Arrigo Boito

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

The Librettist Composes What Makes It Italian? Discovering National Character in Music is a music listening and discussion group that meets at Casa Italiana and is open to everyone. Participation is free. The group is led by Gina Crusco, who guides listening at Bard LLI and Riverdale Y, and who has been music instructor at The New School and director of…

Nov. 1 The Mews French Book Club – With Author Catherine Cusset – Nov. 1

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

Celebrated French writer Catherine Cusset leads a French Book Club, exploring new tendencies in French and Francophone literature in a relaxed setting. Discussion is in French. The new series takes place at La Maison Française of NYU on several Friday evenings from 6:00 to 7:30 p.m. Fall semester dates and titles to be discussed are: Friday, September 27:  Edouard Louis, Qui a tué mon père? Friday, November 1:  Annie…

“Earth’s Mantle is Hot and Partially Molten:” An Evening with Nina Bußmann and Eric Jarosinski

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

Deutsches Haus at NYU presents a reading by the author and current writer-in-residence at Deutsches Haus at NYU, Nina Bußmann, from her recent novel Earth's Mantle is Hot and Partially Molten, followed by a conversation with the acclaimed Germanist, writer and mastermind of @neinquarterly, Eric Jarosinski. Cover of book "Earth's Mantle is Hot and Partially Molten" About the book: On…

Evening of Jazz with Fima Chupakhin Quintet: Album Release Show

Ukrainian Institute of America 2 East 79th Street, New York, NY, United States

The Ukrainian Institute of America presents An Evening of Jazz with Fima Chupakhin Quintet: Album Release Show Serhiy Avanesov – sax  ∙  Taulant Mehmeti – guitar James Robbins – bass  ∙  Jonathan Barber – drums Fima Chupakhin – piano  Special guest – TBA Friday, November 1, 2019 Doors open at 6:30 pm, the show starts at 7:00 pm General Admission:…