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An Evening of Mediterranean and Balkan Music

Los Corassones Avlan 148 W. 4th Street, New York City, NY, United States

Daphna Mor (voice, winds, percussion) and Adam Good (oud) return to Los Corassones Avlan with an intimate acoustic musical performances inspired by the tradition of families, women and neighbors sitting together to make music, on Saturday night in Rhodes. The crossover of melodies includes Turkish, Greek, Judeo-español, Balkan and Mediterranean as well as liturgical hymns – Piyutim -from the Synagogue and…

Cultural Diplomacy and Conflict Resolution

Columbia International Affairs Building 420 W. 118th St., New York, NY, United States

Cultural Diplomacy and Conflict Resolution Featuring Helena Finn Visiting Scholar, Institute for the Study of Human Rights, Columbia University & Former Minister-Counselor for Public Affairs, U.S. Embassy in Berlin Dr. Helena Kane Finn is a former career diplomat of the Department of State who served as Minister-Counselor for Public Affairs at the U.S. Embassy in Berlin; as Counselor for Public…

Cultural Diplomacy and Conflict Resolution

Marshall D. Shulman Seminar Room 420 W 118th Street, #1219 International Affairs Building, New York City, NY, United States

Join the European Institute, the Harriman Institute, the Department of History, and the Institute for the Study of Human Rights for a talk organized by Professor Victoria Phillips, featuring Helena Finn, Visiting Scholar at the Institute for the Study of Human Rights. Registration is required. Please click here to register. Dr. Helena Kane Finn is a former career diplomat of the Department of…

The Humanities and the Sciences

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

Their Epistemologies A lecture by Richard Foley, NYU Introduction by Maria Luisa Ardizzone (NYU) Respondent: Jane Tylus (Yale) Should inquiries in the basic sciences and the humanities have different aims? Here are two closely related questions: Are the values informing these inquiries typically different and should they be? In his book, The Geography of Insight: The Sciences, the Humanities, How They Differ,…

Miss Julie: Evening With Liv Ullmann

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

In celebration of Liv Ullmann, recipient of the 2019 ASF Gold Medal, Scandinavia House presents two special evenings with the acclaimed actress and director, followed by a retrospective of her roles and work with leading auteurs. At tonight’s event, Liv Ullmann returns to present and discuss her last cinematic project as a director, the 2014 film Miss Julie /Frøken Julie, based…

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The Future of the EU and the European Project

Woolworth Building 233 Broadway, New York, NY, United States

The Future of the EU and the European Project Co-sponsored with NYU Center for European and Mediterranean Studies Thursday, November 14, 6.30 - 7.45 pm RSVP here 15 years ago, ten countries joined the European Union, making the bloc of 28 the second largest economy in the world and a co-pillar of the liberal international order and its collective security…

Denis’s Drifting Bodies – Elisabeth Hodges

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

"This paper analyzes Claire Denis’s first English-language film, High Life (2018) and the effects of spatial-temporal drift on filmic and human bodies. Set in the not distant future, the director’s interstellar story tacitly evokes the films of Andrei Tarkovsky and Stanley Kubrick, yet the look of High Life departs from the familiar stark white palette of the science fiction genre colored…

The 21st Annual Ernie O’ Malley Lecture: Ambassador Daniel Mulhall

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

Declaring Independence: USA 1776, Ireland 1919 Ambassador Daniel Mulhall will address the relationship between Ireland and the United States with emphasis on the countries’ Declarations of Independence for which Ireland celebrates its 100th anniversary in 2019. Ambassador Mulhall took up duty as Ireland's 18th Ambassador to the United States in August 2017. He joined the Department of Foreign Affairs in…

Film: Czech Student Uprisings – 1960s and 1980s

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

A documentary exploring the role of students in Czechoslovakia during the twists and turns of history in the 1960s and 1980s. The two-part film, directed by the noted Olga Sommerova, compares the roles of students in the protest movements of the 1960s and 1980s in Communist Czechoslovakia, draws parallels between them, and sheds light on the less-researched chapters of these…

Talk by Johannes Lehmann (Bonn): Rage, Borders, Masculinity – The Political of Anger and the Politics of Affect (in the New Rightist Mouvement)

Deutsches Haus Columbia 420 West 116th Street, New York City, NY, United States

Johannes Lehmann (Bonn): Rage, Borders, Masculinity - The Political of Anger and the Politics of Affect (in the New Rightist Mouvement) Against the background of a theory of political rage, the lecture develops the thesis that the imaginary of boundaries, of masculinity and the call for more rage and anger (thymos), as expressed from the political ‚right‘, form a strong…