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Competing Truths: Art and the Objects of History after the Council of Trent

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

This is a two-day symposium to be jointly held at the Italian Academy and The Frick Collection and Frick Art Reference Library on November 15 and 16. The event will bring together scholars and museum professionals in order to investigate how Italian art helped to formulate competing truths in the long aftermath of the Council of Trent, and how the…

An-Magritt Liv Ullmann: A Celebration

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

In this adaptation of the Norwegian trilogy Bread of Night by Johan Falkberget, the young An-Magritt has cultivated exceptional survival skills from a young age. Orphaned by her mother’s suicide following public humiliiation for an affair with a soldier — and raised only by her grandfather — she has grown up in a harsh environment dominated by men, teaching herself…

$12

Saturday Art Workshop for Kids Motion With Sari Nordman

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

Scandinavia House presents Saturday Art Workshops for children ages 5 and up! This fall, kids will explore themes related to our exhibition Cutting Edges, with artist-led workshops that each address one of the central themes of concrete art explored in the Gallery show. Pure forms, colors, and principles of concrete art will invite us to experiment and explore new narratives in…

$12

The Singer’s Warsaw Festival of Jewish Culture

Lincoln Square Synagogue 180 Amsterdam Avenue, New York City, NY, United States

The Singer’s Warsaw Festival of Jewish Culture -- one of the most celebrated arts festivals in Poland -- returns to New York City, November 17–19, 2019 for the second year. The most highly anticipated event on Warsaw’s cultural calendar, this year’s local program features a cantorial concert by Yaakov Lemmer and Frank London, film screenings, readings of short stories by…

Lessons from the Propaganda Underground: How Cold War Optics Can Help Us Read Our World

1219 International Affairs Building 420 West 118th Street, New York City, United States

Featuring Margaret Peacock, University of Alabama.   The twentieth century witnessed the advent of modern propaganda. Many associate propaganda with the Nazi regime, with its vitriolic efforts to conjure militant hyper-nationalism and anti-Semitism. But far more pervasive and long lasting was the propaganda that characterized the Cold War that followed. Propagandists from the Soviet Union and the United States mobilized new…

International Law and the Negotiation of the Treaty of Paris (1783)

The European Institute at Columbia University 420 W 118th St #1205, New York City, United States

The European History & Politics Workshop is supported by the European Institute at Columbia University. The workshop will meet on select Mondays over the course of the academic year at Columbia University (Philosophy 302) from 12:00pm-1:30pm. Participants will discuss pre-circulated work-in-progress over a light lunch. Please note that these workshops are by invitation only. If you are interested in attending,…

Book Talk. Strategic Frames: Europe, Russia, and Minority Inclusion in Estonia and Latvia by Jennie L. Schulze

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

Join the Program on U.S.-Russia Relations at the Harriman Institute for a talk with Jennie L. Schulze, author of Strategic Frames: Europe, Russia, and Minority Inclusion in Estonia and Latvia(University of Pittsburgh Press, 2018). Strategic Frames analyzes minority policies in Estonia and Latvia following their independence from the Soviet Union. It weighs the powerful influence of both Europe and Russia on their policy…

The Righteous Gypsy

Center for Jewish History 15 W. 16th Street, New York City, NY, United States

Directed by Jakov & Dominik Sedlar and Pravednica Ciganka, this 2016 short film tells the story of the only Gypsy woman honored by Israel as a "Righteous amongst the Nations." Ticket Info: $10 general at bpt.me/4333932 or 800-838-3006  

Poetry from Al-Andalus to the Romansas

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

We continue the conversation on poetry from the perspective of Spanish Jewish practitioners. Isabelle Levy, Tamar Menashe, and Raymond P. Scheindlin will read poems in some of the languages of Sephardi Jews and discuss the interconnected histories of secular Hebrew poetry of al-Andalus, the Judeo-Spanish romansas which drew upon Castilian and Galician-Portuguese tropes, and the contiguous poetic practices in Arabic…

Celan in Israel: A Conversation between Ulrich Baer and Amir Eshel

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

Deutsches Haus at NYU presents a conversation between Professor Ulrich Baer (New York University) and Professor Amir Eshel (Stanford University) on Paul Celan’s visit to Israel in 1969 and on how Israel (past and present) could be seen through the poet's work. Photo of Paul Celan About the event: In 1969, the poet Paul Celan, who upended modern poetry with…