Angela Schanelec in person February 7 & 8 German director Angela Schanelec’s films have a rhythm and tone all their own—mysterious yet moving, they unearth the metaphysics rumbling beneath the placid surface of everyday life. Her work with actors is like that of no other filmmaker, a radical approach to performance that draws on her own background in theater traditions…
February 11, 2020, 4:00-8:00pm –gallery talks in conjunction with the Portable Landscapes: Memories and Imaginaries of Refugee Modernism exhibit: 4:00 pm - Introduction by exhibition curators Inga Lace and Solvita Krese, Andra Silapetere and Katherine Carl. 4:20 pm - Judy Blum Reddy in conversation with curators Inga Lace, Solvita Krese, Andra Silapetere and Katherine Carl. 5:00 pm - Discussion about younger generation Latvian art…
Special Guest: Lella Costa 2020 marks the 100th birthday of Franca Valeri, the legendary Italian playwright and actress, the first to make a name for herself by writing and doing comedy in Italy. KIT - Kairos Italy Theater - and Casa Italiana Zerilli-Marimò are celebrating women in comedy with three events: Women in Comedy in Italian Theater (February 11), Women in Comedy in Italian-American Theater (March…
Historian Joshua Teplitsky will introduce his new book about one of the world's largest collections of Jewish books, and the man who used his collection to cultivate power, prestige, and political influence. David Oppenheim (1664–1736), chief rabbi of Prague in the early eighteenth century, built an unparalleled collection of Jewish books and manuscripts, all of which have survived and are…
Join for a talk with Alexandra Gillies about her new book, Crude Intentions: How Oil Corruption Contaminates the World (Oxford University Press, January 2020). Crude Intentions examines the corruption crisis that erupted during the 2008 to 2014 oil boom, when nine trillion dollars in new money flooded the oil-producing world. Observing the oil boom is like placing a drop of dye in…
Europa’s Opera: Three Acts is a collaboration among three of NYU’s International Houses: NYU Casa Italiana Zerilli-Marimò, Deutsches Haus at NYU, and La Maison Française of NYU, and will showcase productions by three of New York City’s most innovative opera companies. In the late 16th century, in what could be described as a revolutionary act, a group of intellectuals, from an array of different…
Join the Ukrainian Studies Program and Razom for Ukraine for an evening with Ukrainian writer Artem Chekh. The event will feature readings by Mr. Chekh from his landmark 2017 book Tochka Nul (Absolute Zero), a lyrical diary capturing his experiences as a soldier in the Donbas war. The book was translated into English by Olena Jennings and Oksana Lutsyshyna and will be…
WED—February 12—7 PM, free RSVP In tonight’s event, ASF Visiting Lecturer Tom Syring will discuss the unprecedented rise of people who have been forcefully displaced and the challenges posed by these patterns, as well as the complex issues behind responses by states and regional organizations in the Americas and Europe. In the past five years, the world has witnessed an…
Join the Harriman Institute and the Russian Film Club for a screening of the 2015 film The Land of Oz, directed by Vasily Sigarev. This event is part of the Russian Cinema Between Protests Film Series, organized by Mark Lipovetsky (Slavic Department) and Daria Ezerova (Harriman Institute). The film has a runtime of 100 minutes and will be presented with English subtitles. SYNOPSIS: Blending Gogolian satire with absurdist poetics, this…
The Ukrainian Film Club of Columbia University presents a screening of the new documentary film The Earth Is Blue as an Orange (2020) followed by a Q&A with director Iryna Tsilyk. Russian and Ukrainian with English subtitles. Film runtime: 74 minutes. Anna is a single mother living under siege with her four children in the war zone of Donbas, Ukraine. While there are…