The German Film Office is pleased to present Western by Valeska Grisebach as part of its monthly German Movie Nights series. An intense, slow-burning thriller, Western follows a group of German construction workers installing a hydroelectric plant in remote rural Bulgaria. The foreign land awakens the men’s sense of adventure, but tensions mount when Meinhard, the strong, silent newcomer to the group,…
This program of documentary shorts is both a stirring introduction to the Beninese/Senegalese filmmaker Paulin Soumanou Vieyra, considered the first sub-Saharan African film director and a rich overview of the period of African independence and nation-building. Vieyra’s 1955 essay film Africa on the Seine (co-directed with Mamadou Sarr) begins on the banks of the Niger but moves quickly to Paris, “the capital…
Music at the Institute (MATI) Concert Series presents “Dream in Spring” Juliette Kang, violin Solomiya Ivakhiv, violin Thomas Kraines, cello Che-Hung Chen, viola Amy Yang, piano PROGRAM: Serhiy Prokofiev (1891-1953) Sonata for Two Violins, Op. 56 Virko Baley (b. 1938) Three Songs Without Words for Violin and Piano, based on settings of poems by Emily Dickinson (2001); Partita No. 3…
In his Discourses on Livy, Machiavelli compared the act of imposing new political orders on an uncivilized population to the carving of a statue from a piece of rough marble: an allusion, according to many scholars, to Michelangelo’s David. Did Michelangelo respond in some way to Machiavelli’s allusion? The University of Pennsylvania is the joint producer of this series—through the Italian Studies section…
Sex, Love, and Letters is the first study of a virtually unexplored cache of letters to Simone de Beauvoir, the brilliant, magnetic, and polarizing French feminist and philosopher from ordinary women and men around the world. This author-reader bond was fraught with misunderstanding, thwarted desire, and illusions, but also, Judith Coffin argues, emphatically reciprocal.
This event will be held virtually as a Zoom webinar and streamed via YouTube Live. There will be no in-person event. Register here for the Zoom webinar, or tune in on YouTube Live. Please join the East Central European Center at the Harriman Institute for a presentation by Michalina Kmiecik (Jagiellonian University in Kraków). This event is part of the event series East Central Vanguard: New…
Read and discuss Scandinavian literature in translation as part of our Nordic Book Club, now online! Each month we select a novel from some of the best Nordic literary voices. Discussions have typically taken place the last Tuesday of the month at Scandinavia House but will now be taking place bi-weekly as an online meeting. Book club participants will all…
All concerts are first come, first served with limited capacity due to COVID-19 restrictions. Scroll down for more information about the program. The Harriman Institute is pleased to present the second in a series of three concerts by internationally acclaimed organist and recording artist Gail Archer. Part of the series A Slavic Celebration: Trio of Gail Archer Concerts, her performance…
Join us in discussing Gráinne de Búrca’s upcoming book, Reframing Human Rights in a Turbulent Era. In recent years, human rights have come under fire, with the rise of political illiberalism and the coming to power of populist authoritarian leaders in many parts of the world who contest and dismiss the idea of human rights.
On the occasion of the publication of The Philosophy of Julia Kristeva, ed. Sara G. Beardsworth, in The Library of Living Philosophers, Open Court Publishing Company, 2020 and of At the Risk of Thinking: An Intellectual Biography of Julia Kristeva, by Alice Jardine, Bloomsbury Publishing, 2020.
