In his autobiography The Odyssey of An Apple Thief, Moishe Rozenbaumas takes us through his fascinating life, starting with his boyhood in pre-war Lithuania, with a focus on the most impoverished part of the Jewish population, rarely accounted for in the books written by survivors after the war. Join us for an event celebrating the release of a new English…
Please join us for a seminar on contemporary political poetry in Russian with leading European, Russian, and US experts. Presentations will be in English and Russian. The seminar is organized by the Harriman Institute in collaboration with the DFG-Centre for Advanced Studies Russian-Language Poetry in Transition project. Russian political poetry is back, and the spectrum of political subjects nowadays is broader than ever, including questions…
Antonio Rovaldi in conversation with Dr. Steven Handel For this artist talk, organized by Magazzino Italian Art and Casa Italiana Zerilli-Marimò in collaboration with GAMeC - Galleria d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Bergamo, Italian artist Antonio Rovaldi presents his photographic series, End. Words from the Margins. New York City, winner of the 5th edition of the Italian Council, and his book, The Sound of the Woodpecker Bill: New York City.…
A concert with Dan Franklin Smith (piano) and Gregorij von Leitis (recitation) presenting the last compositions, which the Austrian-Jewish composer Viktor Ullmann was able to finish in the ghetto and concentration camp Theresienstadt, before he was transported to Auschwitz and killed there. His melodram "The Lay of Love and Death of Cornet Christoph Rilke" for recitation and piano is hauntingly…
In 1915 Vladimir Mayakovsky shocked the Russian poetry scene with his epic poem “Cloud in Pants.” One hundred years later Vadim Astrakhan has not only translated the poem into English in his trademark “modernizing / universalizing” fashion, but also put it on film. In this film he recites the poem in both Russian and English against a vibrant and unique visual background that…
The Art of Political Indoctrination PROPAGANDA The Art of Political Indoctrination in Italy, 1902-1950 Works from the Fondazione Massimo and Sonia Cirulli Curated by Nicola Lucchi, CUNY Queens College NYU Advisors Ruth Ben-Ghiat; Valentina Castellani; Ara Merjian Opening: March 4, 2020 6:00pm Exhibition viewing 6:30pm Panel Discussion featuring the curator and advisors 7:30pm Reception On view through April 17, 2020 Mon-Fri 10-6 Casa Italiana Zerilli-Marimò…
Laurence Engel was appointed President of the National Library of France (Bibliothèque nationale de France) and took up her post on April 11, 2016. A graduate of ENS (Ecole Normale Supérieure) Fontenay-aux-Roses, IEP (Institut d’Etudes Politiques) and ENA (Ecole Nationale d’Administration), she is a member of the Cour des Comptes (French Court of Audit). Laurence Engel has spent her career in…
With mezzo-soprano Blythe Gaissert; works by Luciano Berio, Caterina di Cecca, and Tania León In residency this season at the Italian Academy, Ensemble Échappé, New York's “polished, ambitious young sinfonietta” (The New Yorker), is offering two concerts and an opera premiere performed over four evenings in February, March, and April. The Ensemble's 20 virtuoso musicians, led by Artistic Directors Benjamin Grow (conductor)…
Centro Primo Levi Editions is pleased to announce the English language publication of Efratia Gitai: Correspondence 1929–1994, with a stage reading of a selection of the letters featuring Barbara Sukowa, Ronald Gutman and pianist Yali Levi Schwartz. Born in 1909 in Haifa to Russian Zionist parents, Efratia Gitai was “the eldest daughter” of the Second Aliyah, the second wave of Jewish immigrants to Ottoman Palestine. Her…
Please join us for a talk with Dragan Kujundžić (University of Florida) about Sergei Shnurov's rock group Leningrad. In 2016, Sergei Shnurov and his group Leningrad released two now-famous video clips, "Exponat" and "V Pitere pit’", which were viewed almost 200 million times in 2016. This occasioned an opportunity for Professor Kujundžić to meet with Sergei Shnurov in St. Petersburg in December…