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A residency by Ensemble Échappé

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

Two concerts and an opera premiere over four evenings Two concerts and an opera premiere performed over four evenings by a group of soloists bent on renovating the new-music experience in the 21st century, starting at the Italian Academy. February 19 at 7:30 PM: Convergences Concert featuring soprano Lucy Dhegrae Christopher Trapani: Convergence Lines Isabel Mundry: Dufay Bearbeitungen Elliott Carter:…

Conference. The Holocaust in Yugoslavia and the Balkans

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

Join the Harriman Institute and the Kupferberg Holocaust Center for a two-day conference entitled "The Holocaust in Yugoslavia and the Balkans." Click here to register. PLEASE NOTE: Registration does not guarantee a seat. Seating is limited and will be available on a first come, first seated basis.   PROGRAM THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 20 6:30 pm: Screening of documentary film Besa: Rescue in…

James Joyce’s Dubliners and Portrait of an Artist as a Young Man

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

Professor Garry Leonard (University of Toronto) leads this month’s James Joyce Society meeting. Talk followed by group discussion of Finnegan’s Wake. Further info on www.joycesociety.org Please note that this event may be filmed, captured on audio and/or photographed.  All events are supported by members of Glucksman Ireland House. Become a member.

Conference: Ecocriticism in French Studies: Where Are We Now?

La Maison Française (Columbia) Buell Hall, 515 West 116th Street, New York City, NY, United States

Panel discussion with Lucas Hollister, Hannah Freed-Thall, and Morgane Cadieu, moderated by Aubrey Gabel To RSVP, please click here. As ecocriticism has burgeoned in literary studies and throughout the humanities, its presence has been somewhat limited in the field of French and Francophone literature. This panel will open with a discussion of the state of the field of ecocriticism in…

Lives in Limbo: Jewish Refugees in Portugal, 1940–1945

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

Historian Marion Kaplan explores the experience of refugees from Nazi Germany in Portugal, the port of last resort once Hitler invaded France. Ticket Info: $10 general; $5 LBI/CJH/Partner members, seniors, students at portugal.bpt.me or 800-838-3006  

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Talk: A Slow Revolution: Early Steps Towards Jewish Emancipation

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

In the talk "A Slow Revolution: Early Steps Towards Jewish Emancipation in Bohemia, 1780s-1860s," Jindrich Toman, Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, will guide the audience through select points that mark legal and cultural emancipation of Bohemian Jewry in the decades between the so-called Josephinian Decrees of the 1780s and the Monarchy’s liberal…

Echoes of Ji.hlava Film Festival: Teach (Romania)

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

Screening of the Romanian documentary film "Teach " (Profu'), recipinet of the Best Central and East European Documentary Film Award at the 2019 Ji.hlava International Documentary Film Festival. A peculiar math teacher from Transilvania is becoming a local Don Quijote when he quits the conventional educational system and opens a private lectures office in his own two-room apartment. Throughout a…

Music concert by the Fluffy Bao Trio: Heather Chang, Annett Ho, and Zoe Lin

La Maison Française (Columbia) Buell Hall, 515 West 116th Street, New York City, NY, United States

To RSVP, please click here. The Fluffy Bao Trio performs music by Camille Saint-Saëns, Claude Debussy, Ludwig van Beethoven, and Paul Schoenfield. Presented as part of the Music Performance Program by the Department of Music and Maison Française. Program: Piano Quartet in B-flat Major Op. 41 Camille Saint-Saëns (1835-1921) I. Allegretto Piano Trio in B-flat major, Op. 97, "Archduke" Ludwig…

How to Make Precarious Russia Habitable – or, What Russians Want in Putin’s Fourth Term

Jordan Center for the Advanced Study of Russia 19 University Place, 2nd Floor, New York City, NY, United States

This talk is about ethnographic research Professor Morris carried out in ‘small town’ Russia and beyond since 2009. In this talk, Professor Morris will review the main ideas of his book Everyday Postsocialism: that even in contexts characterised by deindustrialisation, loss, and precarity, ordinary people do more than just ‘get by’ – they actively make their social environment habitable in numerous…

CALA Spring 2020 Film Series: “Your Voices, Your Votes: Activism around the World”

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

As part of the CALA Spring 2020 film series "Your Voices, Your Votes: Activism around the World,” the NYU Center for Applied Liberal Arts and Deutsches Haus at NYU present a screening of the film The Edukators (2005), directed by Hans Weingartner. The introduction will be held by Marie-Luise Goldmann. About the film: The Edukators. Germany. 2005. Directed by Hans Weingartner. Written by Armin Ortmann. With…