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.
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…
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
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Margie and John Reynolds are leaders of the vibrant Irish traditional music community in Pearl River, New York, where they are indispensable teachers, performers and organizers. Their son, also a John Paul, is an up-and-coming star on both fiddle and tenor banjo. Most often heard as dance musicians, this concert will give them a welcome chance to play for a…
Explore the world without leaving New York! The New York International Children’s Film Festival takes place February 21 through March 15, 2020 throughout New York City, with 10 screenings at Scandinavia House. For complete lineup and tickets visit nyicff.org/tickets. Fill out a ballot at every screening, and your votes will determine the Festival award winners. MOOMINVALLEY SAT—February 22—11 AM 66 min.…