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King Juan Carlos Chair CRISTINA PATO | A CONVERSATION WITH YO-YO MA: Culture and Social Responsibility in the Bach Project and Beyond

KJCC Auditorium 53 Washington Square South, New York

In this event Cristina will engage Yo-Yo, the humanist, into a conversation about cultural collaboration, social responsibility and about the lessons learned throughout the process of creating, and developing the groundbreaking Bach Project.* Yo-Yo Ma’s multi-faceted career is testament to his enduring belief in culture’s power to generate trust and understanding. Whether performing new or familiar works from the cello…

How Biased Are We? A Conversation about Perception, Cognition, and Accuracy

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

Deutsches Haus at NYU, University Alliance Ruhr, and the German Research Foundation (DFG) present a conversation among Emily Balcetis (NYU), Lee Jussim (Rutgers University), and Albert Newen (Ruhr-University Bochum) as moderator, exploring the concept of human perception and its inherent biases that affect our understanding of the world. About the event: Perceptions are the window to our world. Rather than merely producing…

Screening Of Bernadette: Notes on a Political Journey

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

Screening of Bernadette: Notes on a Political Journey NYU’s Center for Applied Liberal Arts draws on an Irish example in their international film series “Your Voices Your Votes: Activism around the World” with a screening of Bernadette: Notes on a Political Journey (Dir. Lelia Doolan, Ireland, 2011). Free RSVP at TINYURL.COM/CALASP20FILM Director, Lelia Doolan, will be present at the event for Q&A. Please note…

The Kegelstatt Trio

Scandinavia House 58 Park Avenue, New York City, NY, United States

The Kegelstatt Trio presents a performance of contemporary and classical compositions, including new written works by composers Edward Smaldone and Anders Koppel, as well as W.A. Mozart’s Kegelstatt Trio, K. 498 and R. Schumann’s Märchenerzählungen, Op. 132. Named for the renowned piece composed by Mozart, one of the most popular chamber music works ever written, The Kegelstatt Trio features clarinetist Søren-Filip Brix Hansen,…

Stradella’s “Ester, Liberatrice del Popolo Ebreo”

The Brotherhood Synagogue 28 Gramercy Park South, New York, NY, United States

at The Brotherhood Synagogue (28 Gramercy Park South) Please note: This event will take place at The Brotherhood Synagogue (28 Gramercy Park South) Members of Casa Italiana will receive a special code via E-mail for free admission Salon Sanctuary Concerts presents Ester, Liberatrice del popolo ebreo Alessandro Stradella (1639 – 1682)​ With Gould, Pillow, Lemos, Pomerantz, An​ The Old Testament…

Scholars and their Kin: A Symposium

La Maison Française (NYU) 16 Washington Mews, New York City, NY, United States

A growing number of scholars are making their own relatives their object of study. These personal family histories mark a significant shift in scholarly practice and writing, with far-reaching methodological, political, and ethical implications. Scholars and Their Kin is one of the first symposia to bring together scholars who are presently writing in this vein or have recently done so.…

Contesting the Classroom. Reimagining Education in Moroccan and Algerian Literatures

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

To RSVP, please click here. Introduction, Madeleine Dobie Respondent, Sophia Mo Contesting the Classroom is the first scholarly work to analyze both how Algerian and Moroccan novels depict the postcolonial classroom, and how postcolonial literatures are taught in Morocco and Algeria. Drawing on a corpus of contemporary novels in French and Arabic, it shows that authors imagined the fictional classroom as a…

Cold War Archives Research (CWAR) Workshop and Conference

Harriman Institute 420 West 118th St., New York City, NY, United States

RSVP not required - Seating will be first come, first served. Link to PDF of conference program here   12:55-1:00pm – Introductory Remarks Victoria Phillips, Adjunct Lecturer, European Institute & Coordinator, Cold War Archives Research Project 1:00pm-1:45pm – Keynote Speaker Patryk Babiracki, Author of Soviet Soft Power in Europe, Assistant Professor in Russian and East European history at the University…

Music Concert by Robert Lotreck

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

To RSVP, please click here. Presented as part of the Music Performance Program, by the Department of Music and Maison Française.

The Maamtrasna Murders: Panel including Colm Toibin and other Distinguished Panelists

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

In 1882 the brutal murders of the Joyce family in Maamtrasna, western Ireland, were succeeded by a series of legal trials and executions, made especially infamous by the wrongful conviction and execution of Irish-speaker Myles Joyce. These events are the subject of a recent book by Professor Margaret Kelleher, Fulbright Visiting Scholar at New York University: The Maamtrasna Murders: Language,…