Bring your vibrant spirits and join us in welcoming the Moravian legend Vlasta Redl and his band consisting of great musicians from the Czech Republic and Slovakia, in their first performances in America. Enjoy Redl’s hits with their origins in folk music and influences from rock and jazz. Free and open to the public. RSVP is required. For more information…
The last “French Literature in the Making” session of the spring 2018 season is dedicated to Professor Tom Bishop and to his devotion to the art of the theater throughout his academic career. Following the discussion with Olivier Barrot, Christophe Barbier will perform a segment of his one-man-show, Le Tour du théâtre en 80 minutes, which recently had a great success at…
On Tuesday, April 24th please join us for “The Impact of the Fourth Wave of Democratization: Post-Communism within Global Context”, a talk with Anastassia Obydenkova from the National Research University Higher School of Economics and Zafar Nazarov from Indiana University – Purdue University Fort Wayne. This talk is part of the Occasional Series, sponsored by the NYU Jordan Center for the Advanced…
VIEW FULL PROGRAM REGISTER HERE Imagine a centralized database replete with your personal information that links together your and your family’s vital health, education, and social welfare records. Now imagine the database includes an entire country’s population. Fifty years ago this year, Denmark launched the world’s first nationalized big data project. The country’s Civil Personal Registration (CPR) system assigns every resident…
With Domenico Siniscalco, Ph.D., Former Italian Minister of Finance. Siniscalco in conversation with Prof. Julie Mostov, Dean of Liberal Studies. Organized by NYU Liberal Studies. Co-sponsored by NYU's Department of Economics and NYU's Center for European and Mediterranean Studies and the Erasmus+ Programme of the E.U. In ENGLISH. Reserve a seat here.
Join poet Tracie Morris and writer and professor Vincent Broqua, as they read from and discuss Morris’s most recent poetry collection, Hard Kore: Poemes/Per-Form: Poems of Mythos and Place, just published in France by joca seria. This event will be in English and in French. Free and open to the public. No RSVP necessary. Tracie Morris has performed, researched and presented work…
Image courtesy of Figini Pollini archive at MART Rovereto In partnership with The Bogliasco Foundation. A lecture by Kay Bea Jones, 2015 Bogliasco Fellow (Knowlton School of Architecture). Imagine the impact on the lives of workers and their families if an employer provided elegant housing, child care facilities flooded with natural light, and recreation zones with innovative regional planning, all supported by…
Join us for a conversation around a conference by Thomas Piketty, « Of Inequality in Europe », given in Paris as part of the « An Idea of Europe » talk series organized by the Groupe d’Etudes Geopolitiques (http://ucide.eu). Thomas Piketty’s work has renewed the research field on capitalism and global inequalities. Anu Bradford, Seyla Benhabib,Turkuler Isiksel, Adam Tooze, and…
To RSVP, please click here. A.O. Scott says viewers “will find solace, enlightenment and surprise in João Moreira Salles’s In the Intense Now, a bittersweet, ruminative documentary essay composed of footage from the era of the 1960s, accompanied by thoughtful, disarmingly personal voice-over narration. Some of the images — and virtually the only ones in color — come from Mr. Salles’s own…
Some technological innovations have potentially far-reaching consequences for society and the institutions that govern societal interactions. With the increasing adoption of blockchain technology, a new innovation presents itself and poses questions that are of import to social scientists. This one-day conference will assemble leading experts in the field to discuss governance issues in the implementation of blockchain technology. Taking a broad…