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On Disobedience

Albertine 972 5th Avenue, New York, NY, United States

In his timely essay on disobedience, Frédéric Gros questions the roots of political obedience. Examining its different expressions: social conformism, economical submission, respect for authority, and republican consent, the essay urges us to question our acquired certainties, social conventions, economical injustices, and moral conventions alike. It is by analyzing the different types of obedience that we give ourselves the means…

Exhibition Opening: MARANGO, Works by Alessandro Piangiamore

Casa Italiana Zerilli-Marimò (NYU) 24 West 12th Street, New York City, NY, United States

The first New York exhibition of Sicilian artist Alessandro Piangiamore, in collaboration with Magazzino Italian Art and Magazzino Arte Moderna (Rome). Curated by Vittorio Calabrese. On view through June 14 Mon-Fri 10-5 The exhibition features pieces from Piangiamore's 'Ieri Ikebana,' 'La cera di Roma,' 'Belvedere,' and 'Primavera Piangiamore' series, as well as a new site-specific work from the artist's 'Tutto il vento che c'è' (All The…

Film: Raoul Peck: The Young Karl Marx

Goethe-Institut New York 30 Irving Place, New York City, NY, United States

Co-presented with the Brooklyn Institute for Social Research and the Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung 1844. Karl Marx is 26 years old and exiled in Paris with his wife Jenny. He is in debt and plagued by existential anxieties. When he first meets the slightly younger factory owner’s son Friedrich Engels, he dismisses him as a dandy. But Engels, who has just…

Nathalie Sarraute discovering America

Albertine 972 5th Avenue, New York, NY, United States

On February 1, 1964, Nathalie Sarraute, a major contemporary author known for her works of intimate interiority, landed in New York to start a conference tour of the most prestigious universities and cultural centers in the United States–a visit sponsored by the Cultural Services of the French Embassy. In a series of twenty-four letters written in an elliptical style to…

May 68 in Theory – Patrice Maniglier

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

A true event cannot merely be the object of already given theories: it challenges them and interrogates the very sense it makes to practice theory in general. This is eminently true of May 68 in France: it has been an event for “Theory.” However, its theoretical implications have been too often obfuscated by hasty interpretations that projected on it some vague Zeitgeist aptly coined…

Havel Conversations Live: Gail Papp & Carol Rocamora

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

Gail Merrifield Papp of the New York's famed Public Theater, and Carol Rocamora, author of Acts of Courage: Vaclav Havel's Life in the Theater in conversation with Niemann Fellow journalist Lenka Kabrhelova. Interviewees will share their views on topics such as Havel’s influence, human rights around the world, and the responsibilities that go hand in hand with expanding social media…

Soviet War Memorials and the Men Who Made Them

1219 International Affairs Building 420 West 118th Street, New York City, United States

Please join us for a talk with Mischa Gabowitsch, research fellow at the Einstein Forum, Potsdam, Germany. Alone among European countries, the Soviet Union did not commemorate World War I, a conflict it considered bourgeois and imperialist. Yet by the end of World War II, monuments to the heroism of Red Army soldiers were being erected from Berlin to Pyongyang that…

Leonard Bernstein and Vienna

Remarque Institute 60 Fifth Avenue, 8th Floor, New York, NY, United States

RSVP required remarque.institute@nyu.edu

Free

Concert: An evening of Italian and Spanish songs

Casa Italiana Zerilli-Marimò (NYU) 24 West 12th Street, New York City, NY, United States

The Departments of Vocal Performance and Piano Studies of NYU Steinhardt present the final concert of the Italian and Spanish Song Repertoire Class of Spring 2018. Graduate and undergraduate students perform a diverse selection of Italian- and Spanish-language songs by composers including Beethoven, Ginastera, Rossini, Bellini, Albéniz, and Verdi. Performers: James Buhse, tenor Sam Caps, soprano Flavia Darcie, mezzo-soprano Regina Fierro, soprano Mara Friedman,…

23rd Annual World Convention of the Association for the Study of Nationalities (ASN)

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

The Harriman Institute hosts the 23rd Annual ASN World Convention. REGISTRATION IS REQUIRED. Click here to register.  Over 150 Panels in Nine Sections:  Nationalism Studies Migration & Diasporas Balkans Russia Ukraine and Belarus Central Europe (including Baltics & Moldova) Eurasia (including Central Asia & China) Caucasus (North and South) Turkey, Greece (and Cyprus) Thematic Panels on: The Rise of the Far Right in Europe…