It is summer, and Antoine (Nicolas Cazalé) is forced to leave the city to return to his family in Provence. His father is sick, so he must assume the lifestyle he thought he had shed—driving the family grocery cart from hamlet to hamlet, delivering supplies to the few remaining inhabitants. Accompanied by Claire (Clotilde Hesme), a friend from Paris whom…
France as a Laboratory of Culture: An International Workshop This program is organized by French Cultural Studies and hosted by the Columbia Maison Française. PROGRAM: 9:15 AM: Welcome and Introduction 9:30 AM – 11:00 AM: Session A - Nicole Rudolph (Adelphi University): ‘The Innovative State: Eco-Quartiers as French Laboratories of “Green Culture”’ - Zachary R. Hagins (University of Arkansas at Little Rock): ‘#ClichéContreCliché: Instagram and the…
On Friday, September 7th please join us for a book talk with Hilary Appel (Claremont McKenna College) and Mitchell A. Orenstein (University of Pennsylvania) on From Triumph to Crisis: Neoliberal Economic Reform in Postcommunist Countries. Hilary Appel and Mitchell Orenstein will present their new book entitled From Triumph to Crisis: Neoliberal Economic Reform in Postcommunist Countries(Cambridge University Press 2018), which accounts for…
As part of the CALA Fall 2018 Film Series “The Immigrant Experience: Visions of Diaspora on Film in America and Abroad,” the NYU Center for Applied Liberal Arts and Deutsches Haus at NYU present a screening of the 2008 German film "The Edge of Heaven.", directed by Dir. Fatih Akin. This multi-layered drama follows the stories of six people, four Turks and two Germans, as they…
Due Process In 2013, Rodricus Crawford was convicted and sentenced to death in Louisiana. Held in Angola, he was the second-youngest man on death row. Three years later, the conviction was overturned, and Crawford was ultimately exonerated. Crawford will be joined by multidisciplinary artist jackie sumell and Columbia Law professor Brett Dignam for a panel discussion on the experience of solitary confinement and the challenges of…
In conjunction with the exhibition NeoRealismo: The New Image in Italy, 1932–1960 While the term “neorealism” is primarily associated with cinema and literature, photography was also involved in the wider turn toward social and humanist themes in Italy in the 1940s and ’50s. Photography documented the war’s impact and the conditions of ordinary Italians in the postwar years—and made these visible…
Deutsches Haus at NYU presents "displacements," an exhibition of works by Samuel Henne. Please join us on Monday, September 10, at 6pm for the exhibition opening featuring a talk with the artist. The exhibition will be on view through October 13. About the exhibition: Uncover. Arrange. Displace. To make something appear. There is a fundamental connection between the works of Samuel…
Please join us for a talk with Laszlo Bruszt, Professor of Sociology at the Central European University, Budapest. The EU, until lately, was seen as the key promoter of liberal democracy in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE); nowadays it is pictured as a helpless outsider with weak powers to halt processes of de-democratization in the region. Bruszt takes issue with the…
A world peace celebration, presented by Alessandra Belloni & I Giullari di Piazza, with special guests The SilverCloud Native American Singers & Dancers. In Drums of Illumination, Alessandra Belloni unites two great cultures: the powerful Native American and the passionate Southern Italian, for a journey back in time into a world of ritual drumming, voice and trance dances. The evening will feature Tarantellas from…
Journalist and editor William Middleton will present Double Vision (Alfred A. Knopf), his biography of celebrated twentieth century art collectors, Dominique and John de Menil. The Menil couple presented groundbreaking exhibits of art, demonstrated great artistic scholarship, were responsible for the creation of innovative galleries and museums, and worked in support of civil rights. They created an oasis of culture in their Philip Johnson-designed…