Le NYU Center for French Language and Cultures lance cette année sa nouvelle série sur l’écriture contemporaine en langue française, Machines à écrire. Chaque saison annuelle sera confiée à une personnalité saillante de la culture française qui invitera quatre écrivains à se rendre à la Maison Française de NYU afin de discuter autour d’un thème choisi. Ces entretiens se feront…
Please join the Harriman Institute and the Barnard Slavic Department for a conversation with Yelena Yakovich, documentary film director, and Marina Adamovich, editor-in-chief of The New Review, following the Russian Documentary Film Festival in New York, October 19–21, 2018. RSVP required for non-Barnard attendees; email barnardslavic@gmail.com. Yelena Yakovich and Marina Adamovic will converse about politics, the arts, and history in Russia and its neighboring countries where real…
This lecture by Michele Sarfatti Introduced by David Kertzer, is sponsored by the Centro Primo Levi, the Italian Academy at Columbia University, and the Columbia University Seminar in Modern Italian Studies, and presented on the occasion of the upcoming publication of a special issue of the Journal of Modern Italian Studies focusing on the 80th anniversary of the implementation of…
To RSVP, please click here. The hegemony of finance compels a new orientation for everyone and everything: companies care more about the moods of their shareholders than about longstanding commercial success; governments subordinate citizen welfare to appeasing creditors; and individuals are concerned less with immediate income from labor than with appreciation of their capital goods, skills, connections, and reputations. In this…
Wolf-Ferrari and Chausson What Makes It Italian? Discovering National Character in Music is a music listening and discussion group that meets at Casa Italiana and is open to everyone. Participation is free. The group is led by Gina Crusco, who guides listening at Bard LLI and Riverdale Y, and who has been music instructor at The New School and director of…
In March 1968, in reaction to a student rebellion, the communist government of Poland launched a noisy propaganda campaign against the alleged Zionists, who were accused of a conspiracy to undermine socialist Poland. The campaign of slander, harassment, and persecution forced half of Poland’s Jews into exile and deeply affected the life of those who remained. For the fiftieth anniversary…
Women, Gender, and War in Italian Renaissance Literature Moral Combat Women, Gender, and War in Italian Renaissance Literature (2018, University of Toronto Press) by Gerry Milligan The author in conversation with Virginia Cox (NYU), Clare Carroll (CUNY) and Jane Tylus (Yale). The Italian sixteenth century offers the first sustained discussion of women’s militarism since antiquity. Across a variety of genres,…
To RSVP, please click here. Screening and discussion with filmmaker Malek Bensmaïl, in conversation with Madeleine Dobie and Mohamed Amer Meziane. Algerian documentary filmmaker Malek Bensmaïl set up his camera in the newsroom of the famous daily paper El Watan, the spearhead of the Algerian independent press, to film the procedures and thought processes behind journalism during the last presidential election. Accommodated…
Author’s Talk: Kevin J. McNamara RSVP: newyork@svu2000.org Free. Suggested donation $5.00 Mr. McNamara will introduce his comprehensive account of the highly dramatic events that led to the founding of Czecho-Slovakia in 1918. The story involves an ad hoc army of ex-POWs that inadvertently seized all of Siberia, global espionage, high-stakes diplomacy, and America’s own Czechs and Slovaks, who raised funds…
A SYMPOSIUM DISCUSSION on the current MoMA exhibit, "Toward a Concrete Utopia: Architecture in Yugoslavia 1948-1980” with Svetlana Broz, Gardens of The Righteous Worldwide, Sarajevo & Vladimir Kulić, Florida Atlantic University School of Architecture Emily Greble, Vanderbilt University Matthew Worsnick, Vanderbilt University Aleksandar Hemon, Princeton University Larry Wolff, Remarque Insitute, NYU Co-sponsored by the Center for European and Mediterranean Studies and the NYU…