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Non volevo diventare un boss

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

A Conversation with "Gomorrah" Star Salvatore Esposito A presentation of: Non volevo diventare un boss (2016, Rizzoli) by Salvatore Esposito with Diego Nuzzo A conversation with author and actor Salvatore Esposito. Salvatore Esposito became famous playing the role of Genny Savastano in the TV series Gomorrah. But who lies behind those cold and heartless glances? Perhaps someone who grew up in…

Panel Discussion on African Art Restitution with Felwine Sarr and Guests

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

On the occasion of the release of  “The Restitution of African Cultural Heritage. Toward a New Relational Ethics,” written at the request of French President Emmanuel Macron, Felwine Sarr, co-author of the report with Bénédicte Savoy, will discuss his research during a panel discussion on February 4, 2019 at the Cultural Services of the French Embassy at 6:30PM. Speakers will also include the following: Mr. Jason…

Antisemitism, Hate Speech, and Social Media

Italian Academy (Columbia) 1161 Amsterdam Avenue, New York City, NY, United States

Annual event marking Holocaust Remembrance Day Welcoming remarks: Barbara Faedda Associate Director, Italian Academy, Columbia Speakers: Susan McGregor Assistant Director of the Tow Center for Digital Journalism; Assistant Professor, Columbia Journalism School Memes, Misinformation, and Antisemitism: Coded Communications on Social Media Michel Rosenfeld University Professor of Law and Comparative Democracy & Justice; Sydney L. Robins Professor of Human Rights, Benjamin…

Journey: Portrait of Vera Chytilova

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

A documentary film about Věra Chytilová, a prominent Czech director and a creative force of the Czechoslovak New Wave in the 1960s. “Striving, with or without success… that is the pathos of the human existence” – Chytilová talks about her life endeavour, the rises and falls, the losts and founds and primarily, about creativity. Director: Jasmina Blaževič, 2004, 52 min,…

Dmitry Bykov – Taboo in Russia: banned or suppressed issues-Lecture and Q&A

Jordan Center for the Advanced Study of Russia 19 University Place, 2nd Floor, New York City, NY, United States

Please join us on Wednesday, February 6th for “Taboo in Russia: banned or suppressed issues“, a Q&A with Dmitry Bykov. This event is part of the Occasional Series, co-sponsored by the NYU Jordan Center for the Advanced Study of Russia. This event will be held in Room 405 The Silver Center for the Arts, 100 Washington Square Any political regime should…

The Barbarity of the Metropolis: Towards a Biopolitics of Radical Social Transformation

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

A talk by Guillaume Faburel To RSVP, please click here. Metropolization implies ceaseless urban expansion and an ever faster-paced life. It transforms towns into entrepreneurial firms and generates economic exclusion, spatial segregation, and social suffering, all while fueling the environmental crisis, to the point that large cities are increasingly rejecting it, evidenced by various forms of resistance. From a turn toward…

Unworthy

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

A Novel by Antonio Monda Unworthy (Penguin Random House, 2018) by Antonio Monda English translation by John Cullen The author in conversation with Mary Karr and Fr. James Martin, S.J. “With storytelling finesse, Antonio Monda has written a compact and forceful book that might be a morbid erotic tale out of Boccaccio, exposing the tormented lust of the clergy.” –Philip…

Italy’s Decolonization: Multidirectional Memories of Empire’s End

Heyman Center for the Humanities 74 Morningside Dr, New York, NY, United States

Presenter: Pamela Ballinger (University of Michigan) Respondent: Victoria de Grazia (Columbia University) Moderator: Konstantina Zanou (Columbia University) Scholars have typically characterized Italy’s decolonization as abrupt and having little resonance in the peninsula at the time or subsequently. In this paper, I challenge this interpretation by demonstrating the visible and deeply felt impacts of repatriation by Italian settlers to the metropole at the time of events and…

Between War and the European Union

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

Please join us for a talk with Milan Antonijevic, Executive Director, Open Society Foundation Serbia. Milan Antonijevic has been selected as the Open Society Foundation Serbia as the new Executive Director. Milan is a lawyer by training and has devoted his career to date to human rights protection, rule of law and European Union integration. Prior to joining OSF, he was the Director…

Exile, Writer, Soldier, Spy: Jorge Semprún

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

Join author Soledad Fox Maura, New Yorker journalist Jane Kramer, professor Vincent Crapanzano, and publisher Jeannette Seaver for a discussion on Exile, Writer, Soldier, Spy: Jorge Semprún, a gripping, authoritative biography by Fox Maura in which the author reveals the tumultuous true-life story of the Oscar-nominated screenwriter responsible for Z and The War Is Over. A man of many faces, Jorge Semprún perfectly personified the struggles and successes…