An Evening with Prof. Bill Johnston In a panoramic view of early 19th century Polish society, Pan Tadeusz interlaces various narrative threads, from the homecoming of the eponymous Pan Tadeusz from his studies in the city, to a feud between local families over ownership of a ruined castle, to clandestine preparations for Polish participation in Napoleon’s anticipated invasion of Russia,…
Music concert by Students of Columbia-Juilliard To RSVP, please click here. Presented as part of the Music Performance Program by the Maison Française and Department of Music Music concert by students of the Columbia-Juilliard Exchange Program. J.S. Bach Violin Sonata in C major, BMV 1005 I. Adagio II. Fuga. Alla breve Erika Hubbard, violin Chopin Nocturne, Op. 55, No. 1 Angela…
Lorena Luciano & Filippo Piscopo, 2018) It Will Be Chaos (2018, Documentary, 93 min.) In Italian, English, Arabic, and Tigrinya with English subtitles Directed by Lorena Luciano and Filippo Piscopo Followed by a Q&A with the directors, moderated by David Forgacs (NYU). Life in Southern Italy is thrown into a tailspin when refugees arrive by the thousands and the locals…
Recently, two conservators, Olha Yarema Wynar of the Metropolitan Museum Textile Conservation Department and Yuri Yanchyshyn of Period Furniture Conservation visited Ukraine on a Fulbright, introducing textile and wooden objects conservation approaches and techniques at various Ukrainian institutions. This presentation will focus on their experiences, while highlighting the little known art of Ukraine, and outline perspectives for preserving it for…
Please join the Ukrainian Studies Program at the Harriman Institute, Columbia University for a presentation by Nazar Kozak (National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine). An example of border art, a politically motivated mode of art production, which is staged directly in site on state borders or has them in its primary focus, Maria Kulykivska's endurance The Raft Crimea (2016) emerged as the artist's personal reflection…
Deutsches Haus at NYU, NYU's Center for European and Mediterranean Studies, and the American Council on Germany present "Managing an Exit: The End of the Merkel Era," a conversation between Joyce Mushaben (Curators' Distinguished Professor of Comparative Politics and College of Arts & Sciences first Professor of Global Studies at the University of Missouri-St. Louis), and Christian Martin (the current Max Weber Chair in…
For Students and Young Adults Only! Opera to the People is a group open to students or other young present and future audience members in order to delve into the world and language of opera, with the objective of fostering a new generation of attentive opera-goers. The group meets to watch and listen to recordings of a particular opera that…
Deutsches Haus at NYU and the Telos-Paul Piccone Institute will jointly present the conference "Political Theology Today as Critical Theory of the Contemporary: Reason, Religion, Humanism," to be held at Deutsches Haus at NYU, from February 16-17. Wayne Hudson and Reverend Eugene F. Rivers III will deliver the two keynote speeches. For a detailed conference schedule, please click here. Across the globe the liberal logic of…
Please join us for a talk with Serbian born photographer and architect Slobodan Randjelović about his photobook Lives in Transition: LGBTQ Serbia (The New Press), with a discussion moderated by Professor Tanya Domi (SIPA, Harriman). In June 2001, Serbia witnessed its first LGBTQ pride parade in Belgrade’s Central Square. It was a short-lived march, as an ultranationalist mob quickly descended on the participants, chanting homophobic slurs and injuring…
Please join us on Wednesday, February 20th, for a talk by Tatiana Smoliarova of the University of Toronto. This event is part of the Occasional Series, sponsored by the NYU Jordan Center for the Advanced Study of Russia. “A clever machine, a wondrous linkage/ Of countless wheels, a product of the mind…” – Nikolai Karamzin used this mechanical image to describe the…