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Escape from Vichy: The Refugee Exodus to the French Caribbean – Eric T. Jennings

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

To RSVP, please click here. In the early years of World War II, thousands of political refugees traveled from France to Vichy-controlled Martinique in the French Caribbean, en route to what they hoped would be safer shores in North, Central, and South America. While awaiting transfer from the colony, the exiles formed influential ties—with one another and with local black dissidents. Escape from…

Black and White with Red Sauce

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

Spaghetti alla Tarantino A lecture by Mary Ann McDonald Carolan, NYU Tiro a Segno Visiting Professor Quentin Tarantino’s indebtedness to the spaghetti western and its masters, Sergio Corbucci and Sergio Leone in particular, is legendary. Elements of that genre appear in Django Unchained (2012) and The Hateful Eight (2015). The American director’s penchant for violence and gratuitous bloodshed has resulted…

One Long Vision of Beauty

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

Italy and Aesthetics in Edith Wharton A lecture by Dr. Emily J. Orlando, Fairfield University Presented by Friends of FAI Emily Orlando is Professor of English and the E. Gerald Corrigan Chair of Humanities at Fairfield University, where she has taught since 2007.  She is the author of Edith Wharton and the Visual Arts as well as articles published in the following…

The Future of Memory. Serge and Beate Klarsfeld, in conversation with Clémence Boulouque

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

Serge and Beate Klarsfeld reflect on their work devoted to tracking down Nazi criminals and restoring the memory of the lives of Jews who died in the Holocaust. They will also discuss the importance of transmitting this work of memory to subsequent generations. Serge and Beate Klarsfeld have devoted their lives to bringing fugitive Nazis to justice, a mission they…

Dante and the Power of Satire

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

Ambrogio Camozzi Pistoja, Harvard University A lecture by Ambrogio Camozzi Pistoja, Harvard University Dante is one of the greatest satirists of all time. His satire challenged and reshaped moral, legal, and linguistic boundaries. Popes, kings and members of Italy's most powerful families are placed in his upside-down world. Yet, he managed to get away with it. How did he achieve that? How…

Thinking Space in Cinema and Literature – International Colloquium

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

During this international colloquium, participants will be exploring the question of the relations between cinema and literature through the prism of space on the basis of three approaches: - The Geography of literary and cinematic creation examines the spatial context in which works are produced from a historical, social and cultural point of view; - Geocriticism explores spatial narratives as the result of perception and the substance…

Delectable Venice

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

Desiring and Encountering La Serenissima Through Cuisine and Cinema This event is organized and presented by Save Venice. A lecture by Pellegrino D’Acierno Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Comparative Literature and Italian Studies, Hofstra University And Polo said: “Every time I describe a city I am saying something about Venice.” – Italo Calvino The talk, dedicated to learning from Venice, will…

Pre-“Falstaff” Evening

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

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…

Czech Women Filmmakers in New York

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

A screening of award-winning short films made by three brilliant Czech women filmmakers living in New York City: Marie Dvoráková, Bára Jíchová Tyson and Zuzka Kurtz. The screening will be followed by a Q&A with the filmmakers. Limited seating. RSVP recommended. Suggested donation $5.00 MARIE DVORÁKOVÁ , director and writer, born in Jablonec nad Nisou, is a graduate of the…

Pasolini After Dante

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

The "Divine Mimesis" and the Politics of Representation A lecture by Emanuela Patti, Royal Holloway, University of London In the early 1960s, Pier Paolo Pasolini started his rewriting of Dante’s Divine Comedy, La Divina Mimesis. The aim of the project was to make it a new contemporary Comedia, including circles, sins, and characters inspired by Dante. Yet the project was…