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French Decolonization in Global Perspective – Conference

New York University New York, NY, United States

Institute of French Studies Conference Organized by Jessica Pearson (Macalester College) and Herrick Chapman (NYU) Located at 5 Washington Place, Room 101, New York, NY 10003 (Department of Philosophy) This conference will explore the process of French decolonization in the twentieth century in the context of broad global developments, movements, ideas, and policies. It aims to evaluate recent trends in the fields of French…

Iuventa / Jululu

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

with director Michele Cinque Coinciding with the director's presence at the Italian Cultural Institute on March 26, presenting his film Sicily Jass. Screening Iuventa (2018, Documentary, 86 min.) In English, German, Italian with English subtitles Directed by Michele Cinque Preceded by the screening of Michele Cinque's short documentary film Jululu (2017, 15 min.). Introduced by David Forgacs (NYU) Followed by…

Film: Plastic Planet

Goethe-Institut New York 30 Irving Place, New York City, NY, United States

Join us for our monthly film evening. Venturing on a journey around the globe - from the Moroccan Sahara to the highest peaks of the Alps, Plastic Planet investigates the far-flung reach of plastic in modern society. This film screening is part of the project Wunderbar: A Celebration of German Film. From Beloved Sisters to A Coffee in Berlin and Young Goethe in Love, from The Blue Angel to The Cabinet of…

Film: The Workshop (L’Atelier)

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

Robin Camillo, Laurent Cantet, 2017, 113 min. To RSVP, please click here. In The Workshop, acclaimed writer-director Laurent Cantet takes an illuminating approach to a variety of key issues haunting contemporary France. Olivia, a successful Parisian novelist, has been hired to spend the summer in La Ciotat, a beautiful but economically battered town on the Mediterranean, teaching a writing workshop for a diverse…

Globalization, a missed opportunity (La globalizzazione, un’occasione perduta)

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

Giovanni Bazoli, president emeritus of Intesa Sanpaolo This talk in Italian will be accompanied by a translation in English. Speaker Giovanni Bazoli is the president emeritus of Intesa Sanpaolo, president of the Giorgio Cini Foundation, and emeritus professor of law, Università Cattolica di Milano. His restructuring of the Banco Ambrosiano after the troubled 1980’s brought him onto the world stage…

How Fascism Works

Center for Jewish History 15 W. 16th Street, New York City, NY, United States

Date/TimeMonday, April 1, 2019, 7 p.m.–9 p.m.VenueForchheimer Auditorium (map) Center for Jewish History 15 West 16th St. New York, NY 10011AdmissionsLBI/CJH/Partner Members, Students, Seniors: $15 General: $15 As a professor of philosophy at Yale, a scholar of propaganda, and the child of World War II Jewish Refugees, Jason Stanley understands how democratic societies can be vulnerable to fascism. Alarmed by the pervasive rise…

Dear Erich: A Jazz Opera by Ted Rosenthal

Center for Jewish History 15 W. 16th Street, New York City, NY, United States

Dear Erich is inspired by 200 newly discovered letters written in Germany between 1938 and 1941 by Herta Rosenthal to her son Erich, the composer's father. Dear Erich tells a refugee story for our times. How can a family cope as the walls of their nation's hatred close in around them? For those who escape, what lies ahead? Even in…

Pre-“Clemenza di Tito” Evening

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

For Student 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…

From Plaza Mayor to Washington Square: Spanish Republican Exiles at NYU

King Juan Carlos I of Spain Center 53 Washington Square South, New York, United States

Eighty year ago, on April 1, 1939, the Spanish Civil War was officially declared over. One of its many tragic outcomes was the exile of as many as 500,000 people. Some of those fleeing, like the poet Antonio Machado, would die during the exodus or shortly after. Others, like the writer Jorge Semprún, would be sent later on to Nazi…

Soirée Baroque: Dances from the Salon of the Duchesse du Maine

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

Louise Bénédicte de Bourbon (1676–1753) was the daughter of Henri Jules de Bourbon and Anne Henriette of Bavaria. As a member of the reigning House of Bourbon, she was a princesse du sang. Her arranged marriage to the Duc du Maine (legitimized son of Louis XIV and Madame de Montespan) was not a happy one. However, he did not interfere with her…