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The Sower (Le Semeur)

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

To RSVP, please click here. Following the coup d’état of December 2, 1851, President Louis Napoleon Bonaparte was crowned Emperor Napoleon III, setting off a bloody campaign of repression to root out his opponents. In some regions, entire villages were cleared of their adult male population. Marine Francen’s ravishing first feature uses this historical context and the true story of…

Modernity, Fascism & Resistance

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

How Four Ethiopians Confronted, Maneuvered and Survived the Italo-Ethiopian War of 1935-1941 In collaboration with Centro Primo Levi NYU Department of History NYU Tisch School of the Arts NYU Department of Italian Studies NYU Center for the Study of African and the African Diaspora (CSAAD) Modernity, Fascism & Resistance How Four Ethiopians Confronted, Maneuvered and Survived the Italo-Ethiopian War of 1935-1941…

C& Projects X Ragga NYC: Planetary Connections

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

Contemporary And (C&) is an art magazine and a dynamic space for issues and information on contemporary art from Africa and its global diaspora. Co-founded in 2013 by Julia Grosse and Yvette Mutumba and co-published by ifa, C& has gained a worldwide reach. In addition to the editorial content published online and in print, C& also runs multiple offline projects…

Lecture: The Aftermath of WWII in Czechoslovakia

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

Lecture by historian Vojtech Kyncl from the Institute of History of the Czech Academy of Sciences, with archival footage including unique shots from Pilsen, accompanied by recordings from Czech Radio, and followed by Q&A. The defeat of the Nazi Third Reich was an impatiently awaited result of the European nations’ struggle for freedom. The last weeks of the war at…

Legacy of Blood: Jews, Pogroms, and Ritual Murder in the Lands of the Soviets

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

The most extreme legacies of tsarist antisemitism were pogroms and blood libels. These events were central to the Jewish experience in late tsarist Russia, the only country with widespread anti-Jewish violence in the early twentieth century. After the Soviets came to power, they claimed that they had eliminated both these phenomena. In her new revelatory book, Legacy of Blood: Jews,…

Music concert by Dylan DelGuidice (guitar) and Joseph Jordan (piano)

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

To RSVP, please click here. This guitar and piano duo will perform pieces by Olivier Messiaen, Tristan Murail, Pierre Boulez, and Maurice Ravel. Presented as part of the Music Performance Program, by the Department of Music and Maison Française. Program : "Set 1" -  Olivier Messiaen - “L’alouette Lulu” from Catalogue d’Oiseaux Tristan Murail - Les Travaux et les Jours III…

“Winterlust:” An Evening with Bernd Brunner and Tess Lewis

Deutsches Haus NYU 42 Washington Mews, New York City, NY, United States

Deutsches Haus at NYU presents a reading by the author Bernd Brunner from his new book, Winterlust: Finding Beauty in the Fiercest Season, (in a translation by Mary Catherine Lawler) followed by a conversation with the writer and translator, Tess Lewis. In Winterlust, Bernd Brunner draws on literature and art, science and history, modern pastimes and time-honored traditions to explore…

A Surrealist Soirée at the Morgan

The Morgan Library 225 Madison Avenue, New York, NY, United States

An evening exploring the unconventional, imaginary worlds of Parisians Jean-Jacques Lequeu and Alfred Jarry. Curators will delve into a selection of fantastic and humorous works in Jean-Jacques Lequeu: Visionary Architect and Alfred Jarry: The Carnival of Being during a series of brief gallery talks. Participate in the surrealist drawing game Exquisite Corpse and relax with a prix fixe French wine and cheese tasting. Enjoy French inspired music…

Film Screening & Discussion. And Then We Danced

The Landmark at 57 West 657 West 57th Street, New York

Join the Harriman Institute and Open Society Foundations for a screening of the film And Then We Danced (2020) followed by a panel discussion with the director Levan Akin, Julie George, Visiting Associate Professor of International and Public Affairs, Columbia University, and Tanya Domi, Adjunct Professor of International and Public Affairs, Columbia University. Film runtime: 1 hour 53 minutes. English subtitles. Click here to purchase tickets…

Book Talk. Surviving the Peace: The Struggle for Postwar Recovery in Bosnia-Herzegovina by Peter Lippman

Marshall D. Shulman Seminar Room 420 W 118th Street, #1219 International Affairs Building, New York City, NY, United States

Join us for a talk with author Peter Lippman about his book Surviving the Peace: The Struggle for Postwar Recovery in Bosnia-Herzegovina(Vanderbilt University Press, November 2019). Surviving the Peace is a monumental feat of ground-level reporting describing two decades of postwar life in Bosnia, specifically among those fighting for refugee rights of return. Unique in its breadth and profoundly humanitarian in its focus, Surviving the…