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Migrant Brothers: In Search of Porous Borders – Patrick Chamoiseau

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

As migrants embark on perilous journeys across oceans and deserts in pursuit of sanctuary and improved living conditions, what is the responsibility of those safely ensconced in the nations they seek to enter? Moved by repeated tragedies among immigrants attempting to enter eastern and southern Europe, Patrick Chamoiseau assails the hypocrisy and detachment that allow these events to happen. --…

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Cajal and the Enchanted Loom, by Rodolfo Llinás

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

Rodolfo Llinás is Thomas and Suzanne Murphy Professor of Neuroscience and Chairman Emeritus of the Department of Physiology & Neuroscience at the NYU School of Medicine. More on Dr. Llinás This event is part of the exhibit The Beautiful Brain: The Drawings of Santiago Ramón y Cajal, held at NYU Grey Art Gallery between January 9 and March 31, 2018. The exhibit was…

Andreas Bernard’s “Persons of Interest: The Status of the Self in Digital Cultures”

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

Deutsches Haus at NYU presents a conversation between Andreas Bernard and Alexander Galloway about Bernard's book Persons of Interest: The Status of the Self in Digital Cultures. What is striking about today’s methods of self-representation and self-perception – the profiles of social media but also the various locational functions on smartphones or the bodily measurements of the “quantified-self movement” – is the…

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Mystery and Truth of “Pasolini’s Bodies and Places”

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

Panelists: Ara Merjian (NYU) Ann Goldstein (The New Yorker) Breixo Viejo (Columbia University) Benedikt Reichenbach (editor, English edition of Pasolini's Bodies and Places) In 1980 in Rome, two film critics - Michele Mancini and Giuseppe Perrella - produced an elaborate, 600-page volume of images taken from Pasolini’s films and organized into an extensive taxonomy of “bodies” and “places”: Pier Paolo Pasolini: Corpi e luoghi. Reviews of…

Pénélope Bagieu & Mona Eltahawy in Conversation

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

Graphic novelist Pénélope Bagieu and award-winning writer Mona Eltahawy discuss Bagieu’s latest book Brazen (Culottées) just out in the US with First Second. Throughout history and across the globe, one characteristic connects the daring women of Brazen: their indomitable spirit. With her characteristic wit and dazzling drawings, celebrated graphic novelist Pénélope Bagieu profiles the lives of these feisty female role models, some world…

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Hâtez-vous déesse puissante! – Concert of Music of Élisabeth Jacquet de la Guerre (1665-1729)

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

Elizabeth Jacquet de La Guerre (1665-1729) was undoubtedly one of the most important and progressive composers of her generation. She was one of the first French composers (alongside François-Couperin, Sébastien de Brossard and Jean-Féry Rebel) to devote herself to the sonata form, and her cantatas broke new ground in France. With her relatively early work Jeux à l'honneur de la victoire,…

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Panel Discussion: An analysis of the results of the 2018 Italian election

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

A panel of experts to discuss the results of the Italian elections taking place on March 4. Panelists: Ruth Ben-Ghiat (NYU) Federico Rampini (La Repubblica) Alexander Stille (Columbia) Moderator: David Forgacs (NYU) Reserve a seat here. In ENGLISH.

Film Screening & Discussion: Art Is A Weapon

Harriman Institute 420 West 118th St., New York City, NY, United States

Please join the Harriman Institute for a screening of the documentary film Art Is a Weapon (2017), followed by a discussion with director Andrea Simon. The event will be introduced and moderated by Martin Marinos, Postdoctoral Research Scholar at the Harriman Institute. Run time: 85 minutes Language: English, Bulgarian, Russian and German with English subtitles This provocative documentary portrait of the Bulgarian Sephardic film artist,…

Biography of a Book: New Approaches to Victor Hugo’s Les Misérables & Ernest Renan’s Life of Jesus

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

A conversation between David Bellos and Robert Priest, moderated by Stéphane Gerson David Bellos, a literary scholar, and Robert Priest, a historian, have both devoted their recent books to the lives and afterlives of foundational books in nineteenth-century France: Victor Hugo’s Misérables and Ernest Renan’s Life of Jesus. While Hugo’s novel and Renan’s essay came out a year apart (in 1862 and 1863, respectively), it is the convergence between Bellos’…

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The Essential Fictions of Isaac Babel: New Translations by Val Vinokur

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

Please join us on Thursday, March 8th for “The Essential Fictions of Isaac Babel: New Translations by Val Vinokur”. This talk is part of the Occasional Series, sponsored by the NYU Jordan Center for the Advanced Study of Russia. Isaac Babel was born in 1894 into multicultural Odessa’s thriving Jewish community. Working as a journalist, he witnessed the Bolshevik Revolution…