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Panel discussion: The International Comics Scene: Max de Radiguès and Anna Haifisch

Ink48 653 11th Ave, New York, NY

German illustrator Anna Haifisch will be a featured guest at the 2018 MoCCA Arts Festival. The MoCCA Arts Festival is a 2-day multimedia event, Manhattan's largest independent comics, cartoon and animation festival. Every comics culture — no matter how vast only presents and perceives a fragmentary view of global comics culture, a rich field of diverse human expression that is interconnected…

“When Paul Came Over the Sea:” Borders and (In)Humanity

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

As part of KINO!2018, Deutsches Haus at NYU presents a conversation about When Paul Came Over the Sea between Jakob Preuss, the film's director, Gabriella Etmektsoglou, Çiğdem Ipek, and Christian Martin, which will be moderated by Noah Isenberg. Film synopsis: Paul is a migrant from Cameroon. He has made his way across the Sahara to the Moroccan coast where he now lives in a forest waiting for the right moment…

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Concert: Martin Kratochvil/Toni Ackerman Duo

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

A concert of the legendary duo of Czech pianist Martin Kratochvíl and American guitarist Tony Ackerman. Their unique sound fuses two acoustic instruments and a wealth of world music styles in the cauldron of jazz improvisation, tempered by the easy familiarity of half a lifetime of playing together. The duo of Martin Kratochvíl (piano) and Tony Ackerman (guitar) has been…

Mitchell B. Merback: Dürer’s “Melancholia I” and Therapeutic Images Before Modernity

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

Deutsches Haus at NYU and the NYU Department of German present "Dürer's Melencolia I and Therapeutic Images Before Modernity." In dialogue with Professor Shira Brisman, Mitchell B. Merback discusses the concepts and inspiration behind his new book, Perfection's Therapy: An Essay on Albrecht Dürer's Melancholia I (Zone Books, 2017), placing Albrecht Dürer's famously inscrutable engraving, "Melencolia I," at the intersection of Renaissance art, medicine, and philosophy. About Perfection's Therapy…

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Power on Pointe: Russian Ballet from Petersburg to Paris

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

In her book Power on Pointe, Natalie Rouland argues that during the late imperial period, ballet as the embodiment of power and literature as the voice of protest transformed the reputation of Russian art and culture in the twentieth century. In the space of the heated debate over the future of Russian identity, the imperial ballet, its fanatics, and its critics…

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Hungary: A Post-Election Analysis

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

Monday, April 9, 2018 6:15pm 1201 International Affairs Building (12th Floor, 420 W 118th St) Please join the Harriman Institute, the East Central European Center, and the European Institute for a talk with Kristóf Szombati, Istvan Deak Visiting Professor of Political Science at the Harriman Institute. Professor Andrew Arato, Dorothy Hart Hirshon Professor in Political and Social Theory at the New School for Social Research, will…

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“The Hour Between Dog and Wolf:” Silke Scheuermann in Conversation with Lucy Jones & Susan Bernofsky

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

Deutsches Haus at NYU presents a reading of Silke Scheuermann's "The Hour Between Dog and Wolf," and a conversation between the author and her English translator, Lucy Jones, moderated by the award-winning translator Susan Bernofsky. Synopsis: A young woman who has been living abroad, returns to her hometown of Frankfurt am Main in Germany. Her sister Ines—a beautiful, impetuous painter—who still…

US Movie Premiere: I Siciliani

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

 I Siciliani (2016, Italy, 120 min.) In ITALIAN with ENGLISH subtitles Directed by Francesco Lama With Antonio Emanuele, Tony Sperandeo, Maria Grazia Cucinotta, Leo Gullotta [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QsaS5ihZ38Q] In a little village in the center of Sicily there is a boy, Ignazio Bonaventura (Antonio Emanuele) working sporadic and, of course, illegal jobs, receiving unemployment benefits. Tired of his condition, he decides to write a book about Sicilians, thus setting…

Power of Gentleness: Meditations on the Risk of Living

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

Key moments of our lives, especially at the beginning and end, are marked by gentleness—but the simplicity of that concept is misleading. Gentleness is an active passivity that may become an extraordinary force of resistance within ethics and politics. In this powerful rethinking by a renowned philosopher and psychoanalyst, whose untimely death captured worldwide attention, gentleness becomes a series of…

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“Person Place Thing” with Guest Edmund White

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

Join host Randy Cohen – author and broadcaster – for a special live taping of his podcast Person Place Thing. Guests talk about one person, one place, and one thing important to them. The result? Surprising stories from great talkers. Edmund White has written some twenty-five books and edited several anthologies. He is perhaps best known for his biography of French writer Jean Genet, for…

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