Leonard Bernstein and Vienna
Remarque Institute 60 Fifth Avenue, 8th Floor, New York, NY, United StatesRSVP required remarque.institute@nyu.edu
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Concert: An evening of Italian and Spanish songs
Casa Italiana Zerilli-Marimò (NYU) 24 West 12th Street, New York City, NY, United StatesThe Departments of Vocal Performance and Piano Studies of NYU Steinhardt present the final concert of the Italian and Spanish Song Repertoire Class of Spring 2018. Graduate and undergraduate students perform a diverse selection of Italian- and Spanish-language songs by composers including Beethoven, Ginastera, Rossini, Bellini, Albéniz, and Verdi. Performers: James Buhse, tenor Sam Caps, soprano Flavia Darcie, mezzo-soprano Regina Fierro, soprano Mara Friedman,…
23rd Annual World Convention of the Association for the Study of Nationalities (ASN)
Harriman Institute 420 West 118th St., New York City, NY, United StatesThe Harriman Institute hosts the 23rd Annual ASN World Convention. REGISTRATION IS REQUIRED. Click here to register. Over 150 Panels in Nine Sections: Nationalism Studies Migration & Diasporas Balkans Russia Ukraine and Belarus Central Europe (including Baltics & Moldova) Eurasia (including Central Asia & China) Caucasus (North and South) Turkey, Greece (and Cyprus) Thematic Panels on: The Rise of the Far Right in Europe…
Talk: Humanitarianism And The Century Of Wars
The New School 6 East 16th Street, New York, United StatesHistorians Davide Rodogno (The Graduate Institute) and Sergio Luzzatto (University of Turin) will present and discuss their current research on cases in which, during the century that was theater to two world conflicts, the notion of humanitarian intervention took shape and and shaped the societies that received it as well as those that practiced it. Admission: this program is primarily meant for an academic audience.…
Lecture: Italian Incompleteness (A lecture by Roberto Esposito)
Casa Italiana Zerilli-Marimò (NYU) 24 West 12th Street, New York City, NY, United StatesA lecture by Roberto Esposito, Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa Italy is a country trapped in an incurable state of incompletion, condemned to the eternal pursuit of something that has always eluded it, incapable of achieving development that corresponds to its potential. The challenge is to work on this incompletion, on the energy contained in potentiality that has never been…
May Made Me
Albertine 972 5th Avenue, New York, NY, United StatesThe mass protests that shook France in May 1968 changed European politics to this day. Students demonstrated, workers went on general strike, factories and universities were occupied. At the height of its fervor, it brought the entire national economy to a halt. Fifty years later, Mitch Abidor and Todd Gitlin will delve into the oral testimonies of those young rebels…
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Film Festival: Panorama Europe 2018
Museum of the Moving Image 36-01 35th Avenue, Astoria, New YorkPanorama Europe 2018, the 10th edition of the essential festival of new and vital European cinema, includes fiction and documentary works that present a portrait of contemporary Europe during a period of tremendous flux. The festival, which launched in 2009 by Czech Center New York, continues to give New Yorkers an eclectic overview of the current European film scene. In…
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Ola Rondiak: Identity, Interrupted
Ukrainian Institute of America 2 East 79th Street, New York, NY, United StatesReception for the artist: Friday, May 4 from 6:00 to 8:00 PM RSVP to attend. Art at the Institute concludes its 2017–18 season with an exhibition of mixed media works by American-born Ola Rondiak, titled Identity, Interrupted, in which the artist uses traditional cut-and-paste collage and painting techniques to touch on influences ranging from personal history, womanhood, ethnic and national identity, politics,…
“Berlin Alexanderplatz”: An Evening with Ian Buruma and Michael Hofmann
Deutsches Haus NYU 42 Washington Mews, New York City, NY, United States"Berlin Alexanderplatz" cover On the occasion of the publication of Michael Hofmann's new translation of Alfred Döblin’s novel Berlin Alexanderplatz, Deutsches Haus at NYU and New York Review Books present a reading and conversation between Hofmann and Ian Buruma, the editor of The New York Review of Books. Alfred P. Doblin, the author’s grandson, will read a short part of the new translation and share some remarks at…
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Symposium: Marx Now
Goethe-Institut New York 30 Irving Place, New York City, NY, United StatesCo-presented with the Brooklyn Institute for Social Research Karl Marx is 200 years old. And yet, whenever Marx seems dead and buried, a new moment of economic or political crisis brings Marx’s critical understanding of capitalism back to the fore. In Marx Now, a two-day symposium co-presented by the Goethe-Institut New York and the Brooklyn Institute for Social Research, leading…
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