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A Foreign Policy Forecast for the Balkan Peninsula in the Age of Presidents Vladimir V. Putin & Donald J. Trump

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

Please join us for a talk with Rudina Hajdari, a Member of Parliament aligned with the Democratic Party of Albania. Rudina Hajdari is a Member of Parliament aligned with the Democratic Party of Albania. She is also a member of the Foreign Policy Committee and the European Integration Committee. Her primary policy interest(s) surround human rights. Ms. Hajdari is a part-time lecturer at the…

GERMAN BOOK CLUB READS THOMAS MELLE

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

At the September German Book Club meeting we will discuss Thomas Melle's Die Welt im Rücken (Rowohlt, 2016, €9,99 ISBN: 978-3499272943). “If you’re bipolar, your life has no continuity anymore. The illness has wrecked your past, and it looms over your future even more threateningly. The life you knew is made more impossible with every manic episode. The person you think you…

The Blockbuster-Maker: Andrew Bolton in conversation with Grazia d’Annunzio

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

Andrew Bolton, Wendy Yu Curator in Charge of The Costume Institute of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, in conversation with Grazia d'Annunzio, special projects editor, Italian Vogue. The mastermind behind The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s successful Costume Institute exhibitions such as Alexander McQueen: Savage Beauty, China: Through the Looking Glass, Heavenly Bodies: Fashion and the Catholic Imagination, and many others, is a quintessential English scholar named Andrew Bolton, who happily transplanted in…

JUDGING MATTERS. THE CONSTITUTIONAL COURT IN CONTEXT

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

Deutsches Haus at NYU and New York University School of Law present a talk by the Hauser Distinguished Global Fellow, Justice Prof. Dr. Dr. hc. Susanne Baer, LL.M. on "Judging Matters. The Constitutional Court in Context," followed by a conversation with Dr. Christian Martin.  With the rule of law and democracy under pressure in many settings, constitutional law becomes more important…

The (Political) Forms of Technology

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

Industrial cinema in post WWII Italy aimed to present industrial facilities as active producers of wealth, development and democracy for the new Italian Republic. In particular, it wished to present Italian technical know-how and heavy industry as a young dynamic State, opposed to the traditional imagery of Italy as a sedated, immobilized country. Combining the style of old fascist propaganda with a more experimental language, industrial or corporate cinema established…

Miradas Paralelas (Parallel Looks). Iran-Spain: Photographers in the Mirror

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

Conversation on the exhibit Miradas Paralelas/Parallel Looks. Iran-Spain: Photographers in the Mirror with curator Zara Fernández; photographers Soledad Córdoba (Spain) and Gohar Dashti (Iran); and Carmen Fernández-Távora, deputy director of the Three Cultures of the Mediterranean Foundation. The discussion will be in English and Spanish, with simultaneous interpretation in both languages. “Miradas Paralelas (Parallel Looks). Iran-Spain: Photographers in the Mirror,” curated by Zara Fernández…

Film Screening & Discussion. Love Me

Deutsches Haus Columbia 420 West 116th Street, New York City, NY, United States

Please join the Ukrainian Film Club of Columbia University for a screening of the film Love Me (2013) as part of the Fall 2018 Olena Yershova Retrospective Film Series at Columbia. Professor Yuri Shevchuk will introduce the film and moderate the discussion. Love Me is directed by Maryna Er Horbach (Ukraine) and Mehmed Bahadir Er (Turkey). A Turkish man travels to Kyiv for his bachelor party before he is…

Phantom Kino Ballett

Issue Project Room 22 Boerum Place, Brooklyn, NY, United States

Phantom Kino Ballett is a multidisciplinary performance by Lena Willikens and Sarah Szczesny. Club elements like strobe lights, electronic music and smoke machines are combined with quotations from movie scenes, interview extracts, and spoken word in an audiovisual collage. An experimental music video serves as a medial extension of the cinema experience. The project’s processual character develops through the interaction of costumes, sculptural interpretations…

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Open to Reason: Muslim Philosophers in Conversation with the Western Tradition

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

What does it mean to be a Muslim philosopher, or to philosophize in Islam? In Open to Reason, Souleymane Bachir Diagne traces Muslims’ intellectual and spiritual history of examining and questioning beliefs and arguments to show how Islamic philosophy has always engaged critically with texts and ideas both inside and outside its tradition. Through a rich reading of classical and modern…

Kino Polska: New Polish Cinema

Peter Jay Sharp Building 30 Lafayette Ave, Brooklyn, NY, United States

Kino Polska: New Polish Cinema features seven films, including three New York premieres, highlighting directors who are revitalizing contemporary Polish cinema. The series brings together the best new works by Poland’s boundary-pushing women filmmakers. The series opens with Agnieszka Holland and Katarzyna Adamik’s „Spoor” (2017). The critically acclaimed eco-thriller was Poland’s 2018 Oscar submission and winner of the Silver Bear…