Reading and panel discussion on Elsa Morante’s La Storia (History, a Novel). In Italian with English translation. Organized by Centro Primo Levi and the Italian Cultural Institute on the 80th anniversary of the promulgation of the Racial Laws and the 75th anniversary of the deportation of the Jews of Rome. Free admission “An indictment against all the fascisms of the world.…
Rameau and Traetta (1727 - 1779) What Makes It Italian? Discovering National Character in Music is a music listening and discussion group that meets at Casa Italiana and is open to everyone. Participation is free. The group is led by Gina Crusco, who guides listening at Bard LLI and Riverdale Y, and who has been music instructor at The New School…
NY Premiere Screening with Filmmaker Aaron Wolf. In Partnership with the American Jewish Historical Society and the Center for Jewish History. Director Aaron Wolf’s personal journey of rediscovery comes alive in Restoring Tomorrow, the story of how a treasured local temple near demise is lifted up by a community’s determination. Wolf’s documentary explores how, when any community puts their mind…
NY Premiere Screening with Filmmaker Aaron Wolf. In Partnership with the American Jewish Historical Society and the Center for Jewish History. Director Aaron Wolf’s personal journey of rediscovery comes alive in Restoring Tomorrow, the story of how a treasured local temple near demise is lifted up by a community’s determination. Wolf’s documentary explores how, when any community puts their mind…
Performance by Zemlinsky Quartet, illustrated talk by Nicholas Chong. Love, requited or otherwise, can spark the creation of great music. In 1865, Antonin Dvorak’s feelings for Josefina Cermakova inspired the song-cycle Cypresses. His love was unrequited, but years later he arranged some of the songs for string quartet, creating a set of exquisite miniatures. Leos Janacek was sixty-three when he…
Please join the Ukrainian Studies Program at the Harriman Institute, Columbia University for a presentation by Ambassador Yuriy Scherbak. Yuriy M. Scherbak (Shcherbak) is a Ukrainian writer, screenwriter, publicist, epidemiologist, politician, diplomat, and environmental activist. He is a Doctor of Medicine (1983) and Laureate of the Y. Yanovsky Literary Prize (1984) and the O. Dovzhenko State Prize (1984). Yuriy Scherbak graduated from…
Co-presented by NYU Department of History and Centro Primo Levi. Ruth Ben Ghiat and Alexander Stille in conversation with Mauro Canali on his new research and book La scoperta dell’Italia on American correspondents in Fascist Italy. Respondent to be announced. Mauro Canali’s new research, published as La scoperta dell’Italia, examines the activity, impact, and perspectives of American correspondents in Italy from 1900 to 1945 and the beginnings of the modern tradition of international political…
What if populism was more than the image of demagoguery seen across our media? Join Chantal Mouffe and Jonathan Smucker as they discuss the “populist moment” that Western democracies face today and what it means for the left, themes from Mouffe’s latest book, For a Left Populism, just out in the US with Verso Books. In English. Free and open to the public. No RSVP necessary. Chantal…
Please join the Ukrainian Film Club of Columbia University for a screening of the film Frost (2017) as part of the Fall 2018 Olena Yershova Retrospective Film Series at Columbia. Producer Olena Yershovawill participate in the discussion. Frost, directed by Sharunas Bartas of Lithuania, is an unheroic road story of discovery when a selfless Lithuanian couple drives a truck loaded with humanitarian aid for Ukrainians…
The festival will include 18 films and feature 7 U.S. premiere screenings and 9 NYC premieres, and will include notable classic films that have rarely been seen outside of Europe as well as the latest features, documentaries, and animation films from some of the best established and upcoming filmmakers from Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania. Click here to see the full film line up…