In this docu-fictional film, two Danish-Korean adoptees, Karoline and Thomas, separately return to the country they were born in to seek out answers about their birth parents, where they meet at a guesthouse for returning Koreans. As they each embark on their own personal quests for answers, they also begin seeking out the personal stories of fellow adoptees who they…
The ‘permanent crisis’ narrative employed by destination countries in Europe, North America, and Australia, has allowed them to structuralise ‘exceptional’ measures as part of their domestic apparatuses of border control in their war against irregular migration. (…) These initiatives have a well-documented negative impact on the rights of ‘boat migrants’ and fail to address the root causes of displacement. Instead,…
Tambourine & Frame Drum Workshop Final Performance Final performance by the participants in the free workshop Rhythm Is the Cure Hands-On Tambourine & Frame Drum Workshop Taught by Internationally renowned singer and percussionist Alessandra Belloni REMO Signature Series Artist Based on her book & DVD Rhythm is the Cure with Mel Bay Publications The workshop takes place at Casa Italiana on: Wednesday,…
Fourteen years after his first solo album came out, he now brings out his new recording, entitled "Grace & Gratitude." The lineup whom he has invited to work with him in the studio is exceptional: John Patitucci on the double bass, Jon Cowherd on the piano and Nate Smith on the drums form a veritable “all-stars” team to whom the…
From the Center for European and Mediterranean Studies at NYU
During the 1920s and 30s, the US deported thousands of Greeks, and the Convention Concerning the Exchange of Greek and Turkish Populations at Lausanne (1923) inadvertently aided in the process. But was the role of the postwar international system in this "second exchange" mere coincidence? This paper explores how the Treaty of Lausanne enabled the US to deport Ottoman Greek…
Deutsches Haus at NYU and NYU's Department of German present a spoken word performance of Esther Dischereit's "Flowers for Otello" with the author and current DAAD Chair of Contemporary Poetics, and Katharina Menschick. The performance will be followed by a conversation between Esther Dischereit and Ela Gezen, Associate Professor and Undergraduate Program Director at UMass Amherst. About "Flowers for Otello:" "Flowers for…
With director Amandine Gay in conversation with art historian Sandrine Colard (African Art History, Rutgers), and poet/scholar Sylvie Kandé as respondent. African and African Diaspora writers and artists have met the 21st century with unprecedented new images and visions of Africa and the world. From Lagos, Johannesburg and Dakar to Paris, New York, London, or Berlin, writers and artists of African descent are mobilizing the resources…
50 Years from the Stonewall Uprising and of LGBTQ Liberation Rainbow Jubilee is a series of three events that Casa Italiana put together with its theater company in residence KIT to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall uprising. The events will feature LGBTQ theater respectively from Italy (February 25th), the US (March 25th) and from the rest of the world…
Join us on February 26th, for a talk by Mikhail Kozyrev about the film “Brat 2”, especially with regards to his work making the score for the film. This event is sponsored by the Jordan Center for the Advanced Study of Russia. Alexey Balabanov, famous Russian director, shot this movie in 2000. It was the sequel to “Brat” (1997), the story of…