This Tuesday, Nordic-U.S. journalists based in NYC join Scandinavia House for a conversation on the changing landscape of immigration policies in the United States and in their home countries. What trends do they see as journalists occurring in Scandinavia and in the U.S.? What challenges do they face, as foreign journalists, reporting in the U.S. compared to their own nations?…
Two recent French films (Divines, Benyamina, 2016; Bande de filles, Sciamma), directed by women and featuring racially and ethnically marked girls’ bodies in movement, have achieved notable critical and popular success. Residents of the Parisian banlieue, these girls share a heritage of post/colonial immigration. This talk interrogates how these films represent gendered bodies and how those bodies are offered to be seen, but…
Symbolic & Literal Labyrinth in Elena Ferrante's "My Brilliant Friend" A lecture by Stiliana Milkova, Oberlin College This talk explores Naples as the architectonic setting of Elena Ferrante’s novel My Brilliant Friend through the lens of classical mythology and urban sociology. It examines the city – and more specifically, the neighborhood or the rione – as a symbolic and literal…
Raoul Peck, 2017, 93 minutes To RSVP, please click here. Haitian filmmaker Raoul Peck's brilliant documentary on racism in America is an essential work for our era, drawing a clear line from the Civil Rights struggle to today's Black Lives Matter movement via the thought of James Baldwin, one of the most lucid, fearless American thinkers on race (and many other matters).…
Czech and Slovak artists, professionals, students, and scholars are challenged to introduce the subject of their project, research or studies in a short presentation limited to six minutes. In English. Suggested donation $5.00 Light refreshments. RSVP Moderated by Christopher Harwood, Ph.D., Columbia University Presenters: Jakub Lajmon (aerospace software), Martin Rybár (nuclear physics), Silvia Fishbaum (Jewish history), Jan Remšík (oncology), Maya…
By David Del Tredici (world premiere) Performed by Eric Moe, piano, and Robert Frankenberry, actor Generally recognized as the father of the Neo-Romantic movement in music, David Del Tredici has received numerous awards and has been commissioned and performed by nearly every major American and European orchestral ensemble. He was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 1980 for In Memory of…
Kirmen Uribe is a Basque language writer, and one of the most relevant writers of his generation in Spain. He won the National Prize for Literature in Spain in 2009 for his first novel Bilbao-New York-Bilbao, a work that was acclaimed as a literary event. The languages into which the novel has been translated already exceed fifteen, including French (Gallimard),…
Distinguished Lecture in the Just Societies Series, organized by Dean Fredrick Harris This event is full. It will be livestreamed. Check back for details. To find out more, please click here. Location: LOW LIBRARY ROTUNDA Thomas Piketty is Professor at EHESS and at the Paris School of Economics and the author of the international bestseller Capital in the 21st Century. He has done major historical and…
In the exhibition “Stone Puzzles,” Dominique Robin explores the projections of humankind on landscape and more generally on nature. At the opening reception on Thursday, March 28, guests will be invited to write a one-sentence “secret” on paper, which they will then cross out with pencil, revealing only a single word. Selected drawings will be displayed in the gallery space.…
AI and the GDPR March 28, 2019 Featuring Speakers Fanny Hidvegi, Policy Manager, Access Now Estelle Masse, Senior Policy Analyst, Access Now Etienne Maury, Legal & Policy Officer, Commission Nationale de l'Informatique et des Libertés (CNIL) Sponsored by the Technology, Media, and Communications (TMaC) Specialization at SIPA and by the European Institute, with the support of the Erasmus + Programme of the European Union.