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CIA and Cold War Covert Action

1219 International Affairs Building 420 West 118th Street, New York City, United States

Featuring David Robarge, Chief Historian, Central Intelligence Agency. Covert action historically has been perhaps the most controversial and least understood function of the CIA. While all presidents since World War II have used covert action to try to influence the political situation in countries of interest to advance US national security interests, they sometimes have done so to rescue failing foreign…

Botticelli (and Dante) Reborn

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

The Race to Define the Renaissance and the Rise of the Connoisseur A lecture by Joseph Luzzi, Bard College How did the rediscovery of Sandro Botticelli’s art, especially his blockbuster set of Dante drawings purchased in London in 1882 by the German government, contribute to the race to define “the Renaissance” in 19th-century Europe? Prof. Luzzi will begin answering this…

Cultural Heritage Practices & Critical Fashion Theory How Does (High) Fashion Interpret Cultural Heritage?

Italian Academy (Columbia) 1161 Amsterdam Avenue, New York City, NY, United States

WELCOMING REMARKS: Barbara Faedda (Italian Academy) INTRODUCTION: Barbara Faedda and Lynda Dematteo SPEAKERS: Daniela Calanca (Università di Bologna): "Fashion and cultural heritage: complexity and articulations" Barbara Carnevali (École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris): "Milanese style as cultural heritage: fashion, architecture, design" Emanuele Coccia (École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris): "Dior and the invention of Frenchness as…

After Hitler: The Untold Story

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

Featuring Olivier Wieviorka, ENS Paris-Saclay, documentary co-director.   After Hitler: the Untold Story (2016, 90 min), directed by Olivier Wieviorka and David Korn-Brzoza. Documentary film screening and discussion with historian and co-director Olivier Wieviorka about the role of the historian in creating documentary films.

After Hitler: the Untold Story

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

To RSVP, please click here. Documentary film screening and discussion with historian and co-director Olivier Wieviorka about the role of the historian in creating documentary films. In the five years that separated the end of the Second World War from the start of the Cold War, the world had hoped for a lasting peace, but instead found itself on the brink of…

Literary Inspirations in the Puppet Films of Jirí Trnka

Bohemian National Hall 321 E 73rd St., New York, NY, United States

An illustrated talk by Irena Kovarova Thu, October 3, 2019, at 7 pm Bohemian National Hall, cinema The world-renowned Czech filmmaker and book illustrator Jirí Trnka (1912-1969), the master of stop motion animation, brought to the screen works by from Kosmas, Shakespeare, Chekhov, Hašek and others. From tragedy to comedy, Trnka made adults appreciate puppets like nobody else. The talk…

Nosotros 3.0: Strengthening Bonds Between Jewish and Latino Communities

Center for Jewish History 15 W. 16th Street, New York City, NY, United States

The Philos Project and the American Sephardi Federation cordially invite you to the third edition of our Latin American classic art exhibit: Nosotros 2019. This year’s exhibit explores the justice of Zionism through the lens of Jewish and Latino national liberation struggles for independence from European colonialism. A new collection of art pieces will be revealed, including pieces from master…

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Parisian Fashion and its Global Influences: Appropriations, Circulations and Transfers

La Maison Française (NYU) 16 Washington Mews, New York City, NY, United States

The Parisian fashion industry has always been the visible tip of an invisible web of exchanges. What we call French couture, far from being only French and influenced by French creativity and know-how, has always been a microcosm of globalization, with crucial contributions from foreigners and immigrants, transfers and hybridizations of techniques, ideas, styles, consumption habits, etc., which are often…

Violent Beginnings: Defending and Constructing the ‘black’ Ghanaian Citizen in the Cold War

Jordan Center for the Advanced Study of Russia 19 University Place, 2nd Floor, New York City, NY, United States

On March 6, 1957, Ghana gained its independence from Great Britain. Under the famed leadership of Kwame Nkrumah, the first newly independent sub-Saharan African country had several pressing questions on its plate: Who was Ghanaian? What were the new government’s duty and role to its citizens? Moreover, what would Ghana’s political and economic relationship to the Capitalist and Socialist world…

Gender and Transformation Workshop | Eliot Borenstein

Center for European and Mediterranean Studies (NYU) 53 Washington Square South, 3rd Floor East, New York, United States

Post-Soviet Masculinities: Sex, Power, and the Vanishing Subject Eliot Borenstein Ph.D. Slavic Languages and Literatures Professor of Russian and Slavic Studies, Collegiate Professor,  New York University From the Center for Europe and Mediterranean Studies.