Lecture by historian Vojtech Kyncl from the Institute of History of the Czech Academy of Sciences, with archival footage including unique shots from Pilsen, accompanied by recordings from Czech Radio, and followed by Q&A. The defeat of the Nazi Third Reich was an impatiently awaited result of the European nations’ struggle for freedom. The last weeks of the war at…
The most extreme legacies of tsarist antisemitism were pogroms and blood libels. These events were central to the Jewish experience in late tsarist Russia, the only country with widespread anti-Jewish violence in the early twentieth century. After the Soviets came to power, they claimed that they had eliminated both these phenomena. In her new revelatory book, Legacy of Blood: Jews,…
To RSVP, please click here. This guitar and piano duo will perform pieces by Olivier Messiaen, Tristan Murail, Pierre Boulez, and Maurice Ravel. Presented as part of the Music Performance Program, by the Department of Music and Maison Française. Program : "Set 1" - Olivier Messiaen - “L’alouette Lulu” from Catalogue d’Oiseaux Tristan Murail - Les Travaux et les Jours III…
Deutsches Haus at NYU presents a reading by the author Bernd Brunner from his new book, Winterlust: Finding Beauty in the Fiercest Season, (in a translation by Mary Catherine Lawler) followed by a conversation with the writer and translator, Tess Lewis. In Winterlust, Bernd Brunner draws on literature and art, science and history, modern pastimes and time-honored traditions to explore…
An evening exploring the unconventional, imaginary worlds of Parisians Jean-Jacques Lequeu and Alfred Jarry. Curators will delve into a selection of fantastic and humorous works in Jean-Jacques Lequeu: Visionary Architect and Alfred Jarry: The Carnival of Being during a series of brief gallery talks. Participate in the surrealist drawing game Exquisite Corpse and relax with a prix fixe French wine and cheese tasting. Enjoy French inspired music…
Join the Harriman Institute and Open Society Foundations for a screening of the film And Then We Danced (2020) followed by a panel discussion with the director Levan Akin, Julie George, Visiting Associate Professor of International and Public Affairs, Columbia University, and Tanya Domi, Adjunct Professor of International and Public Affairs, Columbia University. Film runtime: 1 hour 53 minutes. English subtitles. Click here to purchase tickets…
Angela Schanelec in person February 7 & 8 German director Angela Schanelec’s films have a rhythm and tone all their own—mysterious yet moving, they unearth the metaphysics rumbling beneath the placid surface of everyday life. Her work with actors is like that of no other filmmaker, a radical approach to performance that draws on her own background in theater traditions…
Join us for a talk with author Peter Lippman about his book Surviving the Peace: The Struggle for Postwar Recovery in Bosnia-Herzegovina(Vanderbilt University Press, November 2019). Surviving the Peace is a monumental feat of ground-level reporting describing two decades of postwar life in Bosnia, specifically among those fighting for refugee rights of return. Unique in its breadth and profoundly humanitarian in its focus, Surviving the…
"The issue of anarchy is at once metaphysical and political. Nevertheless, (French) philosophy and politics have always turned their backs on each other when defining it. One of the fundamental motivations of my lectures is to understand the reason of such a non-dialogue. Different, sometimes contradictory, signs are making manifest the necessity of a new interrogation on anarchy in the…
February 11, 2020, 4:00-8:00pm –gallery talks in conjunction with the Portable Landscapes: Memories and Imaginaries of Refugee Modernism exhibit: 4:00 pm - Introduction by exhibition curators Inga Lace and Solvita Krese, Andra Silapetere and Katherine Carl. 4:20 pm - Judy Blum Reddy in conversation with curators Inga Lace, Solvita Krese, Andra Silapetere and Katherine Carl. 5:00 pm - Discussion about younger generation Latvian art…