Join Javad Djavahery and Katherine Zoepf as they discuss Djavahery’s debut novel, My Part of Her (Restless Books; trans. Emma Ramadan). My Part of Her tells the story of a youthful betrayal during a summer on the Caspian sea that has far-reaching consequences for a group of friends as their lives are irrevocably altered by the Revolution. For information about Djavahery’s…
Please join the Harriman Institute and the Russian Film Club for a screening of the 2017 film Closeness, directed by Kantemir Balagov. This event is part of the Russian Cinema Between Protests Film Series, organized by Mark Lipovetsky (Slavic Department) and Daria Ezerova (Harriman Institute). The film has a run time of 118 minutes and will be presented with English subtitles. A film of arresting beauty, Closeness is the story of…
Narek Hakhnazaryan, cello, Noreen Polera, piano. Illustrated talk by John Brewer. Program: Beethoven — Seven Variations on a theme from Mozart’s The Magic Flute Grieg — Solveig’s Song Chopin — Polonaise brillante in C major, Op.3 Fauré — Apres un rêve Popper — Dance of the Elves Grieg — Cello Sonata While magic, myth and fairy tales have proved rich…
Please join us for a book talk with Maxim D. Shrayer, internationally acclaimed author of the memoirs Waiting for America and Leaving Russia and of the story collection Yom Kippur in Amsterdam. Shrayer’s new book of fiction, A Russian Immigrant: Three Novellas, explores the lives of immigrants from Russia and the former USSR. A Professor of Russian, English, and Jewish Studies at Boston College, Shrayer is the winner of the 2007 National Jewish…
Book discussion followed by wine reception. Giorgio Van Straten, Alessandro Cassin, Alexander Stille and Fraser Ottanelli. Exile and Creativity, published by CPL Editions, is a collection of essays from a program series held in 2017-18 by the Italian Cultural Institute in New York jointly with Centro Primo Levi. The essays examine the lives of Italian man and women who were…
Allen Tate, Melvin Tolson, Robert Penn Warren, Ralph Ellison A lecture by Dennis Looney In this presentation Dr. Looney examines how the reception of Dante Alighieri--his biography and the Divine Comedy--contributes to the productive literary entanglement of several key figures of American literary life in the middle of the 20th century. Since 2014, Dennis Looney has served as director of the…
Come join leading musicians, historians, and an award-winning novelist on March 12 to celebrate the release of The Posen Library of Jewish Culture and Civilization, Volume 6: Confronting Modernity, 1750-1880, edited by Elisheva Carlebach. A lively discussion will explore “Whose stories will become Jewish history?” as Deborah Dash Moore, Elisheva Carlebach, Dara Horn, Itamar Borochov bring to life through words and music the period…
A French actress filming an anti-war film in Hiroshima has an affair with a married Japanese architect as they share their differing perspectives on war. A classic black-and-white story of love, war, suffering and forgetfulness, which was sweated out of an affair between a French actress (Emmanuelle Riva) and a married Japanese architect (Eiji Okada) in the titular bomb-ravaged city.
Opening of the exhibition "The Genesis and Life of Janacek's Opera Kata Kabanova" exploring the circumstances surrounding the creation and first staging of the opera in Brno in 1921. It also presents the history of productions of Janacek’s operas at the Metropolitan Opera and a series of paper collages by a Brno-based artist Vendula Chalankova featuring characters from Janacek’s operas…
Internationally acclaimed Swedish pianist Helge Antoni presents a celebration of spring’s arrival through performances of works by C. Sinding, J. Sibelius, E. Grieg, W. Stenhammar, and T. Rangström. The concert includes pieces from Sinding’s Popular Song, Op. 32, Serenade, Op. 33, and Rustle of Spring, Op. 32; Sibelius’s Romance, Op. 24 and The Birchtree and The Fir Tree, Op. 75;…