“Everything the Enlightened Despot Needed to Know to Get Along with the Padişah of Islam:” Mouradgea d’Ohsson’s Tableau général de l’Empire othoman This event is part of the 2nd Mid-Atlantic Ottoman Studies Workshop hosted by the Ottoman and Turkish Studies Initative at NYU (OTS-NYU). The Workshop comprises a series of panels and lectures held on Fridays throughout the Spring 2021…
The Mews Book Club, hosted by Catherine Cusset, explores new tendencies in French and Francophone literature in a relaxed setting. Discussion is in French. The book to be discussed is L'Énigme du retour by Dany Laferière.
On Saturday, May 15 at 11 AM ET, join us for a virtual visit and read aloud with award-winning artist and architect Anders Holmer! In today’s program, Anders will invite us into his studio in Göteborg and his sacred and serene hideaway place in Bohuslän, Sweden. Surrounded by the majestic landscape of the Bohuslän coastline, Anders will introduce us to…
Music at the Institute (MATI) Concert Series presents “Songs My Mother Taught Me” Sophie Shao, cello, Solomiya Ivakhiv, violin, and Tanya Bannister, piano, will perform works by Nadia Boulanger, Bohdanna Frolyak, and Antonín Dvořák. This exclusive in-person event is limited to twenty five (25) people in order to comply with current COVID-19 guidelines. Non-refundable tickets are $30 per person. TICKETS…
ECO Solidarity is an initiative and movement developed with the Polish Cultural Institute New York and Tomek Rygalik of Studio Rygalik in partnership with WantedDesign and presented with eight European Union National Institutes for Culture (EUNIC) organizations that address the urgency for more human-centered design in response to humanitarian and public health crises by focusing on ecology, the climate emergency, public health,…
Deutsches Haus at NYU and the Consulate General of Germany New York present a conversation with Academy Award® winning director Caroline Link in the context of the May 21 release by Greenwich Entertainment of When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit, her adaptation of acclaimed British author Judith Kerr’s classic novel. Based on Judith Kerr’s childhood memories, the novel and the film tell the story of a Jewish…
Casa Italiana hosts this book club online on the Zoom platform to discuss contemporary Italian books in Italian. The Club is open to anyone and its purpose is to offer the possibility to practice the Italian language. Everybody is encouraged to speak. The group suggests the books, usually by contemporary Italian authors, that reflect the changes that have taken place with time in…
Drawing on extensive original research, including interviews with the last surviving members, author and historian Leah Garrett, Professor and Director of Jewish Studies at Hunter College, follows this unique band of brothers of Jewish refugees from Germany to England and back again, with stops at British internment camps, the beaches of Normandy, the battlefields of Italy and Holland, and the…
In September, the Albertine Book Club will discuss Albertine Sarrazin’s Astragal, translated from the French by Patsy Southgateand and published by New Directions. As if the reader were riding shotgun, this intensely vivid novel captures a life on the lam. “L’Astragale” is the French word for the ankle bone Albertine Sarrazin’s heroine Anne breaks as she leaps from her jail cell to…
This September, join us for a virtual book talk on The Viking Heart: How Scandinavians Conquered the World with Arthur Herman, out on August 3 from Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. For millennia Norwegians, Danes, Finns, and Swedes lived a remote and rugged existence among the fjords and peaks of the land of the midnight sun. But when they finally left their homeland in search of opportunity, these wanderers…
