Join visual artist, writer and scholar, Marcelline Delbecq, and photography curator and cultural director of Magnum Photos in New York, Pauline Vermare, as they discuss Camera, Delbecq’s latest book, just out in the US with Ugly Duckling Presse. Camera stitches itself together from a constellation of inquiries into photography as a practice of intuition and enigma. Delbecq interlaces works of film,…
To RSVP, please click here. After losing his mother, a young boy is sent to a foster home with other orphans his age where he begins to learn the meaning of trust and true love. My Life as a Zucchini is a Swiss-French animated film winner of the César Awards in France for the Best Animated Film and nominated at the…
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. Moderated by Christopher Harwood, PhD, Columbia University Presenters: Kanala Bolvanská ( UN Relief Program assistant/ meditation instructor), Eva Derman, PhD (Jewish history, SHCSJ), Nicole Hubka (student at Marymount Manhattan College…
Misha Keylin (violin), Zlatomir Fung (cello), and Pavel Nersessian (piano) will perform works by Anatoly Lyadov — Pieces for piano, Mikhail Ivanovich Glinka — Trio Pathétique, and Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky — Piano Trio in A minor, Op. 50. Illustrated talk by Stephen Johnson. "I have known love only through the unhappiness it causes," wrote the 28-year-old Russian composer Mikhail Ivanovich…
Cristina Pato is the 2019 / 2020 King Juan Carlos Chair in Spanish Culture and Civilization, NYU King Juan Carlos I of Spain Center. This round table and poetry recital will focus on the idea of cultural sustainability through the experience of three mayor editors of Galician, Catalan, and Basque literature. Francisco Castro, writer and director of Editorial Galaxia (Galicia),…
Join your fellow ASF Members for an exclusive holiday celebration at Scandinavia House with glögg, treats, and holiday music, including a special Saint Lucia procession! During this annual party for the entire family, the Children’s Center will also be open, and a holiday ornament workshop for families will take place in the library. The gallery will also be open for you to view the…
Please join us for a talk with Ilya Kalinin, Associate Professor at Saint Petersburg State University (Department of Liberal Arts and Sciences), and Associate Professor at the National Research University Higher School of Economics. Radical socio-cultural transformation constituted the very material and style, the texture and technique, of Russian Formalism. Estrangement, shift, deformation, struggle between old and new genres, mutual antagonism of…
Deutsches Haus at NYU presents a talk by Professor Claus Leggewie (University of Giessen) on "Art and the Anthropocene," in which he will discuss the changes brought on by the new geological age of the Anthropocene and its impact on culture and the arts. About the event: Scientists argue that earth history has entered the Anthropocene, a geological age in which…
The Center of Applied Liberal Arts (CALA) at the School of Professional Studies (SPS) and the Department of French Literature, Thought, and Culture present a screening of the film Tomorrow (Demain) hosted by filmmaker and scholar Leonard Cortana. Tomorrow is a French documentary about what individuals around the world are doing to help fight current environmental problems. It is being shown as part of CALA's international…
Irish language lecturer Pádraig Ó Cearúill hosts an evening of traditional music and song with NYU students and local musicians. All events are supported by members of Glucksman Ireland House. Become a member.