Yara Arts Group, under the direction of Virlana Tkacz, will stage a concert-theater event, “Koliada and Music from the Carpathians,” December 6 and 7 at 7:00 PM at The Ukrainian Museum, 222 E 6th Street in Manhattan. The Koliadnyky, an ensemble of winter song singers from the Carpathians, will sing traditional winter songs and perform brilliant troista instrumental music from…
Children and their parents/caretakers can experience how Scandinavians prepare for Christmas in this special craft day, which teaches how to make traditional holiday items such as woven hearts and yarn tomtar. The workshop also includes a brief candlelit Saint Lucia procession. From Scandinavia House.
Czech Christmas festivities, with musical celebration featuring traditional Czech and American carols and a Christmas market offering Czech holiday specialties--cookies and mulled wine. Program: 4:00 PM | CHRISTMAS MARKET Featuring traditional Czech glass ornaments and decorations, chocolates and sweets, mulled wine and traditional Czech Christmas cookies 4:30 PM | CHRISTMAS CONCERT Czech and American Christmas carols. Featuring soprano Kristyna Kustkova…
For all their unquestionable importance, the Holocaust and the founding of the State of Israel now loom so large in modern Jewish history that we have mostly lost sight of the fact that they are only part of—and indeed reactions to—the central event of that history: emancipation. In his new book and in this lecture, David Sorkin (Yale) seeks to…
Featuring Özden Mercan, Bilkent Üniversitesi The European History & Politics Workshop is supported by the European Institute at Columbia University. The workshop will meet on select Mondays over the course of the academic year at Columbia University (Philosophy 302) from 12:00pm-1:30pm. Participants will discuss pre-circulated work-in-progress over a light lunch. Please note that these workshops are by invitation only. If you…
Eleanor Foa Dienstag in conversation with Meryl Gordon. In post-World War II America, who ever heard of an Italian Jew? No one. Journalist and author Eleanor Foa, born in Italy, raised in America, daughter of a brilliant father whose Italian-Jewish roots trace back to 16th-century printers, was proud of her exotic roots, yet knew little about her lineage. In 2006,…
Eleanor Foa Dienstag in conversation with Meryl Gordon. In post-World War II America, who ever heard of an Italian Jew? No one. Journalist and author Eleanor Foa, born in Italy, raised in America, daughter of a brilliant father whose Italian-Jewish roots trace back to 16th-century printers, was proud of her exotic roots, yet knew little about her lineage. In 2006, accompanied by…
Deutsches Haus at NYU and the Consulate General of the Federal Republic of Germany in New York present a screening of the DW documentary "Digital Warriors: Women Changing the World" and a conversation among the activists Masih Alinejad and Aissata Camara, and moderated by Radha Hegde, Professor of Media, Culture, and Communication at NYU. The conversation will focus on the evolution…
William Egginton, Johns Hopkins University A lecture by William Egginton, Johns Hopkins University In the early twentieth century Albert Einstein discovered that time could stretch and space bend, and a multi-dimensional mathematics would eventually be needed to describe the cosmos that his physics predicted. In this lecture, Professor Egginton shows how, by confronting some of the greatest metaphysical problems of…
As part of the European Seminar Series, Judith R. Walkowitz will discuss Troubling Terms in the Sex Trade. All sessions will take place at the Center for European and Mediterranean Studies, King Juan Carlos I of Spain Center, 3rd Floor East, Room 324, 53 Washington Square South 3rd Floor East, New York, NY 10012. Light fare will be served.