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Adventures in Italian Opera with Fred Plotkin

Casa Italiana Zerilli-Marimò (NYU) 24 West 12th Street, New York City, NY, United States

A Conversation with Roberto Alagna The fourth Adventure in Italian Opera with Fred Plotkin of this season features the beloved French tenor of Sicilian origin Roberto Alagna, who has been one of opera’s biggest stars for decades. He is renowned for his passionate singing, incisive acting and excellent diction as well as his charisma on the opera stage. In January 2020,…

Né qui né altrove

Casa Italiana Zerilli-Marimò (NYU) 24 West 12th Street, New York City, NY, United States

Gianrico Carofiglio Casa Italiana hosts this book club that meets once a month 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…

KIT @ 20

Casa Italiana Zerilli-Marimò (NYU) 24 West 12th Street, New York City, NY, United States

Twenty Years of Kairos Italy Theater Join the KIT staff and their friends in celebrating 20 years of theater in NY (and beyond)! January 28, 2000: KIT incorporates becoming officially the main Italian theater company in New York. Twenty years later, it brings back, for one night only, the first sketches presented at the Miranda Theater and then at Casa…

Nordic Book Club: Things That Fall From the Sky By Selja Ahava

Scandinavia House 58 Park Avenue, New York City, NY, United States

Read and discuss Nordic literature in translation as part of our Nordic Book Club. Each month we select a novel from some of the best Nordic literary voices. Discussions typically take place the last Tuesday of the month in the Halldór Laxness Library at Scandinavia House and online in our Goodreads group during the last week of the month.This week…

The Global Rush to Foreign Direct Investment Screenings

International Affairs Building Columbia

Join for a lecture with: Giulio Napolitano, Professor, Roma Tre University Moderated by: Karl P. Sauvant Columbia University Law School The 20th century ended with a proliferation of global and regional free trade and investment agreements aimed at breaking down obstacles and barriers to the movement of goods and capital. Since the beginning of the 21st century and even more after the…

Leo Yeni

Casa Italiana Zerilli-Marimò (NYU) 24 West 12th Street, New York City, NY, United States

An Artist's Paper Life Leo Yeni An Artist's Paper Life Curated by Cynthia Madansky In collaboration with Centro Primo Levi On view through February 26 Mon-Fri 10-6 An exhibition of drawings from the internment camp, sketchbooks with notations on architecture, art history and decorative arts, sketches, paintings, family photographs and official papers. *  *  *  *  *  *  *  *  * …

Exhibition opening: The Liberation of Pilsen

Bohemian National Hall 321 E 73rd St., New York, NY, United States

The city of Pilsen is considered to be one of the last cities to be liberated by the Allies during the end of World War II. The exhibition "The Liberation of Pilsen" will explain the advance of Allied troops from Normandy to Pilsen, the role of General George S. Patton, and other historical circumstances. The exhibition is on view until…

Concert: Pilsner Jazz Band, Swinging to Freedom

Bohemian National Hall 321 E 73rd St., New York, NY, United States

Concert of the Pilsner Jazz Band, an eight-member orchestra from the city of Pilsen, to commemorate the 75th anniversary of the Pilsen's liberation by US Army troops. The Pilsner Jazz Band will perform their wide repertoire, from jazz to swing and blues. On May 6, 1945, the West Bohemian city of Pilsen was liberated by troops of the US Third…

Stories of New York: City College the City Game: Triumph, Scandal, and a Legendary Basketball Team

Center for Jewish History 15 W. 16th Street, New York City, NY, United States

This February and March, join historians, writers, filmmakers, and alumni at the Center for Jewish History for a series of discussions and films about City College, its rich Jewish history, and its transformative role in the lives of so many. Part II: The City Game: Triumph, Scandal, and a Legendary Basketball Team At a school better known for intellectual achievement…

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What exactly is a concentration camp?

Italian Culture Institute 686 Park Avenue, New York, NY, United States

Dramatic reading of Maria Eisenstein’s diary Internee n.6, (1944), one of the earliest testimonies of life in a fascist concentration camp. Details to be announced. Excerpts for the reading are translated from the Italian original: Maria Eisenstein, L’internata numero 6, edizione critica a cura e con un saggio introduttivo di Carlo Spartaco Capogreco, Mimesis, Milano-Udine 2014 (prima edizione Roma 1944).…