Please join the Harriman Institute and the East Central European Center for a celebration of Romanian language and culture, on the occasion of Romania's National Day. Organized by Mona Momescu, N. Iorga Chair for Romanian Language and Culture. We are honored to have, among our guests, the Consul General of Romania, high-ranking diplomats from the Mission of Romania to the…
Madrigals for cello, choir, and city by Andrea Liberovici Wick Simmons, cello; Fractio Modi, vocal quartet Andrea Liberovici's music for solo cello and electronics is inspired by music of Vivaldi to evoke the mysterious, fragile city of Venice. Also featured in the evening's program are works by Strozzi and Vivaldi (for choir and continuo). Resonant City: Venice is brought to…
Anna and Edith work together at an insurance company and get closer as they fight the patriarchy at home and in the office. This 1970s classic was the first film to show a love story between two women in a positive light on German television. We are excited to present it for the first time with English subtitles, produced by…
Las Sinsombrero (2015) Documentary , Dir. Tània Balló, Manuel Jiménez Núñez, Serrana Torres Runtime: 56 minutes In Spanish, with English subtitles. US premiere Las Sinsombrero recovers the legacy and memory of a group of women who lived during the first decades of the 20th Century, demonstrating how their ideas, work, and actions were and are fundamental for understanding the culture…
This sports drama explores the turbulent history of basketball in the former Czechoslovakia amid the social turmoil caused by various dictatorships. In this environment, fair play gets thrown out the window. Golden Sting takes us back to the period before World War II to the year 1938, and leads up to the year 1951 when Czechoslovakia was ultimately and firmly…
This event will recur Every Day until Dec. 7, 2019 Tisch Drama Stage in collaboration with the Camargo Foundation presents a festival of new readings on the African experience. Camargo Foundation’s Cultural Diaspora Playwrights Residency was conceived and curated by award-winning Minneapolis-based playwright Carlyle Brown and theater director Chuck Mike. The residency’s goal was to bring together mid-career and established…
Please join us for a book talk with Peter Pomerantsev, author of This Is Not Propaganda: Adventures in the War Against Reality (Public Affairs, August 2019). This talk is supported by the University Consortium and the Carnegie Corporation of New York. Perhaps the most important global trend of the last few years has been the rise—and transformation—of information warfare. In the digital age,…
When the hardboiled late 19th-century rancher Zandy (Gene Hackman) decides to take a mail-order bride, he isn’t especially interested in love; instead, he wants a woman who can bear his child and aid him in the daily struggles of country living, whether tending cattle or fighting off grizzly bears. But when his new bride Hannah (Ullmann) arrives by stagecoach from…
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…