The story of Elena Lucrezia Cornaro Piscopia, the first woman ever to receive a doctorate from a university By and with Laura Caparrotti (Narrator) And with Nyssa Duchow (Violin) Set by Sarah Edkins 1678, Padua. Elena Cornaro Piscopia becomes the first woman to obtain a doctorate from a university. Her story begins in Venice, in a beautiful palace on the water.…
For the third time, the New York City landmark Bohemian National Hall is opening its doors for guided tours, offering the rare opportunity to see not only the building mysteries but also Antonin Dvorak's manuscript. Enrich your visit with the exclusive tasting of the Czech wheat beer. The tour of Bohemian National Hall will take visitors through 5 floors and…
Join Harry Koumrouyan as he discusses his latest novel, L’Impératrice des Indes (the Empress of the Indies) just out in France with les éditions de l’Aire, and the challenges of writing a novel on the Armenian genocide. The protagonists are hardly twenty years old when they meet on board the Empress of the Indies, a vessel crossing the Atlantic for the very…
French food critic François-Régis Gaudry will discuss Let’s Eat France!, a mouthwatering sum of 1,250 specialty foods, 375 iconic recipes, 350 topics, 260 personalities, plus hundreds of maps, charts, tricks, tips, and anecdotes and everything else you want to know about the food of France. Throughout the pages of this unprecedented encyclopedia, you’ll come across French food icons like Colette, Victor Hugo…
Celebrating the first contemporary performance of Lorenzo Da Ponte’s The Musical Bee (L’ape musicale) with a series of talks. The schedule is below. Da Ponte’s final libretto and the first Italian opera conceived and staged in the United States, returns to New York 188 years after its debut – thanks to the invitation extended by Columbia University to Claudio Orazi,…
From the Center for European and Mediterranean Studies at NYU.
By and with Francesco Andolfi Directed by Janice Orlandi Followed by a Q&A with Francesco Andolfi. A young “scamp” from Mergellina enrolls in the Italian Air Force in the 1930s in order to help his large poor family. As a pilot, he will get to know the world and obtain success, until World War II. Through a series of adventures…
Deutsches Haus at NYU presents a lecture by Hanjo Berressem, Professor of American Literature and Culture at the University of Cologne, and DAAD Visiting Scholar at Deutsches Haus at NYU in September and October on "How We Read: Towards An Ecological Philology." About the talk: How do we read within today’s complex and diverse media ecology? What are the practices and…
A Talk and Exhibition There were more than 50,000 Czechs and Slovaks living in New York City in the early 20th century and they continue to have a presence today. The exhibition Czech and Slovak New York 1848-2018 offers a rare opportunity to explore the many locations in New York City with connections to Czech and Slovak history, and to…
Please join the East Central European Center and the Harriman Institute for a talk with Piotr Kosicki, Assistant Professor in the History Department at the University of Maryland, about his new book Catholics on the Barricades: Poland, France, and "Revolution," 1891-1956 (Yale University Press, 2018). RSVP required to Elidor Mehilli at em705@hunter.cuny.edu Piotr Kosicki will speak about his new book, a collective intellectual biography that examines generations…