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Rated Agency: Investee Politics in a Speculative Age

La Maison Française (Columbia) Buell Hall, 515 West 116th Street, New York City, NY, United States

To RSVP, please click here. The hegemony of finance compels a new orientation for everyone and everything: companies care more about the moods of their shareholders than about longstanding commercial success; governments subordinate citizen welfare to appeasing creditors; and individuals are concerned less with immediate income from labor than with appreciation of their capital goods, skills, connections, and reputations. In this…

Italian and French song with German roots

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

Wolf-Ferrari and Chausson What Makes It Italian? Discovering National Character in Music is a music listening and discussion group that meets at Casa Italiana and is open to everyone. Participation is free. The group is led by Gina Crusco, who guides listening at Bard LLI and Riverdale Y, and who has been music instructor at The New School and director of…

Exhibiting Difficult Histories: The ‘Anti-Zionist’ Campaign in Poland, 1967-1969, And Its Echoes Today

YIVO Institute for Jewish Research 15 West 16th Street, NYC, New York City, NY, United States

In March 1968, in reaction to a student rebellion, the communist government of Poland launched a noisy propaganda campaign against the alleged Zionists, who were accused of a conspiracy to undermine socialist Poland. The campaign of slander, harassment, and persecution forced half of Poland’s Jews into exile and deeply affected the life of those who remained. For the fiftieth anniversary…

$5 – $10

Moral Combat

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

Women, Gender, and War in Italian Renaissance Literature Moral Combat Women, Gender, and War in Italian Renaissance Literature (2018, University of Toronto Press) by Gerry Milligan The author in conversation with Virginia Cox (NYU), Clare Carroll (CUNY) and Jane Tylus (Yale). The Italian sixteenth century offers the first sustained discussion of women’s militarism since antiquity. Across a variety of genres,…

Film: Checks and Balances (Contrepouvoirs)

La Maison Française (Columbia) Buell Hall, 515 West 116th Street, New York City, NY, United States

To RSVP, please click here. Screening and discussion with filmmaker Malek Bensmaïl, in conversation with Madeleine Dobie and Mohamed Amer Meziane. Algerian documentary filmmaker Malek Bens­maïl set up his camera in the news­room of the famous daily paper El Watan, the spea­rhead of the Alge­rian inde­pendent press, to film the proce­dures and thought processes behind jour­na­lism during the last presi­den­tial elec­tion. Accom­mo­da­ted…

Dreams of a Great Small Nation

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

Author’s Talk: Kevin J. McNamara RSVP: newyork@svu2000.org Free. Suggested donation $5.00 Mr. McNamara will introduce his comprehensive account of the highly dramatic events that led to the founding of Czecho-Slovakia in 1918. The story involves an ad hoc army of ex-POWs that inadvertently seized all of Siberia, global espionage, high-stakes diplomacy, and America’s own Czechs and Slovaks, who raised funds…

“Toward a Concrete Utopia: Architecture In Yugoslavia 1948-1980”

Remarque Institute 60 Fifth Avenue, 8th Floor, New York, NY, United States

A SYMPOSIUM DISCUSSION on the current MoMA exhibit, "Toward a Concrete Utopia:  Architecture in Yugoslavia 1948-1980” with Svetlana Broz, Gardens of The Righteous Worldwide, Sarajevo & Vladimir Kulić, Florida Atlantic University School of Architecture Emily Greble, Vanderbilt University Matthew Worsnick, Vanderbilt University Aleksandar Hemon, Princeton University Larry Wolff, Remarque Insitute, NYU Co-sponsored by the Center for European and Mediterranean Studies and the NYU…

The Edward W. Said Memorial Lecture: Hisham Matar on Said and Conrad

Italian Academy (Columbia) 1161 Amsterdam Avenue, New York City, NY, United States

Titled “The Guests: Edward Said and Joseph Conrad,” this lecture addresses Edward W. Said’s concern, over forty years, with Conrad. A fascinating conversation emerges between the two men’s work, one concerned with aesthetics, displacement and empire, and sheds an interesting light on the present moment. REGISTRATION RECOMMENDED The Fall 2018 Edward W. Said Memorial Lecture will be given by Hisham…

Dante, Franciscan Poverty, and the Donation of Constantine

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

A lecture by Alessandro Vettori, Rutgers University Introduction by Maria Luisa Ardizzone, NYU Was Dante a Franciscan? An analysis of the Donation of Constantine in relation to Dante’s political and theological arguments proves that Dante had strong affinity to Franciscan thinkers and their work certainly influenced his rejection of church wealth. Alessandro Vettori is Professor of Italian and Comparative Literature…

The Battle of Algiers: A Film Within History

La Maison Française (Columbia) Buell Hall, 515 West 116th Street, New York City, NY, United States

To RSVP, please click here. Screening and discussion with filmmaker Malek Bensmaïl, in conversation with Madeleine Dobie and Etienne Balibar. With excep­tio­nal archival mate­rials and many inter­views (Alge­ria, France, Italy, United-States) Malek Bensmaïl’s docu­men­tary about Gillo Pontecorvo’s legendary 1965 film, The Battle of Algiers, will give us, sixty years after, a strong look back at this film half­way between history and legend.…