A documentary film about Věra Chytilová, a prominent Czech director and a creative force of the Czechoslovak New Wave in the 1960s. “Striving, with or without success… that is the pathos of the human existence” – Chytilová talks about her life endeavour, the rises and falls, the losts and founds and primarily, about creativity. Director: Jasmina Blaževič, 2004, 52 min,…
Please join us on Wednesday, February 6th for “Taboo in Russia: banned or suppressed issues“, a Q&A with Dmitry Bykov. This event is part of the Occasional Series, co-sponsored by the NYU Jordan Center for the Advanced Study of Russia. This event will be held in Room 405 The Silver Center for the Arts, 100 Washington Square Any political regime should…
A talk by Guillaume Faburel To RSVP, please click here. Metropolization implies ceaseless urban expansion and an ever faster-paced life. It transforms towns into entrepreneurial firms and generates economic exclusion, spatial segregation, and social suffering, all while fueling the environmental crisis, to the point that large cities are increasingly rejecting it, evidenced by various forms of resistance. From a turn toward…
A Novel by Antonio Monda Unworthy (Penguin Random House, 2018) by Antonio Monda English translation by John Cullen The author in conversation with Mary Karr and Fr. James Martin, S.J. “With storytelling finesse, Antonio Monda has written a compact and forceful book that might be a morbid erotic tale out of Boccaccio, exposing the tormented lust of the clergy.” –Philip…
Presenter: Pamela Ballinger (University of Michigan) Respondent: Victoria de Grazia (Columbia University) Moderator: Konstantina Zanou (Columbia University) Scholars have typically characterized Italy’s decolonization as abrupt and having little resonance in the peninsula at the time or subsequently. In this paper, I challenge this interpretation by demonstrating the visible and deeply felt impacts of repatriation by Italian settlers to the metropole at the time of events and…
Please join us for a talk with Milan Antonijevic, Executive Director, Open Society Foundation Serbia. Milan Antonijevic has been selected as the Open Society Foundation Serbia as the new Executive Director. Milan is a lawyer by training and has devoted his career to date to human rights protection, rule of law and European Union integration. Prior to joining OSF, he was the Director…
Join author Soledad Fox Maura, New Yorker journalist Jane Kramer, professor Vincent Crapanzano, and publisher Jeannette Seaver for a discussion on Exile, Writer, Soldier, Spy: Jorge Semprún, a gripping, authoritative biography by Fox Maura in which the author reveals the tumultuous true-life story of the Oscar-nominated screenwriter responsible for Z and The War Is Over. A man of many faces, Jorge Semprún perfectly personified the struggles and successes…
New Directions in Scholarship On the occasion of the publication of: Pier Paolo Pasolini, Framed and Unframed A Thinker for the Twenty-First Century (2018, Bloomsbury Academic) Edited by Luca Peretti and Karen Raizen This cross-disciplinary volume, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Framed and Unframed, explores and complicates our understanding of Pasolini today, probing notions of otherness in his works, his media image, and…
A film by Olivier Dion and Mélanie Laurent, 2015, 118 min. To RSVP, please click here. Film by Cyril Dion and Mélanie Laurent. As mankind is threatened by the collapse of the ecosystems, Cyril, Mélanie, Alexandre, Laurent, Raphäel and Antoine, all in their thirties, explore the world in search of solutions that can save their children, and with them, future generations.…
Futures of French is a seminar series exploring new directions in French Studies and highlighting the work of early career scholars. Anna Rosensweig is Assistant Professor of French at the University of Rochester. Her work focuses on early modern literature and culture, the intersections of literature and political theory, and performance studies. She is currently completing a book manuscript titled Tragic Opposition: Rights…