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 taken place…
Ido de Haan, Beatrice de Graaf and Brian Vick, moderated by Adam Tooze To RSVP, please click here. After the French Revolution and the Napoleonic Wars, the leaders of Europe aimed to establish a new balance of power. The 1815 Congress of Vienna ushered in the emergence of a genuinely European security culture. Securing Europe after Napoleon offers new insights into the military…
A lecture by Ron Herzman, SUNY Geneseo Why does Dante still speak to us with great urgency and power, and how is it that he remains accessible despite the seemingly-vast distance in time and culture between his world and ours? Ron Herzman is Distinguished Teaching Professor Emeritus at SUNY Geneseo and serves as the Director of Education and Outreach for the Dante…
Previous studies have covered in great detail how the modern state slowly emerged from the early Renaissance through the seventeenth century, but we know relatively little about the next great act: the birth and transformation of the modern democratic state. Demos Assembled (University of Chicago Press, 2018) provides us with a fresh, transatlantic understanding of that political order’s genesis, and sheds new…
J.S. Bach/Busoni: Ich ruf zu dir, Herr Jesu Christ, BWV 639 Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme, BWV 645 J.S. Bach: Aria variata alla maniera italiana, BWV 989 Debussy: Estampes (Pagodes, La soiree dans Grenade, Jardins sous la pluie) Schumann: Kinderszenen Chopin: Barcarolle, Op. 60 R.A. Arjomand: Two Pieces for Piano (2017) Chopin: Polonaise, Op. 53 "Heroic" Polish-American pianist and…
This World Leaders Forum program features an address by European Parliament President Antonio Tajani, titled "United States and Europe must stand together to better defend our shared values", followed by a question and answer session with the audience. Contact Information World Leaders Forum 212-851-7421 worldleaders@columbia.edu
The series comes to an end with a conversation between two of the most renowned historians of our time: Carlo Ginzburg and Saul Friedländer. From: Wooden Eyes. Nine Reflections on Distance. by Carlo Ginzburg, Columbia University Press, 2004 The reader will find here nine essays, three of em previously unpublished, that I have written during the last decade. The “distance” referred…
Please join us for an evening with Val Vinokur(Chair of Liberal Arts and Director of Literary Translation, The New School) who will introduce and read from his new book, Relative Genitive (Poets & Traitors Press, 2018). In Relative Genitive, Vinokur translates two of the great Russian poets of the early twentieth century: the Acmeist neo-classicist Osip Mandelstam and the Futurist revolutionary Vladimir Mayakovsky. This…
Forbidden Games (Jeux interdits) A film by René Clément, 1952, 86 min. To RSVP, please click here. A great classic film set during World War II: two children attempt to overcome the brutality of the surrounding world by creating a paradise of their own.
Celebrated in Catholic countries, the ancient ritual of Carnival came from Portugal to Brazil and over time became an otherwise forbidden outlet for the expression of the Afro-Brazilian culture. The Samba, Rio De Janeiro's famous carnival rhythm, actually traces its roots back to Bahia and the Maracatu from Pernambuco, some of many magical Brazilian rhythms derived from Africans and their descendants.…