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Exhibit Opening. Kirill Radchenko: War and Peace

Harriman Institute 420 West 118th St., New York City, NY, United States

Please join the Harriman Institute and Novyi Zhurnal (The New Review) for a reception celebrating the opening of the exhibit Kirill Radchenko: War and Peace, featuring the photographs by the late journalist, cinematographer, and photographer Kirill Radchenko. The exhibit is organized in cooperation with PEN Moscow and its director Nadezhda Azhgikhina. Exhibit runs March 23 – May 15, 2020. Exhibit hours are Monday–Friday, 9:30AM – 5:00PM excluding university holidays. Radchenko…

Sephardic Art Song: A Musical Legacy of the Sephardic Diaspora

Center for Jewish History 15 W. 16th Street, New York City, NY, United States

The history and culture of Sephardic Jewry can be found in the rich repertoire of Ladino (Judeo-Spanish) folksongs. These folksongs reflect on Jewish traditions and stories as well as universal human themes such as love, death, and despair. In the 20th and 21st century Western classical composers such as Alberto Hemsi, Yehezkel Braun, Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco, Joaquin Rodrigo, Wolf Simoni (Louis…

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Film Screening. The Lost Petition

Deutsches Haus Columbia 420 West 116th Street, New York City, NY, United States

Please join the Ukrainian Film Club at Columbia University for a screening of the little-known Ukrainian film classic The Lost Petition (1972), directed by Borys Ivchenko. The film is in Ukrainian with English subtitles. Professor Yuri Shevchuk will introduce the film and moderate the discussion. Inspired by a Mykola Hohol (a.k.a. Nikolai Gogol) short story, this heroic comedy takes place in 18th…

Open House for Master of Arts in Irish and Irish-American Studies

Glucksman Ireland House NYU One Washington Mews, New York City, NY, United States

Come and learn about NYU’s MA in Irish and Irish-American Studies with an opportunity to meet faculty, students and alumni. Registration recommended. Learn about our M.A. in Irish and Irish-American Studies, part of NYU's Graduate School of Arts and Sciences: - Speak to current M.A. students and faculty - Get details about course offerings and curriculum - Learn about the…

Joyce Society “Looking back on it all in a kind of retrospective arrangement”

Glucksman Ireland House NYU One Washington Mews, New York City, NY, United States

Professor Emeritus Michael Groden (Western University Canada) leads this month’s James Joyce Society meeting. Further info on www.joycesociety.org Please note that this event may be filmed, captured on audio and/or photographed.  All events are supported by members of Glucksman Ireland House. Become a member.

Collaboration as a Decolonial Practice

Hamilton Hall 1130 Amsterdam Avenue, New York City, NY, United States

Presenter: Shirin Ramzanali Fazel (Writer) and Simone Brioni (Stony Brook University) Respondent: Graziella Parati (Dartmouth College) Moderator: Pier Mattia Tommasino (Columbia University, Italian) Through its dialogic form, this paper presents key issues in Shirin Ramzanali Fazel’s career as representative of her cohort of Somali-Italian authors’ struggles to be heard and read, including the processes of translation and self-translation in Lontano…

A Conversation with the Editors of New Russian Drama: An Anthology

Harriman Institute 420 West 118th St., New York City, NY, United States

Please join us for a conversation with Maksim Hanukai, assistant professor of Russian at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and Susanna Weygandt, visiting assistant professor of Russian at Sewanee: The University of the South, editors of the volume New Russian Drama: An Anthology(Columbia University Press, 2019). New Russian Drama took shape at the turn of the new millennium—a time of turbulent social change…

Tribute to Ivan Passer: A Boring Afternoon & Intimate Lighting

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

Screening of two films by the recently deceased Czech-American film director Ivan Passer, a leading figure of the Czech new wave and a close friend and collaborator of the late Milos Forman. The film anecdote "A Boring Afternoon" (1964, running time 14 min), based on a story by Czech writer Bohumil Hrabal, captures an ordinary, dull Sunday afternoon in a…

Exile: Music of the Early-Modern Jewish Diaspora

Center for Jewish History 15 W. 16th Street, New York City, NY, United States

EXILE highlights Jewish music as it shifted and melded with traditions in early modern Europe. The program takes as its starting point the rich musical cultures fostered by Jews in early modern Italy and their points of contact with non-Jewish traditions. From there, it touches on the influences of Italian, German, and English music and Jewish culture, highlighting Jewish musicians, the non-Jewish composers they influenced, and composers…

Reading for Energy: Conversion, Excess, and Entropy in Leo Tolstoy (with Jillian Porter, University of Colorado)

Jordan Center for the Advanced Study of Russia 19 University Place, 2nd Floor, New York City, NY, United States

Jillian Porter explores energy—the “power to make work”—as a shaping force in Tolstoy’s fictions. From the psychic “safety valves” of War and Peace to the steam engines of Anna Karenina and the excesses of The Kreutzer Sonata, the nineteenth-century science of thermodynamics provided Tolstoy with a powerful store of metaphors for the workings of minds, bodies, and literary texts. How…