La stanza verde Autobiografia di Sandro Manzo (2017, Electa) by Fiamma Arditi Author Fiamma Arditi and Sandro Manzo in conversation with artists Vincenzo Amato, Shoja Azari, Phong Bui. Moderated by Stefano Albertini (NYU). La stanza verde is the amazing journey in the art world and behind its scenes of Sandro Manzo, who founded the gallery Il Gabbiano in Rome in 1967, moved to New…
On behalf of the Jean Monnet Center for International and Regional Economic Law & Justice, you are cordially invited to attend the Fourteenth Annual Emile Noël Lecture on the State of the (European) Union on Thursday September 20th at 6:30 p.m. This year’s lecture “Europe and the state of the Kingdom of Spain: Current Challenges, Future Promise”will host Josep Borrell Fontelles, Minister of Foreign Affairs,…
Illustrated presentations by Meghan Forbes, Ph.D., and the artist Gabriel Levicky. Organized as a part of the centennial celebration of the founding of Czechoslovakia in 1918. In the period between the two World Wars, various artistic and poetic strategies in Europe reflected the absurdity of recent violence and optimism for a more utopic future. In this brief window of openness…
A roundtable on Sharing Common Ground (Bloomsbury, 2017) Sharing Common Ground makes a compelling contribution to an important emerging field that affects a broad swath of humanities. It uses historical, photographic, and literary examples, including an entirely new translation of a little known work by Marguerite Duras, presented here in full, to showcase the ethical capacity of art. Robert Harvey deploys critical tools…
Museums perceive themselves as scientific institutions but what does this mean for the daily practice of a curator? How has the unique genre of literature exhibitions changed over the last 15 years? What are the opportunities in German museums that await young scholars with a background in the humanities? The lecture will try to give answers to these questions based…
Deutsches Haus at NYU and the University of Cologne New York Office present a talk by Cynthia Miller-Idriss, Professor of Education and Sociology at the American University in Washington, DC, and former fellow of the Morphomata International Center for Advanced Studies at the University of Cologne, about her recent book The Extreme Gone Mainstream: Commercialization and Far-Right Youth Culture in Germany (Princeton University Press,…
Professional Development Workshop with Anja Schmitt In this workshop, teachers of German get to know the two best practice projects Aqua Agents and Ambassadors for the Environment. In both projects, topics of sustainability (water, consumption, climate, etc.) are made available in an innovative, student-centered and motivating manner for teaching German as a foreign language and for joint project work with…
Join us on Sunday, September 23, for a celebration of Poland’s centennial year. We are partnering with the Chidren's Museum of the Arts to present workshops inspired by traditional and contemporary arts practices of Poland. Send Poland a Birthday card in our STO LAT POLSKA photo booth and enter for a chance to win a trip to Poland! Join us…
Gruppo Italiano's original seminar series entitled Italian Table Talks - Food and Restaurants for Tomorrow deals with the Italian restaurant and hospitality industry, and how different issues affect the ardent cuisine enthusiasts (essentially the general public). This third chapter of the series features: Maurizio Forte, Director Italian Trade-Agency, New York Stefano Pezzini, Director of Latteria San Pietro, Mantova Davide Paolini, Italian Food…
“Future Humanities” is a public conversation on the stakes, challenges, and rewards of editing and translating premodern texts from the world’s great literary traditions. Mariët Westermann moderates a panel featuring the general editors of six groundbreaking publishing projects that specialize in facing-page translations. Topics of discussion include the parameters and methodologies for establishing parallel-text translation series in Arabic, Chinese, Greek,…