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Borders in the Ocean: Identity and Otherness in the Italian Navy Ocean Diaries

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

Room 501, Hamilton Hall Presenter: Emilio Cocco (Università degli studi di Teramo, Italy-American University of Rome) Respondent: Naor Ben-Yehoyada (Columbia University) Moderator: Konstantina Zanou (Columbia University) In this talk—based on my book “I confini nel mare" (2016), co-authored with Fabiana Dimpflmeier—I will discuss the national self-representations and the description of otherness as they appear in the logbooks and diaries written by Italian Navy officers on duty in…

Ladri di biciclette [Bicycle Thieves]

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

Vittorio De Sica (1948) In conjunction with the exhibition NeoRealismo: The New Image in Italy, 1932-1960 Ladri di biciclette (Italy, 1948, 89 min.) In ITALIAN with ENGLISH subtitles Directed by Vittorio De Sica Starring Lamberto Maggiorani, Enzo Staiola Introduced by Ara Merjian, NYU. Hailed as one of the greatest movies ever made, Vittorio De Sica’s Bicycle Thieves (1948) defined an era in cinema.…

Film: Rafiki

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

Part of the film series "Blackness in French and Francophone Film" organized by the Columbia Maison Française and co-sponsored by the School of the Arts. Kena helps her father John Mwaura run a small convenience store in Nairobi as he campaigns for a local election. Kena lives with her mother, who isn't really on speaking terms with John. Kena starts…

Epic Voices: The Polish Epic with Jacek Dehnel & Bill Johnston

Poets House 10 River Terrace, New York, NY, United States

Following his appearance at the New Literature from Europe Festival in New York, Jacek Dehnel will be touring three major US cities to promote Aperture, his first full-length poetry collection in English translation, as well as the translation of his novel Lala. Joining him on the tour will be acclaimed translator Karen Kovacik and Dehnel’s husband and sometime co-author Piotr…

Migration and Mobility – Morgane Cadieu & Minayo Nasiali

La Maison Française (NYU) 16 Washington Mews, New York City, NY, United States

With Morgane Cadieu (French, Yale), Minayo Nasiali (History, UCLA), and comments by Tony Haouam (French and French Studies, NYU). Morgane Cadieu is Assistant Professor of French at Yale University. She specializes in 20th and 21st century prose, randomness in literature and philosophy, space studies and materialism. The manuscript of her first book on Georges Perec, Samuel Beckett, Anne Garréta, Italo Calvino and Sophie Calle is called Marcher au hasard: déterminisme, clinamen…

A Retrospective of Pawel Pawlikowski’s films

Museum of the Moving Image 36-01 35th Avenue, Astoria, New York

Since making his first film nearly 30 years ago, Academy Award–winning director Pawel Pawlikowski has established himself as one of the most accomplished and adventurous filmmakers working today. Born in Warsaw, Poland, he emigrated to England as a teenager, and made his first films there—documentaries with peripatetic themes and titles (From Moscow to Pietushki: A Journey with Benedict Yerofeyev, Dostoevsky's…

Columbia-Yale Medieval Song Lab

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

To RSVP, please click here. Singing and workshop discussion with Anne Stone, Associate Professor of Music at CUNY Graduate Center This song lab includes singing from original notation at 5 P.M., followed by discussion of a paper by Anne Stone that will be precirculated for discussion. For more information and to get a copy of the paper please write to Eliza Zingesser…

Goong-Goong: From Tuscany to Shanghai

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

The Story of a Chinese Patriarch Through the Eyes of His Italian Daughter-in-Law Goong-Goong: From Tuscany to Shanghai The Story of a Chinese Patriarch Through the Eyes of His Italian Daughter-in-Law Author Patrizia Chen in conversation with Nancy Yao Maasbach (Museum of Chinese in America) Goong-Goong is a remarkable book. Not exactly a memoir, or history, and not really even about its…

Stories of Maidan

Ukrainian Institute of America 2 East 79th Street, New York, NY, United States

It’s been 5 years… Join us for “Stories of Maidan” RAZOM and the Ukrainian Institute of America are organizing a night to mark the 5th years since the beginning of Maidan revolution in Ukraine. We invite you to listen and share “Stories of Maidan” on Friday, December 7th, at 6:30 pm at the Ukrainian Institute of America. Join us for…

Spanish Cinema Days | Film Screening: The fury of a patient man

King Juan Carlos I of Spain Center 53 Washington Square South, New York, United States

The Fury of a Patient Man (Raúl Arévalo / Spain / 2016 / 92 min) Synopsis Madrid, August 2007. Curro (Luis Callejo) is the only one arrested for the robbery of a jewelry store. Eight years later, his girlfriend Ana and their son are waiting for Curro to get out of prison. Jose is a solitary and reserved man who…