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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…

Moomins and the Winter Wonderland

Scandinavia House 58 Park Avenue, New York City, NY, United States

The beloved Finnish fairytale characters the Moomins come to Scandinavia House in this holiday film! It’s winter time in Moomin Valley, but Moomintroll doesn’t want to hibernate — this year he wants to explore the winter. And as the snow begins to drift and cover the garden, Moomintroll climbs out his window one day only to find that mysterious and…

Czech Jewelry Designers Meet NYC

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

An opening of the exhibition of jewerly created specifically for the CCNY Gallery. The connecting motto of the exhibition is "Communication". Whether it's a conversation between partners, a personal interaction with the outside world or a contact between the Czech and American cultural scene, communication is a basic human need and desire. In addition, the jewelry is an interesting and…

Easy

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

N.I.C.E. Closing Night New Italian Cinema Events (N.I.C.E.) Film Festival celebrates its 28th edition in the United States. Easy (Italy/Ukraine, 2017, 91 min.) Directed by Andrea Magnani Screening to be followed by Q&A with Andrea Magnani in conversation with Stefano Albertini, NYU. Isidoro, known to all as Easy is lonely and depressed. His career as a young go-cart driver was…

A Place They Called Home: Reclaiming Citizenship. Stories of a New Jewish Return to Germany

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

Contributors to a new book of essays written by the descendants of Jewish holocaust survivors from Germany discuss their own stories, and historian David Sorkin (Yale) will offer historical context based on his current studies of the history of citizenship and Jewish emancipation in Europe. Dena, a New Hampshire retiree, feels at home in Germany the moment the vineyards across the Rhine…