50 Years from the Stonewall Uprising and of LGBTQ Liberation Rainbow Jubilee is a series of three events that Casa Italiana put together with its theater company in residence KIT to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall uprising. The events will feature LGBTQ theater respectively from Italy (February 25th), the US (March 25th) and from the rest of the world…
Join us on February 26th, for a talk by Mikhail Kozyrev about the film “Brat 2”, especially with regards to his work making the score for the film. This event is sponsored by the Jordan Center for the Advanced Study of Russia. Alexey Balabanov, famous Russian director, shot this movie in 2000. It was the sequel to “Brat” (1997), the story of…
Discussion in French with Abdellali Hajjat and Marwan Mohammed, moderated by Emmanuelle Saada To RSVP, please click here. Why is it so difficult to recognize Islamophobia as a racist phenomenon in France? The talk will explore the reasons for that denial and analyze the way the "Muslim problem" has been forged in the public space and the lack of scientific debate…
Discussion in French with Abdellali Hajjat and Marwan Mohammed, moderated by Emmanuelle Saada To RSVP, please click here. Why is it so difficult to recognize Islamophobia as a racist phenomenon in France? The talk will explore the reasons for that denial and analyze the way the "Muslim problem" has been forged in the public space and the lack of scientific debate…
Author Claire Messud will discuss her work, including her most recent novel, The Burning Girl, as well as how French authors such as Albert Camus, Marcel Proust, and Gustave Flaubert have impacted her writings, with Cultural Counselor of the French Embassy in the United States, Bénédicte de Montlaur. Follow the event on Facebook. Watch on Livestream on Tuesday, February 26, 2019 at 6:30PM EST.…
Reading "Monarchia" Presented with the NYU Department of Italian Studies and The Global Dante Project of New York Dante as Political Theorist: Reading Monarchia (2018, Cambridge Scholars Publishing) Edited and with an introduction by Maria Luisa Ardizzone (NYU) Moderator: Alessandro Vettori, Rutgers University Introduction: Teodolinda Barolini, Columbia University Presentation: Maria Luisa Ardizzone, NYU Conclusion: Alison Cornish, NYU Dante’s Latin treatise Monarchia…
A talk by Zuzana Rihova. With reading by Alex Zucker, translator The talk will present the unique Czech avant-garde writer Milada Souckova and her journey from a natural sciences scholar, to a young writer married to modernist painter Zdenek Rykr, participating actively in the vibrant literary scene in 1930s Prague, to her émigré life in the USA. ?íhová will focus…
Tony Judt (1948-2010) was the Erich Maria Remarque Professor of European Studies at NYU and the founding director of the Remarque Institute at NYU. One of the great historians of Europe in his generation, his many books include Postwar: A History of Europe Since 1945. He wrote frequently for The New York Review of Books. Ta-Nehisi Coates is a distinguished writer in residence…
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…