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Happy Birthday, Molly! Celebrate East and West and Other Migrating Identities

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

Live score and film screening of the silent classic East and West (1923) featuring the composer of the original score for the 1991 remastered film, Pete Sokolow, and musician Michael Winograd (Sandaraa), celebrating the 121st birthday of Molly Picon. Ticket Info: $15 general; $10 AJHS/CJH/YIVO members, seniors, students at bpt.me/3739449 or 800-838-3006; $18 at the door.

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Haiku on a Plum Tree

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

Haiku on a Plum Tree (2017, Documentary, 73 min.) A film by Mujah Maraini-Melehi Followed by a Q&A with the director and author Dacia Maraini, in conversation with Stefano Albertini (NYU) and David Forgacs (NYU). Tokyo 1943: Italian anthropologist Fosco Maraini and painter Topazia Alliata refused to sign allegiance to Mussolini. They were imprisoned with their three daughters, Dacia, Yuki…

The Rise of Populism: Trump versus Putin

1219 International Affairs Building 420 West 118th Street, New York City, United States

Please join us for a lecture by Victoria Zhuravleva, Head of the Center for North American Studies, Primakov National Research Institute of World Economy and International Relations (IMEMO) Moscow, Russia. In the last few years the notion of “populism” has become one of the most frequently mentioned global trends. An army of populist politicians, brought to power by angry people disappointed by…

Escape from Vichy: The Refugee Exodus to the French Caribbean – Eric T. Jennings

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

To RSVP, please click here. In the early years of World War II, thousands of political refugees traveled from France to Vichy-controlled Martinique in the French Caribbean, en route to what they hoped would be safer shores in North, Central, and South America. While awaiting transfer from the colony, the exiles formed influential ties—with one another and with local black dissidents. Escape from…

Black and White with Red Sauce

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

Spaghetti alla Tarantino A lecture by Mary Ann McDonald Carolan, NYU Tiro a Segno Visiting Professor Quentin Tarantino’s indebtedness to the spaghetti western and its masters, Sergio Corbucci and Sergio Leone in particular, is legendary. Elements of that genre appear in Django Unchained (2012) and The Hateful Eight (2015). The American director’s penchant for violence and gratuitous bloodshed has resulted…

One Long Vision of Beauty

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

Italy and Aesthetics in Edith Wharton A lecture by Dr. Emily J. Orlando, Fairfield University Presented by Friends of FAI Emily Orlando is Professor of English and the E. Gerald Corrigan Chair of Humanities at Fairfield University, where she has taught since 2007.  She is the author of Edith Wharton and the Visual Arts as well as articles published in the following…

The Future of Memory. Serge and Beate Klarsfeld, in conversation with Clémence Boulouque

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

Serge and Beate Klarsfeld reflect on their work devoted to tracking down Nazi criminals and restoring the memory of the lives of Jews who died in the Holocaust. They will also discuss the importance of transmitting this work of memory to subsequent generations. Serge and Beate Klarsfeld have devoted their lives to bringing fugitive Nazis to justice, a mission they…

Dante and the Power of Satire

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

Ambrogio Camozzi Pistoja, Harvard University A lecture by Ambrogio Camozzi Pistoja, Harvard University Dante is one of the greatest satirists of all time. His satire challenged and reshaped moral, legal, and linguistic boundaries. Popes, kings and members of Italy's most powerful families are placed in his upside-down world. Yet, he managed to get away with it. How did he achieve that? How…

Thinking Space in Cinema and Literature – International Colloquium

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

During this international colloquium, participants will be exploring the question of the relations between cinema and literature through the prism of space on the basis of three approaches: - The Geography of literary and cinematic creation examines the spatial context in which works are produced from a historical, social and cultural point of view; - Geocriticism explores spatial narratives as the result of perception and the substance…

Delectable Venice

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

Desiring and Encountering La Serenissima Through Cuisine and Cinema This event is organized and presented by Save Venice. A lecture by Pellegrino D’Acierno Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Comparative Literature and Italian Studies, Hofstra University And Polo said: “Every time I describe a city I am saying something about Venice.” – Italo Calvino The talk, dedicated to learning from Venice, will…