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Dance through Time: Antiquity and the Ballets Russes – Illustrated Lecture by Clare Fitzgerald

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

Clare Fitzgerald Associate Director for Exhibitions and Gallery Director, ISAW This lecture, presented at La Maison Française, is held in conjunction with the exhibition Hymn to Apollo: The Ancient World and the Ballets Russes, on view at NYU’s Institute for the Study of the Ancient World, 15 East 84th St., from March 6 to June 2. In English Co-sponsored by the Institute…

The Nordic Model: Finland and Education Chairman’s Lecture Series

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

In this new series, speakers at Scandinavia House will explore the reasons why Nordic countries lead surveys of societies with high levels of trust, happiness, gender equality, and quality of life. By many measures, these countries are among the most successful societies worldwide. In these lectures, we’ll look at how individual countries have successfully addressed certain issues that confront all societies.…

Corporate Feminism and its Discontents

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

Panel discussion with Yasmine Ergas, Melissa Fisher, and Katherine Phillips, moderated by Janice Reals Ellig To RSVP, please click here. This round table will explore successes and limitations of policies to promote diversity and inclusion as well as successful strategies, roadblocks and backlash in the United States and across Europe. Event co-sponsored by the Center for Gender & Sexuality Law, the Center…

Leonora Bernardi’s “Clorilli”

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

Introducing the Renaissance Playwright and Her Pastoral Drama Rediscovered in 2010, this late Renaissance play was written by the multi-talented singer, musician, and poet Leonora Bernardi Belatti of Lucca (1559-1616), famous in her day but now almost entirely forgotten. Clorilli offers a fresh and witty take on the courtly genre of pastoral drama, made fashionable by Torquato Tasso’s Aminta (1573).  Evidence suggests…

The Privacy Paradox | The Alliance Series

Albertine 972 5th Avenue, New York, NY, United States

Privacy is a primary concern for citizens today. Yet many of us willingly share vast quantities of personal information with private companies and on social media platforms even though they offer few safeguards. Cloud technology, for example, enables the storage of vast quantities of information – personal files, tax returns, family pictures, – while social media encourages us to express…

Film Screening & Discussion. An Unprecedented Campaign

Deutsches Haus Columbia 420 West 116th Street, New York City, NY, United States

Please join the Ukrainian Film Club at Columbia University for a screening of director Mikhail Kaufman's An Unprecedented Campaign (1931), followed by a discussion moderated by Professor Yuri Shevchuk. The film will be shown with English subtitles. An Unprecedented Campaign is the prominent avant-garde Soviet filmmaker Mikhail Kaufman's rare cinematographic documentation of Stalin's murderous campaign aimed at destroying Ukrainian peasantry. The film is about the 25,000 workers…

The Trap of Polarization: The Erosion of Democratic Discourse

Italian Academy (Columbia) 1161 Amsterdam Avenue, New York City, NY, United States

Giuliano Amato, Anthony Appiah, Karen Barkey, Seyla Benhabib, Sheri Berman, Michael Walzer and more Please register: info@resetdoc.org (Free and open to the public) ResetDOC, an organization committed to connecting different viewpoints in scholarly research and convening experts, scholars and young professionals in sharing ideas across borders, cultures, religions, and languages, partners with the Italian Academy and the New York Review…

Invisible Biculturalism

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

"Italian" Literature in the United States On the occasion of the publication of: Un biculturalismo negato La letteratura "italiana" negli Stati Uniti (2018, Franco Cesati Editore) by Anthony Julian Tamburri Dean, John D. Calandra Italian American Institute, Queens College, CUNY The author in conversation with Peter Carravetta (SUNY Stony Brook) Together with a theoretical introduction, this volume presents five examples…

Extraordinary Aliens

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

With the participation of immigration lawyer Nicola Tegoni Extraordinary Aliens The journey of a very important stressed alien through the immigration process                          Written by Flavia Sgoifo, Arianna Wellmoney, Bianca Waechter Directed by Flavia Sgoifo Followed by a conversation with the cast and immigration lawyer Nicola Tegoni Extraordinary Aliens is the story of Fabianna - a foreign actress whose dream is to…

Jan Cmejla Piano Recital

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

Meet the fifteen-year old piano prodigy from Prague as he performs works by Beethoven, Chopin, Rachmaninov, and Novák. PROGRAM (Subject to a change) Beethoven: Sonata in A major op. 2 no. 2 Allegro vivace Largo appassionato Scherzo: Allegretto Rondo: Grazioso Chopin: Waltz in A-flat major op. 34 no. 1 Chopin: Nocturne C-sharp Minor, op. Posth Chopin: Ballade in F major…