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Professor Andersen’s Night Book Talk With Dag Solstad

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

Award-winning Norwegian novelist Dag Solstad joins us with author Rebecca Dinerstein for a book talk on his newest novel, an existential murder mystery titled Professor Andersen’s Night. On Christmas Eve, 55-year-old professor Pål Andersen sits alone in his living room, drinking coffee and cognac and lost in a train of thought, when he glances out the window and sees a man strangling a…

Rembrandt’s Legacy: A PersonalConversation

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

Please note: This event has been postponed. Commemorating the 350th anniversary of Rembrandt’s death, Rabbi Meir Soloveichik and Thomas Kaplan, philanthropist and private collector of the Dutch master’s works, discuss Rembrandt’s legacy.

Courage and Fear. Non-Heroic Narratives of Occupied Lwów by Prof. Ola Hnatiuk

Brooklyn Public Library 10 Grand Army Plaza, Brooklyn, NY, United States

Monday, November 18 at 7:30 pm Brooklyn Public Library, Central Library, Dweck Center 10 Grand Army Plaza, Brooklyn, NY 11238 The outcome is an image of Lwów that is, frankly, unsurpassed in its intellectual and emotional richness, in Polish or for that matter in any other language that I know. Timothy Snyder Thoughtful, insightful, exceptionally well researched and moving at…

Book Talk. Courage and Fear by Ola Hnatiuk

Marshall D. Shulman Seminar Room 420 W 118th Street, #1219 International Affairs Building, New York City, NY, United States

Join the Ukrainian Studies Program at the Harriman Institute, Columbia University for a presentation by Ola Hnatiuk of her book Courage and Fear (Academic Studies Press, 2019). Thoughtful, insightful, exceptionally well researched and moving at the same time, Courage and Fear is the book that plunges the reader into the depth of the history in one of the most contested places on the European map. The…

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

Marco Balzano 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…

Group Exhibition Portable Landscapes: Memories and Imaginaries of Refugee Modernism

The Graduate Center, The City University of New York 365 5th Avenue, New York, NY, United States

The Polish Cultural Institute New York is proud to announce Portable Landscapes: Memories and Imaginaries of Refugee Modernism, a group exhibit to be opened on Tuesday, November 19, at The James Gallery, The CUNY Graduate Center. Curated by Inga Lace, Katherine Carl, Andra Silapetere and Solvita Krese, the exhibit is a part of the Latvian Centre for Contemporary Art four-year…

The Emigrants / Utvandrarna Liv Ullmann: A Celebration

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

In this monumental mid-19th century epic by Jan Troell, based on the first two books of Swedish novelist Vilhelm Moberg’s Upon a Good Land, Liv Ullmann and Max von Sydown star as Kristina and Kar Oskar Nilsson, a Swedish couple whose plans to move to America with their family are challenged by physical and emotional trials at every step. Over…

Les Maîtres fous by Jean Rouch (1955)

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

To RSVP, please click here. Les Maîtres fous is an “ethnofiction” made in 1955 by French ethnologist and filmmaker Jean Rouch, about ritual practices associated with trance and possession among the Haukas in Niger. After the screening, Serge Margel will discuss the film and draw links between the theme of possession and colonialism, and explore articulations between trance and cinema, which…

Ian Thomson: Writing About Levi

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

Primo Levi at 100 Presented in collaboration with Centro Primo Levi, in collaboration with the Italian Cultural Institute of New York. Author Ian Thomson presents the new edition of his classic biography of Primo Levi. From the Preface I did not choose to write Levi’s biography; Levi had no sooner died than a London publishing house approached me. At first I…

Spanish Republican Exile / Intimate Portraits: Sender Barayón. A Trip to the Light (2019)

KJCC Auditorium 53 Washington Square South, New York

From the Spanish Civil War to a counterculture guru of the sixties, electronic music composer, artist, and writer Ramón Sender Barayón was born in Madrid in 1934. His father was Ramón J. Sender, one of the most renowned Spanish writers of the twentieth century and his mother, Amparo Barayón, was a woman ahead of her time. The Spanish civil war…