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What exactly is a concentration camp?

Italian Culture Institute 686 Park Avenue, New York, NY, United States

Dramatic reading of Maria Eisenstein’s diary Internee n.6, (1944), one of the earliest testimonies of life in a fascist concentration camp. Details to be announced. Excerpts for the reading are translated from the Italian original: Maria Eisenstein, L’internata numero 6, edizione critica a cura e con un saggio introduttivo di Carlo Spartaco Capogreco, Mimesis, Milano-Udine 2014 (prima edizione Roma 1944).…

Oriana’s Words in Concert

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

A Tribute to Oriana Fallaci Oriana's Words in Concert A Tribute to Oriana Fallaci Written, staged and interpreted by Maria Rosaria Omaggio Cristiana Pegoraro, piano Video editors: Carlo Fatigoni, Vincenzo Oliva Lights and sound: Stefano Berti During these turbulent times, much has been said and written about Oriana Fallaci. More than thirteen years after her death, her prophetic statements continue…

Saturday Storytelling & Workshop With The Hans Christian Andersen Storytellers

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

Tales of tricky trolls, clever billy goats, and a pancake that escapes from the pan! Stories from Norway and Sweden will be followed by a workshop for creating a puppet to retell the tales. Join storyteller Regina Ress and artist-educator Melkorka Helgadottir for our Saturday Storytelling on February 1st. All materials will be provided by Scandinavia House. This event is appropriate…

Talk, concert: Czech Masterworks by Aeolus Quartet

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

The multi-award winning Aeolus Quartet returns to perform a program of Czech masterworks, including Antonin Dvorak's Piano Quintet in A Major, Opus 81, one of the jewels of chamber music repertory. The program will also include a selection of Dvorak's love songs from The Cypresses cycle, reimagined for string quartet by the composer, as well as a colorful set of…

Mussolini’s Camps

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

Civilian Internment in Fascist Italy Co-presented with Centro Primo Levi On the occasion of the English language publication of Mussolini's Camps Civilian Internment in Fascist Italy (1940-1943) (2019, Routledge) by Carlo Spartaco Capogreco Panelists: Silvana Patriarca, Fordham University Carlo Spartaco Capogreco, Università della Calabria Rudolf Mrazek, University of Michigan Discussant: Mary Gibson, CUNY Graduate Center | John Jay College of Criminal Justice…

What Literature Is Not Talking About: Present-day Russian Society, Social Life, and Cultural Memory

Barnard College 3009 Broadway, New York, NY, New York City, NY, United States

Join for a lecture by Irina Prokhorova, cultural historian, literary critic, editor and political activist and Editor-in-chief, New Literary Observer Publishing House; Co-Founder, Mikhail Prokhorov Fund. This event is part of the Super-NOS Russian Literary Festival, sponsored by the Harriman Institute, Barnard Slavic Department, Columbia Slavic Department, and the Mikhail Prokhorov Charitable Foundation. Please click here to register. Irina Prokhorova is…

Italy and China’s MoU on the Belt and Road

International Affairs Building Columbia

Please join for a lecture with: Michele Geraci, Former Undersecretary of State, Italian Ministry of Economic Development Moderated by: Maria Adele Carrai, Associate Research Scholar, Weatherhead East Asian Institute;  Marie Curie Fellow,  KU Leuven School of Law Italy was the first G7 country to sign the MoU with China on the One Belt One Road. It has attracted lots of criticism both…

Splicing cultures: Xiaolu Guo on novels and filmmaking

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

To RSVP, please click here. Xiaolu Guo presents her work in words and film, and draws connections to her own life, in conversation with Carol Gluck. Xiaolu Guo is a British Chinese novelist, essayist and filmmaker. Her memoir, Nine Continents, received the National Book Critics Circle Award for Autobiography in 2017. She was an inaugural fellow at the Columbia Institute…

Pre-“Nozze di Figaro” Evening

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

For Students and Young Adults Only! Opera to the People is a group open to students or other young present and future audience members in order to delve into the world and language of opera, with the objective of fostering a new generation of attentive opera-goers. The group meets to watch and listen to recordings of a particular opera that will then…

Super-NOS Literary Prize Debate

Barnard College 3009 Broadway, New York, NY, New York City, NY, United States

Please join us for Super-NOS, an evening of exciting literary debate dedicated to the 10th anniversary of the Russian literary prize NOS (Новая словесность/New Prose). This event is part of the Super-NOS Russian Literary Festival, sponsored by the Harriman Institute, Barnard Slavic Department, Columbia Slavic Department, and the Mikhail Prokhorov Charitable Foundation. Please click here to register. The NOS Annual Literature Prize was…