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The 21st Annual Ernie O’ Malley Lecture: Ambassador Daniel Mulhall

Glucksman Ireland House NYU One Washington Mews, New York City, NY, United States

Declaring Independence: USA 1776, Ireland 1919 Ambassador Daniel Mulhall will address the relationship between Ireland and the United States with emphasis on the countries’ Declarations of Independence for which Ireland celebrates its 100th anniversary in 2019. Ambassador Mulhall took up duty as Ireland's 18th Ambassador to the United States in August 2017. He joined the Department of Foreign Affairs in…

Film: Czech Student Uprisings – 1960s and 1980s

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

A documentary exploring the role of students in Czechoslovakia during the twists and turns of history in the 1960s and 1980s. The two-part film, directed by the noted Olga Sommerova, compares the roles of students in the protest movements of the 1960s and 1980s in Communist Czechoslovakia, draws parallels between them, and sheds light on the less-researched chapters of these…

Talk by Johannes Lehmann (Bonn): Rage, Borders, Masculinity – The Political of Anger and the Politics of Affect (in the New Rightist Mouvement)

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

Johannes Lehmann (Bonn): Rage, Borders, Masculinity - The Political of Anger and the Politics of Affect (in the New Rightist Mouvement) Against the background of a theory of political rage, the lecture develops the thesis that the imaginary of boundaries, of masculinity and the call for more rage and anger (thymos), as expressed from the political ‚right‘, form a strong…

The Island of Roses

Los Corassones Avlan 148 W. 4th Street, New York City, NY, United States

Film screening and conversation: The Island of Roses, Tragedy in Paradise, by Rebecca Samonà. 2008/Italy, 56 min., documentary, in Italian with English subtitles Written and directed by Rebecca Samonà. Produced by L’Altravista and Rebecca Samonà. Post-screening conversation with Erminia and Gloria Licitri. Pregnant with her second child, Rebecca Samonà goes to the island of Rhodes to research family stories, accompanied by her mother…

Competing Truths: Art and the Objects of History after the Council of Trent

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

This is a two-day symposium to be jointly held at the Italian Academy and The Frick Collection and Frick Art Reference Library on November 15 and 16. The event will bring together scholars and museum professionals in order to investigate how Italian art helped to formulate competing truths in the long aftermath of the Council of Trent, and how the…

Terra Matta

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

In Scena! Fall presents Presented by In Scena! Italian Theater Festival NY Fall Edition Terra Matta Based on the diaries of Vincenzo Rabito Adapted and interpreted by Stefano Panzeri Terra Matta is adapted from the extraordinary autobiography of a Sicilian laborer at the beginning of the century, written between 1968 and 1975 on an old Olivetti. It is a monumental work: 1027…

Teaching and Thinking the Bauhaus after 1989: Angela Zumpe’s Time in Dessau

Deutsches Haus NYU 42 Washington Mews, New York City, NY, United States

Deutsches Haus at NYU presents a screening of  Things to Come, a film project on László, Lucia, and Sibyl Moholy-Nagy by DAAD Visiting Scholar at Deutsches Haus at NYU Angela Zumpe. The screening will be followed by a talk about Angela Zumpe's latest book, I Am Taking the Ghosts with Me…, which focuses on her personal experience with the Bauhaus and reflects on…

Blarney Star: Siobhán, and Willie Kelly

Glucksman Ireland House NYU One Washington Mews, New York City, NY, United States

Siobhán grew up in a musical family in County Clare. Her husband Willie, though born in New Jersey, is very much on the same musical wavelength, sharing Siobhán’s devotion to the old-time style of east Clare and east Galway.

An-Magritt Liv Ullmann: A Celebration

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

In this adaptation of the Norwegian trilogy Bread of Night by Johan Falkberget, the young An-Magritt has cultivated exceptional survival skills from a young age. Orphaned by her mother’s suicide following public humiliiation for an affair with a soldier — and raised only by her grandfather — she has grown up in a harsh environment dominated by men, teaching herself…

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Saturday Art Workshop for Kids Motion With Sari Nordman

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

Scandinavia House presents Saturday Art Workshops for children ages 5 and up! This fall, kids will explore themes related to our exhibition Cutting Edges, with artist-led workshops that each address one of the central themes of concrete art explored in the Gallery show. Pure forms, colors, and principles of concrete art will invite us to experiment and explore new narratives in…

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