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Rewiring Democracy: Beyond “Us” and “Them” – Conference

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

An international conference co-organized by Jeanne Etelain and Phillip John Usher Our current moment is one in which our understanding of democracy is placed under critical pressure, making it increasingly difficult to divide the world into "them" and "us"‐‐ and equally difficult to even know what is meant when we say "we." Whereas a certain modern tradition defies the political via the…

Enrico Fink and Jewish Liturgy in the Mediterranean

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

An afternoon tea with Enrico Fink, musician, scholar, improviser, chazan and story-teller from Florence who will talk and sing about the many influences and exchanges that shaped the liturgy of Jews all over the Mediterranean. At Los Corassones Avlan, 146 West 4th Street, Friday, November 8th at 2 pm! Poetry of devotion, joy and sorrow – a glimpse into the…

Theology of Terror: Vladimir Sharov’s Historiographic Metafiction

Jordan Center for the Advanced Study of Russia 19 University Place, 2nd Floor, New York City, NY, United States

During Vladimir Sharov’s lifetime, his historical novels at first triggered heated discussions, serving as an example of postmodernist “blasphemous” treatment of Russian history; later they received important literary prizes; yet, they never belonged to the mainstream and enjoyed wide readership. However, after the writer’s untimely death, many literary authorities spoke about Sharov’s historiographic metafiction as one of the most powerful and original…

Gender and Transformation Workshop | Elisaveta Dvorakk

Center for European and Mediterranean Studies (NYU) 53 Washington Square South, 3rd Floor East, New York, United States

Resistance, Activism and Feminist Art in the GDR. Visions – (In)Visibilities – Commodification Elisaveta Dvorakk  PhD Candidate in Art History and Theory of Photography Department of Art and Visual History | Centre for transdisciplinary Gender Studies  Humboldt University of Berlin | Germany From the Center for European and Mediterranean Studies. 

Francesco Cilea

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

Beyond "Adriana Lecouvreur" What Makes It Italian? Discovering National Character in Music is a music listening and discussion group that meets at Casa Italiana and is open to everyone. Participation is free. The group is led by Gina Crusco, who guides listening at Bard LLI and Riverdale Y, and who has been music instructor at The New School and director of…

Lecture:(Re)Thinking Ottoman Provincial History Taxation and Politics at the Margins of an Empire

Hagop Kevorkian Center 255 Sullivan Street, New York City, NY, United States

Ottoman economic historians often subscribed to a narrative which pictures the nineteenth century history as unfolding through a conflict over taxable resources between central political elite and provincial power-holders. In this paper I aim to provide a critique of this approach and find alternative ways of interpreting post-Tanzimat fiscal history. As an alternative to this dichotomous conception of center vs…

XXI International Chopin & Friends Festival in New York

Consulate General of Poland 233 Madison Avenue, New York, NY, United States

The International Chopin & Friends Festival in New York is an annual festival organized by the New York Dance & Arts Innovations, Inc. and supported by the Polish Cultural Institute NY showcasing artists of various disciplines inspired by Chopin’s legacy and working across a variety of media to unite traditional and contemporary art forms. Polish Cultural Institute NY is proud…

Concert: Spiritual Kvintet, Celebrating the Velvet Revolution

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

Join us for the concert of the legendary Czech folk ensemble Spiritual Kvintet to celebrate the 30th anniversary of the Velvet Revolution. Dress code: semi-formal. Cash bar provided by Bohemian Spirit. Critics regard Spiritual Kvintet as the first and best Czechoslovak folk group. In 1989 the government blacklisted Spiritual Kvintet, yet their songs were played on the streets of Prague…

Film: Bauhaus Spirit: 100 Years of Bauhaus

Goethe-Institut New York 30 Irving Place, New York City, NY, United States

What does a Latin American favela have to do with an old workers’ settlement in Dessau? What is the connection between a Jewish socialist in a rural commune and the children in a school class in Stockholm? All of these stories concern visions and the practical attempts to make them come true. Nearly a hundred years ago, a radical artistic utopian…

An Evening of Mediterranean and Balkan Music

148 W 4th St 148 W. 4th St., New York, NY, United States

Daphna Mor (voice, winds, percussion) and Kane Mathis (oud) return to Los Corassones Avlan with an intimate acoustic musical performances inspired by the tradition of families, women and neighbors sitting together to make music, on Saturday night in Rhodes. The crossover of melodies includes Turkish, Greek, Judeo-español, Balkan and Mediterranean as well as liturgical hymns – Piyutim -from the Synagogue…