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Where Evil Leans Hard on Good

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

Italy's Migrant Detention Centers and Colonial Concentration Camps A lecture by Stephanie Malia Hom Followed by a conversation between the author and Prof. Ruth Ben-Ghiat (NYU) Stephanie Malia Hom presents an excerpt from her new book, Empire’s Mobius Strip: Historical Echoes in Italy’s Crisis of Migration and Detention (Cornell UP, 2019). Italy’s current crisis of Mediterranean migration and detention has…

Phil Rosenthal in Conversation with Marjorie Ingall

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

Everyone knows Phil Rosenthal loves to eat. The star of the hit series, Somebody Feed Phil, and co-creator of Everybody Loves Raymond, travels the world to taste the best local cuisine. So, what will we feed Phil at the Center for Jewish History? With hundreds of vintage Jewish cookbooks here in the archives, we have a few recipes in mind.…

Remembering November ’89

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

Screening of a Slovak documentary film “Spytaj sa vasich ’89” (Ask at Home ’89) that brings an insight into the lives of people in the former Czechoslovakia in the context of major social changes during the Velvet Revolution in November 1989. The screening is followed by an interactive Q&A with the director Barbora Bereznakova, engaging audience in the conversation through…

Mannes Sounds Festival: 30 Years of Freedom

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

A concert featuring the music of Dvořák, Smetana, Janáček, Martinů, Fišer, and an original composition "A Musical Tribute to Václav Havel" for cello and pianoby Lora Al Ahmad. Since 1999, Mannes has presented a year-long music festival every year. Each festival has a theme and a program of more than 20 concerts, performed by the Mannes School of Music's gifted…

Monuments Without Heroes

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

Medardo Rosso and the Contemporary Origins of Modern Sculpture A lecture by Sharon Hecker, art historian Two decades after unification, Italy was characterized by uncertain nationalism and ambivalent internationalism. The generation that grew up in the aftermath of the Risorgimento was filled with hopes followed by disillusionment. The death of Risorgimento hero Giuseppe Garibaldi in 1882 intensified feelings of anxiety…

Citizen Sis: From Maršov to Leopoldov via Bulgaria

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

Tuesday, November 5, 2019 at 7 pm Bohemian National Hall, cinema 321 E 73 St, New York City FILM + DISCUSSION Screening of a 2019 documentary film about a Czech journalist and a hero of Bulgaria, Vladimír Sís (1889-1958) Vladimír Sís was a Czech patriot, journalist, and writer. At age 23, he sent his reports from the frontline of the…

The U.S. Mission in Russia: Law Enforcement Cooperation and Politics, 2002–2019

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

Join the Program on U.S.-Russia Relations for a discussion with Alexey Trepykhalin, a former legal and political specialist at the U.S. Embassy in Moscow. Mr. Trepykhalin will discuss U.S.-Russian cooperation in law enforcement projects in transnational organized crime and rule of law, and the changing work environment for Foreign Service Nationals accompanying the recent deterioration in bilateral relations. Alexey Trepykhalin is…

Film Screening and Discussion: Leila and the Wolves (1984)

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

Drawing on the Arab heritage of oral tradition and mosaic patterns, Leila and the Wolvesis an exploration of the collective historical memory of Arab women. Shot over seven years, and in often treacherous conditions, Srour’s film is a masterpiece of filmmaking, mixing together archival footage, fairy-tale storytelling, aesthetically bold imagery, and dramatizations of situations faced by women in Lebanon and…

The Condor & the Eagle

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

To RSVP, please click here. The Eagle & The Condor is an ancient prophecy, shared by many Indigenous people. The prophecy says when the Eagle of North America and the Condor of South America unite, the spirit of peace will awaken. After 500 years of colonization, some Indigenous elders believe that this union has begun. The Condor & The Eagle documentary by French…

Una Donna Fantasiusa

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

Un nonologo Una Donna Fantasiusa - Un nonologo Idea by/starring Eleonora Micali Written and directed by Stefano Maria Palmitessa A true story, where fiction is just background to scenes from real life narrated in this monologue or - better - a "nonologo" , as author Stefano Maria Palmitessa likes to call the memories, sensations, and jokes that the protagonist lived during…