Deutsches Haus at NYU presents a conversation between Professor Ulrich Baer (New York University) and Professor Amir Eshel (Stanford University) on Paul Celan’s visit to Israel in 1969 and on how Israel (past and present) could be seen through the poet's work. Photo of Paul Celan About the event: In 1969, the poet Paul Celan, who upended modern poetry with…
Roberto Scarcella Perino's Opera Comes to New York Composer Roberto Scarcella Perino's latest opera Furiosius, based on Ariosto's Orlando Furioso, with a libretto by Flora Gagliardi, will receive its American premiere in May, 2020. The composer will be giving a presentation of the work in the company of Professors Eugenio Refini (NYU) and Lina Bolzoni (Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa), featuring…
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…
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.
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…