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Former Italian Minister of Finance Domenico Siniscalco Discusses Europe

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

With Domenico Siniscalco, Ph.D., Former Italian Minister of Finance. Siniscalco in conversation with Prof. Julie Mostov, Dean of Liberal Studies. Organized by NYU Liberal Studies. Co-sponsored by NYU's Department of Economics and NYU's Center for European and Mediterranean Studies and the Erasmus+ Programme of the E.U. In ENGLISH. Reserve a seat here.

Hard Kore: Poemes/Per-Form

Albertine 972 5th Avenue, New York, NY, United States

Join poet Tracie Morris and writer and professor Vincent Broqua, as they read from and discuss Morris’s most recent poetry collection, Hard Kore: Poemes/Per-Form: Poems of Mythos and Place, just published in France by joca seria. This event will be in English and in French. Free and open to the public. No RSVP necessary. Tracie Morris has performed, researched and presented work…

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Lecture: Community as Catalyst, The Case of Olivetti (1933-1960)

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

Image courtesy of Figini Pollini archive at MART Rovereto In partnership with The Bogliasco Foundation. A lecture by Kay Bea Jones, 2015 Bogliasco Fellow (Knowlton School of Architecture). Imagine the impact on the lives of workers and their families if an employer provided elegant housing, child care facilities flooded with natural light, and recreation zones with innovative regional planning, all supported by…

Thomas Piketty: Of Inequality in Europe

Heyman Center for the Humanities 74 Morningside Dr, New York, NY, United States

Join us for a conversation around a conference by Thomas Piketty, « Of Inequality in Europe », given in Paris as part of the « An Idea of Europe » talk series organized by the Groupe d’Etudes Geopolitiques (http://ucide.eu). Thomas Piketty’s work has renewed the research field on capitalism and global inequalities. Anu Bradford, Seyla Benhabib,Turkuler Isiksel, Adam Tooze, and…

Film: In the Intense Now (No Intenso Agora)

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

To RSVP, please click here. A.O. Scott says viewers “will find solace, enlightenment and surprise in João Moreira Salles’s In the Intense Now, a bittersweet, ruminative documentary essay composed of footage from the era of the 1960s, accompanied by thoughtful, disarmingly personal voice-over narration. Some of the images — and virtually the only ones in color — come from Mr. Salles’s own…

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Conference: Governance issues in the use of blockchain technology

King Juan Carlos I of Spain Center 53 Washington Square South, New York, United States

Some technological innovations have potentially far-reaching consequences for society and the institutions that govern societal interactions. With the increasing adoption of blockchain technology, a new innovation presents itself and poses questions that are of import to social scientists. This one-day conference will assemble leading experts in the field to discuss governance issues in the implementation of blockchain technology. Taking a broad…

Panel Discussion: Uprising 13/13: Counterrevolution

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

Malcolm Gladwell (author), Bernard E. Harcourt (Columbia), Laleh Khalili (SOAS, University of London), Emmanuelle Saada (Columbia), Massimiliano Tomba (University of California Santa Cruz), moderated by Adam Tooze and Jeremy Kessler To RSVP, please click here. Open to the public. Seating is limited. *NEW LOCATION: Faculty House Presidential Suite (3rd Floor), 64 Morningside Drive The year-long “Uprising 13/13” seminar series explores various…

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La Guitare Napoléonienne – Concert

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

PASCAL VALOIS, Early Romantic Guitar Tickets and details:  showclix.com/event/la-guitare-napoleonienne Contemporaneously with Napoleon’s rise, “Guitaromanie” reached its height in salons throughout the French capital. Whether for Fernando Sor’s new fantasia or Louis-Ange Carpentras’s arrangements of operas, new guitar works were entusiastically embraced, opening a new world of repertoire to the freshly empowered bourgeois musicians of post-Revolutionary era. Thanks to its clarity, precision,…

Exhibition: Ludovica Carbotta and Sara Enrico

International Studio & Curatorial Program 1040 Metropolitan Avenue, Brooklyn, United States

This event will take place at the International Studio & Curatorial Program, 1040 Metropolitan Avenue, Brooklyn. The International Studio & Curatorial Program (ISCP) Spring Open Studios is a two-day exhibition of international contemporary art. The 38 artists and curators from 22 countries currently in residence will present work in their studios. Opening Reception: Friday, April 27, 6–9pm Guest speaker: Tania Bruguera, Cuban Performance…

Lecture: 1968 in 2018: Geographies and Temporalities of Mai 68

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

To RSVP, please click here. Revolts, revolutions and calls to resistance have shaped the 2010s globally. In this context, the 50th anniversary of Mai 68 calls less for a commemoration than for a reflection on the spatial and temporal parameters of the events of Mai 68 and their relevance today. Traditional narratives locate the events of 1968 on a line running from Paris to New…

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