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May 68 in Theory – Patrice Maniglier

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

A true event cannot merely be the object of already given theories: it challenges them and interrogates the very sense it makes to practice theory in general. This is eminently true of May 68 in France: it has been an event for “Theory.” However, its theoretical implications have been too often obfuscated by hasty interpretations that projected on it some vague Zeitgeist aptly coined…

Havel Conversations Live: Gail Papp & Carol Rocamora

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

Gail Merrifield Papp of the New York's famed Public Theater, and Carol Rocamora, author of Acts of Courage: Vaclav Havel's Life in the Theater in conversation with Niemann Fellow journalist Lenka Kabrhelova. Interviewees will share their views on topics such as Havel’s influence, human rights around the world, and the responsibilities that go hand in hand with expanding social media…

Soviet War Memorials and the Men Who Made Them

1219 International Affairs Building 420 West 118th Street, New York City, United States

Please join us for a talk with Mischa Gabowitsch, research fellow at the Einstein Forum, Potsdam, Germany. Alone among European countries, the Soviet Union did not commemorate World War I, a conflict it considered bourgeois and imperialist. Yet by the end of World War II, monuments to the heroism of Red Army soldiers were being erected from Berlin to Pyongyang that…

Leonard Bernstein and Vienna

Remarque Institute 60 Fifth Avenue, 8th Floor, New York, NY, United States

RSVP required remarque.institute@nyu.edu

Free

Concert: An evening of Italian and Spanish songs

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

The Departments of Vocal Performance and Piano Studies of NYU Steinhardt present the final concert of the Italian and Spanish Song Repertoire Class of Spring 2018. Graduate and undergraduate students perform a diverse selection of Italian- and Spanish-language songs by composers including Beethoven, Ginastera, Rossini, Bellini, Albéniz, and Verdi. Performers: James Buhse, tenor Sam Caps, soprano Flavia Darcie, mezzo-soprano Regina Fierro, soprano Mara Friedman,…

23rd Annual World Convention of the Association for the Study of Nationalities (ASN)

Harriman Institute 420 West 118th St., New York City, NY, United States

The Harriman Institute hosts the 23rd Annual ASN World Convention. REGISTRATION IS REQUIRED. Click here to register.  Over 150 Panels in Nine Sections:  Nationalism Studies Migration & Diasporas Balkans Russia Ukraine and Belarus Central Europe (including Baltics & Moldova) Eurasia (including Central Asia & China) Caucasus (North and South) Turkey, Greece (and Cyprus) Thematic Panels on: The Rise of the Far Right in Europe…

Talk: Humanitarianism And The Century Of Wars

The New School 6 East 16th Street, New York, United States

Historians Davide Rodogno (The Graduate Institute) and Sergio Luzzatto (University of Turin) will present and discuss their current research on cases in which, during the century that was theater to two world conflicts, the notion of humanitarian intervention took shape and and shaped the societies that received it as well as those that practiced it. Admission: this program is primarily meant for an academic audience.…

Lecture: Italian Incompleteness (A lecture by Roberto Esposito)

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

A lecture by Roberto Esposito, Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa Italy is a country trapped in an incurable state of incompletion, condemned to the eternal pursuit of something that has always eluded it, incapable of achieving development that corresponds to its potential. The challenge is to work on this incompletion, on the energy contained in potentiality that has never been…

May Made Me

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

The mass protests that shook France in May 1968 changed European politics to this day. Students demonstrated, workers went on general strike, factories and universities were occupied. At the height of its fervor, it brought the entire national economy to a halt. Fifty years later, Mitch Abidor and Todd Gitlin will delve into the oral testimonies of those young rebels…

Free

Film Festival: Panorama Europe 2018

Museum of the Moving Image 36-01 35th Avenue, Astoria, New York

Panorama Europe 2018, the 10th edition of the essential festival of new and vital European cinema, includes fiction and documentary works that present a portrait of contemporary Europe during a period of tremendous flux. The festival, which launched in 2009 by Czech Center New York, continues to give New Yorkers an eclectic overview of the current European film scene. In…

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