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Future Humanities: Translating World Literatures

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

“Future Humanities” is a public conversation on the stakes, challenges, and rewards of editing and translating premodern texts from the world’s great literary traditions. Mariët Westermann moderates a panel featuring the general editors of six groundbreaking publishing projects that specialize in facing-page translations. Topics of discussion include the parameters and methodologies for establishing parallel-text translation series in Arabic, Chinese, Greek,…

WESTWORLD’S SHAKESPEARE: A CASE FOR SERIAL READING

Deutsches Haus NYU 42 Washington Mews, New York City, NY, United States

The Department of German at NYU and Deutsches Haus at NYU present a talk by Professor Elisabeth Bronfen who will speak on "Westworld's Shakespeare: A Case for Serial Reading." Event information Westworld, a postmodern splice between artificial intelligence fantasy and the classic Western, quotes no text more often than Shakespeare's plays. This lecture explores how the serial return of these citations reflects on the seriality…

Koffieuurtje-Dutch Coffee Hour

Deutsches Haus Columbia 420 West 116th Street, New York City, NY, United States

Join us for Koffieuurtje, our open Dutch conversation hour for speakers at all proficiency levels. Beginners welcome! Free and open to the public. Contact Information Peggy Quisenberry pq2@columbia.edu UPCOMING EVENTS September 21, 2018 Scientific Curating: Museums in Germany as a Professional Field for Young Scholars September 21, 2018   From Deutsches Haus Columbia

In Conversation with Pierre Moscovici: “Resilient Growth, Uncertain Politics: the Outlook for the EU as it Heads into Election Year”

Harvard Club of New York City 35 West 44th St, New York City, NY, United States

The European American Chamber of Commerce will host European Commissioner for Economic and Financial Affairs, Taxation and Customs Pierre Moscovici for a fireside chat as part of our Autumn Program line up. New York Times Economic Scene Columnist Eduardo Porter will moderate a discussion with Mr. Moscovici, where they will discus the state of transatlantic economic and financial affairs, the future of…

Ten Years on: Reflections on the Economic and Political Legacy of the Financial Crisis for Europe

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

Pierre Moscovici, in conversation with Adam Tooze To RSVP, please cick here. Join us for a conversation between Pierre Moscovici and Adam Tooze, followed by a Q&A. Pierre Moscovici is the European Commissioner for Economic and Financial Affairs, Taxation, and Customs, and the former French Minister for Economy and Finance. Adam Tooze is the Kathryn and Shelby Cullon Davis Professor of History and…

Works by Iris Origo “A Chill in the Air” and “War in Val d’Orcia”

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

New York Review Books Classics has just released Iris Origo's A Chill in the Air: An Italian War Diary, 1939-1940 for the first time in the United States, as well as her best known work War in Val d'Orcia: An Italian War Diary, 1943-1944. Panelists: Ben Downing, author Marisa Escolar, UNC Chapel Hill Katia Lysy, journalist and translator, granddaughter of…

Pre-“Aida” Evening

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

Opera to the People is a group open to students or other young present and future audience members in order to delve into the world and language of opera, with the objective of fostering a new generation of attentive opera-goers. The group meets to watch and listen to recordings of a particular opera that will then be attended LIVE. This…

Night Before the Funeral

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

A stage reading presented by the New York Untitled Theater Company #61 and Prague Svanda Theatre. Night Before the Funeral is a new Czech play, originally produced in 2017 by the Svanda Theatre under the direction of Daniel Hrbek. A death in the family brings everybody home, but a brief peace is broken by family squabbles, politics, and life crises.…

Saint-Domingue by Way of Saint Petersburg: Writing the Haitian Revolution in Imperial Russia

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

In 1802, Nikolai Karamzin founded the journal Messenger of Europe with the intention that it would inform the Russian public of current political developments in the West, including as they related to the European colonies. From its inaugural issue through 1804, about two dozen stories explicitly concerning the Haitian Revolution appeared in its pages, and as an editor, Karamzin was sympathetic to…

Agora Europe Series

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

Migration and the European Political Space: The Future is at the Borders To RSVP, please click here. With Etienne Balibar, Jean Cohen, Souleymane Bachir Diagne, Lydia Goehr, Stephen Holmes, Carlo Invernizzi, David Johnston, Giulia Oskian, Silvana Patriarca, David Ragazzoni, Rui Tavares, Nadia Urbinati, Achille Varzi, Nicolas De Warren; chaired by Caterina Di Fazio. Conceived in this moment of tremendous political instability, Agora…