Privacy is a primary concern for citizens today. Yet many of us willingly share vast quantities of personal information with private companies and on social media platforms even though they offer few safeguards. Cloud technology, for example, enables the storage of vast quantities of information – personal files, tax returns, family pictures, – while social media encourages us to express…
Please join the Ukrainian Film Club at Columbia University for a screening of director Mikhail Kaufman's An Unprecedented Campaign (1931), followed by a discussion moderated by Professor Yuri Shevchuk. The film will be shown with English subtitles. An Unprecedented Campaign is the prominent avant-garde Soviet filmmaker Mikhail Kaufman's rare cinematographic documentation of Stalin's murderous campaign aimed at destroying Ukrainian peasantry. The film is about the 25,000 workers…
Giuliano Amato, Anthony Appiah, Karen Barkey, Seyla Benhabib, Sheri Berman, Michael Walzer and more Please register: info@resetdoc.org (Free and open to the public) ResetDOC, an organization committed to connecting different viewpoints in scholarly research and convening experts, scholars and young professionals in sharing ideas across borders, cultures, religions, and languages, partners with the Italian Academy and the New York Review…
"Italian" Literature in the United States On the occasion of the publication of: Un biculturalismo negato La letteratura "italiana" negli Stati Uniti (2018, Franco Cesati Editore) by Anthony Julian Tamburri Dean, John D. Calandra Italian American Institute, Queens College, CUNY The author in conversation with Peter Carravetta (SUNY Stony Brook) Together with a theoretical introduction, this volume presents five examples…
With the participation of immigration lawyer Nicola Tegoni Extraordinary Aliens The journey of a very important stressed alien through the immigration process Written by Flavia Sgoifo, Arianna Wellmoney, Bianca Waechter Directed by Flavia Sgoifo Followed by a conversation with the cast and immigration lawyer Nicola Tegoni Extraordinary Aliens is the story of Fabianna - a foreign actress whose dream is to…
Meet the fifteen-year old piano prodigy from Prague as he performs works by Beethoven, Chopin, Rachmaninov, and Novák. PROGRAM (Subject to a change) Beethoven: Sonata in A major op. 2 no. 2 Allegro vivace Largo appassionato Scherzo: Allegretto Rondo: Grazioso Chopin: Waltz in A-flat major op. 34 no. 1 Chopin: Nocturne C-sharp Minor, op. Posth Chopin: Ballade in F major…
The Ukrainian Institute of America in collaboration with LINOLEUM Animation Festival presents a compilation of Ukrainian Contemporary Animation from the most renowned authors. These films produced in 2013-2018 made strong steps towards the rebirth of the animation art as well as represented Ukraine at the international level. This program features eight Ukrainian films in different styles created during the last five years…
The panel discussion is organized in collaboration with the Polish Cultural Institute New York, and supported by Arts Westchester and Westchester County Government. Panel discussion on Death is Irrelevant: Selections from the Marc and Livia Straus Collection, 1975–2018 This panel discussion will respond to “Death Is Irrelevant,” an exhibition currently on display at Hudson Valley MOCA, which features spectacular figurative…
An Opera of Flavors Presented by the American Italian Cultural Roundtable Commendatore Aldo Mancusi, President In association with The Enrico Caruso Museum Gioachino Rossini An Opera of Flavors A presentation by Daniela Bisello Antonucci, Ph.D. Snjezana Smodlaka, Ph.D. Come learn how Rossini's love of food was reflected in some of his musical creations. Distinguished lecturers Daniele Bisello Antonucci and Snjezana…
The conference will explore the teaching of civic education in France and the United States within the larger context of citizenship, identity, and immigration. How do our schools--institutions charged with preparing students to be civic participants--confront racism, discrimination, antisemitism, and extremism? This conference will bring together educators from France and the U.S. to discuss how to improve civic education and better prepare…