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The (Political) Forms of Technology

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

Industrial cinema in post WWII Italy aimed to present industrial facilities as active producers of wealth, development and democracy for the new Italian Republic. In particular, it wished to present Italian technical know-how and heavy industry as a young dynamic State, opposed to the traditional imagery of Italy as a sedated, immobilized country. Combining the style of old fascist propaganda with a more experimental language, industrial or corporate cinema established…

Miradas Paralelas (Parallel Looks). Iran-Spain: Photographers in the Mirror

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

Conversation on the exhibit Miradas Paralelas/Parallel Looks. Iran-Spain: Photographers in the Mirror with curator Zara Fernández; photographers Soledad Córdoba (Spain) and Gohar Dashti (Iran); and Carmen Fernández-Távora, deputy director of the Three Cultures of the Mediterranean Foundation. The discussion will be in English and Spanish, with simultaneous interpretation in both languages. “Miradas Paralelas (Parallel Looks). Iran-Spain: Photographers in the Mirror,” curated by Zara Fernández…

Film Screening & Discussion. Love Me

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

Please join the Ukrainian Film Club of Columbia University for a screening of the film Love Me (2013) as part of the Fall 2018 Olena Yershova Retrospective Film Series at Columbia. Professor Yuri Shevchuk will introduce the film and moderate the discussion. Love Me is directed by Maryna Er Horbach (Ukraine) and Mehmed Bahadir Er (Turkey). A Turkish man travels to Kyiv for his bachelor party before he is…

Phantom Kino Ballett

Issue Project Room 22 Boerum Place, Brooklyn, NY, United States

Phantom Kino Ballett is a multidisciplinary performance by Lena Willikens and Sarah Szczesny. Club elements like strobe lights, electronic music and smoke machines are combined with quotations from movie scenes, interview extracts, and spoken word in an audiovisual collage. An experimental music video serves as a medial extension of the cinema experience. The project’s processual character develops through the interaction of costumes, sculptural interpretations…

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Open to Reason: Muslim Philosophers in Conversation with the Western Tradition

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

What does it mean to be a Muslim philosopher, or to philosophize in Islam? In Open to Reason, Souleymane Bachir Diagne traces Muslims’ intellectual and spiritual history of examining and questioning beliefs and arguments to show how Islamic philosophy has always engaged critically with texts and ideas both inside and outside its tradition. Through a rich reading of classical and modern…

Kino Polska: New Polish Cinema

Peter Jay Sharp Building 30 Lafayette Ave, Brooklyn, NY, United States

Kino Polska: New Polish Cinema features seven films, including three New York premieres, highlighting directors who are revitalizing contemporary Polish cinema. The series brings together the best new works by Poland’s boundary-pushing women filmmakers. The series opens with Agnieszka Holland and Katarzyna Adamik’s „Spoor” (2017). The critically acclaimed eco-thriller was Poland’s 2018 Oscar submission and winner of the Silver Bear…

La stanza verde

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

La stanza verde Autobiografia di Sandro Manzo (2017, Electa) by Fiamma Arditi Author Fiamma Arditi and Sandro Manzo in conversation with artists Vincenzo Amato, Shoja Azari, Phong Bui. Moderated by Stefano Albertini (NYU). La stanza verde is the amazing journey in the art world and behind its scenes of Sandro Manzo, who founded the gallery Il Gabbiano in Rome in 1967, moved to New…

Europe and the state of the Kingdom of Spain: Current Challenges, Future Promise

Lipton Hall 110 West 3rd Street, New York City, NY, United States

On behalf of the Jean Monnet Center for International and Regional Economic Law & Justice, you are cordially invited to attend the Fourteenth Annual Emile Noël Lecture on the State of the (European) Union on Thursday September 20th at 6:30 p.m. This year’s lecture “Europe and the state of the Kingdom of Spain: Current Challenges, Future Promise”will host Josep Borrell Fontelles, Minister of Foreign Affairs,…

The Kidnappers of Nonexistent Time: Czech Surrealism in the 1930’s and its Influence

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

Illustrated presentations by Meghan Forbes, Ph.D., and the artist Gabriel Levicky. Organized as a part of the centennial celebration of the founding of Czechoslovakia in 1918. In the period between the two World Wars, various artistic and poetic strategies in Europe reflected the absurdity of recent violence and optimism for a more utopic future. In this brief window of openness…

WHAT IS A SPACE FOR ETHICS? – ROBERT HARVEY

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

A roundtable on Sharing Common Ground (Bloomsbury, 2017) Sharing Common Ground makes a compelling contribution to an important emerging field that affects a broad swath of humanities. It uses historical, photographic, and literary examples, including an entirely new translation of a little known work by Marguerite Duras, presented here in full, to showcase the ethical capacity of art. Robert Harvey deploys critical tools…