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CONFRONTING THE NAZIS. REFLECTIONS ON THE FORMS AND DILEMMAS OF RESISTANCE

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

On the occasion of the 75th anniversary of the Rosenstrasse protest in February 1943 by non-Jewish women demanding the release of their Jewish husbands rounded up for their dispatch from Berlin, this conference examines different forms of resistance to the "Final Solution" policy in Germany and Nazi-occupied Europe. Contact Information Professor Volker R. Berghahn vrb7@columbia.edu

Film: Iuventa

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

Iuventa Michele Cinque, 2018, 92 min. To RSVP, please click here. A film screening and discussion with director Michele Cinque and Kathrin Schmidt, in conversation with Carlo Invernizzi Accetti, Rajan Menon, Adam Tooze, and Nadia Urbinati. This event marks the launch of "Thinking Europe Now," a new interdisciplinary seminar series on European affairs convened by faculty from Columbia University and the…

Dante Our Contemporary

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

Please note: This event will be held IN ITALIAN. The author of The Divine Comedy is near and far at the same time: we must "reach him". A lecture by Filippo La Porta, critic and essayist La Porta in conversation with Achille Varzi (Columbia University) On the 750th anniversary of his birth, conventions and books about Dante are plentiful. Sometimes he appears…

Film Screening and Discussion: La grieta (The Divide)

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

La Grieta (The Divide) by Irene Yagüe and Alberto García Ortiz (Spain, 2017, 76’) Following the local government’s sale of thousands of public apartments to foreign investment funds in 2013, many families living in Madrid were forced to leave their homes. This film takes a hard look and, despite the implicit drama, is not without humor when it comes to two…

Sciences of Empire/Post-Colonial States

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

With Robyn d’Avignon and Justin Izzo “If we could today—without the burden or benefit of precedent, tradition, or institutional inertia—invent a field called ‘French and Francophone Studies,’ what would it look like?” - Laurent Dubois & Achille Mbembe Robyn d’Avignon is Assistant Professor of History at NYU. She is a historian and anthropologist of West Africa, with interests in natural resource extraction, scientific research,…

Music at the Maison Française (M@MF)

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

A concert by Hana Mizuta and Lucie Ticho To RSVP, please click here. Bach’s Cello Suite No. 5 in C minor, BWV 1011, Prelude; Schubert’s Impromptu No. 3, Op. 90; Fauré’s Papillon for Cello and Piano, Op. 77; Schubert’s “Schwanengesang”, D. 957, 4. Ständchen; Schubert’s Sonata in A minor for Arpeggione and Piano, D. 821. From Maison Française Columbia

50 YEARS LATER – A CONVERSATION ABOUT MAY 68 AND ITS REPERCUSSIONS

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

Deutsches Haus at NYU presents a conversation between Prof. Claus Leggewie and Daniel Cohn-Bendit on "50 Years Later – A Conversation about May 68 and Its Repercussions." Daniel Cohn-Bendit, one of the main protagonists of the youth revolt between France and Germany, talks with the German political scientist Claus Leggewie about accomplishments, unintended effects and major omissions of the Sixties' revolt, about resistance today…

L’Atelier des enfants with Olivier Tallec (ABCs for kids)

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

Join us for an inventive game of ABCs with author and illustrator Olivier Tallec. In French. For kids ages 5 to 9. Free and open to the public with RSVP here. Follow on Facebook. Olivier Tallec graduated from the École Supérieure des Arts Appliqués Duperré in Paris. His work has appeared in many newspapers and magazines, and he has illustrated more than…

Centennial Heritage Festival

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

The two-day festival celebrates the traditional folk arts and two auspicious anniversaries: the Centennial of the founding of Czechoslovakia (1918) and the Millennial of the unification of the Lands of the Czech Crown, under Duke Oldrich (1018). Events include marionette theater performances, folk music concerts with Czech, Slovak, Moravian, Silesian, Roma and Rusyn folk songs (Feels Like Home), and folk…