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Józef Czapski and His Lectures on Proust in a Soviet Prison Camp – Eric Karpeles & Anka Muhlstein

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

Józef Czapski (1896–1993) lived many lives during his ninety-six years: student in Saint Petersburg during the Russian Revolution, painter in Paris in the roaring twenties, Polish reserve officer fighting the invading Nazis at the onset of World War II. When taken prisoner of war in a Soviet camp, and with nothing but memory to go on, he brought Marcel Proust’s In…

Meet a Yiddish Celebrity: Yiddish Princess, Sarah Gordon

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

Sarah Mina Gordon is a fourth generation Yiddish singer. She has recorded and performed with The Klezmatics, Frank London’s Klezmer Brass All-Stars, Daniel Kahn and the Painted Bird, Sharabi, and others. She fronted Yiddish Princess, a Yiddish rock bank. Daughter of legendary Yiddish singer and scholar, Adrienne Cooper (z’l), Sarah grew up immersed in innovative Yiddish culture. Dedicated to making…

Grassroots Politics of Equality in Bosnia and Herzegovina: Mobilizing Affect & Claiming Justice

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

Please join us for a talk with Jasmina Husanovic, Associate Professor at the Faculty of Philosophy, University of Tuzla, Bosnia and Herzegovina, moderated by Tanya Domi (Columbia/SIPA). Jasmina Husanovic is an Associate Professor at the Faculty of Philosophy, University of Tuzla, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and a chair in Cultural Studies. Her research interests are in cultural and political theory and the praxis dealing with the politics of…

Making Money: Semiosis and Sociality in Fin-de-Siècle France – Laura Kalba

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

Laura Kalba is the 2016-17 laureate of the Wylie Prize in French Cultural Studies for Color in the Age of Impressionism: Commerce, Technology, and Art (Penn State, 2017). She is the Priscilla Paine Van der Poel Associate Professor of Art at Smith College. Derived from her new book project, Kalba’s lecture explores how the visual aspect of the Paris Bourse, freshly-minted coins, and…

Film: The Country Upside Down (Le Pays à l’envers)

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

A film by Sylvaine Dampierre (2009, 90 min.). Screening followed by Q&A with director Sylvaine Dampierre, Kim Hall, and Nora Philippe. To view the trailer, click here. This is part of the film series "Blackness in French and Francophone Film" organized by the Columbia Maison Française and co-sponsored by the School of the Arts. In this personal journey through the memory…

Forgetting Remembering

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

"Forgetting Remembering" is a two-day exhibition of fine art prints and artists’ books by Czech and Slovak artists who explore the notion of memory, perception and reality. An opening reception will be held on Thursday, November 15, 6:30 – 8:30 pm. The exhibition features contemporary fine art prints and artists’ books by fourteen Czech and Slovak artists, both renowned and…

Holy Mass in Suffrage of Baroness Mariuccia Zerilli-Marimò

Catholic Center NYU 238 Thompson Street, New York, NY, United States

at The Catholic Center at NYU (238 Thompson St.) Three years ago, our founder Baroness Zerilli passed away. Every day here at Casa, the institution she nurtured with love, wisdom, and boundless energy, we feel the profound sadness of her loss. However, we continue to feel the joy and honor of being the custodians of Casa's mission, as she had…

Dior and His Decorators

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

Design historian Maureen Footer and fashion expert, TV producer, and award-winning author Marie-France Pochna will be discussing Footer’s latest book, Dior and His Decorators: Victor Grandpierre, Georges Geffroy, and the New Look (Vendome Press), the first in-depth account of the two Parisian interior designers associated with Christian Dior. Eloquently written and beautifully illustrated, it recounts the evolution of Dior’s aesthetic as a fashion…

James Carroll: The Jews, the Irish, and a Challenge to Catholic Anti-Semitism

Glucksman Ireland House NYU One Washington Mews, New York City, NY, United States

Renowned author, James Carroll, presents, "The Jews, the Irish, and a Challenge to Catholic Anti-Semitism: A Boston Story". The sister of Cardinal Richard Cushing, Archbishop of Boston, was married (outside the Church) to a Jewish fellow named Dick Pearlstein. It was the 1950’s. On the Boston Common, Pearlstein heard the anti-Semitic preaching of Father Leonard Feeney, an ultra-conservative Jesuit. Pearlstein’s…

Italian Humanist Photography

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

In conjunction with the exhibition NeoRealismo Martina Caruso, Assistant Director for Art, Architecture and the Creative Industries at the British School at Rome, will discuss her recent book, Italian Humanist Photography from Fascism to the Cold War (Bloomsbury, 2016), with David Forgacs, Contemporary Italian Studies, NYU, and Maria Antonella Pelizzari, History of Photography, Hunter College and the Graduate Center, CUNY. Co-sponsored with Grey Art…