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…
Exhibit runs March 26 – May 10, 2019. Exhibit hours are Monday–Friday, 9:30AM – 5:00PM excluding university holidays. Please join us for a reception in celebration of the opening of the exhibit Listen to Silence and Speak: The Leningrad Underground and Joseph Brodsky, a photography exhibit curated by Natasha Sharymova. “In the late 1950s I met and befriended a group of young artists and poets. I devoted all my…
Deutsches Haus at NYU and the Center for European and Mediterranean Studiespresents a conversation among Anastasia Colosimo, Wolfgang Freitag, and Christian Martin about "Politics and Language: Let's Tell It Like It Is." Language and politics are two spheres that, intuitively, seem to be closely intertwined. Yet, their exact relationship is open to contestation, thus becoming a matter of politics itself. In the most…
This Tuesday, Nordic-U.S. journalists based in NYC join Scandinavia House for a conversation on the changing landscape of immigration policies in the United States and in their home countries. What trends do they see as journalists occurring in Scandinavia and in the U.S.? What challenges do they face, as foreign journalists, reporting in the U.S. compared to their own nations?…
Two recent French films (Divines, Benyamina, 2016; Bande de filles, Sciamma), directed by women and featuring racially and ethnically marked girls’ bodies in movement, have achieved notable critical and popular success. Residents of the Parisian banlieue, these girls share a heritage of post/colonial immigration. This talk interrogates how these films represent gendered bodies and how those bodies are offered to be seen, but…
Symbolic & Literal Labyrinth in Elena Ferrante's "My Brilliant Friend" A lecture by Stiliana Milkova, Oberlin College This talk explores Naples as the architectonic setting of Elena Ferrante’s novel My Brilliant Friend through the lens of classical mythology and urban sociology. It examines the city – and more specifically, the neighborhood or the rione – as a symbolic and literal…