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Black and Brown in Berlin: Notes from the African Diaspora

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

Deutsches Haus at NYU and the Urban Democracy Lab at NYU present a panel discussion about "Black and Brown in Berlin: Notes from the African Diaspora" among Brittany Hazelwood, Nadja Ofuatey-Alazard, and Darryl Pinckney,which will be moderated by Christophe A. Koné. Black, lesbian, mother, warrior, poet Audre Lorde, who taught in Berlin from 1984 to 1992, recalled that, on the day the…

LGBTQ 10-Minute Plays from Around the World

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

Rainbow Jubilee is a series of three events that Casa Italiana put together with its theater company in residence KIT to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall uprising. The events will feature LGBTQ theater respectively from Italy (February 25th), the US (March 25th) and from the rest of the world (April 15th): three events of live performance to discover how much…

Blaming the Victim

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

Stradella's "Susanna" What Makes It Italian? Discovering National Character in Music is a music listening and discussion group that meets at Casa Italiana and is open to everyone. Participation is free. The group is led by Gina Crusco, who guides listening at Bard LLI and Riverdale Y, and who has been music instructor at The New School and director of Underworld…

Georgian Jews

Center for Jewish History 15 W. 16th Street, New York City, NY, United States

At the Crossroads of Sephardic, Mizrahi, and Russian-Speaking Worlds: A Three-Part Learning and Cultural Series on the Greater Sephardic Communities of the Former Soviet Union Back by popular demand, the American Sephardi Federation’s Young Sephardi Scholars Series is excited to once again host a 3-part learning and cultural series about the Russian-speaking Jewish (RSJ) communities of the Greater Sephardic world.…

$18 – $36

The Crisis of Contemporary Capitalism: Oliver Nachtwey in Conversation

Goethe-Institut New York 30 Irving Place, New York City, NY, United States

Join German sociologist Oliver Nachtwey and Ajay Singh Chaudhary for a conversation on how neoliberalism is causing a social crisis in Germany and the rest of Europe. Upward social mobility represented a core promise of life under the “old” West German welfare state, in which millions of skilled workers upgraded their Volkswagens to Audis, bought their first homes, and sent their children…

Henrik Pontoppidan’s Lucky Per Book Talk With Garth Risk Hallberg and Morten Høi Jensen

Scandinavia House 58 Park Avenue, New York City, NY, United States

Garth Risk Hallberg and Morten Høi Jensen discuss this sweeping 1904 Modernist masterpiece known as “the great Danish novel,” recently released in its first English translation. In this bildungsroman about the ambitious son of a clergyman who rejects his faith and flees his restricted life in the Danish countryside for the capital city, Per is a gifted young man who…

Presentation and Panel Discussion on the European Elections 2019

Center for European and Mediterranean Studies (NYU) 53 Washington Square South, 3rd Floor East, New York, United States

Short presentation on the European Elections 2019 and the European Parliament Ryan Meilak , Public Diplomacy and Communications at EPLO Panel Discussion Christian Martin, Max Weber Chair in German and European Studies, CEMS, NYU Antoine Ripoll , Director at European Parliament Liaison Office in Washington DC This event is organized by the Center for European and Mediterranean Studies, NYU and the European Parliament…

Le lettere da Capri

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

Mario Soldati Casa Italiana hosts this book club that meets once a month to discuss contemporary Italian books in Italian. The Club is open to anyone and its purpose is to offer the possibility to practice the Italian language. Everybody is encouraged to speak. The group suggests the books, usually by contemporary Italian authors, that reflect the changes that have…

Verso Nuova York

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

Stories and Music of the Italian Migration Between the late 19th and early 20th centuries, hundreds of thousands of Italians left their country for the Americas. This performance uses words and music to tell their story: a story of hope and creativity that ended up changing those new lands into an appendix of the Italian motherland. This tale is told…

Film Screening & Discussion. Hunger for Truth: The Rhea Clyman Story

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

Please join the Ukrainian Film Club at Columbia University for a screening of the film Hunger for Truth (2017), directed by Andrew Tkach. Professor Yuri Shevchukwill introduce the film and mediate the discussion. Hunger for Truth tells the story of Rhea Clyman, a brave Canadian reporter who uncovered a “crime of the century”— Stalin’s genocidal famine in Ukraine of 1932-33, also known as the…