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Vice, Crime, and Poverty: How the Western Imagination Invented the Underworld

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

To RSVP, please click here. Winner of the 2013 Prix Mauvais genres, Les Bas Fonds examines the underworld of 19th and 20th century France. The underworld, a zone outside of the law, populated by beggars, prostitutes, criminals and convicts and where every form of social ill seems to coexist, regularly haunts our imagination. From Batman’s Gotham to Eugène Sue’s Paris, Kalifa explores how journalism, literature,…

The European Union: A Growing Player in Global Security

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

  From the Center for European and Mediterranean Studies at NYU

Adventures in Italian Opera with Fred Plotkin

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

A Conversation with Leah Crocetto The seventh and final Adventure in Italian Opera with Fred Plotkin of this season features American soprano Leah Crocetto, one of the top young stars in the current generation of opera singers. She has sung leading roles at the Met, Washington, Seattle and Frankfurt, excelling in the core repertory of Verdi and Puccini. In ENGLISH. From the…

France in the World: A New Global History

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

Join us for a panel discussion to celebrate the release of France in the World, the English-Language translation of the bestselling Histoire mondiale de la France, a volume conceived and mastered by leading French academic and Collège de France professor, Patrick Boucheron. France in the World combines the intellectual rigor of an academic work with the liveliness and readability of popular history. This…

Film screening: The Distant Barking of Dogs

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

Director: Simon Lereng Wilmont, 2017, 90 min, Denmark/Sweden/Finland. "The Distant Barking of Dogs" is set in Eastern Ukraine on the frontline of the war. The film follows the life of 10-year-old Ukrainian boy Oleg throughout a year, witnessing the gradual erosion of his innocence beneath the pressures of war. Oleg lives with his beloved grandmother, Alexandra, in the small village…

Tomaso Albinoni

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

What Independent Means Means 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…

Virgil’s Aeneid and the Destiny of Italy

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

Prof. Alessandro Barchiesi, NYU A lecture by Alessandro Barchiesi, Professor of Classics, NYU In his lecture, Professor Barchiesi will discuss various reactions and appropriations of the Aeneid in Italian culture, with an eye on the recurring problem of Italian national identity. Alessandro Barchiesi is a scholar of Roman literature and its modern reception. His new book project, The War for…

Exhibit: Ser Serpas: Against Attachment

Ludlow 38 38 Ludlow Street, New York, United States

Goethe-Institut Curatorial Residencies Ludlow 38 is pleased to present Against Attachment, the first institutional solo exhibition of the New York- and Zurich-based artist Ser Serpas in the United States. This installation stages a scene from the artist’s windowless apartment studio in New York, where Serpas lived, studied, and worked during her last year at Columbia University. The four newly commissioned sculptures…

The Neapolitan Language and Its “Accademia”

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

Meeting Massimiliano Verde "Neapolitan: more than a sentiment!" A language of art, culture, song, philosophy, genuine food and... "sapé campà!" Dr. Massimiliano Verde, president of the Neapolitan Academy will talk - in conversation with journalist Angela Vitaliano (Grazia) - about his work to promote this heritage that is also very present in the United States and will explain why this treasure…

Rick Moody Discusses Barthes’ A Lover’s Discourse

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

Author Rick Moody will discuss his own work as well as Roland Barthes’ essay A Lover’s Discourse: Fragments, an unconventional blend of literature and philosophy on the theme of love. Moderated by Adam Hocker, bookseller at Albertine. Rick Moody is the author of six novels and several non-fiction collections and books, including his most recent work Hotels of North America. His second memoir The Long…