In celebration of Liv Ullmann, recipient of the 2019 ASF Gold Medal, Scandinavia House presents two special evenings with the acclaimed actress and director, followed by a retrospective of her roles and work with leading auteurs. At tonight’s opening event, Jan Erik Holst and Liv Ullmann will discuss her life and career on screen, stage, and behind the camera, as…
Join the Harriman Institute and the Russian Film Club for a screening of the 2019 film The Humorist, directed by Mikhail Idov, who will introduce the film and hold a Q&A after the screening. This event is part of the Russian Cinema Between Protests Film Series, organized by Mark Lipovetsky (Slavic Department) and Daria Ezerova (Harriman Institute). The film has…
Daphna Mor (voice, winds, percussion) and Adam Good (oud) return to Los Corassones Avlan with an intimate acoustic musical performances inspired by the tradition of families, women and neighbors sitting together to make music, on Saturday night in Rhodes. The crossover of melodies includes Turkish, Greek, Judeo-español, Balkan and Mediterranean as well as liturgical hymns – Piyutim -from the Synagogue and…
Cultural Diplomacy and Conflict Resolution Featuring Helena Finn Visiting Scholar, Institute for the Study of Human Rights, Columbia University & Former Minister-Counselor for Public Affairs, U.S. Embassy in Berlin Dr. Helena Kane Finn is a former career diplomat of the Department of State who served as Minister-Counselor for Public Affairs at the U.S. Embassy in Berlin; as Counselor for Public…
Join the European Institute, the Harriman Institute, the Department of History, and the Institute for the Study of Human Rights for a talk organized by Professor Victoria Phillips, featuring Helena Finn, Visiting Scholar at the Institute for the Study of Human Rights. Registration is required. Please click here to register. Dr. Helena Kane Finn is a former career diplomat of the Department of…
Their Epistemologies A lecture by Richard Foley, NYU Introduction by Maria Luisa Ardizzone (NYU) Respondent: Jane Tylus (Yale) Should inquiries in the basic sciences and the humanities have different aims? Here are two closely related questions: Are the values informing these inquiries typically different and should they be? In his book, The Geography of Insight: The Sciences, the Humanities, How They Differ,…
In celebration of Liv Ullmann, recipient of the 2019 ASF Gold Medal, Scandinavia House presents two special evenings with the acclaimed actress and director, followed by a retrospective of her roles and work with leading auteurs. At tonight’s event, Liv Ullmann returns to present and discuss her last cinematic project as a director, the 2014 film Miss Julie /Frøken Julie, based…
The Future of the EU and the European Project Co-sponsored with NYU Center for European and Mediterranean Studies Thursday, November 14, 6.30 - 7.45 pm RSVP here 15 years ago, ten countries joined the European Union, making the bloc of 28 the second largest economy in the world and a co-pillar of the liberal international order and its collective security…
"This paper analyzes Claire Denis’s first English-language film, High Life (2018) and the effects of spatial-temporal drift on filmic and human bodies. Set in the not distant future, the director’s interstellar story tacitly evokes the films of Andrei Tarkovsky and Stanley Kubrick, yet the look of High Life departs from the familiar stark white palette of the science fiction genre colored…
Declaring Independence: USA 1776, Ireland 1919 Ambassador Daniel Mulhall will address the relationship between Ireland and the United States with emphasis on the countries’ Declarations of Independence for which Ireland celebrates its 100th anniversary in 2019. Ambassador Mulhall took up duty as Ireland's 18th Ambassador to the United States in August 2017. He joined the Department of Foreign Affairs in…