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…
A documentary exploring the role of students in Czechoslovakia during the twists and turns of history in the 1960s and 1980s. The two-part film, directed by the noted Olga Sommerova, compares the roles of students in the protest movements of the 1960s and 1980s in Communist Czechoslovakia, draws parallels between them, and sheds light on the less-researched chapters of these…
Johannes Lehmann (Bonn): Rage, Borders, Masculinity - The Political of Anger and the Politics of Affect (in the New Rightist Mouvement) Against the background of a theory of political rage, the lecture develops the thesis that the imaginary of boundaries, of masculinity and the call for more rage and anger (thymos), as expressed from the political ‚right‘, form a strong…
Film screening and conversation: The Island of Roses, Tragedy in Paradise, by Rebecca Samonà. 2008/Italy, 56 min., documentary, in Italian with English subtitles Written and directed by Rebecca Samonà. Produced by L’Altravista and Rebecca Samonà. Post-screening conversation with Erminia and Gloria Licitri. Pregnant with her second child, Rebecca Samonà goes to the island of Rhodes to research family stories, accompanied by her mother…
This is a two-day symposium to be jointly held at the Italian Academy and The Frick Collection and Frick Art Reference Library on November 15 and 16. The event will bring together scholars and museum professionals in order to investigate how Italian art helped to formulate competing truths in the long aftermath of the Council of Trent, and how the…
In Scena! Fall presents Presented by In Scena! Italian Theater Festival NY Fall Edition Terra Matta Based on the diaries of Vincenzo Rabito Adapted and interpreted by Stefano Panzeri Terra Matta is adapted from the extraordinary autobiography of a Sicilian laborer at the beginning of the century, written between 1968 and 1975 on an old Olivetti. It is a monumental work: 1027…
Deutsches Haus at NYU presents a screening of Things to Come, a film project on László, Lucia, and Sibyl Moholy-Nagy by DAAD Visiting Scholar at Deutsches Haus at NYU Angela Zumpe. The screening will be followed by a talk about Angela Zumpe's latest book, I Am Taking the Ghosts with Me…, which focuses on her personal experience with the Bauhaus and reflects on…