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The Nordic Model Sweden’s Welfare System & The Future of Work

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

In this new series, speakers at Scandinavia House will explore the reasons why Nordic countries lead surveys of societies with high levels of trust, happiness, gender equality, and quality of life. By many measures, these countries are among the most successful societies worldwide. In these lectures, we’ll look at how individual countries have successfully addressed certain issues that confront all societies.…

Magdalena Baczewska and the Cassatt String Quartet

Italian Academy (Columbia) 1161 Amsterdam Avenue, New York City, NY, United States

Schumann: Piano Quintet in E-flat Major, Op. 44 Brahms: Piano Quintet in f minor, Op. 34 On Wednesday, November 20, 2019 at 7:00 PM, esteemed pianist (and Director of Columbia’s Music Performance Program), Magdalena Baczewska , and the internationally acclaimed Cassatt String Quartet (Muneko Otani, violin, Jennifer Leshnower, violin, Ah Ling Neu, viola, Elizabeth Anderson, cello), join forces at The…

Soviet Literature as World Literature: Conference

Jordan Center for the Advanced Study of Russia 19 University Place, 2nd Floor, New York City, NY, United States

For the past decade or two, world literature has established itself as the dominant paradigm for studying the transnational circulation of literary models and texts. And yet Russian and Soviet literature seem decidedly missing from most of the world literature theoretization. The issue at stake here is not so much another blank spot on the geographical and historical map of…

Arabic Translation at the End of Imperial Spain (1714-1814)

Casa Hispanica Columbia 612 W 116th St, New York

Speaker: Claire Gilbert (University of Saint Louis) Respondent: TBA Moderators: Pier Mattia Tommasino (Columbia University, Italian) and Seth Kimmel (Columbia University, LAIC) This paper studies how scholars and politicians of the Ilustración relied on medieval precedents in Spanish Arabism for philological and political projects. Those precedents were related to the politics of belonging and exclusion which shaped early modern Spanish society. Their memory and…

Roma | New York 1948-1964

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

The Murray and Isabella Rayburn Foundation Before|After Roma | New York 1948-1964 The Murray and Isabella Rayburn Foundation Before | After (Silvana Editoriale, 2019) by Germano Celant A panel featuring: Emily Braun, CUNY Germano Celant, art historian, critic, curator Laura Mattioli, Founder of CIMA Isabella Del Frate Rayburn, IDF Art Consultants Giorgio Spanu, Olnick Spanu The two-volume set Roma / New…

On Michel Leiris and The Ribbon at Olympia’s Throat

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

Join Bruce Hainley, Wayne Koestenbaum and Christine Pichini for a conversation on Michel Leiris’s The Ribbon at Olympia’s Throat published by Semiotext, and translated from the French by  Pichini. Written in 1981, toward the end of Leiris’s life, The Ribbon at Olympia’s Throat serves as a coda to his autobiographical masterwork, The Rules of the Game, taking the form of both shorter fragments (poems, memory scraps,…

Documentary Theater: Mediterranean Migrant Monologues

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

The Mediterranean Migration Monologues (“Mittelmeer-Monologe”) tell the stories of Naomie from Cameroon and Yassin from Libya, who find themselves on a boat to Europe. It also tells of brutal coast guards, dubious sea rescue centers, and activists who fight against migrant deaths in the Mediterranean Sea. The activists are part of the project AlarmPhone as well as the German non-governmental…

Anthropologies Imaginaires/Imaginary Anthropologies

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

To RSVP, please click here.  French Canadian Gabriel Dharmoo's musical practice defies easy pigeon-holing – and sometimes description – going beyond the limits of composition, performance, research, and vocal improvisation. His Imaginary Anthropologies is unpredictable, challenging, and amusing, floating in the fine space between satire and seriousness, between tradition and novelty, between cleverness and folly. In this solo vocal performance, Dharmoo…

Republication of Dorothy Macardle’s, Dark Enchantment

Glucksman Ireland House NYU One Washington Mews, New York City, NY, United States

Dorothy Macardle (1889-1958) was an Irish novelist, playwright, and popular historian. Her 1942 feminist Gothic novel, The Uninvited, was adapted for the screen by Hollywood in 1944. The editor of Tramp Press's republication of Dark Enchantment (1953), Caroline Heafey, will speak on the author’s work. Tramp Press was launched in Dublin by Sarah Davis-Goff and Lisa Coen in 2014.

The Newish Jewish Encyclopedia

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

Deeply knowing, highly entertaining, and just a little bit irreverent, The Newish Jewish Encyclopedia is an unputdownable encyclopedia of all things Jewish and Jew-ish covering culture, religion, history, habits, language, and more. Readers will refresh their knowledge of the Patriarchs and Matriarchs, the artistry of Barbra Streisand, the significance of the Oslo Accords, the meaning of words like balaboosta,balagan, bashert, and bageling. Understand all…

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