Kevin Barry, “About that Old Country Music”

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From the author of the wildly acclaimed Night Boat to Tangier, one of the New York Times’ 10 Best Books of 2019, stories of rural Ireland in the classic mode: full of love, melancholy and magic, bedecked in some of the most gorgeous prose being written today.

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Roundtable Discussion: The Journey from Personal Transformation to Societal Change

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After so long under lockdown, what better lunch companion than the “happiest man in the world”? Matthieu Ricard, a biologist-turned-Buddhist, French interpreter to the Dalai Lama, will join us to talk about his personal journey from France to the Himalaya Mountains, his encounter with Buddhism, the practice of meditation and its link to photography, and finally the climate crisis.

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20/21 Philosophers: Catherine Malabou

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Philosophy, in the 21st century, has changed: its practices and languages are no longer those of the previous century. A turning point has been taken by new generations and thinkers from diverse origins who, more than commenting on the old masters, are taking philosophy into new fields: health, ecology, neurosciences, security warfare, non-Western thought, trans-identities, the rights of non-human living…

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Ballet in the Cold War: The New York City Ballet’s 1962 Tour of the Soviet Union

This event will be held as a Zoom meeting: https://nyu.zoom.us/j/92920017194.  In October 1962, as the Cuban Missile Crisis raged, New York City Ballet (NYCB) toured the Soviet Union, performing seventeen ballets by George Balanchine. The tour was part of the Soviet-American cultural exchange, arranged by the governments of the US and USSR as part of their Cold War strategies. The…

Memory Laps: A Conversation with Artist Elana Katz

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In the framework of our Shaping the Past event series and with the joint screening of two performance films by Elana Katz, we are presenting Memory Laps: A Conversation with Artist Elana Katz. Social trauma, collective memory, and the historical erasure of oppressed bodies have driven art creation for decades. This discussion will deepen the analysis of Elana Katz’s performance films Aiming for Hopelessness (2021) and Running on…

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Online Event: Les pépites au fond du tamis : ce qu’on retiendra de notre expérience de l’enseignement du français au temps de la Covid-19.

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This year's free, annual workshop for teachers of French, co-presented by the Columbia French Department and the Metropolitan Chapter of the American Association of Teachers of French, will feature presentations on the theme of "Les pépites au fond du tamis : ce qu'on retiendra de notre expérience de l'enseignement du français au temps de la Covid-19."

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Virtual Workshop and Studio Visit with Marika Maijala

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On Saturday, February 6 at 11AM ET, join us for a virtual visit and workshop with award-winning author and artist Marika Maijala. Marika will invite us into her studio on Harakka Island to introduce us to her art-marking and drawing process, which uses a distinctive oil-pastel technique. She will also discuss how the technique was used for one of her…

Virtual Studio Visit with Shoplifter Hrafnhildur Arnardottir

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Join us on Saturday, February 6 at 2 PM ET for a Virtual Studio Visit with the artist Shoplifter in Reykjavik, Iceland, to hear about her latest projects! One of Iceland’s leading contemporary artists Shoplifter (Hrafnhildur Arnardóttir) represented the country at the Venice Biennale in 2019, and her installation Chromo Sapiens opened at the Icelandic Pavilion in May 2019 in Venice, Italy, before…

Virtual Cinema: “Sibyl”

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Ten years after she published her last novel, Sibyl decides to quit her successful practice as a psychoanalyst and begin writing again, surprising her partner and children with this apparently rash decision. As she is about to leave her practice, she accepts an emergency appointment with Margot, a young actress pregnant with the costar of her next film, who is…

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Painters, the Art Market, and Images of Female Beauty in Russia, 1830-1860 (with Margaret Samu)

This event will be held as a Zoom meeting: https://nyu.zoom.us/j/99102207490.   Russian painters of the mid-nineteenth century faced a difficult art market. Even the most talented of them—trained as history painters to produce large-scale canvases of biblical and historical subjects—found little demand for such works from the church or the state after finishing their training. Meanwhile, the number of artists…