Primo Levi at 100 Presented in collaboration with Centro Primo Levi, in collaboration with the Italian Cultural Institute of New York. Author Ian Thomson presents the new edition of his classic biography of Primo Levi. From the Preface I did not choose to write Levi’s biography; Levi had no sooner died than a London publishing house approached me. At first I…
From the Spanish Civil War to a counterculture guru of the sixties, electronic music composer, artist, and writer Ramón Sender Barayón was born in Madrid in 1934. His father was Ramón J. Sender, one of the most renowned Spanish writers of the twentieth century and his mother, Amparo Barayón, was a woman ahead of her time. The Spanish civil war…
The ongoing conflict in eastern Ukraine has disrupted economic networks for millions of Ukrainians living near the war zone, a densely industrialized and urbanized region. They have had to adapt their livelihoods to the realities of a front line that shattered past routines such as trade routes, work commutes, access to health care facilities and schools. From this perspective, the local water distribution…
N.I.C.E. Film Festival New Italian Cinema Events (N.I.C.E.) Film Festival celebrates its 29th edition in the United States. World Premiere of: Dance Again With Me Heywood! (2019, Italy/USA, 76 min.) Directed by Michele Diomà Starring Giorgio Arcelli Fontana, Ottavia Orticello, and featuring James Ivory Preceded by the screening of: American Marriage (2019, USA, 15 min.) Directed and starring Giorgio Arcelli Fontana…
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.…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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,…