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Film: Le Cinema de Mai 68

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

To RSVP, please click here. Please note that these films are in French without subtitles. We will present a selection of rarely seen short documentaries shot in France in May 1968, showing the events as they unfolded in real time in universities, occupied factories, rural France, and on the streets of Paris.  These films were collected into a curated collection to mark…

Free

Identity, Transformation, and Freedom

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

French author Lola Lafon and American novelist Christopher Sorrentino both share a fascination for the 1970s, the figure of Patty Hearst–who is at the heart of their novels Mercy Mary Patty (Actes Sud, 2017) and Trances (Simon and Schuster, 2005)–and the collective secret desire to shed one’s skin and start life over again. Their bodies of work explore the meaning of identity, and the role that storytelling…

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Romanian Voices in a Transcultural Dialogue

1201 International Affairs Building 420 W 118th St, New York City, NY, United States

Please join the Harriman Institute and the East Central European Center for a talk organized by the N. Iorga Chair for Romanian Language and Culture Dr. Mona Momescu with Dr. Catalina Florina Florescu, editor of the volume Transnational Narratives in Englishes of Exile (Lexington Books, 2017), and Dr. Maria-Sabina Draga Alexandru, a contributor to the volume and Vice President of the Romanian Studies Association of America. On Transnational Narratives in Englishes…

Legends of Carpathians (2018)

Ukrainian Institute of America 2 East 79th Street, New York, NY, United States

Director: Serg Skobun. As Carpathian legend has it, Oleksa Dovbush was a heroic outlaw with excellent fighting skills and a gift to predict the future. He was left an orphan as a small boy after a local lord murdered Oleksa’s mother. After spending his childhood in exile in the mountains, he returned as a grown man to avenge his mother’s…

$25

Leila Slimani & Mona Eltahawy in Conversation!

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

In September 2013, Mona Eltahawy published her groundbreaking manifesto Headscarves and Hymens in France (Belfond), and Leila Slimani interviewed her for the French magazine Jeune Afrique. Five years later, the tables will turn when the two women meet again as Leila Slimani, now the author of the international bestseller The Perfect Nanny (Chanson Douce, Gallimard), will be interviewed by award winning writer…

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Meet Négar Djavadi

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

Join Négar Djavadi for a conversation on her debut novel, Disoriental, which won several prestigious literary awards in France, on the occasion of the its publication in the US with Europa Editions. In this high-spirited, kaleidoscopic story, key moments of Iranian history, politics, and culture punctuate stories of family drama and triumph. The narrator, a storyteller extraordinaire, a Scheherazade of our…

Concert: Revel with Redl

Bohemian National Hall 321 E 73rd St., New York, NY, United States

Bring your vibrant spirits and join us in welcoming the Moravian legend Vlasta Redl and his band consisting of great musicians from the Czech Republic and Slovakia, in their first performances in America. Enjoy Redl’s hits with their origins in folk music and influences from rock and jazz. Free and open to the public. RSVP is required. For more information…

French Literature in the Making: Christophe Barbier

La Maison Française (NYU) 16 Washington Mews, New York City, NY, United States

The last “French Literature in the Making” session of the spring 2018 season is dedicated to Professor Tom Bishop and to his devotion to the art of the theater throughout his academic career. Following the discussion with Olivier Barrot, Christophe Barbier will perform a segment of his one-man-show, Le Tour du théâtre en 80 minutes, which recently had a great success at…

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The Impact of the Fourth Wave of Democratization: Post-Communism within Global Context

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

On Tuesday, April 24th please join us for “The Impact of the Fourth Wave of Democratization: Post-Communism within Global Context”, a talk with Anastassia Obydenkova from the National Research University Higher School of Economics and Zafar Nazarov from Indiana University – Purdue University Fort Wayne. This talk is part of the Occasional Series, sponsored by the NYU Jordan Center for the Advanced…

Digital Democracy: What the World’s First Big Data Project Tells Us About the Future of Identity

Columbia Graduate School of Journalism 2950 Broadway, New York City, NY, United States

VIEW FULL PROGRAM REGISTER HERE Imagine a centralized database replete with your personal information that links together your and your family’s vital health, education, and social welfare records. Now imagine the database includes an entire country’s population. Fifty years ago this year, Denmark launched the world’s first nationalized big data project. The country’s Civil Personal Registration (CPR) system assigns every resident…