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Michele Sarfatti. Seminar on the Race Law (1938-2018).

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

Seminar. An introduction to the study of Mussolini’s Racial Laws presented by one of the leading scholars in the field. Organized by Centro Primo Levi with Casa Italiana Zerilli Marimò. NYU Departments of Italian and History. Introduced by Ruth Ben Ghiat and David Forgacs. Sessions will be held on October 22, 24 and 26. Registration is required: Molly Engelmann (molly@primolevicenter.org).…

“On Your Marx”: The Fate of the Commons: A Trotskyite View

Skirball Center for Performing Arts 566 LaGuardia Place, New York

The NYU Department of German and Deutsches Haus at NYU present "The Fate of the Commons: A Trotskyite View" with Slavoj Žižek as part of NYU Skirball's "On Your Marx" festival in celebration of Karl Marx's 200th birthday. Event information From the Marxist standpoint, "Communism" refers to the multiple versions of our commons (the commons of nature, the commons of our biogenetic inheritance, the commons of…

MACHINES À ÉCRIRE : VALÉRIE ZENATTI

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

Le NYU Center for French Language and Cultures lance cette année sa nouvelle série sur l’écriture contemporaine en langue française, Machines à écrire. Chaque saison annuelle sera confiée à une personnalité saillante de la culture française qui invitera quatre écrivains à se rendre à la Maison Française de NYU afin de discuter autour d’un thème choisi. Ces entretiens se feront…

Russia: Stranger than Fiction

Barnard College 3009 Broadway, New York, NY, New York City, NY, United States

Please join the Harriman Institute and the Barnard Slavic Department for a conversation with Yelena Yakovich, documentary film director, and Marina Adamovich, editor-in-chief of The New Review, following the Russian Documentary Film Festival in New York, October 19–21, 2018. RSVP required for non-Barnard attendees; email barnardslavic@gmail.com. Yelena Yakovich and Marina Adamovic will converse about politics, the arts, and history in Russia and its neighboring countries where real…

Michele Sarfatti, “Jews in Italy and Nazi and Fascist Persecution. Themes for Future Research.”

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

This lecture by Michele Sarfatti Introduced by David Kertzer, is sponsored by the Centro Primo Levi, the Italian Academy at Columbia University, and the Columbia University Seminar in Modern Italian Studies, and presented on the occasion of the upcoming publication of a special issue of the Journal of Modern Italian Studies focusing on the 80th anniversary of the implementation of…

Rated Agency: Investee Politics in a Speculative Age

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

To RSVP, please click here. The hegemony of finance compels a new orientation for everyone and everything: companies care more about the moods of their shareholders than about longstanding commercial success; governments subordinate citizen welfare to appeasing creditors; and individuals are concerned less with immediate income from labor than with appreciation of their capital goods, skills, connections, and reputations. In this…

Italian and French song with German roots

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

Wolf-Ferrari and Chausson What Makes It Italian? Discovering National Character in Music is a music listening and discussion group that meets at Casa Italiana and is open to everyone. Participation is free. The group is led by Gina Crusco, who guides listening at Bard LLI and Riverdale Y, and who has been music instructor at The New School and director of…

Exhibiting Difficult Histories: The ‘Anti-Zionist’ Campaign in Poland, 1967-1969, And Its Echoes Today

YIVO Institute for Jewish Research 15 West 16th Street, NYC, New York City, NY, United States

In March 1968, in reaction to a student rebellion, the communist government of Poland launched a noisy propaganda campaign against the alleged Zionists, who were accused of a conspiracy to undermine socialist Poland. The campaign of slander, harassment, and persecution forced half of Poland’s Jews into exile and deeply affected the life of those who remained. For the fiftieth anniversary…

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Moral Combat

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

Women, Gender, and War in Italian Renaissance Literature Moral Combat Women, Gender, and War in Italian Renaissance Literature (2018, University of Toronto Press) by Gerry Milligan The author in conversation with Virginia Cox (NYU), Clare Carroll (CUNY) and Jane Tylus (Yale). The Italian sixteenth century offers the first sustained discussion of women’s militarism since antiquity. Across a variety of genres,…

Film: Checks and Balances (Contrepouvoirs)

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

To RSVP, please click here. Screening and discussion with filmmaker Malek Bensmaïl, in conversation with Madeleine Dobie and Mohamed Amer Meziane. Algerian documentary filmmaker Malek Bens­maïl set up his camera in the news­room of the famous daily paper El Watan, the spea­rhead of the Alge­rian inde­pendent press, to film the proce­dures and thought processes behind jour­na­lism during the last presi­den­tial elec­tion. Accom­mo­da­ted…