Timing Blanchot – Symposium

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

Organized by Denis Hollier and Zakir Paul In Fall 2018, Fordham University Press will publish Maurice Blanchot: A Critical Biography, a translation of Christophe Bident’s groundbreaking life of the writer and critic, as well as Death Now, the final volume of of Blanchot’s Chronicles of Intellectual Life, written from 1941-1944. Finally, Minuit has recently published Jean-François Hamel's, Nous sommes tous la pègre (Les années 68 de Blanchot), an…

Mediterranea

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

Jonas Carpignano (2015) This screening is part of the NYU SPS Center for Applied Liberal Arts Fall 2018 Film Series The Immigrant Experience: Visions of Diaspora on Film in America and Abroad. As immigration ignites new conversations in the U.S., it continues to be a divisive issue across the globe. This film series explores the experiences of people who leave…

Celebrating the diversity of Polish cusine with two exclusive pop-up dinners

Archestratus Books and Food 160 Huron Street, Brooklyn, NY, United States

The Polish Cultural Institute New York teams up with Brooklyn purveyors of Old World Jewish Foods, The Gefilteria, and celebrated Polish Chef, Malika, for dinner events  As part of its centenary celebration of the regaining of Polish Independence, the Polish Cultural Institute (PCI) New York presents “Roots & Radishes”, a two-night pop-up dining series in Greenpoint, Brooklyn, on November 2…

100th anniversary of the Western Ukrainian Republic

Shevchenko Scientific Society 63 Fourth Avenue, New York City, NY, United States

In commemoration of the 100th anniversary of the proclamation of the independence of the Western Ukrainian Republic and its unification with the Ukrainian National Republic, the Shevchenko Scientific Society in America, the Ukrainian Academy of Arts and Sciences in the U.S. and the Ukrainian Institute of America are sponsoring a conference in New York City. The conference will feature three…

Celebrating the diversity of Polish cusine with two exclusive pop-up dinners

Cherry Point 664 Manhattan Avenue, Brooklyn, NY

The Polish Cultural Institute New York teams up with Brooklyn purveyors of Old World Jewish Foods, The Gefilteria, and celebrated Polish Chef, Malika, for dinner events As part of its centenary celebration of the regaining of Polish Independence, the Polish Cultural Institute (PCI) New York presents “Roots & Radishes”, a two-night pop-up dining series in Greenpoint, Brooklyn, on November 2…

Film Screening of Ruth Kaaserer’s “Gwendolyn”

Anthology Film Archives 32 Second Avenue (at 2nd Street), New York, United States

Screening details This event will recur Every Day until Nov. 8, 2018. Ruth Kaaserer is the recipient of the 2017 Erste Bank's ExtraVALUE Film Award, which she received for Gwendolyn at the 2017 Viennale. On the occasion of her residency at Deutsches Haus at NYU, Deutsches Haus co-presents together with Anthology Film Archives, Erste Bank, and the Austrian Cultural Forum two screenings of Gwendolyn (2017), on Wednesday, November 7,…

Building-Up and Breaking-Down: Figures of Liminality in Goethe’s Novella and George Simmel’s “The Ruin” by Aleksandra Prica

Deutsches Haus Columbia 420 West 116th Street, New York City, NY, United States

The talk explores how in Goethe’s short story Novella (1828) and Georg Simmel’s philosophical essay "The Ruin" (1911) ruins are prominently featured to make an argument about the conditions of aesthetic and philosophical representation. The use of the ruin ultimately sheds light on each works’ respective status in the broader context of literary history and the history of philosophy. Contact…

“Belonging:” A Conversation between Nora Krug and Nicole Rudick

Deutsches Haus NYU 42 Washington Mews, New York City, NY, United States

Deutsches Haus at NYU and the New York Institute for the Humanities at NYU present a reading by the author Nora Krug from her recent graphic memoir Belonging followed by a conversation between her and the writer and editor Nicole Rudick. About the book: Nora Krug was born decades after the fall of the Nazi regime, but the Second World War cast a long…

Books in Cities: The Demand for Literature in France on the Eve of the Revolution – Robert Darnton

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

New research in a new field, the history of books, goes back to a question raised by Daniel Mornet in a famous article of 1910: What did the French read on the eve of the Revolution?  This lecture is intended to answer that question and to explore related issues in cultural history by explaining how publishing and the book trade…

Masaryk, Czechoslovak Jews, and the Case for Liberal Democracy

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

Lecture by Hillel J. Kieval, Goldstein Professor of Jewish History and Thought, Washington University in St. Louis. With the commemoration of the 100th anniversary of the proclamation of the First Czechoslovak Republic, questions concerning the future of the democratic order in Europe and beyond abound. Do nationalist and populist movements pose a threat to democratic constitutions? What is “illiberal democracy?”…