Professor Emeritus Michael Groden (Western University Canada) leads this month’s James Joyce Society meeting. Further info on www.joycesociety.org Please note that this event may be filmed, captured on audio and/or photographed. All events are supported by members of Glucksman Ireland House. Become a member.
Presenter: Shirin Ramzanali Fazel (Writer) and Simone Brioni (Stony Brook University) Respondent: Graziella Parati (Dartmouth College) Moderator: Pier Mattia Tommasino (Columbia University, Italian) Through its dialogic form, this paper presents key issues in Shirin Ramzanali Fazel’s career as representative of her cohort of Somali-Italian authors’ struggles to be heard and read, including the processes of translation and self-translation in Lontano…
Please join us for a conversation with Maksim Hanukai, assistant professor of Russian at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and Susanna Weygandt, visiting assistant professor of Russian at Sewanee: The University of the South, editors of the volume New Russian Drama: An Anthology(Columbia University Press, 2019). New Russian Drama took shape at the turn of the new millennium—a time of turbulent social change…
Screening of two films by the recently deceased Czech-American film director Ivan Passer, a leading figure of the Czech new wave and a close friend and collaborator of the late Milos Forman. The film anecdote "A Boring Afternoon" (1964, running time 14 min), based on a story by Czech writer Bohumil Hrabal, captures an ordinary, dull Sunday afternoon in a…
EXILE highlights Jewish music as it shifted and melded with traditions in early modern Europe. The program takes as its starting point the rich musical cultures fostered by Jews in early modern Italy and their points of contact with non-Jewish traditions. From there, it touches on the influences of Italian, German, and English music and Jewish culture, highlighting Jewish musicians, the non-Jewish composers they influenced, and composers…
Jillian Porter explores energy—the “power to make work”—as a shaping force in Tolstoy’s fictions. From the psychic “safety valves” of War and Peace to the steam engines of Anna Karenina and the excesses of The Kreutzer Sonata, the nineteenth-century science of thermodynamics provided Tolstoy with a powerful store of metaphors for the workings of minds, bodies, and literary texts. How…
Clare Horgan, the celebrated south Kerry sean nós (old-style) Irish-language singer, will be joined at this concert by Mark Simos, a highly respected songwriter and a guitarist who has accompanied some of Ireland’s finest traditional musicians. Free admission to Members of Glucksman Ireland House and to all students/faculty with a valid NYU I.D. card. For non-members: $15 donation at…
Discover the beauty of the Irish language in a program designed for learners of all levels and led by NYU faculty and other language scholars. Free event. About the Instructors: A native of Gaoth Dobhair, County Donegal, Pádraig Ó Cearúill grew up with Irish as his first language. After earning his Bachelor’s degree in Irish Language and History and completing graduate studies…
Every summer, aficionados of William Butler Yeats come from all over the world to enjoy two weeks of lectures, readings, and theater in Sligo, and to tour nearby ”Yeats Country.” Here is your opportunity to sample the Yeats International Summer School in New York. Further info on www.yeatssociety.org Please note that this event may be filmed, captured on audio and/or…
The delightful tradition of Sunday afternoon musicales continues with the tenth annual Spring Musicale. Featuring young talent as well as seasoned musicians, the program opens with a movement from Antonin Dvorak’s engaging first piano trio, performed by Juilliard pre-college students. The African-American spiritual “Deep River” follows, in an arrangement by Jascha Heifetz, played by violinist Lilit Gampel. Quartet 131 presents…