Please join us for a conversation with the mayor of Dusseldorf, Thomas Geisel.
Book talk with Simon Levis Sullam (University of Venice Ca’ Foscari) “The Italian Executioners: The Genocide of the Jews of Italy” (Princeton University Press, 2018) In conversation with Alexander Stille (Columbia) and Federico Finchelstein (The New School for Social Research) Sponsored by the Center for Jewish Studies at The Graduate Center in collaboration with the History PhD Program and Centro Primo…
The Kremlin Ball (post. 1971; 2018, New York Review Books Classics Original) by Curzio Malaparte (1898-1957) Translated by Jenny McPhee Translator Jenny McPhee (NYU) in conversation with Franco Baldasso (Bard) Perhaps only the impeccably perverse imagination of Curzio Malaparte could have conceived of The Kremlin Ball, which might be described as Proust in the corridors of Soviet power. The book is set at…
"Mr. Torquati did exceptionally well in his fascinating program... conveyed not just how he plays the piano, but how he hears and thinks about music." Anthony Tommasini, NY Times Giacinto Scelsi: To the Master Ryan Carter: break; (world premiere) Marco Momi: Unstill -- written for Dillon/Torquati (US Premiere) Salvatore Sciarrino: Melencolia 1 Debussy: Sonate pour violoncelle et piano Pianist Emanuele…
On the occasion of the 75th anniversary of the Rosenstrasse protest in February 1943 by non-Jewish women demanding the release of their Jewish husbands rounded up for their dispatch from Berlin, this conference examines different forms of resistance to the "Final Solution" policy in Germany and Nazi-occupied Europe. Contact Information Professor Volker R. Berghahn vrb7@columbia.edu
Iuventa Michele Cinque, 2018, 92 min. To RSVP, please click here. A film screening and discussion with director Michele Cinque and Kathrin Schmidt, in conversation with Carlo Invernizzi Accetti, Rajan Menon, Adam Tooze, and Nadia Urbinati. This event marks the launch of "Thinking Europe Now," a new interdisciplinary seminar series on European affairs convened by faculty from Columbia University and the…
Please note: This event will be held IN ITALIAN. The author of The Divine Comedy is near and far at the same time: we must "reach him". A lecture by Filippo La Porta, critic and essayist La Porta in conversation with Achille Varzi (Columbia University) On the 750th anniversary of his birth, conventions and books about Dante are plentiful. Sometimes he appears…
La Grieta (The Divide) by Irene Yagüe and Alberto García Ortiz (Spain, 2017, 76’) Following the local government’s sale of thousands of public apartments to foreign investment funds in 2013, many families living in Madrid were forced to leave their homes. This film takes a hard look and, despite the implicit drama, is not without humor when it comes to two…
With Robyn d’Avignon and Justin Izzo “If we could today—without the burden or benefit of precedent, tradition, or institutional inertia—invent a field called ‘French and Francophone Studies,’ what would it look like?” - Laurent Dubois & Achille Mbembe Robyn d’Avignon is Assistant Professor of History at NYU. She is a historian and anthropologist of West Africa, with interests in natural resource extraction, scientific research,…
A concert by Hana Mizuta and Lucie Ticho To RSVP, please click here. Bach’s Cello Suite No. 5 in C minor, BWV 1011, Prelude; Schubert’s Impromptu No. 3, Op. 90; Fauré’s Papillon for Cello and Piano, Op. 77; Schubert’s “Schwanengesang”, D. 957, 4. Ständchen; Schubert’s Sonata in A minor for Arpeggione and Piano, D. 821. From Maison Française Columbia