Events Search and Views Navigation

Event Views Navigation

Today

Managing an Exit: The End of the Merkel Era

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

Deutsches Haus at NYU, NYU's Center for European and Mediterranean Studies, and the American Council on Germany present "Managing an Exit: The End of the Merkel Era," a conversation between Joyce Mushaben (Curators' Distinguished Professor of Comparative Politics and College of Arts & Sciences first Professor of Global Studies at the University of Missouri-St. Louis), and Christian Martin (the current Max Weber Chair in…

Pre-“Fille du Regiment” Evening

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

For Students and Young Adults Only! Opera to the People is a group open to students or other young present and future audience members in order to delve into the world and language of opera, with the objective of fostering a new generation of attentive opera-goers. The group meets to watch and listen to recordings of a particular opera that…

The 2019 Telos-Paul Piccone Institute Conference

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

Deutsches Haus at NYU and the Telos-Paul Piccone Institute will jointly present the conference "Political Theology Today as Critical Theory of the Contemporary: Reason, Religion, Humanism," to be held at Deutsches Haus at NYU, from February 16-17. Wayne Hudson and Reverend Eugene F. Rivers III will deliver the two keynote speeches. For a detailed conference schedule, please click here. Across the globe the liberal logic of…

Lives in Transition: LGBTQ Serbia

1219 International Affairs Building 420 West 118th Street, New York City, United States

Please join us for a talk with Serbian born photographer and architect Slobodan Randjelović about his photobook Lives in Transition: LGBTQ Serbia (The New Press), with a discussion moderated by Professor Tanya Domi (SIPA, Harriman). In June 2001, Serbia witnessed its first LGBTQ pride parade in Belgrade’s Central Square. It was a short-lived march, as an ultranationalist mob quickly descended on the participants, chanting homophobic slurs and injuring…

Tatiana Smoliarova – A wondrous linkage: around one metaphor in early Karamzin

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

Please join us on Wednesday, February 20th, for a talk by Tatiana Smoliarova of the University of Toronto. This event is part of the Occasional Series, sponsored by the NYU Jordan Center for the Advanced Study of Russia. “A clever machine, a wondrous linkage/ Of countless wheels, a product of the mind…” – Nikolai Karamzin used this mechanical image to describe the…

Adventures in Italian Opera with Fred Plotkin

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

A Conversation with Nadine Sierra The fourth Adventure in Italian Opera with Fred Plotkin of this season features American soprano Nadine Sierra, performing this season at The Metropolitan Opera in Verdi's Rigoletto. In ENGLISH. From the Casa Italiana Zerilli-Marimo. 

A Woman Looking at Men Looking at Women

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

On Wednesday, February 20, join prize-winning writer Siri Hustvedt and French novelist Clémence Boulouque as they discuss Hustvedt’s compelling and radical collection of essays on art, feminism, neuroscience, psychology, and philosophy. Why is there such a wide chasm between the world of literary intellectuals and that of empirical scientists? In A Woman Looking at Men Looking at Women, Hustvedt, encouraged by…

Marco Fusi / Kukuruz Quartet

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

This concert is featured in The New York Times' "8 Classical Music Concerts to See in N.Y.C. This Weekend" Marco Fusi, violin, viola d’amore Kukuruz Quartet: Philip Bartels, Duri Collenberg, Simone Keller, Lukas Rickli Guest appearance by Adam Tendler Salvatore Sciarrino: Fra sé Giacinto Scelsi: Xnoybis I, II, III Sciarrino: Capriccio di una corda John Cage: The ten thousand things…

Film: The Return Across Borders

Scandinavia House 58 Park Avenue, New York City, NY, United States

In this docu-fictional film, two Danish-Korean adoptees, Karoline and Thomas, separately return to the country they were born in to seek out answers about their birth parents, where they meet at a guesthouse for returning Koreans. As they each embark on their own personal quests for answers, they also begin seeking out the personal stories of fellow adoptees who they…

The ‘Permanent Crisis’ of Migration by Sea: Maritime Border Control as a Form of Persecution

114 Avery Hall 1172 Amsterdam Avenue, New York City, NY

The ‘permanent crisis’ narrative employed by destination countries in Europe, North America, and Australia, has allowed them to structuralise ‘exceptional’ measures as part of their domestic apparatuses of border control in their war against irregular migration. (…) These initiatives have a well-documented negative impact on the rights of ‘boat migrants’ and fail to address the root causes of displacement. Instead,…