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An evening with Jean-Baptiste Del Amo

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

Jean-Baptiste Del Amo is one of France’s most exciting and ambitious young writers. He will be discussing Animalia (Grove Editions, translation by Frank Wynne), the English translation of his acclaimed Règne animal (Gallimard, 2016).  Animalia, his fourth novel, is his first to appear in English. His debut novel, Une éducation libertine, won the Prix Goncourt du Premier Roman. About Animalia The small village of Puy-Larroque, southwest France,…

ANNELIESE LANDAU’S LIFE IN MUSIC: NAZI GERMANY TO ÉMIGRÉ CALIFORNIA, WITH DR. LILY E. HIRSCH

Center for Jewish History 15 W. 16th Street, New York City, NY, United States

The subject of her new book, Lily E. Hirsch introduces us to a woman who truly persisted. Anneliese Landau pushed past bias to earn a PhD in musicology in 1930. She then lectured on early German radio, breaking new ground in a developing medium. After the Nazis forced the firing of all Jews in broadcasting in early 1933, Landau worked…

“Hotel Auschwitz”: Film Screening and Conversation

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

NYU’s Center for European and Mediterranean Studies and Deutsches Haus at NYUpresent a screening of the film Hotel Auschwitz (2018). The screening will be followed by a conversation about the many questions this thought-provoking film raises. The participants will be the film’s director, Cornelius Schwalm; the film’s co-producer Katharina Bellena; the actor Patrick von Blume; and Christian Martin, the current Max Weber…

Arbëreshë

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

Organized in collaboration with Prof. Giovanni Braico (NYU). Co-hosted by the Albanian Institute. The Arbëreshë (or Italo-Albanian) people are the descendants of the Albanian refugees who fled to Italy between the 14th and 18th centuries as a consequence of the Ottoman invasion of the Balkans. The Arbëreshë are currently found in scattered villages around Southern Italy and Sicily, and zealously preserve their…

5+1 JANA JARKOVSKÁ A flute recital

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

Monday, SEPTEMBER 23 at 7 pm Bohemian National Hall, 3rd floor 321 E 73 St, NYC A leading young Czech flutist Jana Jarkovská will present compositions for solo flute and flute & electronics by five contemporary Czech women composers, Sylvie Bodorová, Eliška Cílková, Ivana Loudová, Terezie Švarcová, and Sonya Vetchá. Appreciating the flute’s wide range of melodic and dramatic expression,…

How Populism Transforms Democracy: European Seminar Series

Center for European and Mediterranean Studies (NYU) 53 Washington Square South, 3rd Floor East, New York, United States

As part of the European Seminar Series, Nadia Urnamati will discuss how Populism transforms Democracy. All sessions will take place at the Center for European and Mediterranean Studies, King Juan Carlos I of Spain Center, 3rd Floor East, Room 324, 53 Washington Square South 3rd Floor East, New York, NY 10012. Light fare will be served.

European Seminar Series

Center for European and Mediterranean Studies (NYU) 53 Washington Square South, 3rd Floor East, New York, United States

Nadia Urbinati: How Populism Transforms Democracy From the NYU Center for European and Mediterranean Studies. 

L’oro di Napoli

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

Giuseppe Marotta Casa Italiana hosts this book club that meets once a month to discuss contemporary Italian books in Italian. The Club is open to anyone and its purpose is to offer the possibility to practice the Italian language. Everybody is encouraged to speak. The group suggests the books, usually by contemporary Italian authors, that reflect the changes that have…

BOOK TALK. ROCK, PAPER, SCISSORS AND OTHER STORIES BY MAXIM OSIPOV

Harriman Institute 420 West 118th St., New York City, NY, United States

A book talk with author Maxim Osipov on his story collection Rock, Paper, Scissors and Other Stories (NYRB, April 2019). Maxim Osipov, who lives and practices medicine in a town ninety miles outside Moscow, is one of Russia’s best contemporary writers. In the tradition of Anton Chekhov and William Carlos Williams, he draws on his experiences in medicine to write stories of great subtlety…

Film: Sheer Madness

Goethe-Institut New York 30 Irving Place, New York City, NY, United States

Director Margarethe von Trotta weaves a wondrously compelling tale of friendship and feminism around the relationship of two seemingly opposite women. Olga is a professor of women’s literature, while Ruth is a gifted and extremely reticent artist who is desperately fearful of the outside world. From their first meeting, they share a warmth and understanding whose intensity “can be only…