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Women’s Voices, Women’s Stories

La Maison Française (Columbia) Buell Hall, 515 West 116th Street, New York City, NY, United States

Women's Voices, Women's Stories Jeanne Balibar in conversation with historians Anne-Emmanuelle Demartini, Emmanuelle Loyer, and Charlotte de Castelnau-L’Estoile, moderated by Emmanuelle Saada   To RSVP, please click here. Violette Nozière, the criminal, Delphine Seyrig, the actress, Páscoa, the slave. French actress Jeanne Balibar grapples with these three figures in a roundtable conversation with three French historians who have researched and written…

Avant-Garde Post– : Radical Poetics after the Soviet Union

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

On Friday, October 12th please join us for a talk with Marijeta Bozovic from Yale University on :Avant-Garde Post– : Radical Poetics after the Soviet Union”. This study examines the poetic and theoretical output of a constellation of contemporary leftist Russian poets—linked by way of the journal , Kraft chapbook series, Free Marxist Press, and a number of poetry festivals and events…

Gender and Transformation: Women in Europe Workshop

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

With Christopher Edling. From the Center for European and Mediterranean Studies at NYU.   

Dismantling Concepts. A Conversation On The Paintings of Gerhard Richter

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

Deutsches Haus at NYU and the University Alliance Ruhr present a conversation with Frances Guerin, Professor of Film and History of Art at the University of Kent in Paris, and John J. Curley, Associate Professor of Art History at Wake Forest University on "Dismantling Concepts. A Conversation on the Paintings of Gerhard Richter." About the talk: Guerin and Curley will discuss Richter's career-long interrogation of the medium…

The Most Learned Woman

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

The story of Elena Lucrezia Cornaro Piscopia, the first woman ever to receive a doctorate from a university By and with Laura Caparrotti (Narrator) And with Nyssa Duchow (Violin) Set by Sarah Edkins 1678, Padua. Elena Cornaro Piscopia becomes the first woman to obtain a doctorate from a university.  Her story begins in Venice, in a beautiful palace on the water.…

Bohemian National Hall: Open House

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

For the third time, the New York City landmark Bohemian National Hall is opening its doors for guided tours, offering the rare opportunity to see not only the building mysteries but also Antonin Dvorak's manuscript. Enrich your visit with the exclusive tasting of the Czech wheat beer. The tour of Bohemian National Hall will take visitors through 5 floors and…

Armenia: From History to Fiction

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

Join Harry Koumrouyan as he discusses his latest novel, L’Impératrice des Indes (the Empress of the Indies) just out in France with les éditions de l’Aire, and the challenges of writing a novel on the Armenian genocide. The protagonists are hardly twenty years old when they meet on board the Empress of the Indies, a vessel crossing the Atlantic for the very…

Let’s Eat France!

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

French food critic François-Régis Gaudry will discuss Let’s Eat France!, a mouthwatering sum of 1,250 specialty foods, 375 iconic recipes, 350 topics, 260 personalities, plus hundreds of maps, charts, tricks, tips, and anecdotes and everything else you want to know about the food of France. Throughout the pages of this unprecedented encyclopedia, you’ll come across French food icons like Colette, Victor Hugo…

Lorenzo Da Ponte and the Birth of Italian Opera in New York

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

Celebrating the first contemporary performance of Lorenzo Da Ponte’s The Musical Bee (L’ape musicale) with a series of talks. The schedule is below. Da Ponte’s final libretto and the first Italian opera conceived and staged in the United States, returns to New York 188 years after its debut – thanks to the invitation extended by Columbia University to Claudio Orazi,…