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Book Talk. Catholics on the Barricades: Poland, France, and “Revolution,” 1891-1956, by Piotr Kosicki

1201 International Affairs Building 420 W 118th St, New York City, NY, United States

Please join the East Central European Center and the Harriman Institute for a talk with Piotr Kosicki, Assistant Professor in the History Department at the University of Maryland, about his new book Catholics on the Barricades: Poland, France, and "Revolution," 1891-1956 (Yale University Press, 2018). RSVP required to Elidor Mehilli at em705@hunter.cuny.edu Piotr Kosicki will speak about his new book, a collective intellectual biography that examines generations…

Canale Mussolini (first half)

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

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 taken place…

Book Talk. Fox, by Dubravka Ugrešić with Translator Ellen Elias-Bursac

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

Please join the Njegoš Endowment for Serbian Language and Culture and the Harriman Institute for a book launch and discussion of Dubravka Ugrešić’s recent novel Fox, translated by Ellen Elias-Bursac and David Williams, with the author Dubravka Ugrešić and translator Ellen Elias-Bursac. The conversation will be moderated by Aleksandar Bošković (Columbia). With characteristic wit and narrative force, Fox takes us from Russia to Japan, through Balkan minefields and American road trips, and from…

Enzo Ferrari: Power, Politics and the Making of an Automotive Empire

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

Enzo Ferrari Power, Politics, and the Making of an Automotive Empire (2018, David Bull Publishing) by Luca Dal Monte The author in conversation with Stefano Albertini (NYU). When Enzo Ferrari was born in 1898, automobiles were still a novelty in his native Italy. When he died ninety years later, the company he built stood at the top of a global industry,…

Elsa Morante’s La Storia

Italian Culture Institute 686 Park Avenue, New York, NY, United States

Reading and panel discussion on Elsa Morante’s La Storia (History, a Novel). In Italian with English translation. Organized by Centro Primo Levi and the Italian Cultural Institute on the 80th anniversary of the promulgation of the Racial Laws and the 75th anniversary of the deportation of the Jews of Rome. Free admission “An indictment against all the fascisms of the world.…

Hippolyte/Ippolito

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

Rameau and Traetta (1727 - 1779) What Makes It Italian? Discovering National Character in Music is a music listening and discussion group that meets at Casa Italiana and is open to everyone. Participation is free. The group is led by Gina Crusco, who guides listening at Bard LLI and Riverdale Y, and who has been music instructor at The New School…

Film: Restoring Tomorrow

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

NY Premiere Screening with Filmmaker Aaron Wolf. In Partnership with the American Jewish Historical Society and the Center for Jewish History. Director Aaron Wolf’s personal journey of rediscovery comes alive in Restoring Tomorrow, the story of how a treasured local temple near demise is lifted up by a community’s determination. Wolf’s documentary explores how, when any community puts their mind…

Film Screening: Restoring Tomorrow

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

NY Premiere Screening with Filmmaker Aaron Wolf. In Partnership with the American Jewish Historical Society and the Center for Jewish History. Director Aaron Wolf’s personal journey of rediscovery comes alive in Restoring Tomorrow, the story of how a treasured local temple near demise is lifted up by a community’s determination. Wolf’s documentary explores how, when any community puts their mind…

$10

Zemlinsky, Janacek, Dvorak and Their Muses

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

Performance by Zemlinsky Quartet, illustrated talk by Nicholas Chong. Love, requited or otherwise, can spark the creation of great music. In 1865, Antonin Dvorak’s feelings for Josefina Cermakova inspired the song-cycle Cypresses. His love was unrequited, but years later he arranged some of the songs for string quartet, creating a set of exquisite miniatures. Leos Janacek was sixty-three when he…

Ukraine at the Epicenter of the World Storm: The First Results

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

Please join the Ukrainian Studies Program at the Harriman Institute, Columbia University for a presentation by Ambassador Yuriy Scherbak. Yuriy M. Scherbak (Shcherbak) is a Ukrainian writer, screenwriter, publicist, epidemiologist, politician, diplomat, and environmental activist. He is a Doctor of Medicine (1983) and Laureate of the Y. Yanovsky Literary Prize (1984) and the O. Dovzhenko State Prize (1984). Yuriy Scherbak graduated from…