Ghouls and goblins alike will agree, there’s no better way to celebrate Halloween than with our annual Halloween Dance Party! You are guaranteed to have a frightfully fun time. Our professional dancers will show you the tricks and treats of dancing the night away, followed by an amazing dance performance. Dress Code: to impress. People in costumes will pay $5…
To RSVP, please click here. A book talk by Daniel Cohen, the head of the economics department of the École normale supérieure and a professor and a founding member of the Paris School of Economics. Economic growth - and hope of better things to come - is the religion of the modern world. Yet its prospects have become bleak, with crashes…
Over the past two centuries energy transitions have occurred across the world at a seemingly relentless pace, reshaping forms of social life, economic organization, and political governance. This conference will explore the causes, courses, effects, and aftershocks of energy transitions—both those that succeeded and those that failed—in North America and Europe during the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. CONFERENCE PROGRAM THURSDAY,…
Please join us on Thursday, November 1st for “Film Editing as Women’s Work: Esfir Shub, Elizaveta Svilova, and the Culture of Soviet Montage”, a talk with Lilya Kaganovsky, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. This event is part of the Occasional Series, sponsored by the NYU Jordan Center for the Advanced Study of Russia. This study takes as its point of departure the history…
A Conversation with Sherrill Milnes The second Adventure in Italian Opera with Fred Plotkin of this season features renowned American baritone Sherrill Milnes, whose commanding stage presence and majestic voice starred over 650 times at the Met placing him in the all time operatic Hall of Fame. In ENGLISH. From the Casa Italiana Zerilli-Marimo.
Join us for a book talk celebrating the publication of Gary Shteyngart's new novel Lake Success. Shteyngart will be in conversation with Suketu Mehta, NYU Professor of Journalism. Narcissistic, hilariously self-deluded, and divorced from the real world as most of us know it, hedge-fund manager Barry Cohen oversees $2.4 billion in assets. Deeply stressed by an SEC investigation and by…
A biopic that offers an intimate insight into the family life of Antonin Dvorak who wrote his Cello Concerto while in New York City. The third movement was a tribute to his sister-in-law, Josefína, who had written him a letter saying she was seriously ill. Director: Jaroslav Brabec, 2015, 102 min, Czech Republic. In Czech with English subtitles. Free and…
To celebrate the first complete English translation of Uwe Johnson’s magnum opus Anniversaries (New York Review Books, 2018) translator Damion Searlsjoins critics Renata Adler and Liesl Schillinger for a reading and discussion of this German postwar classic, examining both its significance a unique literary document of New York in the 1960s, and its continued resonance 50 years later in a world of increasing inequality, authoritarianism, and violence.…
A child of the Great Depression, Elaine Mokhtefi left the United States in the early 1950s. She was on the run from McCarthyism and from the provincialism she'd encountered as a student in segregated Georgia. After time in Paris, she moved to Algiers which, following independence in 1962, has become a beacon and safe haven for radicals all around the…
The 10th annual PoetryFest celebrates Ireland and America's great literary connection by showcasing some of the best poets working today. Presented with and at the Irish Arts Center. Curated by Nick Laird. Thursday, November 1 7pm: The Tom Quinlan Lecture in Poetry with Seamus Heaney Centre for Poetry Prize-winner Richard Osmond. Click here for more information and registration. Friday, November 2 Favorite Poems Tickets…