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Resistance: The Populist Challenge to Democracy

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

Paris-based international lawyer‎ and political writer Laurent Cohen-Tanugi will present and discuss his new book, Resistance: The Populist Challenge to Democracy  (Ed. de l’Observatoire, Paris, 2018). The discussion will tackle the topics of Brexit; Donald Trump’s election and the midterms in the United States; the demise of mainstream parties in the West and the rise of the extreme right‎ in Europe; the…

Lecture-Performance: “On the Imaginary Domain, Or Who Gets to Be a Person?”

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

Fictive Witness #3 Professor Drucilla Cornell looks at our current society in which people seem to live in different universes. In “On the Imaginary Domain, Or Who Gets to Be a Person?” she suggests that is the case because of the increasingly divided way in which we imagine our world and ourselves. For her, imagination is not individual but instead thrives…

Mobility and Change in the Novels of Chinghiz Aitmatov

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

Please join us for a talk with Cholpon Turdalieva, Professor in the Anthropology Program at the American University of Central Asia, as part of the Celebrating Chinghiz Aitmatov at 90 event series. Cholpon Turdalieva will present a paper analysing the concept of mobility and movement in the works of Chingiz Aitmatov with regard to spatial geography and development of transport in the Soviet era.…

Shalom Italia

Calandra Italian American Institute at CUNY 25 W 43rd St #17, New York, NY, United States

A film by Tamar Tal Anati. Italy, November 1943. The Italian Social Republic orders the arrest of all Jews present on its territory.  A Florentine family, the Gnagnattis, composed of parents, four children and two grandmothers, flees the first round up in the city and seeks refuge on the mountains. The brothers spent months hiding in a cave in the Tuscan…

Women and the Circulation of Texts in Renaissance Italy

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

Brian Richardson, University of Leeds A lecture by Brian Richardson, University of Leeds During the Italian Renaissance, women became more prominent as authors and as patrons, and new works argued in favor of their worth and abilities. But how far could laywomen and nuns take part in the processes of circulating texts from authors to readers or listeners? How did…

Pre-“Trittico” 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 Ninth 6-Minute Challenge

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

Czech and Slovak artists, professionals, students, and scholars are challenged to introduce the subject of their project, research or studies in a short presentation limited to six minutes. In English. Free. Suggested donation $5.00 Light refreshments. Moderated by Christopher Harwood, Ph.D., Columbia University Presenters: Vojta Ciml (software SlidesLive developer), Vladimír Dzuro (UN Chief investigator), Martin Gajdošík (post-doc research scientist in…

Isabella Unmasked

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

The Legacy of an Italian Renaissance Woman Pazzi Lazzi presents Isabella Unmasked The Legacy of an Italian Renaissance Woman One Actress, Ten Characters. One Musician, Ten Instruments Written by Chiara Durazzini and Walter Valeri Featuring Chiara Durazzini with music by Dan Meyers In 1589, the Commedia dell’Arte show La Pazzia di Isabella (The Madness of Isabella) was a triumph at…

Otto Frank & His Daughter’s Diary: The Making of a Universal Icon

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

Raphael Gross, the first Jewish historian to head Germany’s premiere public history institution (Deutsches Historisches Museum) is currently preparing a new critical edition of the diaries of Anne Frank. His lecture will address her father’s role in making the diary the “emotional anchor” of West Germany’s first confrontation with what would later be known as the Holocaust. Born in Zurich,…

Are We Post-Francophone Yet? – Kaoutar Harchi & Lia Brozgal

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

Long excluded from the French literary canon and academic departments, non-hexagonal literatures in French have been valorized and recognized within the academy over the last few decades. The “francophone turn” has been one of the deepest and most transformative changes in French studies, opening new fields of inquiry. Many have since accused the francophone advent to ascribe a lower status…