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Film Screening & Discussion. The Saragossa Manuscript

Marshall D. Shulman Seminar Room 420 W 118th Street, #1219 International Affairs Building, New York City, NY, United States

Join the East Central European Center at the Harriman Institute for the first installment of the ECEC Fall Film Series, a screening of the 1965 Polish film The Saragossa Manuscript, directed by Wojciech Has and digitally restored in 2001. Wojciech Has's psychedelic '60s costume drama The Saragossa Manuscript features veteran actor and cabaret artist Zbigniew Cybulski (the Polish James Dean) in what was…

Europe’s Green New Deal: Transitioning to a Low Carbon Economy for the 21st Century

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

To RSVP, please click here. Europe is responding to the climate challenge and the Paris Agreement with a strong vision on a low carbon society. Building on 20 years of developing climate policies, it has formulated a ‘net zero emissions’ target for 2050. This means a commitment towards fundamental sustainability transitions of the energy, transport, and food systems. The climate target is…

Two Flags – Film Screening and Discussion with Director

Avery Fisher Center for Music and Media, Elmer Holmes Bobst Library, 7th Floor Elmer Holmes Bobst Library, 70 Washington Square South New York, New York, United States

Two Flags 2019, 60 mins. Director: Pankaj Rishi Kumar In English and French with subtitles in English Two Flags chronicles the life and politics of Pondicherry, a former French colony in South India where 6,000 Tamils who identify as French gear up for the French presidential elections of 2017. The film explores the idea of state, citizenship and home in…

CIA and Cold War Covert Action

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

Featuring David Robarge, Chief Historian, Central Intelligence Agency. Covert action historically has been perhaps the most controversial and least understood function of the CIA. While all presidents since World War II have used covert action to try to influence the political situation in countries of interest to advance US national security interests, they sometimes have done so to rescue failing foreign…

Botticelli (and Dante) Reborn

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

The Race to Define the Renaissance and the Rise of the Connoisseur A lecture by Joseph Luzzi, Bard College How did the rediscovery of Sandro Botticelli’s art, especially his blockbuster set of Dante drawings purchased in London in 1882 by the German government, contribute to the race to define “the Renaissance” in 19th-century Europe? Prof. Luzzi will begin answering this…

Cultural Heritage Practices & Critical Fashion Theory How Does (High) Fashion Interpret Cultural Heritage?

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

WELCOMING REMARKS: Barbara Faedda (Italian Academy) INTRODUCTION: Barbara Faedda and Lynda Dematteo SPEAKERS: Daniela Calanca (Università di Bologna): "Fashion and cultural heritage: complexity and articulations" Barbara Carnevali (École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris): "Milanese style as cultural heritage: fashion, architecture, design" Emanuele Coccia (École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris): "Dior and the invention of Frenchness as…

After Hitler: The Untold Story

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

Featuring Olivier Wieviorka, ENS Paris-Saclay, documentary co-director.   After Hitler: the Untold Story (2016, 90 min), directed by Olivier Wieviorka and David Korn-Brzoza. Documentary film screening and discussion with historian and co-director Olivier Wieviorka about the role of the historian in creating documentary films.

After Hitler: the Untold Story

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

To RSVP, please click here. Documentary film screening and discussion with historian and co-director Olivier Wieviorka about the role of the historian in creating documentary films. In the five years that separated the end of the Second World War from the start of the Cold War, the world had hoped for a lasting peace, but instead found itself on the brink of…

Literary Inspirations in the Puppet Films of Jirí Trnka

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

An illustrated talk by Irena Kovarova Thu, October 3, 2019, at 7 pm Bohemian National Hall, cinema The world-renowned Czech filmmaker and book illustrator Jirí Trnka (1912-1969), the master of stop motion animation, brought to the screen works by from Kosmas, Shakespeare, Chekhov, Hašek and others. From tragedy to comedy, Trnka made adults appreciate puppets like nobody else. The talk…

Nosotros 3.0: Strengthening Bonds Between Jewish and Latino Communities

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

The Philos Project and the American Sephardi Federation cordially invite you to the third edition of our Latin American classic art exhibit: Nosotros 2019. This year’s exhibit explores the justice of Zionism through the lens of Jewish and Latino national liberation struggles for independence from European colonialism. A new collection of art pieces will be revealed, including pieces from master…

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