Giacomo Puccini named three criteria of Italian music: clarity, spontaneity, and simplicity. In this meeting we explore the music of Ennio Morricone who, in his film scores and beyond, conveyed messages of extraordinary intimacy and directness. He was indeed a kindred spirit of Maestro Puccini. "What Makes It Italian?": According to Puccini is a music listening and discussion group that meets…

The Russian Film Club presents a screening of Angels of Revolution (2014, dir. Aleksei Fedorchenko), followed by a discussion with Mark Lipovetsky (Slavic Department) and Daria Ezerova (Harriman Institute). This event is part of our Contemporary Culture Series. A spell-binding clash of art, utopia, and violence, Angels of Revolution follows four young revolutionaries who are sent to spread the ideals of Communism and the avant-garde to the indigenous populations of…

Please join the Harriman Institute and the Kolodzei Art Foundation for a presentation in conjunction with our exhibit Anatoly Zverev: Selections from the Kolodzei Art Foundation. Tatiana Kolodzei and Natalia Kolodzei of the Kolodzei Art Foundation will discuss the artist Anatoly Zverev and his legacy. Introduction by Mark Lipovetsky (Columbia Slavic Department/Harriman Institute), with recorded remarks by art historian/curator Maria Plavinsky and artist/art collector Natalia Kostaki.

NyuJoin us for the annual Irish Institute event when the former president of Ireland, Mary McAleese, discusses her recent memoir, Here's the Story, with National Book Award winner, James Carroll. Mary McAleese was inaugurated as the eighth President of Ireland in 1997. The first President from Northern Ireland, she was re-elected in 2004. She is currently Chancellor of Trinity College Dublin. In her recently published memoir, Here’s…

Please join the Harriman Institute and the Institute for the Study of Human Rights (ISHR) for a talk with Fiona Hill, author of There Is Nothing for You Here: Finding Opportunity in the Twenty-First Century (Mariner Books, 2021), in conversation with Alexander Cooley (Harriman Institute). Moderated by David L. Philips (ISHR). In There Is Nothing for You Here, a celebrated foreign policy expert and key impeachment witness reveals how declining opportunity has set…

Colm Tóibín on "The Magician"                                           Monday December 6, 6-7.15pm ET To say that Colm Tóibín is an award-winning author is an understatement: his fiction has won the Costa, the IMPAC Dublin Award, and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize and has…