La terra buona [The Good Place]

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

Emanuele Caruso, 2018 La terra buona (The Good Place) (Italy, 2018, 110 min.) In ITALIAN with ENGLISH subtitles Directed by Emanuele Caruso Written by Emanuele Caruso and Marco Domenicale Starring Lorenzo Pedrotti, Fabrizio Ferracane, Viola Sartoretto, Cristian Di Sante Followed by a Q&A with director Emanuele Caruso The film is inspired by true events. The largest wilderness zone in Europe…

Threatening Gender

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

To RSVP, please click here. Gender studies have long faced indifference. But today, they are confronted with two symmetrical problems: instrumentalization and rejection. On the one hand, the rhetoric of “sexual democracy” has been mobilized for xenophobic and racist purposes. On the other hand, reactionaries attack the so-called “ideology of gender.” Which is more threatening? Éric Fassin is Professor of Sociology…

Global Economic Governance: Can Fragmentation be Overcome?

#1512 International Affairs Building 420 West 118th Street, New York City, NY, United States

Global Economic Governance: Can Fragmentation be Overcome? Marco Buti Director General for Economic and Financial Affairs at the EU Commission in conversation with Adam Tooze Kathryn and Shelby Cullom Davis Professor of History & Director of the European Institute This event is made possible thanks to the support of the European Union. Sponsored by the European Institute and the Center…

The Cabinet des médailles: Luxury and Power from Ancient Rome to Modern France

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

CLARE FITZGERALD Associate Director for Exhibitions and Gallery Curator, Institute for the Study of the Ancient World, NYU The Département des Monnaies, médailles, et antiques (Department of Coins, Medals, and Antiquities) at the Bibliotèque nationale de France had its foundation in the Cabinet du roi (King’s Cabinet) begun by Charles V (r. 1364–80.). The Cabinet comprised collections of art objects…

Halloween Dance Party

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

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…

The Infinite Desire for Growth: A Book Talk by Daniel Cohen

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

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…

The New Energy History: Energy Transitions in the 20th and 21st Centuries

Remarque Institute 60 Fifth Avenue, 8th Floor, New York, NY, United States

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,…

Film Editing as Women’s Work: Esfir Shub, Elizaveta Svilova, and the Culture of Soviet Montage

Jordan Center for the Advanced Study of Russia 19 University Place, 2nd Floor, New York City, NY, United States

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…

Adventures in Italian Opera with Fred Plotkin

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

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.

Book talk: Lake Success by Gary Shteyngart

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

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…

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