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Film Series: Blackness in French and Francophone Film

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

A Film Series Presented by the Columbia Maison Française, co-sponsored by School of the Arts and curated by Nora Philippe with the participation of Maboula Soumahoro Films are free and open to the public. Subtitles are in English. France doesn’t have an equivalent word for speaking about “blackness” and has just removed the word “race” from its Constitution. However, a…

Far from Us [Via da noi]

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

(Enrico Ventrice, 2018) Via da noi (Documentary, Italy, 53 min.) In ENGLISH and ITALIAN with English subtitles Produced by Global Vision Group in collaboration with Rai Cinema A film by Elena A. Perazzini Directed by Enrico Ventrice Followed by a conversation with Elena A. Perazzini. Moderated by Paolo Pellecchia (CUNY). With the participation of Gianluca Galletto (DG Advisors), scientist Alessandra…

Film: Steps to Liberty (Les Marches de la Liberté)

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

A film by Rokhaya Diallo (2013, 52 min.) Screening followed by a discussion with Fredrick Harris, Nora Philippe and Maboula Soumahoro Fifty years after the Civil Rights March in Washington DC and the “dream” of Martin Luther King, thirty years after the “March for Equality and against Racism” in France, Diallo follows a group of young Americans who come to…

Mivos String Quartet

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

“Mivos Quartet has a highly distinctive musical personality... performances of edge-of-your-seat intensity which still display a remarkable sense of subtle give and take within the ensemble....With performances this assured, incisive, and entertaining, the Mivos Quartet is an ensemble to be held in the highest regard.” — David Kettle, The Strad Magazine Stefano Gervasoni: Clamour (NY premiere) Simone Movio: Zahir Ia…

Vulnerability to Exploitation and Human Trafficking: The Case of Serbia

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

Please join the Harriman Institute and the Human Rights Advocates Program at the Institute for the Study of Human Rights for a talk with Marijana Savic, Director of Atina, the Citizens' Association for Combatting Trafficking in Human Beings and All Forms of Gender-Based Violence. Marijana Savic is a founder and director of the NGO Atina, a women’s rights organization in Serbia. Over the…

The Collective Body: Legacies of Monastic Discipline in the post-Soviet Prison

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

On Thursday, November 8th please join us for a talk with Lyuba Azbel (London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine) and Evan Morse (St. Francis College) on “The Collective Body: Legacies of Monastic Discipline in the post-Soviet Prison”. Despite an expanding HIV epidemic, methadone treatment—the most effective way to prevent infection—remains difficult to implement among prisoners in post-Soviet countries where…

Ways of Re-Thinking Literature

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

Join artists, writers, scholars Rita Ackermann, Tom Bishop, Laurent Dubreuil, Donatien Grau, Boris Groys, Shelley Jackson, and Vanessa Place for readings and conversations towards the many Ways of Re-Thinking Literature, on the occasion of the publication of this book (Routledge, edited by Tom Bishop and Donatien Grau), a polyphonic platform for literary thinking. In  English. Free and open to the public. No RSVP…

Mamma Roma

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

In conjunction with the exhibition NeoRealismo: The New Image in Italy, 1932-1960 Mamma Roma (Italy, 1962, 110 min.) In ITALIAN with ENGLISH subtitles Directed by Pier Paolo Pasolini Starring Anna Magnani, Ettore Garofolo Introduced by Rebecca Falkoff, NYU. Anna Magnani is Mamma Roma, a middle-aged prostitute who attempts to extricate herself from her sordid past for her son’s sake. An unflinching…

1938 Projekt: 80 Years since Kristallnacht

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

As the LBI documents the German-Jewish experience of 1938 in the online “1938Projekt” it will commemorate the events of November 9, 1938, when state-sponsored gangs destroyed Jewish homes, synagogues, and businesses. Featuring remarks by historian Marion Kaplan (NYU), the premiere of a short documentary featuring individuals sharing their memories of 1938, reflections by radio personality and author Martin Goldsmith, and…

Józef Czapski: Soldier, Critic, Eyewitness, Painter

McNally Jackson Books 52 Prince Street, New York City, NY, United States

National book tour with scholar and translator Eric Karpeles Thursday, November 8, 2018 - Thursday, November 29, 2018 Events in New York, Washington DC, Chicago, and the San Francisco Bay area Józef Czapski was a beautiful human being, courageous, noble but also hard-working; occasionally a soldier, journalist, diarist, always writing, drawing, always with a sketchbook in hand, always ready to…