1918 marked a special moment in Polish history: after 123 years of absence from the map of Europe, deprived of statehood, and with its cultural identity endangered, Poland regained its independence. In celebration of that euphoric moment, a hundred years later on November 11, 2018, the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage of the Republic of Poland together with PWM…
A talk by Agnes Lugo-Ortiz For more information, please click here. This talk will address the only two extant oil portraits of enslaved women produced during the periods of emancipation in the French- and Spanish-speaking Caribbean. By underscoring the conflictive political and ideological forces, affective dynamics, and aesthetic principles at work in their composition, it will focus on the conditions that…
Presenters: Dora Piperno, Celeste Pavoncello Piperno, Rav Umberto Piperno Tasting of kosher Italian bottarga, wine and citron sweets from Calabria Organzied by the American Sephardi Federation, Centro Primo Levi, Talled Di Seta. Seating is limited and reservation is required: info@primolevicenter.org Many of us remember well the years Rav Umberto Piperno spent in New York: his enthusiasm, wisdom and tireless efforts to…
with Editors Laura Ruberto and Joseph Sciorra New Italian Migrations to the United States Volume 1: Politics and History since 1945 Volume 2: Art and Culture since 1945 Edited by Laura Ruberto and Joseph Sciorra Vol. 1 Contributors: Ottorino Cappelli, Donna Gabaccia, Stefano Luconi, Maddalena Marinari, James S. Pasto, Rodrigo Praino, Laura E. Ruberto, Joseph Sciorra, Donald Tricarico, and Elizabeth…
Guadeloupean novelist and theatre director Gerty Dambury will be in conversation about her novel Les Rétifs (Les Editions du Manguier, 2012) with Professor Judith Miller, of NYU's Department of French Literature, Thought and Culture. Based on an historical event, Les Rétifs follows a child as she waits for her father to return from the bloody construction worker's strike of 1967. Dambury weaves a portrait of class, race,…
Jewish Music from Ancient Times until Today, from the Middle East to the West, through Italy Delilah Gutman, voice and piano Refael Negri, violin Program: Delilah Gutman/Anonymous Kyriah Yefeifiah, voice and violin - Shalom ben Yosef Shabbazi (1619-1720) Bezalel Aloni (1940 ca) Love Song, voice- Shir haShirim 8:6 (Cantico dei Cantici) Anonymous / Refael Negri Fire Dance, violin Delilah Gutman/…
Józef Czapski (1896–1993) lived many lives during his ninety-six years: student in Saint Petersburg during the Russian Revolution, painter in Paris in the roaring twenties, Polish reserve officer fighting the invading Nazis at the onset of World War II. When taken prisoner of war in a Soviet camp, and with nothing but memory to go on, he brought Marcel Proust’s In…
Sarah Mina Gordon is a fourth generation Yiddish singer. She has recorded and performed with The Klezmatics, Frank London’s Klezmer Brass All-Stars, Daniel Kahn and the Painted Bird, Sharabi, and others. She fronted Yiddish Princess, a Yiddish rock bank. Daughter of legendary Yiddish singer and scholar, Adrienne Cooper (z’l), Sarah grew up immersed in innovative Yiddish culture. Dedicated to making…
Please join us for a talk with Jasmina Husanovic, Associate Professor at the Faculty of Philosophy, University of Tuzla, Bosnia and Herzegovina, moderated by Tanya Domi (Columbia/SIPA). Jasmina Husanovic is an Associate Professor at the Faculty of Philosophy, University of Tuzla, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and a chair in Cultural Studies. Her research interests are in cultural and political theory and the praxis dealing with the politics of…
Laura Kalba is the 2016-17 laureate of the Wylie Prize in French Cultural Studies for Color in the Age of Impressionism: Commerce, Technology, and Art (Penn State, 2017). She is the Priscilla Paine Van der Poel Associate Professor of Art at Smith College. Derived from her new book project, Kalba’s lecture explores how the visual aspect of the Paris Bourse, freshly-minted coins, and…