Part of the film series "Blackness in French and Francophone Film" organized by the Columbia Maison Française and co-sponsored by the School of the Arts. Kena helps her father John Mwaura run a small convenience store in Nairobi as he campaigns for a local election. Kena lives with her mother, who isn't really on speaking terms with John. Kena starts…
Following his appearance at the New Literature from Europe Festival in New York, Jacek Dehnel will be touring three major US cities to promote Aperture, his first full-length poetry collection in English translation, as well as the translation of his novel Lala. Joining him on the tour will be acclaimed translator Karen Kovacik and Dehnel’s husband and sometime co-author Piotr…
With Morgane Cadieu (French, Yale), Minayo Nasiali (History, UCLA), and comments by Tony Haouam (French and French Studies, NYU). Morgane Cadieu is Assistant Professor of French at Yale University. She specializes in 20th and 21st century prose, randomness in literature and philosophy, space studies and materialism. The manuscript of her first book on Georges Perec, Samuel Beckett, Anne Garréta, Italo Calvino and Sophie Calle is called Marcher au hasard: déterminisme, clinamen…
Since making his first film nearly 30 years ago, Academy Award–winning director Pawel Pawlikowski has established himself as one of the most accomplished and adventurous filmmakers working today. Born in Warsaw, Poland, he emigrated to England as a teenager, and made his first films there—documentaries with peripatetic themes and titles (From Moscow to Pietushki: A Journey with Benedict Yerofeyev, Dostoevsky's…
To RSVP, please click here. Singing and workshop discussion with Anne Stone, Associate Professor of Music at CUNY Graduate Center This song lab includes singing from original notation at 5 P.M., followed by discussion of a paper by Anne Stone that will be precirculated for discussion. For more information and to get a copy of the paper please write to Eliza Zingesser…
The Story of a Chinese Patriarch Through the Eyes of His Italian Daughter-in-Law Goong-Goong: From Tuscany to Shanghai The Story of a Chinese Patriarch Through the Eyes of His Italian Daughter-in-Law Author Patrizia Chen in conversation with Nancy Yao Maasbach (Museum of Chinese in America) Goong-Goong is a remarkable book. Not exactly a memoir, or history, and not really even about its…
It’s been 5 years… Join us for “Stories of Maidan” RAZOM and the Ukrainian Institute of America are organizing a night to mark the 5th years since the beginning of Maidan revolution in Ukraine. We invite you to listen and share “Stories of Maidan” on Friday, December 7th, at 6:30 pm at the Ukrainian Institute of America. Join us for…
The Fury of a Patient Man (Raúl Arévalo / Spain / 2016 / 92 min) Synopsis Madrid, August 2007. Curro (Luis Callejo) is the only one arrested for the robbery of a jewelry store. Eight years later, his girlfriend Ana and their son are waiting for Curro to get out of prison. Jose is a solitary and reserved man who…
The beloved Finnish fairytale characters the Moomins come to Scandinavia House in this holiday film! It’s winter time in Moomin Valley, but Moomintroll doesn’t want to hibernate — this year he wants to explore the winter. And as the snow begins to drift and cover the garden, Moomintroll climbs out his window one day only to find that mysterious and…
An opening of the exhibition of jewerly created specifically for the CCNY Gallery. The connecting motto of the exhibition is "Communication". Whether it's a conversation between partners, a personal interaction with the outside world or a contact between the Czech and American cultural scene, communication is a basic human need and desire. In addition, the jewelry is an interesting and…