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The Many Names for Mother: Bearing Lyric Witness to the Holocaust in the East

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

What makes poetry such a fitting vessel for bringing past trauma into conversation with the present? Julia Kolchinsky Dasbach suggests the mode she has termed lyric witness, which creates a liminal space between documentary and imaginative representation, between what can be remembered and what evades memory, and between an ancestral past and the intergenerational present. She read and discuss poetry…

Critique 13/13 Seminar

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

Horkheimer and Adorno with Axel Honneth and Bernard E. Harcourt To RSVP, please click here. Seminar session on the early Frankfurt School with Professors Axel Honneth and Bernard E. Harcourt discussing Max Horkheimer's 1937 essay, "Traditional and Critical Theory," and Theodor Adorno's 1931 essay, "The Actuality of Philosophy." The seminar Critique 13/13 during the 2019-2020 academic year returns to brilliant texts in critical…

Leopold Bloom in Purgatory

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

Dante and Joyce In collaboration with NYU's Glucksman Ireland House and Medieval and Renaissance Center. A lecture by Patrizia Grimaldi-Pizzorno, Università di Siena In Ulysses 13, Joyce encrypts key allusions to Dante Alighieri’s Purgatorio. To understand the metapoetic significance of the female protagonist Gerty MacDowell and the reason why she is lame, one must in fact turn to Canto XXVIII where…

Rehearsal for Truth 2019: Watch Now (Slovakia)

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

DANCE PERFORMANCE, TALKBACK, AFTERPARTY. This captivating dance performance delves into the present-day issues of identity and loss of privacy. Accompanied by live music, WATCH NOW follows a couple undergoing a difficult time in their relationship. Their fluid interplay sees mutual motions of pushing and pulling as they manipulate and gently caress each other along with refusing contact and inflictingdistress. The…

30 Years of Freedom Gala

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

Bohemian Benevolent and Literary Association (BBLA) and the Vaclav Havel Library Foundation (VHLF) request the pleasure of your company at the 2019 Gala Celebrating the 30th Anniversary of the Velvet Revolution. The guests honor are Ambassador CRAIG STAPLETON and Mrs. DOROTHY STAPLETON. Master of ceremonies: NICHOLAS D. LOWRY, President of Swann Auction Galleries. HIGHLIGHTS A tribute to two outstanding supporters…

The Alchemy of Italy

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

Exploring Italy's Cultural DNA Presented by the American Italian Cultural Roundtable Commendatore Aldo Mancusi, President In association with The Enrico Caruso Museum The Alchemy of Italy Exploring Italy's Cultural DNA A presentation by Carla Gambescia Author of La Dolce Vita University: An Unconventional Guide to Italian Culture from A to Z Please note: This event is only open to members…

Film: Sometimes in April

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

To RSVP, please click here.  Raoul Peck (I Am Not Your Negro) offers a soul-shaking account of the Rwandan genocide as seen through the eyes of a Hutu man fighting to save his Tutsi wife and children as the unstoppable tide of violence encroaches. Steadfastly refusing to sentimentalize or sugarcoat any aspects of the story, Peck dares us to look away, making…

THE PARTING GLASS: A NOVEL, GINA MARIE GUADAGNINO

Glucksman Ireland House NYU One Washington Mews, New York City, NY, United States

Gina Marie Guadagnino's debut novel, The Parting Glass (Simon & Schuster, 2019) is a story that explores identity, social class, and sexuality in the Irish diaspora of New York in the 1830s. Praise for The Parting Glass “In this delectable debut, Guadagnino uses romance and thwarted desire to vividly recreate the class and ethnic conflicts of early-19th-century New York City. “…