Cristina Pato is the 2019⁄20 King Juan Carlos Chair in Spanish Culture and Civilization, NYU King Juan Carlos I of Spain Center.
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…
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…
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…
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. “…
Zagami Jericho is one of the most promising talents of the Czech Republic at the tender age of 20. Her music is described as retro-futuristic with synth-wave, ambient, and drum and bass influences. Zagami Jericho emerged from the depths of internet in 2016 to manifest her cyber mind on her seven-piece EP City Is My Church. Her retro-futuristic universe might…
Speakers Duygu Demir, PhD candidate in the History, Theory, and Criticism of Art and Architecture, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Sonal Khullar, Associate Professor of Art History, University of Washington; and Hamed Yousefi, filmmaker and PhD candidate in art history, Northwestern University, will present their perspectives on artistic modernism in Turkey, India, and Iran, respectively, in the 1960s and ’70s. Exploring the political context…
Haunted by his father's portrait of his grandparents who vanished in the Holocaust, Joseph Koerner returns to Vienna to solve their mystery. Completed eighty years after the Anschluss, The Burning Child (2019, 113 min.) is a moving, visually-stunning journey through Vienna's urban and psychic interior to a buried past, where dreams of home became, for a city's most ardent homemaker's, an unimaginable…
Deutsches Haus at NYU and the General Consulate of the Federal Republic of Germany in New York present a lecture by Marianne Birthler, former Federal Commissioner for the Stasi Archives, on “30 Years on: Achievements and Challenges Since the Peaceful Revolution and the Fall of the Berlin Wall.” The lecture will be followed by a conversation between Marianne Birthler and David Gill, Consul…