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Cell Biology of Neurodegeneration

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

This symposium will tackle some of the cellular mechanisms that go awry in neurodegenerative diseases, with special emphasis on how innovative cell biological approaches promise to decipher the pathogenetic events underlying these devastating conditions. Schedule 9:00 – 9:40 am Registration and Poster Set-up 9:40 – 9:55 am Welcome and Overview: David Freedberg (Italian Academy, Columbia), Francesco Genuardi (Consul General of…

The Vory: understanding Russia’s gangsters in their historical and political context

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

On Tuesday, November 27th please join us for “The Vory: understanding Russia’s gangsters in their historical and political context” with Mark Galeotti (Institute of International Relations Prague). This event is part of the Occasional Series, sponsored by the NYU Jordan Center for the Advanced Study of Russia. Mark Galeotti talks about his new book, The Vory: Russia’s super mafia (Yale UP), and…

The State(s) We’re In: A New Age of Transatlantic Relations – Migration and Art

Deutsches Haus NYU 42 Washington Mews, New York City, NY, United States

Deutsches Haus at NYU presents a conversation on "Migration and Art" among Silvia Fehrmann, Director of the DAAD's Artists-in-Berlin Programme; the artist Andy Graydon; the photographer Stefan Falke; Nathalie Anglès, the director of Residency Unlimited; and the journalist and writer Claudia Steinberg. About the panel: In the past two years, the issue of migration, borders, and walls has become ever…

Nathalie Kosciusko-Morizet: Europe in the digital age

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

Nathalie Kosciusko-Morizet is a former French politician who currently works as Vice-President of Cybersecurity at Capgemini, a French multinational consulting company. Educated at Polytechnique (X1992), she rose in the ranks of the French Government to become the Secretary of State for Digital Development and then Minister of Environment, under President Nicolas Sarkozy. She was a Member of Parliament for 10…

Learning to love it

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

Italian music today What Makes It Italian? Discovering National Character in Music is a music listening and discussion group that meets at Casa Italiana and is open to everyone. Participation is free. The group is led by Gina Crusco, who guides listening at Bard LLI and Riverdale Y, and who has been music instructor at The New School and director of…

Resistance: The Populist Challenge to Democracy

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

Paris-based international lawyer‎ and political writer Laurent Cohen-Tanugi will present and discuss his new book, Resistance: The Populist Challenge to Democracy  (Ed. de l’Observatoire, Paris, 2018). The discussion will tackle the topics of Brexit; Donald Trump’s election and the midterms in the United States; the demise of mainstream parties in the West and the rise of the extreme right‎ in Europe; the…

Lecture-Performance: “On the Imaginary Domain, Or Who Gets to Be a Person?”

Goethe-Institut New York 30 Irving Place, New York City, NY, United States

Fictive Witness #3 Professor Drucilla Cornell looks at our current society in which people seem to live in different universes. In “On the Imaginary Domain, Or Who Gets to Be a Person?” she suggests that is the case because of the increasingly divided way in which we imagine our world and ourselves. For her, imagination is not individual but instead thrives…

Mobility and Change in the Novels of Chinghiz Aitmatov

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

Please join us for a talk with Cholpon Turdalieva, Professor in the Anthropology Program at the American University of Central Asia, as part of the Celebrating Chinghiz Aitmatov at 90 event series. Cholpon Turdalieva will present a paper analysing the concept of mobility and movement in the works of Chingiz Aitmatov with regard to spatial geography and development of transport in the Soviet era.…

Shalom Italia

Calandra Italian American Institute at CUNY 25 W 43rd St #17, New York, NY, United States

A film by Tamar Tal Anati. Italy, November 1943. The Italian Social Republic orders the arrest of all Jews present on its territory.  A Florentine family, the Gnagnattis, composed of parents, four children and two grandmothers, flees the first round up in the city and seeks refuge on the mountains. The brothers spent months hiding in a cave in the Tuscan…

Women and the Circulation of Texts in Renaissance Italy

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

Brian Richardson, University of Leeds A lecture by Brian Richardson, University of Leeds During the Italian Renaissance, women became more prominent as authors and as patrons, and new works argued in favor of their worth and abilities. But how far could laywomen and nuns take part in the processes of circulating texts from authors to readers or listeners? How did…