Nadia Urbinati: How Populism Transforms Democracy From the NYU Center for European and Mediterranean Studies.
Giuseppe Marotta Casa Italiana hosts this book club that meets once a month to discuss contemporary Italian books in Italian. The Club is open to anyone and its purpose is to offer the possibility to practice the Italian language. Everybody is encouraged to speak. The group suggests the books, usually by contemporary Italian authors, that reflect the changes that have…
A book talk with author Maxim Osipov on his story collection Rock, Paper, Scissors and Other Stories (NYRB, April 2019). Maxim Osipov, who lives and practices medicine in a town ninety miles outside Moscow, is one of Russia’s best contemporary writers. In the tradition of Anton Chekhov and William Carlos Williams, he draws on his experiences in medicine to write stories of great subtlety…
Director Margarethe von Trotta weaves a wondrously compelling tale of friendship and feminism around the relationship of two seemingly opposite women. Olga is a professor of women’s literature, while Ruth is a gifted and extremely reticent artist who is desperately fearful of the outside world. From their first meeting, they share a warmth and understanding whose intensity “can be only…
Jazztopad Festival in cooperation with The Adam Mickiewicz Institute and The Polish Cultural Institute New York present The Jazztopad Festival, a leading event of its kind in Poland...” – NATE CHINEN, THE NEW YORK TIMES “...Jazztopad stands as an internationally renowned festival with a clearly defined ethos, one that combines a strong respect for the traditions and roots of the…
PLAY, TALKBACK, AFTERPARTY. "Woman Alone" unveils the story of Maria and the elements of her domestic life that entrap her. She grapples to cope with the pressure of her crazy father-in-law while raising a baby and dealing with a voyeuristic neighbor. Will Maria, an embodiment of physically, verbally or non-verbally abused women, find the courage to escape? WOMAN ALONE /…
Irish Screen America presents its annual film festival, bringing the very best in contemporary Irish cinema to New York. The three-day series will showcase critically acclaimed films and will host a selection of filmmaker Q&A’s, industry panel discussions, and receptions. Read more about Irish Screen America NYC
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…
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…
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…