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Women in Comedy in Italian-American Theater

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

Special Guest: Gina Barreca 2020 marks the 100th birthday of Franca Valeri, the legendary Italian playwright and actress, the first to make a name for herself by writing and doing comedy in Italy. KIT - Kairos Italy Theater - and Casa Italiana Zerilli-Marimò are celebrating women in comedy with three events: Women in Comedy in Italian Theater (February 11), Women in…

Book presentation: Renata Fucikova, Bohemian Stories

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

Renata Fucikova, a renowned illustrator and author of literature for children and young adults, presents a graphic journey through the history of Czechs in the United States, capturing the bonds between the two countries through their lived experience. Short texts and vivid illustrations detail the fates of the cartographer Martin Bohemus, the rebel Vojta Náprstek, the Freethinker Ladimír Klácel; reveal…

Why the Far Right Kills

Center for Jewish History 15 W. 16th Street, New York City, NY, United States

The October 2018 massacre at the Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh, committed by a Far Right activist, was the most lethal assault on Jews on U.S. soil in history. It was followed by attacks on synagogues in Poway, California and Halle, Germany. The Far Right has also massacred immigrants in El Paso, Texas and Muslims in Christchurch, New Zealand.…

The Divided Society

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

Revised program: 11:00AM Welcome: Barbara Faedda, Italian Academy A brief introduction to Reset Dialogues: Jonathan Laurence 11:15AM     Opening talk: Mark Lilla Jelani Cobb, Respondent Discussion moderated by Marina Calloni 12:45PM Break 1:45PM-3:30PM   Roundtable with Sheri Berman, Ian Buruma, Jedediah Purdy Discussion moderated by Lisa Anderson The new decade has revealed deepening fault lines and unrelieved polarization. In contemporary…

Refuge in the Heights: The German Jews of Washington Heights with Robert Snyder

Center for Jewish History 15 W. 16th Street, New York City, NY, United States

Rob Snyder, author of the book Crossing Broadway, Washington Heights and the Promise of New York City and Professor of Journalism and American Studies at Rutgers University-Newark, will help LBI celebrate its new exhibition on the German-Jewish refugees of Washington Heights with a talk on the northern Manhattan neighborhood once known as “Frankfurt on the Hudson” for its large population of German-Jewish…

On Javad Djavahery’s My Part of Her

Consulate General of France 934 Fifth Avenue, New York City, NY, United States

Join Javad Djavahery and Katherine Zoepf as they discuss Djavahery’s debut novel, My Part of Her (Restless Books; trans. Emma Ramadan). My Part of Her tells the story of a youthful betrayal during a summer on the Caspian sea that has far-reaching consequences for a group of friends as their lives are irrevocably altered by the Revolution. For information about Djavahery’s…

Film Screening: Closeness

203 Mathematics Hall

Please join the Harriman Institute and the Russian Film Club for a screening of the 2017 film Closeness, directed by Kantemir Balagov. This event is part of the Russian Cinema Between Protests Film Series, organized by Mark Lipovetsky (Slavic Department) and Daria Ezerova (Harriman Institute). The film has a run time of 118 minutes and will be presented with English subtitles. A film of arresting beauty, Closeness is the story of…

Concert: Music, Tales & Magic

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

Narek Hakhnazaryan, cello, Noreen Polera, piano. Illustrated talk by John Brewer. Program: Beethoven — Seven Variations on a theme from Mozart’s The Magic Flute Grieg — Solveig’s Song Chopin — Polonaise brillante in C major, Op.3 Fauré — Apres un rêve Popper — Dance of the Elves Grieg — Cello Sonata While magic, myth and fairy tales have proved rich…

$45

Book Talk. A Russian Immigrant: Three Novellas by Maxim D. Shrayer

Marshall D. Shulman Seminar Room 420 W 118th Street, #1219 International Affairs Building, New York City, NY, United States

Please join us for a book talk with Maxim D. Shrayer, internationally acclaimed author of the memoirs Waiting for America and Leaving Russia and of the story collection Yom Kippur in Amsterdam. Shrayer’s new book of fiction, A Russian Immigrant: Three Novellas, explores the lives of immigrants from Russia and the former USSR. A Professor of Russian, English, and Jewish Studies at Boston College, Shrayer is the winner of the 2007 National Jewish…

Exile and Creativity: Book Launch

Rizzioli Bookstore 1133 Broadway, New York City, NY, United States

Book discussion followed by wine reception. Giorgio Van Straten, Alessandro Cassin, Alexander Stille and Fraser Ottanelli. Exile and Creativity, published by CPL Editions, is a collection of essays  from a program series held in 2017-18 by the Italian Cultural Institute in New York jointly with Centro Primo Levi. The essays examine the lives of Italian man and women who were…