Join us for an evening with journalist Maïa Mazaurette to celebrate the publication of her newest books, Le Sexe selon Maïa (Éditions de la Martinière) and Sortir du trou, lever la tête (Éditions Anne Carrière). Le Sexe selon Maïa is inspired by Mazaurette’s eponymous popular sex column in Le Monde, which explores questions of contemporary sexuality and the body’s place in society.…
Program: Witold Lutoslawski (1913 - 1994) - Subito (1992) Maurice Ravel (1875 - 1937) - Violin Sonata No. 2 (1927) I. Allegretto II. Blues III. Perpetuum mobile. Stephen Coxe (1966 - ) - Cherchant (2019) for Magdalena Filipczak, WORLD PREMIERE Eugène Ysaÿe ( 1858 - 1931) - Caprice d'après l'Étude en forme de valse de Saint-Saëns, Op. 52 nr 2…
THU—March 19—8 PM $25 ($20 ASF Members) Series Pass $80 ($64 ASF Members) Purchase Tickets Purchase a Series Pass Internationally acclaimed pianist Jeffrey Siegel celebrates the 13th season of his ever-popular Keyboard Conversations® series at Scandinavia House. Each evening comprises an informal commentary on the music and its composers, a full performance of each work, and a short Q &…
Speaker: Lisa Cooper A Forgotten Land is the story of one Jewish family in the Russian Empire of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, set within the wider context of pogroms, World War I, the Russian Revolution, and civil war. Lisa Cooper is fortunate that her grandmother was a great storyteller. Lisa’s father, who grew up in Canada surrounded by…
Featuring John Shovlin, New York University. The European History & Politics Workshop is supported by the European Institute at Columbia University. The workshop will meet on select Mondays over the course of the academic year at Columbia University (Philosophy 302) from 12:00pm-1:30pm. Participants will discuss pre-circulated work-in-progress over a light lunch. Please note that these workshops are by invitation only. If…
Con dolce brama 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…
The Luigi Del Bianco Story Presented by the American Italian Cultural Roundtable Commendatore Aldo Mancusi, President In association with The Enrico Caruso Museum Out of Rushmore’s Shadow The Luigi Del Bianco Story An inspiring story of an Italian immigrant’s unsung role as chief carver as told to us by his grandson Lou Del Bianco Author, Singer, Storyteller, Actor Please note:…
Elena Ferrante 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…
Please join the Harriman Institute and the Bosnian-Herzegovinian Film Festival (BHFF) for a screening of the 2017 film Men Don't Cry (Muskarci ne plaču). The screening will be followed by a discussion with the film's director Alen Drljević, film scholar Dijana Jelača, and Columbia professor Tanya Domi. Bosnian language with English subtitles. Film runtime: 98 minutes. Twenty years after the conclusion of the Bosnian War, a…
Born to a Jewish family in Kiev, raised in Baku, and converted to Islam in Berlin, Essad Bey’s orientalist writings reached a huge audience in the Weimar Republic. Although his novels and essays depicting life in locales such as Azerbaijan and the Caucasus helped shape notions of a mysterious and romantic East in the German public imagination, the Muslim community…