Events Search and Views Navigation

Event Views Navigation

Today

A Conversation with the Editors of New Russian Drama: An Anthology

Harriman Institute 420 West 118th St., New York City, NY, United States

Please join us for a conversation with Maksim Hanukai, assistant professor of Russian at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and Susanna Weygandt, visiting assistant professor of Russian at Sewanee: The University of the South, editors of the volume New Russian Drama: An Anthology(Columbia University Press, 2019). New Russian Drama took shape at the turn of the new millennium—a time of turbulent social change…

Tribute to Ivan Passer: A Boring Afternoon & Intimate Lighting

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

Screening of two films by the recently deceased Czech-American film director Ivan Passer, a leading figure of the Czech new wave and a close friend and collaborator of the late Milos Forman. The film anecdote "A Boring Afternoon" (1964, running time 14 min), based on a story by Czech writer Bohumil Hrabal, captures an ordinary, dull Sunday afternoon in a…

Exile: Music of the Early-Modern Jewish Diaspora

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

EXILE highlights Jewish music as it shifted and melded with traditions in early modern Europe. The program takes as its starting point the rich musical cultures fostered by Jews in early modern Italy and their points of contact with non-Jewish traditions. From there, it touches on the influences of Italian, German, and English music and Jewish culture, highlighting Jewish musicians, the non-Jewish composers they influenced, and composers…

Reading for Energy: Conversion, Excess, and Entropy in Leo Tolstoy (with Jillian Porter, University of Colorado)

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

Jillian Porter explores energy—the “power to make work”—as a shaping force in Tolstoy’s fictions. From the psychic “safety valves” of War and Peace to the steam engines of Anna Karenina and the excesses of The Kreutzer Sonata, the nineteenth-century science of thermodynamics provided Tolstoy with a powerful store of metaphors for the workings of minds, bodies, and literary texts. How…

Blarney Star: Clare Horgan and Mark Simos

Glucksman Ireland House NYU One Washington Mews, New York City, NY, United States

Clare Horgan, the celebrated south Kerry sean nós (old-style) Irish-language singer, will be joined at this concert by Mark Simos, a highly respected songwriter and a guitarist who has accompanied some of Ireland’s finest traditional musicians.   Free admission to Members of Glucksman Ireland House and to all students/faculty with a valid NYU I.D. card. For non-members: $15 donation at…

$15

Lá na Gaeilge

Glucksman Ireland House NYU One Washington Mews, New York City, NY, United States

Discover the beauty of the Irish language in a program designed for learners of all levels and led by NYU faculty and other language scholars. Free event. About the Instructors: A native of Gaoth Dobhair, County Donegal, Pádraig Ó Cearúill grew up with Irish as his first language. After earning his Bachelor’s degree in Irish Language and History and completing graduate studies…

Taste of Yeats Summer School Day

Glucksman Ireland House NYU One Washington Mews, New York City, NY, United States

Every summer, aficionados of William Butler Yeats come from all over the world to enjoy two weeks of lectures, readings, and theater in Sligo, and to tour nearby ”Yeats Country.” Here is your opportunity to sample the Yeats International Summer School in New York. Further info on www.yeatssociety.org Please note that this event may be filmed, captured on audio and/or…

Concert: Spring Musicale, 2020 Edition

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

The delightful tradition of Sunday afternoon musicales continues with the tenth annual Spring Musicale. Featuring young talent as well as seasoned musicians, the program opens with a movement from Antonin Dvorak’s engaging first piano trio, performed by Juilliard pre-college students. The African-American spiritual “Deep River” follows, in an arrangement by Jascha Heifetz, played by violinist Lilit Gampel. Quartet 131 presents…

Misremembering Ivan Petrovich Pavlov: How and Why His Story Is So Fallacious

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

Please join us for a talk by Darryl B. Hill, Professor at the College of Staten Island and The Graduate Center, City University of New York. The historical record of the famous Russian physiologist Ivan P. Pavlov is filled with errors. Controversies center on arguments about his American visit, avoidance of his controversial support of research on children, the inaccurate portrayal…

Jewish Lives Houdini: The Elusive American

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

He was the greatest escape artist who ever lived. Famous for jumping handcuffed off bridges, dangling upside down in a straitjacket, and breaking out of jails all over America and Europe, Harry Houdini was a death-defying, self-liberating, American superhero. Born Erik Weisz, he was also the son of a rabbi and a Jewish immigrant who escaped his impoverished childhood thanks…

$15