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Walking Tour: Celebrating 20 Years of the Straus Historical Society

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

The German-Jewish family that built Macy’s into an iconic retailer also left an indelible legacy in American politics and society. After the morning walking tour of Union Square and a pop-up exhibition of artifacts from Macy’s, the Titanic, and more, AJHS Executive Director Annie Polland will moderate a panel including Hasia Diner (NYU), Rabbi Joanna Samuels (Educational Alliance), Paul Kurzman (Straus Historical Society), and Niki Lefebvre (Natick Historical Society and…

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Exile and Creativity – The Artists

Italian Culture Institute 686 Park Avenue, New York, NY, United States

The series continues with a panel discussion that explores the experience of two Italian artists: Corrado Cagli and Costantino Nivola, who fled Fascist Italy for America and whose experience of exile become a platform to reflect upon art, cross-fertilization, and creativity. Panelists: Giuliana Altea and Raffaele Bedarida. Costantino Nivola and Corrado Cagli came from very different backgrounds. Nivola, from rural…

Ulfers Foundation Award Ceremony Honoring Margatethe Von Trotta

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

Born in Berlin, Margarethe von Trotta is considered one of the leaders of the New German Cinema movement. After studying Germanic and Romance languages in Munich and Paris (where she encountered the Nouvelle Vague and the films of Ingmar Bergman), von Trotta pursued a career in acting, working closely with Rainer Werner Fassbinder and Volker Schlöndorff. Starting with her first independent directorial…

Film Screening: El verdugo (The Executioner)

King Juan Carlos I of Spain Center 53 Washington Square South, New York, United States

Luis Garcia Berlanga’s black-comedy masterpiece of 1963, _El verdugo_ critiques Franco-era values through a macabre farce about an undertaker who marries an executioner’s daughter and reluctantly takes over her father’s job. Influenced by Italian neorealism, this caustic film depicts what Berlanga called “the invisible traps that society sets up for us”. A personal attack on both capital punishment and Fascist Spain, it…

Unsettling to the nuns

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

Vivaldi and Falconieri (1586 – 1656) 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…

My American Dream

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

On the occasion of Italian Heritage and Culture Month, dedicated this year to Italian Women in America: Breaking Barriers. A conversation with author and director Gabriella Belloni, presenting her book My American Dream paired with the screening of a brief documentary about her, produced by the Italian national TV (RAI), running 25 minutes, as part of the series Le ragazze del '68 .…

10th Anniversary of the Joca Seria American Series

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

This event is co-presented with the Poetry Association of America. On Tuesday, October 9, at 6:30pm, we will celebrate the 10th anniversary of the Joca Seria American Series. Join poets Tina Darragh, Marcella Durand, Carla Harryman, Tracie Morris, Eleni Sikelianos and Anne Waldman––as well as translators Vincent Broqua, Olivier Brossard, Marc Chénetier, Abigail Lang, and Béatrice Trotignon––for a bilingual reading…

Historical Atlas of the Hasidim by Marcin Wodziński

YIVO Institute for Jewish Research 15 West 16th Street, NYC, New York City, NY, United States

Historical Atlas of Hasidism is the very first cartographic reference book on one of the modern era's most vibrant and important mystical movements. Featuring seventy-four large-format maps and a wealth of illustrations, charts, and tables, this one-of-a-kind atlas charts Hasidism's emergence and expansion; its dynasties, courts, and prayer houses; its spread to the New World; the crisis of the two world…

Cracking the Nest Egg

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

Please join the Harriman Institute and the East Central European Center for a talk with Sarah Wilson Sokhey, Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Colorado, about her book The Political Economy of Pension Policy Reversal in Post-Communist Countries (Cambridge University Press, 2017). Sarah Wilson Sokhey will present the research from her recent book, The Political Economy of Pension…

Ground Truth: Testimonies of Destruction and Return in Al-Araqib

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

On Palestinian Bedouin villages in the Naqab (Negev) The Center for Palestine Studies, in partnership with the NGO Zochrot, and Forensic Architecture, will host an exhibition (October 10-November 2) and symposium titled From Res Nullius to Terra Nullius: Revisiting Indigenous Histories, Legal Systems and Land Rights in the Naqab (October 11), focused on two counter investigations concerning the Palestinian-Bedouin villages…