An exclusive American introduction of the memoirs of Czech-American opera star and film actress, Jarmila Novotna (1907-1994). Author and editor William V. Madison will speak about the international triumphs of this multi-talented celebrity who acted as a cultural ambassador for the Czechoslovak nation throughout her career—beginning in Prague with her opera debut as a lyric soprano at age 17 and…
An exploration of poetic imagery, symbolist, surreal, and sensual, through the ears of five contemporary composers, in the company of Poulenc's iconic 1956 song cycle, Le travail du peintre. Additional works by Barbara Jazwinski, Louis Karchin, Friedrich Kern, Andrew MacDonald and Guy Sacre. Reservations: 212-998-8750 or maison.francaise@nyu.edu -- View the texts by clicking on the composers' names below, or access all texts here. Francis Poulenc, Le travail du…
Panelists: Bashir Abu Manneh, Nadia Ben Youssef, Debby Farber Moderator: Nadia Abu El-Haj Respondent: Audra Simpson, Department of Anthropology, Columbia University Chair: Brian Boyd The Center for Palestine Studies, in partnership with the NGO Zochrot, and Forensic Architecture, will be holding a scholarly panel within the framework of the exhibition, Ground Truth: Testimonies of Destruction and Return in Al-Araqib, to…
On Thursday, October 11th please join us for “Khlebnikov, Tatlin, and the Utopian Geopoetics of the Russian Avant-garde”, a talk with Harsha Ram from U.C. Berkeley. This talk is part of the Occasional Series, sponsored by the NYU Jordan Center for the Advanced Study of Russia. Most models of world literature since Goethe have focused on the spatial grid provided by…
Manuela Consonni (The Hebrew University and Vidal Sassoon International Center for the Study of Antisemitism). Introduced and moderated by Federico Finchelstein (The New School for Social Research). Copresented by the History Department at Eugene Lang College, the New School for Social Research and The Janey Program in Latin American Studies. Free admission. Through a re-reading of seminal reflections by Levinas, Arendt,…
Vincenzo Boccia, President of Confindustria (The General Confederation of Italian Industry). Introduced by Stefano Albertini (NYU) and Letizia Airos Soria (Editor in chief of i-Italy Network). Vincenzo Boccia was born in Salerno in 1964 and graduated in Economics and Commerce. He is the CEO of Arti Grafiche Boccia and, on May 25th 2016, he was elected the 30th President of…
Claude Lévi-Strauss, our contemporary Emmanuelle Loyer, in conversation with Emmanuelle Saada and Camille Robcis To RSVP, please click here. *In French with English translation Emmanuelle Loyer recently published a widely acclaimed biography on French anthropologist Claude Lévi-Strauss, which has just been translated into English as Lévi-Strauss: A Biography. In this talk, she discusses how Lévi-Strauss took a critical perspective on the…
“100 years of Czechoslovakia and the USA as Partners: Democracy, Security and Market Economy,” a talk by Jan Machacek, a Czech columnist, musician and university lecturer. He covers political, economic, European and geopolitical issues. Currently he publishes his columns in the Czech daily newspaper Lidove noviny and writes his daily column called Monitor JM online. He also provides analysis for…
The notion of cultural translation as it was developed by postcolonial studies attempts to cope not only with the foreignness of language, but also with 'the other' as a foreigner. In order to overcome various shades of 'othering,' Homi Bhabha and other postcolonial theorists have conceptualized interactions between different cultures as processes of hybridization. I would like to propose an…
Blank Forms presents a Henning Christiansen retrospective, marking the first institutional survey of his work in America. Henning Christiansen (1932-2008) was a Danish composer, musician, and artist best known as a pivotal member of the Nordic avant-garde. Enamored with, but not beholden to, the Fluxus movement he helped shape, Christiansen’s simple conception of music as sound organized in time continues to provide…