Reversing the Colonial Gaze: Persian Travelers Abroad, exploring the furthest reaches of the globe, Persian travelers from Iran and India travelled across Russian and Ottoman territories, to Asia, Africa, North and South America, Europe and beyond. Remapping the world through their travelogues, Reversing the Colonial Gaze offers a comprehensive and transformative analysis of the journeys of over a dozen of…
Join Stéphanie Chayet and Fabrice Nadjari as they discuss Chayet’s book, Phantastica: ces substances interdites qui guérissent, which explores the forgotten history of mescaline, LSD and psilocybin mushrooms and how they could have revolutionized mental health, had history played out differently. In the early twentieth century, psychedelic drugs made their first appearance in Western science under the name phantastica. Chayet claims…
Typologies of Prayer in the Comedy Presented with NYU Department of Italian Studies and The Colloquium in the Humanities Dante's Prayerful Pilgrimage Typologies of Prayer in the Comedy (Brill, 2019) by Alessandro Vettori, Rutgers University Introduced by Maria Luisa Ardizzone, NYU In Dante’s Prayerful Pilgrimage, Alessandro Vettori provides a comprehensive analysis of the prayerful phenomenon in Dante’s Commedia and considers…
This season, Swedish pianist Per Tengstrand returns to Scandinavia House for the Music on Park Avenue concert series with a special presentation of famous piano concerti performed with musicians from Princeton chamber music group Opus 21. Tonight, Tengstrand and Opus 21 musicians Haeun Jung and Fumika Mizuno (violin), Noah Pacis (viola), and David Kim (cello) perform Edvard Grieg’s “Piano Concerto in…
Join for a panel discussion dedicated to the late journalist and publisher Viktor Perelman (1929-2003), the creator and sole editor of the Russian-language literary and political magazine Vremya i my (Time and We). Beginning in 1975, 152 issues of Vremya I my were published over a span of twenty-five years in several countries: first in Israel, and then in France, the United States, and…
Fonja is a film made by the youngest and possibly most exceptional filmcrew of Madagascar. Over the course of a four months film production workshop, ten detainees from the male youth prison of Madagascar’s largest detention center in the capital Antananarivo discover the camera for the first time. Fonja (2019). Directors: Ravo Henintsoa Andrianatoandro, Lovatiana Desire Santatra, Sitraka Hermann Ramanamokatra,…
Grace Park (violin), Gilles Vonsattel (piano) and The Calidore String Quartet will perform Claude Debussy — Violin Sonata in G minor, and Ernest Chausson — Concerto for Violin, Piano and String Quartet, Op.21. This concert is part of the Aspect Chamber Music Series, established to introduce and promote a novel concert format, ‘Music in Context’, which gives the audiences an…
The Ukrainian Contemporary Music Festival 2020 will bring the new music of Ukraine to the world’s most exciting musical center, and will contextualize this important repertoire through discussion with scholars, performers, and composers. For more information, visit the festival website at https://www.ucmfnyc.com The festival will offer three days of programming including performance and discussion of contemporary Ukrainian music. Each presentation will be…
To RSVP, please click here. While the cultural, political, legal and social aspects of French colonialism have received much attention over the past 30 years, the political economy of the French colonial empire has been largely neglected. This conference will bring together a new generation of historians and economists whose work engages with the nature and workings of French colonial…
Join on Friday, February 28 for a colloquium with Joy Neumeyer, PhD Candidate in History at the University of California, Berkeley. This event is a workshop with a pre-circulated paper. Please contact Joy Neumeyer (joy.neumeyer@berkeley.edu) or Anne Lounsbery (al108@nyu.edu) for a copy. Vasilii Shukshin rose from a Siberian village to become one of the late Soviet Union’s most celebrated talents.…