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…
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 .…
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 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…
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…
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…
In collaboration with the Bogliasco Foundation. A lecture by David Yezzi, Johns Hopkins University. The poet Anthony Hecht returned from combat in WWII devastated by the horrors he had seen. Soon after, he established a lifelong connection to Italy that began with a move to the island of Ischia, and ended at the Bogliasco Foundation, where he wrote his final…
Marriage and Slavery in the Early Portuguese Atlantic World Charlotte de Castelnau-L'Estoile, in conversation with Amy Chazkel and Roquinaldo Ferreira To RSVP, please click here. Marriage played a crucial role in the making of a Catholic slavery-based society such as that of Brazil from the 16th century to the 19th century. Historical sources such as legal documents and petitions from slaves…
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…