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Dazzling Duo | In Memory of Mary Pressey

Ukrainian Institute of America 2 East 79th Street, New York, NY, United States

DAZZLING DUO In Memory of Mary Pressey ANTONIO POMPA-BALDI AND EMANUELA FRISCIONI, pianosGLIÈRE: Selection from “12 Morceaux” for piano 4-hands; GUASTAVINO: “Tres Romances”; POULENC: Sonata for Two Pianos, FP 156; ARENSKY: Suite for Two Pianos No. 1, Op. 15; RACHMANINOFF: Suite for Two Pianos, No. 1, Op. 5. Mary Elyse Pressey, born in 1923, Manitoba – died in 2018, New…

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Love and Politics in the Balfour Family

The European Institute at Columbia University 420 W 118th St #1205, New York City, United States

Susan Pedersen, Columbia: “Love and Politics in the Balfour Family.” This is part of the European History & Politics Workshop, supported by the European Institute at Columbia University. The workshop will meet on select Mondays over the course of the academic year at Columbia University (Philosophy 302) from 12:00pm-1:30pm. Participants will discuss pre-circulated work-in-progress over a light lunch. Please note…

Paris Underworld: A True Belle Époque Story

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

The Brooklyn Rail and Albertine Books team up and explore the underworld in an evening celebrating the newly released Vice, Crime, and Poverty by Dominique Kalifa and Eugene Sue’s Les Mystères de Paris new serialized translation. Beggars, outcasts, urchins, waifs, prostitutes, criminals, convicts, madmen, fallen women, lunatics, degenerates—part reality, part fantasy, these are the grotesque faces that populate the underworld, the dark inverse of…

Vice, Crime, and Poverty: How the Western Imagination Invented the Underworld

La Maison Française (Columbia) Buell Hall, 515 West 116th Street, New York City, NY, United States

To RSVP, please click here. Winner of the 2013 Prix Mauvais genres, Les Bas Fonds examines the underworld of 19th and 20th century France. The underworld, a zone outside of the law, populated by beggars, prostitutes, criminals and convicts and where every form of social ill seems to coexist, regularly haunts our imagination. From Batman’s Gotham to Eugène Sue’s Paris, Kalifa explores how journalism, literature,…

The European Union: A Growing Player in Global Security

Center for European and Mediterranean Studies (NYU) 53 Washington Square South, 3rd Floor East, New York, United States

  From the Center for European and Mediterranean Studies at NYU

Adventures in Italian Opera with Fred Plotkin

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

A Conversation with Leah Crocetto The seventh and final Adventure in Italian Opera with Fred Plotkin of this season features American soprano Leah Crocetto, one of the top young stars in the current generation of opera singers. She has sung leading roles at the Met, Washington, Seattle and Frankfurt, excelling in the core repertory of Verdi and Puccini. In ENGLISH. From the…

France in the World: A New Global History

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

Join us for a panel discussion to celebrate the release of France in the World, the English-Language translation of the bestselling Histoire mondiale de la France, a volume conceived and mastered by leading French academic and Collège de France professor, Patrick Boucheron. France in the World combines the intellectual rigor of an academic work with the liveliness and readability of popular history. This…

Film screening: The Distant Barking of Dogs

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

Director: Simon Lereng Wilmont, 2017, 90 min, Denmark/Sweden/Finland. "The Distant Barking of Dogs" is set in Eastern Ukraine on the frontline of the war. The film follows the life of 10-year-old Ukrainian boy Oleg throughout a year, witnessing the gradual erosion of his innocence beneath the pressures of war. Oleg lives with his beloved grandmother, Alexandra, in the small village…

Tomaso Albinoni

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

What Independent Means Means 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 and director…

Virgil’s Aeneid and the Destiny of Italy

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

Prof. Alessandro Barchiesi, NYU A lecture by Alessandro Barchiesi, Professor of Classics, NYU In his lecture, Professor Barchiesi will discuss various reactions and appropriations of the Aeneid in Italian culture, with an eye on the recurring problem of Italian national identity. Alessandro Barchiesi is a scholar of Roman literature and its modern reception. His new book project, The War for…