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Casa Afternoons

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

Recital for Flute, Clarinet, and Piano Casa Afternoons invite our neighbors and their families to enjoy the arts in a relaxed atmosphere. Recital for flute, clarinet, and piano Ginevra Petrucci, flute Kostja Kostic, clarinet Matthew Oden, piano Program: Dmitri Shostakovich (1906-1975) Four waltzes Gabriel Faure (1855-1924) Morceau de Concours Sicilienne Matthew Oden (b. 1986) Anachronism No.1 Ernest Chausson (1855-1899) Andante et Allegro…

The Ukrainian Institute of America 2019 Gala

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

Cocktails & Silent Auction 6:00pm Musical Entertainment 7:30pm Dinner 8:00pm After Party 9:30pm Thank you for your interest in the Ukrainian Institute of America Gala.  Tickets are now SOLD OUT! Please contact our office at 212-288-8660 to be added to our waitlist.

On Sex, Race, Nation, Humanity: Reading Derrida’s Geschlecht III

La Maison Française (NYU) 16 Washington Mews, New York City, NY, United States

This event focuses on a recently discovered text by the late Franco-Algerian philosopher Jacques Derrida. Geschlecht III, rediscovered in the Derrida archive and newly published in French (forthcoming in English), is the “missing” installment in Derrida’s four-part series on Martin Heidegger and the German word Geschlecht(meaning, among other things, “sex,” “race,” and “species”). Geschlecht III presents us with one of Derrida’s most sustained engagements with Martin Heidegger,…

Envisioning Ukrainian Literature 2019: Versions and Demarcations, Part II

Marshall D. Shulman Seminar Room 420 W 118th Street, #1219 International Affairs Building, New York City, NY, United States

Join the Ukrainian Studies Program at the Harriman Institute for a panel moderated by Mark Andryczyk featuring Olena Jennings, Alexander J. Motyl, Dzvinia Orlowsky, and Irene Zabytko. What are the different ways that Ukrainian literature can be defined in 2019? Literature written in the Ukrainian language? Literature written by citizens of Ukraine in any language? Literature written in Ukrainian outside of Ukraine? Literature…

The Resistance in Western Europe, 1940–1945 – Book Launch and Discussion

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

Featuring Olivier Wieviorka (author), École Normale Supérieure de Paris-Saclay; Robert O. Paxton, Columbia University; and Mark Mazower, Columbia University. Olivier Wieviorka talks about his newly translated book, The Resistance in Western Europe, 1940–1945 (Columbia University Press, 2019), a sweeping analytical history of the underground anti-Nazi forces during World War II. Featuring responses by Robert O. Paxton and Mark Mazower.

Rehearsal for Truth 2019: In Conversation, Havel in America

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

MODERATED DISCUSSION. Pavla Niklova, Director of Vaclav Havel Library Foundation (VHLF), has invited participants from the oral history collection Havel Conversations and authors of the new book Havel v Americe (Havel in America)—featuring interviews from the project—to share their experiences. The event will also honor the achievements of Ambassador William Luers, Director of the Iran Project and Adjunct Professor at…

Rehearsal for Truth 2019: In Conversation, Havel in America

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

MODERATED DISCUSSION. Pavla Niklova, Director of Vaclav Havel Library Foundation (VHLF), has invited participants from the oral history collection Havel Conversations and authors of the new book Havel v Americe (Havel in America)—featuring interviews from the project—to share their experiences. The event will also honor the achievements of Ambassador William Luers, Director of the Iran Project and Adjunct Professor at…

Christ Stopped at Eboli

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

Parts 3 & 4 On the occasion of the exhibit Blind Visions: Carlo Levi's Disegni della Cecità, on view at Casa Italiana through December 13. Screening of parts 3 and 4 of the 4-part television movie: Christ Stopped at Eboli (Italy/France, 1979, 110 of 220 min.) In ITALIAN with ENGLISH subtitles Directed by Francesco Rosi Written by Francesco Rosi, Tonino Guerra, Raffaele La…

Skirball Talks: Slavoj Žižek: “Disorder Under Heaven”

Skirball Center for Performing Arts 566 LaGuardia Place, New York

As part of NYU Skirball Talks, the NYU Department of German and Deutsches Haus at NYU present Disorder under Heaven with Slavoj Žižek. Event information: Our situation is dangerous, there are uncertainties and elements of chaos in our environment, in international relations, in biotechnology, in sexual relations… But it is here that we should remember Mao’s old motto: “There is great disorder under heaven, so the situation is…

The Soviet Invasion of Czechoslovakia in1968: The Russian Perspective

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

The documentary film (2011, 56 min.) and book offer never-seen archival images and interviews with Soviet soldiers, journalists and dissidents about the August ’68 events in Czechoslovakia. The director Josef Pazderka collected these during his post in 2006-2010 as a Czech TV reporter in Moscow. Mr. Pazderka is also the editor of the book which was recently published in English…