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Il Fauno (Febo Mari, 1917)

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

Presenting "Screening Statues: Sculpture and Cinema" Screening of: Il fauno (Italy, 1917, 70 min.) Silent with English intertitles Restored in 1994 by the Cinemathèque Royale Belgique (now Cinematek), from original nitrate prints from the Cineteca Friuli and the Museo Nazionale del Cinema Torino. Directed, written and starring Febo Mari Featuring live accompaniment by Tal Shtuhl Introduction by author Vito Adriaensens…

“Ethiopiques–Revolt of the Soul” by Maciek Bochniak, US Premiere

American Museum of Natural History Central Park West and 79th Street, New York, NY, United States

Followed by a Q&A with the director Tickets: $12 The Margaret Mead Film Festival, the longest-running premiere showcase for international documentaries in the United States, is held at the American Museum of Natural History in New York. This year's festival reflects stories of resilience–portraits of strength and action by people who are rising up, breaking new ground, and pushing their…

Walking Tour – Sanctuary in the Heights: Migration and Memory in Washington Heights

Hebrew Tabernacle 551 Fort Washington Ave, New York

1:00 pm: Walking tour (sold out) 3:30 pm: Panel discussion and reception at Hebrew Tabernacle Congregation (tickets available) Rob Snyder, author of the book Crossing Broadway, Washington Heights and the Promise of New York City, and Professor of Journalism and American Studies at Rutgers University-Newark, leads a walking tour and panel discussion in the northern Manhattan neighborhood once known as “Frankfurt on…

$10

“Runners” by Lukasz Borowski, US Premiere

American Museum of Natural History Central Park West and 79th Street, New York, NY, United States

Followed by a Q&A with the director Tickets: $12 The Margaret Mead Film Festival, the longest-running premiere showcase for international documentaries in the United States, is held at the American Museum of Natural History in New York. This year's festival reflects stories of resilience–portraits of strength and action by people who are rising up, breaking new ground, and pushing their…

Holger Falk, Baritone, with Julius Drake, Piano

The Frick Collection 1 East 70th Street, New York City, NY, United States

Considered by Opernwelt to be “intellectually and vocally one of the most flexible singers on the German stage today”, baritone Holger Falk, together with world-renowned pianist Julius Drake, will be making his Lied recital debuts in New York (Frick Collection, October 21), Cleveland (Cleveland Chamber Music Society, October 23) and Washington, DC (the Phillips Collection, October 28). The program will include Lieder by Schubert,…

$45

Michele Sarfatti. Seminar on the Race Law (1938-2018).

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

Seminar. An introduction to the study of Mussolini’s Racial Laws presented by one of the leading scholars in the field. Organized by Centro Primo Levi with Casa Italiana Zerilli Marimò. NYU Departments of Italian and History. Introduced by Ruth Ben Ghiat and David Forgacs. Sessions will be held on October 22, 24 and 26. Registration is required: Molly Engelmann (molly@primolevicenter.org).…

“On Your Marx”: The Fate of the Commons: A Trotskyite View

Skirball Center for Performing Arts 566 LaGuardia Place, New York

The NYU Department of German and Deutsches Haus at NYU present "The Fate of the Commons: A Trotskyite View" with Slavoj Žižek as part of NYU Skirball's "On Your Marx" festival in celebration of Karl Marx's 200th birthday. Event information From the Marxist standpoint, "Communism" refers to the multiple versions of our commons (the commons of nature, the commons of our biogenetic inheritance, the commons of…

MACHINES À ÉCRIRE : VALÉRIE ZENATTI

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

Le NYU Center for French Language and Cultures lance cette année sa nouvelle série sur l’écriture contemporaine en langue française, Machines à écrire. Chaque saison annuelle sera confiée à une personnalité saillante de la culture française qui invitera quatre écrivains à se rendre à la Maison Française de NYU afin de discuter autour d’un thème choisi. Ces entretiens se feront…

Russia: Stranger than Fiction

Barnard College 3009 Broadway, New York, NY, New York City, NY, United States

Please join the Harriman Institute and the Barnard Slavic Department for a conversation with Yelena Yakovich, documentary film director, and Marina Adamovich, editor-in-chief of The New Review, following the Russian Documentary Film Festival in New York, October 19–21, 2018. RSVP required for non-Barnard attendees; email barnardslavic@gmail.com. Yelena Yakovich and Marina Adamovic will converse about politics, the arts, and history in Russia and its neighboring countries where real…

Michele Sarfatti, “Jews in Italy and Nazi and Fascist Persecution. Themes for Future Research.”

Italian Academy (Columbia) 1161 Amsterdam Avenue, New York City, NY, United States

This lecture by Michele Sarfatti Introduced by David Kertzer, is sponsored by the Centro Primo Levi, the Italian Academy at Columbia University, and the Columbia University Seminar in Modern Italian Studies, and presented on the occasion of the upcoming publication of a special issue of the Journal of Modern Italian Studies focusing on the 80th anniversary of the implementation of…