The Race to Define the Renaissance and the Rise of the Connoisseur A lecture by Joseph Luzzi, Bard College How did the rediscovery of Sandro Botticelli’s art, especially his blockbuster set of Dante drawings purchased in London in 1882 by the German government, contribute to the race to define “the Renaissance” in 19th-century Europe? Prof. Luzzi will begin answering this…
WELCOMING REMARKS: Barbara Faedda (Italian Academy) INTRODUCTION: Barbara Faedda and Lynda Dematteo SPEAKERS: Daniela Calanca (Università di Bologna): "Fashion and cultural heritage: complexity and articulations" Barbara Carnevali (École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris): "Milanese style as cultural heritage: fashion, architecture, design" Emanuele Coccia (École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris): "Dior and the invention of Frenchness as…
Featuring Olivier Wieviorka, ENS Paris-Saclay, documentary co-director. After Hitler: the Untold Story (2016, 90 min), directed by Olivier Wieviorka and David Korn-Brzoza. Documentary film screening and discussion with historian and co-director Olivier Wieviorka about the role of the historian in creating documentary films.
To RSVP, please click here. Documentary film screening and discussion with historian and co-director Olivier Wieviorka about the role of the historian in creating documentary films. In the five years that separated the end of the Second World War from the start of the Cold War, the world had hoped for a lasting peace, but instead found itself on the brink of…
An illustrated talk by Irena Kovarova Thu, October 3, 2019, at 7 pm Bohemian National Hall, cinema The world-renowned Czech filmmaker and book illustrator Jirí Trnka (1912-1969), the master of stop motion animation, brought to the screen works by from Kosmas, Shakespeare, Chekhov, Hašek and others. From tragedy to comedy, Trnka made adults appreciate puppets like nobody else. The talk…
The Philos Project and the American Sephardi Federation cordially invite you to the third edition of our Latin American classic art exhibit: Nosotros 2019. This year’s exhibit explores the justice of Zionism through the lens of Jewish and Latino national liberation struggles for independence from European colonialism. A new collection of art pieces will be revealed, including pieces from master…
The Parisian fashion industry has always been the visible tip of an invisible web of exchanges. What we call French couture, far from being only French and influenced by French creativity and know-how, has always been a microcosm of globalization, with crucial contributions from foreigners and immigrants, transfers and hybridizations of techniques, ideas, styles, consumption habits, etc., which are often…
On March 6, 1957, Ghana gained its independence from Great Britain. Under the famed leadership of Kwame Nkrumah, the first newly independent sub-Saharan African country had several pressing questions on its plate: Who was Ghanaian? What were the new government’s duty and role to its citizens? Moreover, what would Ghana’s political and economic relationship to the Capitalist and Socialist world…
Post-Soviet Masculinities: Sex, Power, and the Vanishing Subject Eliot Borenstein Ph.D. Slavic Languages and Literatures Professor of Russian and Slavic Studies, Collegiate Professor, New York University From the Center for Europe and Mediterranean Studies.
The Ornament of the World tells the story of a remarkable time in history when the Muslims, Christians and Jews forged a common cultural identity that frequently transcended their religious differences. Ornament will retrace a nearly 800-year period in medieval Spain, from the 8th through 15th centuries, during which the three cultures, though they competed and sometimes fought, managed to…