Moravian folk artists from Breclav (Czech Republic), "malerecky" Marie Svigrova and Dagmar Benesova (a founder of Folk Academy), will discuss and present the art of traditional Easter egg decorating design and techniques. Please note that THIS IS NOT a classical workshop! But, we encourage you to bring your own supplies, paper, and markers to take notes. The artists will stop…
America is a land of opportunity or is it? Join writer Kirstin Valdez Quade, poet Lawrence Joseph and author and publisher John Freeman as they discuss Tales of two Americas: Stories of Inequalities in A Divided Nation. This collection of short stories, poems, autobiographical texts offers us a framework to look at inequalities in the US in different terms, from different…
FRÉDÉRIC BEIGBEDER Writer, literary critic, television presenter; author of Windows on the World (Prix Interallié); L’Égoiste Romantique; Au Secours pardon; Un Roman français (Prix Renaudot); Oona & Salinger in conversation with OLIVIER BARROT Writer, journalist, television producer and host, Un Livre un jour (France 3 and TV5); author of L’Ami posthume; Le Fils perdu; La Revue Blanche; Un Livre un jour, un livre toujours; Mitteleuropa; United States In French Books available for sale Florence Gould…
Trump's recent decision to reduce Bears Ears—and continuing threats to the integrity of Chaco—represent a further assault on indigenous heritage and history in the United States. This symposium is intended to set out and to protest the scale of the potential for damage to these precious sites. Invited speakers include: Angelo Baca, Amalia Cordova, Sandy Grande, Carrie Heitman, Elizabeth Hutchinson, Honor…
To RSVP, please click here. Why is national integration achieved in some diverse countries, while others are destabilized by political inequality between ethnic groups, contentious politics, or even separatism and ethnic war? Traversing centuries and continents from early nineteenth-century Europe and Asia to Africa from the turn of the twenty-first century to today, Andreas Wimmer delves into the forces that encourage…
On the occasion of the tenth anniversary celebrations of the creation of the Union for the Mediterranean and after the Conference "Perspectives on Sustainable Development Cooperation Towards the Eradication of Poverty and Youth Unemployment in the Mediterranean Sea Area”at the General Secretariat ONU, the concert “Amen Amin Aman” inaugurates the 2018 series of cultural events dedicated to the Promotion of…
Please join us for a screening of the documentary film The Saline: In the Net, a co-production of the Center for Investigative Journalism of Montenegro (CIN-CG) and TV Vijesti, followed by a discussion with one of its screenwriters, Milka Tadić Mijović. Run time: 38 minutes English subtitles The Saline: In the Net highlights the corruption that threatens to destroy one of the most important…
Deutsches Haus at NYU presents "Germany's Policy Towards European Integration: Still Muddling Through or Leaping Forward?", a lecture by Dr. Gabriele Abels, Jean Monnet Chair and professor of German and European politics at the University of Tübingen, Germany. The lecture will be followed by a discussion between Dr. Abels and Dr. Sheri Berman, professor of political science at Barnard College. Germany…
Cécile David-Weill and Caroline Weber will moderate our group discussion on Christine Angot’sIncest, translated from the French by Tess Lewis (Archipelago Books). Incest relates the violent relationship Christine Angot had with her father and audaciously confronts its readers with one of our greatest taboos. Angot’s writing goes fast, strong and far, disrupts forms, framework, as well as mainstream literary codes. So much so…
Roy Amotz, flute Elissa Cassini, violin W. F. Bach - Sonata in Canon - No.1 in E Minor (c. 1720) Stefano Gervasoni - Due Voci - for flute and violin (1991) C. P. E. Bach - Poco Adagio - for solo flute from sonata in A Minor Gervasoni - Folia - for solo violin (2011-12, U.S. Premiere) J. S. Bach/Gervasoni - Two-Part Inventions arr. for flutes & violin/viola (1723/2009, U.S. Premiere) J. S. Bach - Chaconne - for…
Haunting has been the name—the signature, writing, event—of Immanuel Kant in 20th-century France. Impetus to many commentaries, controversies, and indeed to the emergence of singular thoughts, the French reception of Kant’s texts has not been simple or straightforward. Yet, unlike a certain “French Hegel” (or “Marx,” or “Nietzsche,” or “Freud,” or “Heidegger”), the (his)stories of Kant’s French specter/s remain to…
Hinda Weiss & Asaf Weitzen Through colors, rhythms, and sounds, the video work and installation 5846, 5851, and 5852 v. the Population and Migration Authority portrays an Israeli supreme court's decision regarding three people requesting not to be sent to the Holot Detention Facility.* Truths embedded within a given language are explored in relation to the rights of asylum seekers and immigrants…
Please join us for a roundtable that will bring together experts on law and politics in Putin’s Russia, both academics and practitioners. The experts will discuss the issue of political uses of law in today’s Russia, examining in particular the role of protest-related trials and recent affairs involving high-ranking officials in the functioning of Putin’s regime during his latest term (2012-2018). Along…
Presenter Guillaume Calafat (Paris 1, La Sorbonne, IAS, Princeton University) Trials and Jurisdictional Pluralism in the Western Mediterranean (1590-1630). Corsicans at Courts between Ottoman North Africa and Southern Europe Presenter Jessica Marglin (University of Southern California, IEA Paris) The Extraterritorial Century: Rethinking Nationality and Religion in the Mediterranean, 1815-1915 Respondents Simona Cerutti (EHESS Paris, Italian Academy Columbia University) Lauren Benton (Vanderbilt University) Moderators Pier…
THE WORKER, THE MILITANT AND THE MONSTER: Visualizing Revolutionaries in 1960s and 1970s Italy: A lecture by Jacopo Galimberti, University of Manchester Over the past twenty years, and particularly after the publication of Empire (2000), the theoretical insights of the 1960s and 1970s Italian far left have been reappraised by scholars, architects and artists. However, little has been written about the work of the…
The music and ideas of Wandelweiser composer Michael Pisaro are featured in an evening of performances and discussion at Columbia University's Deutsches Haus. This event will showcase musicians from New York's aaaviary collective, Columbia University German Department's Ross Shields, New York-based writer, interdisciplinary artist, and Wandelweiser specialist, G Douglas Barrett, and the composer himself. Works including Pisaro's 'fields have ears'…
From Abie’s Irish Rose to Anna Riley’s Rabbi Jake: The Irish-jewish Couple in Feature Films Lawrence Baron, Professor Emeritus of Modern Jewish History at San Diego State University speaks on how American feature films about Irish-Jewish romances have conveyed varying messages from extolling the “Melting Pot” ideal, exposing inter-ethnic tensions, epitomizing interfaith toleration, reflecting changing gender roles, and embracing multicultural diversity. The lecture…
This symposium presents new scholarship by five up and coming scholars doing path-breaking work on what happens to property in times of war and revolution, ranging from the eighteenth century to the twentieth. The papers explore the fate of objects over a wide swath of time and variety of regimes in Europe and North America. Each author will give a…
Their childhoods couldn’t have been more different: Alexander von Humboldt, born into a noble family, had the best private tutors in Berlin, a wealthy and prestigious family home and the protection of the powerful. Carl Friedrich Gauß grew up in poverty, was beaten by his classmates and teachers and then, once his mathematical talents could no longer be overlooked, he…
[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jhqVGxlBcr8] New World, New Music is a celebration of the 125th anniversary of Antonin Dvorak’s Symphony No. 9, From the New World. As our contribution to the celebration, we have commissioned renowned composer and native New Yorker Bruce Adolphe and visual artists James Rouvelle and Lili Maya, known as maya + rouvelle, to create an integrative arts experience that will…
Deutsches Haus at NYU presents a reading by the author and current Max Kade Writer-in-Residence at Georgetown University, Christopher Kloeble, from his latest book Home Made in India: A Love Story Between Delhi and Berlin, followed by a conversation with @neinquarterly's Eric Jarosinski. Indians, Germans, and an author seeking to answer the question: What is home? Since his marriage to Saskya from India, Christopher Kloeble is a…
A lecture by Francesco Izzo, University of Southampton, co-director of the American Institute for Verdi Studies at NYU In early nineteenth-century Italian opera, characters explicitly described as old are mostly a prerogative of comedy. In serious melodramma, the advanced age of some characters may be inferred by virtue of their role (father and grandfather, pastor), but only rarely is it explicitly stated, verbally…
Tuesday, April 3, 2018 12:00pm Marshall D. Shulman Seminar Room (1219 International Affairs Building, 420 W 118th St) Please join the Ukrainian Studies Program at the Harriman Institute, Columbia University for a presentation by Professor Lidia Stefanowska (University of Warsaw). Within the American-occupied zone in Germany in 1945-1948, Ukrainian Displaced Persons (DPs) managed to create a substitute for cultural and social structures in…
Tuesday, April 3, 2018 6:00pm Harriman Institute Atrium, 12th Floor International Affairs Building (420 W 118th St) Please join the Harriman Institute for a screening of the documentary film Art Is a Weapon (2017), followed by a discussion with director Andrea Simon. The event will be introduced and moderated by Martin Marinos, Postdoctoral Research Scholar at the Harriman Institute. Run time: 85 minutes Language: English,…
Speaker: Senem Aydın-Düzgit, Associate Professor of International Relations, Sabancı University Moderator: Tsveta Petrova, Adjunct Assistant Professor of Political Science, Columbia University Turkey’s and Europe’s perceptions of each other play a key role in shaping their relations at present. Recent public discourses in Europe often characterize Turkish and European identities as dichotomous and in opposition. However, this assessment is based on a fixed and static understanding…
Venue: KJCC Auditorium // 53 Washington Square South, New York Reception to Follow Recently, slavery has become an important theme in memory tourism. Just last year, in Rio de Janeiro, the Valongo wharf, which was the arrival place of the highest number of enslaved Africans in the Atlantic, was recognized as a UNESCO site, and is now being visited by…
A lecture by Neelam Srivastava, Newcastle University: In this book, I provide a cultural history of Italian colonialism and its impact on twentieth-century ideas of empire and anti-colonialism. I explore the widespread political and literary responses to Italy’s invasion of Ethiopia in 1935, highlighting how Pan-Africanism grew from opposition to Italy’s late empire-building, and reading the work of George Padmore, Claude McKay,…
"Deception, Myth, and Reality in Czech History (1918-1948): A Perspective from the Archives" presented by Igor Lukes, a Professor of History and International Relations at Boston University, who writes primarily about Central Europe. His books include On the Edge of the Cold War: American Diplomats and Spies in Postwar Prague (New York: Oxford, 2012), Rudolf Slansky: His Trials and Trial…
To RSVP, please click here. As I Open My Eyes gives us a look at Tunisian youth on the eve of the Jasmine Revolution as they are pulled in all directions by conflicting forces: disenchantment, fear, creativity, rebellion against dictatorship, rejection of conservatism, and the courage to pursue their desires.
Thursday, April 5, 2018 6:00pm Marshall D. Shulman Seminar Room (1219 International Affairs Building, 420 W 118th St) Please join us for a book launch and discussion of Cultural Life of Capitalism in Yugoslavia: (Post)Socialism and Its Other (Palgrave, 2017), edited by Dijana Jelača, Maša Kolanović and Danijela Lugarić. The book offers a thought-provoking rethinking of the standard binary division between socialist…
Are Europe and the United States destined to grow apart after over 70 years of partnership? Join academics, policy-makers, and other members of the international community in an examination of the transatlantic ties that have generally united Europe and the US; the current status of that relationship, including the issues that divide us; and areas in which a strengthened partnership…
Thursday, April 5, 2018 6:00pm - 8:00pm Ella Weed Room, 223 Milbank Hall, Barnard College Please join us for a talk with Christina Kiaer (Art History, Northwestern University). Most of us are sure that Russian revolutionary posters are propaganda, even those made by renowned artists of the Russian avant-garde in their attempt to bring “art into life.” At this retrospective moment of…
Location: World Room, 3rd Fl Pulitzer Hall, Columbia Graduate School of Journalism. Panelists: Carlo Invernizzi-Accetti, City College, CUNY Anthony Silberfeld, Bertelsmann Foundation Alexander Stille, Columbia University Nadia Urbinati, Columbia University Moderator Adam Tooze, Columbia University Presented by The European Institute & The Bertelsmann Foundation. Co-sponsored by The Department of Italian, The Columbia European Society, and The Columbia European Union Student Association.
What does it mean to speak, as Hannah Arendt once did, of the broken “heart of time”? This lecture analyzes innovative forms of radical futurity in little known 21st-century fiction by Emine Sevgi Özdamar, who holds emblematic status on Germany’s path from Turkish migration to transcultural Europe, and Michael Götting, who has authored the first sustained novel about Black German…
Casa Italiana (24 W 12th), Italian Academy at Columbia (1161 Amsterdam Ave.) present: The Global Dante Project of New York Directors: Maria Luisa Ardizzone (NYU) and Teodolinda Barolini (Columbia University) A one-day international symposium by The Global Dante Project of New York on Dante's Convivio. Presented by NYU's Department of Italian Studies, Casa Italiana Zerilli-Marimò and the Medieval and Renaissance Center. In collaboration with Columbia University's Department of Italian and Italian Academy for Advanced Studies…
Once again, KINO! delivers fresh German films to New York City, this year at a new uptown location, from April 6-12. Now in its fifth year as an independent festival, the program was curated by New York film professionals—distributor Meghan Wurtz, journalist Karl Rozemeyer, and festival consultant Marian Masone—who have selected a wide cross-section of high-quality, remarkable films that will challenge your views of the…
A Francophone literary festival, co-sponsored by the Permanent Mission of the Organisation Internationale de la Francophonie to the United Nations and by the NYU Center for French Civilization and Culture, takes place at various NYC locations. Visiting authors include Yamen Manai, the 2017 recipient of the Prix des 5 continents. For full festival schedule, see nyu.is/5continents Events at La Maison Française of NYU…
On Friday, April 6th please join us for “Imagining Russian Regions: Subnational Identity and Civil Society in Nineteenth-Century Russia”, a book talk with Susan Smith-Peter (CUNY Staten Island). This talk is part of the Occasional Series, sponsored by the Jordan Center for the Advanced Study of Russia. In Imagining Russian Regions: Subnational Identity and Civil Society in Nineteenth-Century Russia, Susan Smith-Peter…
Friday, April 6, 2018 4:30pm 1201 International Affairs Building (12th Floor, 420 W 118th St) Please join us to celebrate the publication of Richard S. Wortman's The Power of Language and Rhetoric in Russian Political History (Bloomsbury Academic, 2018). In this book Wortman examines the rhetorical force of certain key words in the discourses of Russian state, political thought, and literature. He shows…
Deutsches Haus at NYU presents the exhibition Elias Wessel's "In the end, though, nothing is lost." Please join us for the exhibition opening accompanied by an artist talk on Friday, April 6, at 6:00pm. The exhibition will be on view until May 26. Exhibition information The pictorial source of “In the End, Though, Nothing is Lost” are photographs of landscapes taken by…
Please join us at the 2nd installment of “Kvartirnik @ NYU” to witness Mikhail Borzikin (Televizor) perform his all-time classics, new songs, and to participate in a conversation about Soviet-Russian Rock and its effects. Hosted by Mike (Misha) Danilin of the NYU Department of Russian and Slavic Studies and co-sponsored by the Jordan Center for the Advanced Study of Russia,…
In the 1980s West Cork native Máire Ní Chathasaigh pioneered a modern traditional music style on the harp, introducing the dance music repertoire, rhythm and ornamentation associated with fiddle, pipes and flute to her instrument and helping to explode the stereotype of the Irish harpist as a gowned performer of semi-classical parlor music. She found a musical and life partner…
Join us for the 39th Annual Meeting of the North East Slavic, East European and Eurasian Conference (NESEEES, a regional conference of ASEEES). The Conference will be hosted by the NYU Jordan Center for the Advanced Study of Russia on Saturday, April 7th, 2018. It brings together scholars working on all aspects of the Slavic, East European and Eurasian world and…
On April 7, join us as we welcome Yamen Manai, laureate of the 2017 Prix de la Francophonie, and writer Pierre Joris for a conversation on Manai’s award-winning novel, L’Amas ardent (Elyzad, 2018). “In this Voltaire-like fable, a beekeeper defends his bees against a group of particularly aggressive hornets. With humor and a limpid writing style, the author teaches us more about…
German illustrator Anna Haifisch will be a featured guest at the 2018 MoCCA Arts Festival. The MoCCA Arts Festival is a 2-day multimedia event, Manhattan's largest independent comics, cartoon and animation festival. Every comics culture — no matter how vast only presents and perceives a fragmentary view of global comics culture, a rich field of diverse human expression that is interconnected…
A concert of the legendary duo of Czech pianist Martin Kratochvíl and American guitarist Tony Ackerman. Their unique sound fuses two acoustic instruments and a wealth of world music styles in the cauldron of jazz improvisation, tempered by the easy familiarity of half a lifetime of playing together. The duo of Martin Kratochvíl (piano) and Tony Ackerman (guitar) has been…
As part of KINO!2018, Deutsches Haus at NYU presents a conversation about When Paul Came Over the Sea between Jakob Preuss, the film's director, Gabriella Etmektsoglou, Çiğdem Ipek, and Christian Martin, which will be moderated by Noah Isenberg. Film synopsis: Paul is a migrant from Cameroon. He has made his way across the Sahara to the Moroccan coast where he now lives in a forest waiting for the right moment…
Deutsches Haus at NYU and the NYU Department of German present "Dürer's Melencolia I and Therapeutic Images Before Modernity." In dialogue with Professor Shira Brisman, Mitchell B. Merback discusses the concepts and inspiration behind his new book, Perfection's Therapy: An Essay on Albrecht Dürer's Melancholia I (Zone Books, 2017), placing Albrecht Dürer's famously inscrutable engraving, "Melencolia I," at the intersection of Renaissance art, medicine, and philosophy. About Perfection's Therapy…
In her book Power on Pointe, Natalie Rouland argues that during the late imperial period, ballet as the embodiment of power and literature as the voice of protest transformed the reputation of Russian art and culture in the twentieth century. In the space of the heated debate over the future of Russian identity, the imperial ballet, its fanatics, and its critics…
Monday, April 9, 2018 6:15pm 1201 International Affairs Building (12th Floor, 420 W 118th St) Please join the Harriman Institute, the East Central European Center, and the European Institute for a talk with Kristóf Szombati, Istvan Deak Visiting Professor of Political Science at the Harriman Institute. Professor Andrew Arato, Dorothy Hart Hirshon Professor in Political and Social Theory at the New School for Social Research, will…
Deutsches Haus at NYU presents a reading of Silke Scheuermann's "The Hour Between Dog and Wolf," and a conversation between the author and her English translator, Lucy Jones, moderated by the award-winning translator Susan Bernofsky. Synopsis: A young woman who has been living abroad, returns to her hometown of Frankfurt am Main in Germany. Her sister Ines—a beautiful, impetuous painter—who still…
I Siciliani (2016, Italy, 120 min.) In ITALIAN with ENGLISH subtitles Directed by Francesco Lama With Antonio Emanuele, Tony Sperandeo, Maria Grazia Cucinotta, Leo Gullotta [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QsaS5ihZ38Q] In a little village in the center of Sicily there is a boy, Ignazio Bonaventura (Antonio Emanuele) working sporadic and, of course, illegal jobs, receiving unemployment benefits. Tired of his condition, he decides to write a book about Sicilians, thus setting…
Key moments of our lives, especially at the beginning and end, are marked by gentleness—but the simplicity of that concept is misleading. Gentleness is an active passivity that may become an extraordinary force of resistance within ethics and politics. In this powerful rethinking by a renowned philosopher and psychoanalyst, whose untimely death captured worldwide attention, gentleness becomes a series of…
David Robarge Chief Historian, Central Intelligence Agency Free and open to the public, please RSVP here. Organized by Prof. Victoria Phillips. Co-sponsored by The European Institute, The Harriman Institute, and The History Department.
To RSVP, please click here. Jean-Louis Fabiani’s recent book, Pierre Bourdieu: Un Structuralisme héroïque, offers a remarkable intellectual portrait of the great French sociologist, and has been very well received in France as a major contribution to understanding Bourdieu’s work. Fabiani traces the genealogy of Bourdieu’s major concepts—le champ, la distinction, le capital—and the genesis of his method within the space of…
Please join the Ukrainian Film Club at Columbia University for a screening of the documentary film The Living Fire (2014) by Ostap Kostiuk. Ukrainian with English subtitles. Professor Yuri Shevchuk will introduce the film and moderate the discussion. This stunningly beautiful and poetic film chronicles three generations of Ukrainian Carpathian shepherds who struggle to keep their ancient trade alive in the face…
This two-day Franco-American workshop seeks to compare the cultural, ethical, religious, historical and policy implications of how reproductive technologies have developed and now impact our two national contexts. In both countries, advanced reproductive technologies have long been in development and are now in widespread use. France and the United States share a certain number of similar conceptions relative to kinship…
Please join the The Harriman Institute of Columbia University and New York University’s Jordan Center for the Advanced Study of Russia for a panel discussion on “Putin’s Last Term?”, featuring panelists Henry Hale (George Washington University), Yoshiko Herrera (University of Wisconsin-Madison), Kimberly Marten (Barnard College and Columbia University), and Graeme Robertson (University of North Carolina Chapel Hill). This event is part of the New York Russia Public Policy Seminar,…
Co-hosted with Salon Sanctuary Concerts: The Politics of Opera. A History from Monteverdi to Mozart (2017, Princeton University Press) by Mitchell Cohen. The author in dialogue with Eric Banks, Director of the New York Institute for the Humanites. From Vincenzo Galilei to the French Revolution, author Mitchell Cohen offers a compelling and sweeping investigation into the intersections of music and…
Please join us for an opening reception of the exhibit Just in Case | На всякий случай, a series of photo essays by artist Valerie Zimmer that explores the narrative of Russian-speaking Jewish immigrants through objects they brought with them. Exhibit runs April 9 – May 18, 2018. Exhibit hours are Monday–Friday, 9:00AM–5:00PM excluding University Holidays. This series of photo essays focuses on Russian-speaking…
To RSVP, please click here. An eccentric French family meets in the country for the funeral of their matriarch (Paulette Dubost), which takes place at the same time as the 1968 student revolts in Paris. Even with the latest updates of the riots coming in over the airwaves, the family prefers to focus on petty squabbles and personal matters rather than…
German illustrator Anna Haifisch will read from her latest graphic novel Von Spatz. An absurdist tale about artists in crisis, Von Spatz follows a mentally exhausted Walt Disney trying to recover at the Von Spatz Rehabilitation Center. There Disney meets Tomi Ungerer and Saul Steinberg, and together, they embark on a regimen of relaxation and art therapy. Expanding on her graphic exploration of the anxieties…
Historian Michael Brenner (American/University of Munich) will discuss contemporary Jewish life in Germany on the occasion of the English-language publication of A History of Jews in Germany since 1945 (Indiana University Press, 2017). Brenner, the volume’s editor, will join historian Atina Grossmann (Cooper Union), who contributed a chapter of the book focused on the period 1945–1949. Originally published in German in 2012,…
Screening of the film Lettera al Presidente (Letter to the President) (2013, Italy, Documentary, 74 min.) In ITALIAN with ENGLISH subtitles. Directed by Marco Santarelli. Written by Teresa Bertilotti and Marco Santarelli. Followed by a conversation with Teresa Bertilotti. On the grounds of the residence of Italy’s president, three men are listening to a guide who is explaining the history of the gardens. Who are these three men? To…
Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice occupies a unique place in world culture. As the fictional, albeit iconic, character of Shylock has been interpreted as exotic outsider, social pariah, melodramatic villain and tragic victim, the play, which has been performed and read in dozens of languages, has served as a lens for examining ideas and images of the Jew at various historical moments.…
Ryszard Krynicki is one of Poland's most important living poets. For decades he has fought for freedom of speech and expression, battling against censorship in the days before democracy returned to Poland. Previously little-known in the English-speaking world, two major collections of his poetry have just been released. Our Life Grows, first published in 1978, was so politically incendiary to the…
Rudolf Klein, professor of modern architectural history at Szent István University, Budapest, will give a talk on his new book, Synagogues in Hungary, 1867–1918 (Central European University Press, 2017). This is the first comprehensive study that systematically covers all synagogues in Hungary from the Edict of Tolerance by Joseph II to the end of World War I. Unlike prior attempts, dealing with…
CATHERINE LIDDELL, Baroque lute Tickets and details: showclix.com/event/la-rhetorique-des-dieux Born out of the salons of the Grand Siècle, the 1652 manuscript called La Rhétorique des Dieux by Denis Gaultier offers an impressive synthesis of music, mythology, engraving, gold work, prose, and poetry. Weaving ravishing music with the spoken word, Boston-based lutenist Catherine Liddell mines the mythological roots of lute repertoire of Versailles, one golden…
RESERVE TICKETS April 2018 marks the twentieth anniversary of Belfast's Good Friday Agreement. Senator George Mitchell, who played a pivotal role in this peace settlement, will reflect on how this historic milestone came to pass. Funding to endow this lecture series has been generously granted by the Irish Institute of New York, which has been dedicated to the support and promotion…
On Wednesday, April 18th please join us for a talk on “Reluctant Monopolists: Religious Regulation and Political Mobilization in Central Asia” with Pauline Jones Luong from the University of Michigan. This event is part of the Occasional Series, sponsored by the NYU Jordan Center for the Advanced Study of Russia. What is the relationship between religious regulation, religiosity, and political mobilization? According…
When Francis Fukuyama wrote about “the end of history” after the fall of the Berlin Wall and the end of the Cold War, he contended that Western liberal democracy is the “final form of human government.” Yet by all accounts, the past few years have witnessed a global backlash against liberal democracy. Most alarmingly, Western liberal democracies are facing threats…
The pageants or fêtes de Carthage held in 1906 and 1907 were many things: a celebration of recent archaeological finds in the protectorate of Tunisia, including the Roman theatre in which they were held; an assertion of France’s place in a lineage of imperial conquest extending back over two millennia; and a demonstration of the cultural prowess of the members of the…
In The Holocaust by Bullets, Father Patrick Desbois documented for the first time the murder of 1.5 million Jews in Ukraine during World War II, based on wartime documents, interviews with locals, and the application of modern forensic practices on long-hidden gravesites. Nearly a decade of further work later, Father Desbois, Founder and President of Yahad-In Unum, has assembled in his…
With Ashleigh Gordon, viola. Giacinto Scelsi: Maknongan (1976) Claudio Gabriele: PNOM (2005) Matthias Pintscher: Janusgesicht (2001) Giacinto Scelsi: Triphon (1957) Hailed as “a cellist of power and grace” (The Guardian) and possessing “mature artistry and willingness to go to the brink,” Seth Parker Woods has established a reputation as a versatile artist straddling several genres. Outside of solo performances, he has performed with the Ictus Ensemble (Brussels), Ensemble L’Arsenale, zone…
Presenter: Gabriele Pedullà, Università di Roma Tre Respondent: Nelson Moe, Columbia University Moderator: Pier Mattia Tommasino, Columbia University Between 2010 and 2012 Einaudi published a three volume Atlante della letteratura italiana edited by Sergio Luzzatto and Gabriele Pedullà, in which Italian cultural tradition was reinterpreted in the light of geography and through systematic recourse to maps, graphs and digital instruments. One of the two directors of the project will talk about the aims…
To RSVP, please click here. Please note that these films are in French without subtitles. We will present a selection of rarely seen short documentaries shot in France in May 1968, showing the events as they unfolded in real time in universities, occupied factories, rural France, and on the streets of Paris. These films were collected into a curated collection to mark…
French author Lola Lafon and American novelist Christopher Sorrentino both share a fascination for the 1970s, the figure of Patty Hearst–who is at the heart of their novels Mercy Mary Patty (Actes Sud, 2017) and Trances (Simon and Schuster, 2005)–and the collective secret desire to shed one’s skin and start life over again. Their bodies of work explore the meaning of identity, and the role that storytelling…
Please join the Harriman Institute and the East Central European Center for a talk organized by the N. Iorga Chair for Romanian Language and Culture Dr. Mona Momescu with Dr. Catalina Florina Florescu, editor of the volume Transnational Narratives in Englishes of Exile (Lexington Books, 2017), and Dr. Maria-Sabina Draga Alexandru, a contributor to the volume and Vice President of the Romanian Studies Association of America. On Transnational Narratives in Englishes…
Director: Serg Skobun. As Carpathian legend has it, Oleksa Dovbush was a heroic outlaw with excellent fighting skills and a gift to predict the future. He was left an orphan as a small boy after a local lord murdered Oleksa’s mother. After spending his childhood in exile in the mountains, he returned as a grown man to avenge his mother’s…
In September 2013, Mona Eltahawy published her groundbreaking manifesto Headscarves and Hymens in France (Belfond), and Leila Slimani interviewed her for the French magazine Jeune Afrique. Five years later, the tables will turn when the two women meet again as Leila Slimani, now the author of the international bestseller The Perfect Nanny (Chanson Douce, Gallimard), will be interviewed by award winning writer…
Join Négar Djavadi for a conversation on her debut novel, Disoriental, which won several prestigious literary awards in France, on the occasion of the its publication in the US with Europa Editions. In this high-spirited, kaleidoscopic story, key moments of Iranian history, politics, and culture punctuate stories of family drama and triumph. The narrator, a storyteller extraordinaire, a Scheherazade of our…
Bring your vibrant spirits and join us in welcoming the Moravian legend Vlasta Redl and his band consisting of great musicians from the Czech Republic and Slovakia, in their first performances in America. Enjoy Redl’s hits with their origins in folk music and influences from rock and jazz. Free and open to the public. RSVP is required. For more information…
The last “French Literature in the Making” session of the spring 2018 season is dedicated to Professor Tom Bishop and to his devotion to the art of the theater throughout his academic career. Following the discussion with Olivier Barrot, Christophe Barbier will perform a segment of his one-man-show, Le Tour du théâtre en 80 minutes, which recently had a great success at…
On Tuesday, April 24th please join us for “The Impact of the Fourth Wave of Democratization: Post-Communism within Global Context”, a talk with Anastassia Obydenkova from the National Research University Higher School of Economics and Zafar Nazarov from Indiana University – Purdue University Fort Wayne. This talk is part of the Occasional Series, sponsored by the NYU Jordan Center for the Advanced…
VIEW FULL PROGRAM REGISTER HERE Imagine a centralized database replete with your personal information that links together your and your family’s vital health, education, and social welfare records. Now imagine the database includes an entire country’s population. Fifty years ago this year, Denmark launched the world’s first nationalized big data project. The country’s Civil Personal Registration (CPR) system assigns every resident…
With Domenico Siniscalco, Ph.D., Former Italian Minister of Finance. Siniscalco in conversation with Prof. Julie Mostov, Dean of Liberal Studies. Organized by NYU Liberal Studies. Co-sponsored by NYU's Department of Economics and NYU's Center for European and Mediterranean Studies and the Erasmus+ Programme of the E.U. In ENGLISH. Reserve a seat here.
Join poet Tracie Morris and writer and professor Vincent Broqua, as they read from and discuss Morris’s most recent poetry collection, Hard Kore: Poemes/Per-Form: Poems of Mythos and Place, just published in France by joca seria. This event will be in English and in French. Free and open to the public. No RSVP necessary. Tracie Morris has performed, researched and presented work…
Image courtesy of Figini Pollini archive at MART Rovereto In partnership with The Bogliasco Foundation. A lecture by Kay Bea Jones, 2015 Bogliasco Fellow (Knowlton School of Architecture). Imagine the impact on the lives of workers and their families if an employer provided elegant housing, child care facilities flooded with natural light, and recreation zones with innovative regional planning, all supported by…
Join us for a conversation around a conference by Thomas Piketty, « Of Inequality in Europe », given in Paris as part of the « An Idea of Europe » talk series organized by the Groupe d’Etudes Geopolitiques (http://ucide.eu). Thomas Piketty’s work has renewed the research field on capitalism and global inequalities. Anu Bradford, Seyla Benhabib,Turkuler Isiksel, Adam Tooze, and…
To RSVP, please click here. A.O. Scott says viewers “will find solace, enlightenment and surprise in João Moreira Salles’s In the Intense Now, a bittersweet, ruminative documentary essay composed of footage from the era of the 1960s, accompanied by thoughtful, disarmingly personal voice-over narration. Some of the images — and virtually the only ones in color — come from Mr. Salles’s own…
Some technological innovations have potentially far-reaching consequences for society and the institutions that govern societal interactions. With the increasing adoption of blockchain technology, a new innovation presents itself and poses questions that are of import to social scientists. This one-day conference will assemble leading experts in the field to discuss governance issues in the implementation of blockchain technology. Taking a broad…
Malcolm Gladwell (author), Bernard E. Harcourt (Columbia), Laleh Khalili (SOAS, University of London), Emmanuelle Saada (Columbia), Massimiliano Tomba (University of California Santa Cruz), moderated by Adam Tooze and Jeremy Kessler To RSVP, please click here. Open to the public. Seating is limited. *NEW LOCATION: Faculty House Presidential Suite (3rd Floor), 64 Morningside Drive The year-long “Uprising 13/13” seminar series explores various…
PASCAL VALOIS, Early Romantic Guitar Tickets and details: showclix.com/event/la-guitare-napoleonienne Contemporaneously with Napoleon’s rise, “Guitaromanie” reached its height in salons throughout the French capital. Whether for Fernando Sor’s new fantasia or Louis-Ange Carpentras’s arrangements of operas, new guitar works were entusiastically embraced, opening a new world of repertoire to the freshly empowered bourgeois musicians of post-Revolutionary era. Thanks to its clarity, precision,…
This event will take place at the International Studio & Curatorial Program, 1040 Metropolitan Avenue, Brooklyn. The International Studio & Curatorial Program (ISCP) Spring Open Studios is a two-day exhibition of international contemporary art. The 38 artists and curators from 22 countries currently in residence will present work in their studios. Opening Reception: Friday, April 27, 6–9pm Guest speaker: Tania Bruguera, Cuban Performance…
To RSVP, please click here. Revolts, revolutions and calls to resistance have shaped the 2010s globally. In this context, the 50th anniversary of Mai 68 calls less for a commemoration than for a reflection on the spatial and temporal parameters of the events of Mai 68 and their relevance today. Traditional narratives locate the events of 1968 on a line running from Paris to New…
Frank and Simone have fulfilled their dream and live with their two children in a townhouse in the suburbs. They are a happy couple until the day Frank is diagnosed with an inoperable brain tumor. The family is suddenly confronted with death. The time to say goodbye is short, which makes the situation all the more difficult for Frank. Andreas…
Join us as Elliot R. Wolfson, Marsha and Jay Glazer Endowed Chair in Jewish Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara, speaks about his highly anticipated new book, The Duplicity of Philosophy’s Shadow: Heidegger, Nazism, and the Jewish Other. In The Duplicity of Philosophy’s Shadow, Elliot Wolfson intervenes in debates about the notorious philosopher as a scholar of Jewish mysticism who…
Join Lebanese author Charif Majdalani as he discusses Moving The Palace, his latest novel published in the US, with author and literary critic Nathaniel Popkin. Moving The Palace is a captivating modern-day Odyssey in the tradition of Bruce Chatwin and Paul Theroux. It won the 2008 François Mauriac Prize from the Académie Française as well as the Prix Tropiques. In English. Free and…
While the conflict in Bosnia Herzegovina was widely known for the strategic rape of thousands of women, men were also victims of sexual violence, mainly in the various detention camps across the country. Thomas Osorio will provide an overview of how the judiciary has treated conflict-related sexual violence against women and men, based his wide expertise in the field. Heleen…
Deutsches Haus at NYU presents an illustrated lecture about "Till Eulenspiegel" by choreographer/dance historian Millicent Hodson. Her talk will feature stills from the original 1916 Ballets Russes production as well as stills and video from the reconstruction of "Till Eulenspiegel" that Millicent Hodson and Kenneth Archer created at the Paris Opera in the mid-1990s and again at the Rome Opera in 2001.…
In his timely essay on disobedience, Frédéric Gros questions the roots of political obedience. Examining its different expressions: social conformism, economical submission, respect for authority, and republican consent, the essay urges us to question our acquired certainties, social conventions, economical injustices, and moral conventions alike. It is by analyzing the different types of obedience that we give ourselves the means…
The first New York exhibition of Sicilian artist Alessandro Piangiamore, in collaboration with Magazzino Italian Art and Magazzino Arte Moderna (Rome). Curated by Vittorio Calabrese. On view through June 14 Mon-Fri 10-5 The exhibition features pieces from Piangiamore's 'Ieri Ikebana,' 'La cera di Roma,' 'Belvedere,' and 'Primavera Piangiamore' series, as well as a new site-specific work from the artist's 'Tutto il vento che c'è' (All The…
On February 1, 1964, Nathalie Sarraute, a major contemporary author known for her works of intimate interiority, landed in New York to start a conference tour of the most prestigious universities and cultural centers in the United States–a visit sponsored by the Cultural Services of the French Embassy. In a series of twenty-four letters written in an elliptical style to…
Co-presented with the Brooklyn Institute for Social Research and the Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung 1844. Karl Marx is 26 years old and exiled in Paris with his wife Jenny. He is in debt and plagued by existential anxieties. When he first meets the slightly younger factory owner’s son Friedrich Engels, he dismisses him as a dandy. But Engels, who has just…
A true event cannot merely be the object of already given theories: it challenges them and interrogates the very sense it makes to practice theory in general. This is eminently true of May 68 in France: it has been an event for “Theory.” However, its theoretical implications have been too often obfuscated by hasty interpretations that projected on it some vague Zeitgeist aptly coined…
Gail Merrifield Papp of the New York's famed Public Theater, and Carol Rocamora, author of Acts of Courage: Vaclav Havel's Life in the Theater in conversation with Niemann Fellow journalist Lenka Kabrhelova. Interviewees will share their views on topics such as Havel’s influence, human rights around the world, and the responsibilities that go hand in hand with expanding social media…
Please join us for a talk with Mischa Gabowitsch, research fellow at the Einstein Forum, Potsdam, Germany. Alone among European countries, the Soviet Union did not commemorate World War I, a conflict it considered bourgeois and imperialist. Yet by the end of World War II, monuments to the heroism of Red Army soldiers were being erected from Berlin to Pyongyang that…
The Departments of Vocal Performance and Piano Studies of NYU Steinhardt present the final concert of the Italian and Spanish Song Repertoire Class of Spring 2018. Graduate and undergraduate students perform a diverse selection of Italian- and Spanish-language songs by composers including Beethoven, Ginastera, Rossini, Bellini, Albéniz, and Verdi. Performers: James Buhse, tenor Sam Caps, soprano Flavia Darcie, mezzo-soprano Regina Fierro, soprano Mara Friedman,…
The Harriman Institute hosts the 23rd Annual ASN World Convention. REGISTRATION IS REQUIRED. Click here to register. Over 150 Panels in Nine Sections: Nationalism Studies Migration & Diasporas Balkans Russia Ukraine and Belarus Central Europe (including Baltics & Moldova) Eurasia (including Central Asia & China) Caucasus (North and South) Turkey, Greece (and Cyprus) Thematic Panels on: The Rise of the Far Right in Europe…
Historians Davide Rodogno (The Graduate Institute) and Sergio Luzzatto (University of Turin) will present and discuss their current research on cases in which, during the century that was theater to two world conflicts, the notion of humanitarian intervention took shape and and shaped the societies that received it as well as those that practiced it. Admission: this program is primarily meant for an academic audience.…
A lecture by Roberto Esposito, Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa Italy is a country trapped in an incurable state of incompletion, condemned to the eternal pursuit of something that has always eluded it, incapable of achieving development that corresponds to its potential. The challenge is to work on this incompletion, on the energy contained in potentiality that has never been…
The mass protests that shook France in May 1968 changed European politics to this day. Students demonstrated, workers went on general strike, factories and universities were occupied. At the height of its fervor, it brought the entire national economy to a halt. Fifty years later, Mitch Abidor and Todd Gitlin will delve into the oral testimonies of those young rebels…
Panorama Europe 2018, the 10th edition of the essential festival of new and vital European cinema, includes fiction and documentary works that present a portrait of contemporary Europe during a period of tremendous flux. The festival, which launched in 2009 by Czech Center New York, continues to give New Yorkers an eclectic overview of the current European film scene. In…
Reception for the artist: Friday, May 4 from 6:00 to 8:00 PM RSVP to attend. Art at the Institute concludes its 2017–18 season with an exhibition of mixed media works by American-born Ola Rondiak, titled Identity, Interrupted, in which the artist uses traditional cut-and-paste collage and painting techniques to touch on influences ranging from personal history, womanhood, ethnic and national identity, politics,…
"Berlin Alexanderplatz" cover On the occasion of the publication of Michael Hofmann's new translation of Alfred Döblin’s novel Berlin Alexanderplatz, Deutsches Haus at NYU and New York Review Books present a reading and conversation between Hofmann and Ian Buruma, the editor of The New York Review of Books. Alfred P. Doblin, the author’s grandson, will read a short part of the new translation and share some remarks at…
Co-presented with the Brooklyn Institute for Social Research Karl Marx is 200 years old. And yet, whenever Marx seems dead and buried, a new moment of economic or political crisis brings Marx’s critical understanding of capitalism back to the fore. In Marx Now, a two-day symposium co-presented by the Goethe-Institut New York and the Brooklyn Institute for Social Research, leading…
Connacht GAA Football Senior ChampionshipSun, May 6, 2018 New York vs. Leitrim 2:15 @ Gaelic Park 201 W 240th St, Bronx, NY
A unique musical experience of fusion between classical string quartet sound and jazz, rock and funk. The Prague string quartet Epoque Quartet was founded at the beginning of the year 1999. Four excellent soloists and chamber musicians with abundant stage experiences brang not only their unanimity in musical opinions and the relationship in their artistic nature together, but even their…