*Talk in French with English translation In the summer of 1933, in Paris, an 18-year old woman poisoned her parents and the crime became a great cause célèbre of the interwar era. This talk will present a new interpretation of a famous French patricide and further explore the writing of history from a judicial case: the social imaginary and its…
Renowned exhibit starts its US-wide tour in New York Exhibition through: 10/01/18-10/17/18 Monday-Friday, 10:00am - 6:30pm It has been on the road worldwide since 2016: Land of inventors - Research in Germany exhibition, designed by the Goethe-Institut, the Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft, and the Max Planck Society. At the start of the Year of Germany in October, the Goethe-Institut New York will be its first two-week-long…
Free Verse meets In Scena! Presented by Dave Johnson (Free Verse) and Laura Caparrotti (Kairos Italy Theater). Since 2014, In Scena! Italian Theater Festival NY has brought Italian artists to the Free Verse Poetry Workshops in the South Bronx to collaborate. Hosted in the heart of the waiting room of the NYC Department of Probation, the Italian artists translate poems…
Join Richard Sieburth and Pierre Joris as they discuss Sieburth ‘s new translation of Henri Michaux’s A Certain Plume (NYRB). The figure of Plume preoccupied the great Belgian poet Henri Michaux throughout his career. Plume, meaning feather or pen, is a character who drifts from one thing to another, losing shape, taking new forms, at perpetual risk from reality. He is a personification of the…
Deutsches Haus at NYU and the Colloquium for Unpopular Culture present "All Gates Open – A Celebration of CAN." Join Rob Young, author of the newly published biography All Gates Open (2018, Faber & Faber Social), and former New York Timesmusic critic Ben Ratliff for a celebration of the band described as "lostspace travellers creating a new primitive society after fetching up on a far-flung planet".…
Deutsches Haus at NYU, the American Council on Germany, and NYU’s Center for European and Mediterranean Studies present a conversation with David Gill, Consul General of the Federal Republic of Germany in New York; Çiğdem İpek, Social Scientist, Berlin; and Dr. Christian Martin, Max Weber Chair in German and European Studies at the Center for European and Mediterranean Studies at NYU, on “Is Chemnitz Germany’s Charlottesville…
In conjunction with the exhibition NeoRealismo: The New Image in Italy, 1932-1960 Ossessione (Italy, 1943, 140 min.) In ITALIAN with ENGLISH subtitles Directed by Luchino Visconti Starring Clara Calamai, Massimo Girotti Introduced by David Forgacs, NYU Luchino Visconti’s first film, Ossessione (1943), shot on location in the Po Delta with stunning photography by Domenico Scala and Aldo Tonti, is widely considered…
The Jazztopad Festival, a leading event of its kind in Poland. . .” – NATE CHINEN, THE NEW YORK TIMES “. . . top flight musicians will celebrate improvisation on stage in the homeland of Jazz, the United States. . .” – BONNIE JOHNSON, WICN “Colors of Jazz” “The Jazztopad Festival brings together the jazz movement that is happening in…
Please join us on Wednesday, October 3rd for “Geography of Anti-Corruption Protests in Russia”, a talk with Olena Nikolayenko, Fordham University. This event is part of the Occasional Series, sponsored by the NYU Jordan Center for the Advanced Study of Russia. On 26 March 2017 thousands of people in nearly one hundred Russian cities participated in anti-corruption protests. This episode of…
Please join us for a conversation with the mayor of Dusseldorf, Thomas Geisel.
Book talk with Simon Levis Sullam (University of Venice Ca’ Foscari) “The Italian Executioners: The Genocide of the Jews of Italy” (Princeton University Press, 2018) In conversation with Alexander Stille (Columbia) and Federico Finchelstein (The New School for Social Research) Sponsored by the Center for Jewish Studies at The Graduate Center in collaboration with the History PhD Program and Centro Primo…
The Kremlin Ball (post. 1971; 2018, New York Review Books Classics Original) by Curzio Malaparte (1898-1957) Translated by Jenny McPhee Translator Jenny McPhee (NYU) in conversation with Franco Baldasso (Bard) Perhaps only the impeccably perverse imagination of Curzio Malaparte could have conceived of The Kremlin Ball, which might be described as Proust in the corridors of Soviet power. The book is set at…
"Mr. Torquati did exceptionally well in his fascinating program... conveyed not just how he plays the piano, but how he hears and thinks about music." Anthony Tommasini, NY Times Giacinto Scelsi: To the Master Ryan Carter: break; (world premiere) Marco Momi: Unstill -- written for Dillon/Torquati (US Premiere) Salvatore Sciarrino: Melencolia 1 Debussy: Sonate pour violoncelle et piano Pianist Emanuele…
On the occasion of the 75th anniversary of the Rosenstrasse protest in February 1943 by non-Jewish women demanding the release of their Jewish husbands rounded up for their dispatch from Berlin, this conference examines different forms of resistance to the "Final Solution" policy in Germany and Nazi-occupied Europe. Contact Information Professor Volker R. Berghahn vrb7@columbia.edu
Iuventa Michele Cinque, 2018, 92 min. To RSVP, please click here. A film screening and discussion with director Michele Cinque and Kathrin Schmidt, in conversation with Carlo Invernizzi Accetti, Rajan Menon, Adam Tooze, and Nadia Urbinati. This event marks the launch of "Thinking Europe Now," a new interdisciplinary seminar series on European affairs convened by faculty from Columbia University and the…
Please note: This event will be held IN ITALIAN. The author of The Divine Comedy is near and far at the same time: we must "reach him". A lecture by Filippo La Porta, critic and essayist La Porta in conversation with Achille Varzi (Columbia University) On the 750th anniversary of his birth, conventions and books about Dante are plentiful. Sometimes he appears…
La Grieta (The Divide) by Irene Yagüe and Alberto García Ortiz (Spain, 2017, 76’) Following the local government’s sale of thousands of public apartments to foreign investment funds in 2013, many families living in Madrid were forced to leave their homes. This film takes a hard look and, despite the implicit drama, is not without humor when it comes to two…
With Robyn d’Avignon and Justin Izzo “If we could today—without the burden or benefit of precedent, tradition, or institutional inertia—invent a field called ‘French and Francophone Studies,’ what would it look like?” - Laurent Dubois & Achille Mbembe Robyn d’Avignon is Assistant Professor of History at NYU. She is a historian and anthropologist of West Africa, with interests in natural resource extraction, scientific research,…
A concert by Hana Mizuta and Lucie Ticho To RSVP, please click here. Bach’s Cello Suite No. 5 in C minor, BWV 1011, Prelude; Schubert’s Impromptu No. 3, Op. 90; Fauré’s Papillon for Cello and Piano, Op. 77; Schubert’s “Schwanengesang”, D. 957, 4. Ständchen; Schubert’s Sonata in A minor for Arpeggione and Piano, D. 821. From Maison Française Columbia
From the Center for European and Mediterranean Studies.
Deutsches Haus at NYU presents a conversation between Prof. Claus Leggewie and Daniel Cohn-Bendit on "50 Years Later – A Conversation about May 68 and Its Repercussions." Daniel Cohn-Bendit, one of the main protagonists of the youth revolt between France and Germany, talks with the German political scientist Claus Leggewie about accomplishments, unintended effects and major omissions of the Sixties' revolt, about resistance today…
The two-day festival celebrates the traditional folk arts and two auspicious anniversaries: the Centennial of the founding of Czechoslovakia (1918) and the Millennial of the unification of the Lands of the Czech Crown, under Duke Oldrich (1018). Events include marionette theater performances, folk music concerts with Czech, Slovak, Moravian, Silesian, Roma and Rusyn folk songs (Feels Like Home), and folk…
Join us for an inventive game of ABCs with author and illustrator Olivier Tallec. In French. For kids ages 5 to 9. Free and open to the public with RSVP here. Follow on Facebook. Olivier Tallec graduated from the École Supérieure des Arts Appliqués Duperré in Paris. His work has appeared in many newspapers and magazines, and he has illustrated more than…
RAVEL: Deux mélodies hébraïques: I. “Kaddisch” (Kaddish–Hymn of Praise), II. “L’énigme éternelle” (The Eternal Enigma); RICHARD STRAUSS: “Wir beide wollen springen” (We’re both about to leap for joy), “Wiegenlied” (Lullaby), “Schlechtes Wetter” (Terrible Weather), “Morgen” (Tomorrow), “Befreit” (Freed), “Cäcilie” (Cecily); KOS- ANATOLSKY: “Oi, ty divchyno, z horikha zernia (O, girl, kernel of the nut); SCHUMANN: Piano Quartet in E-flat Major,…
The German-Jewish family that built Macy’s into an iconic retailer also left an indelible legacy in American politics and society. After the morning walking tour of Union Square and a pop-up exhibition of artifacts from Macy’s, the Titanic, and more, AJHS Executive Director Annie Polland will moderate a panel including Hasia Diner (NYU), Rabbi Joanna Samuels (Educational Alliance), Paul Kurzman (Straus Historical Society), and Niki Lefebvre (Natick Historical Society and…
Born in Berlin, Margarethe von Trotta is considered one of the leaders of the New German Cinema movement. After studying Germanic and Romance languages in Munich and Paris (where she encountered the Nouvelle Vague and the films of Ingmar Bergman), von Trotta pursued a career in acting, working closely with Rainer Werner Fassbinder and Volker Schlöndorff. Starting with her first independent directorial…
The series continues with a panel discussion that explores the experience of two Italian artists: Corrado Cagli and Costantino Nivola, who fled Fascist Italy for America and whose experience of exile become a platform to reflect upon art, cross-fertilization, and creativity. Panelists: Giuliana Altea and Raffaele Bedarida. Costantino Nivola and Corrado Cagli came from very different backgrounds. Nivola, from rural…
Vivaldi and Falconieri (1586 – 1656) 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…
On the occasion of Italian Heritage and Culture Month, dedicated this year to Italian Women in America: Breaking Barriers. A conversation with author and director Gabriella Belloni, presenting her book My American Dream paired with the screening of a brief documentary about her, produced by the Italian national TV (RAI), running 25 minutes, as part of the series Le ragazze del '68 .…
Luis Garcia Berlanga’s black-comedy masterpiece of 1963, _El verdugo_ critiques Franco-era values through a macabre farce about an undertaker who marries an executioner’s daughter and reluctantly takes over her father’s job. Influenced by Italian neorealism, this caustic film depicts what Berlanga called “the invisible traps that society sets up for us”. A personal attack on both capital punishment and Fascist Spain, it…
This event is co-presented with the Poetry Association of America. On Tuesday, October 9, at 6:30pm, we will celebrate the 10th anniversary of the Joca Seria American Series. Join poets Tina Darragh, Marcella Durand, Carla Harryman, Tracie Morris, Eleni Sikelianos and Anne Waldman––as well as translators Vincent Broqua, Olivier Brossard, Marc Chénetier, Abigail Lang, and Béatrice Trotignon––for a bilingual reading…
Please join the Harriman Institute and the East Central European Center for a talk with Sarah Wilson Sokhey, Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Colorado, about her book The Political Economy of Pension Policy Reversal in Post-Communist Countries (Cambridge University Press, 2017). Sarah Wilson Sokhey will present the research from her recent book, The Political Economy of Pension…
On Palestinian Bedouin villages in the Naqab (Negev) The Center for Palestine Studies, in partnership with the NGO Zochrot, and Forensic Architecture, will host an exhibition (October 10-November 2) and symposium titled From Res Nullius to Terra Nullius: Revisiting Indigenous Histories, Legal Systems and Land Rights in the Naqab (October 11), focused on two counter investigations concerning the Palestinian-Bedouin villages…
In collaboration with the Bogliasco Foundation. A lecture by David Yezzi, Johns Hopkins University. The poet Anthony Hecht returned from combat in WWII devastated by the horrors he had seen. Soon after, he established a lifelong connection to Italy that began with a move to the island of Ischia, and ended at the Bogliasco Foundation, where he wrote his final…
Marriage and Slavery in the Early Portuguese Atlantic World Charlotte de Castelnau-L'Estoile, in conversation with Amy Chazkel and Roquinaldo Ferreira To RSVP, please click here. Marriage played a crucial role in the making of a Catholic slavery-based society such as that of Brazil from the 16th century to the 19th century. Historical sources such as legal documents and petitions from slaves…
An exclusive American introduction of the memoirs of Czech-American opera star and film actress, Jarmila Novotna (1907-1994). Author and editor William V. Madison will speak about the international triumphs of this multi-talented celebrity who acted as a cultural ambassador for the Czechoslovak nation throughout her career—beginning in Prague with her opera debut as a lyric soprano at age 17 and…
An exploration of poetic imagery, symbolist, surreal, and sensual, through the ears of five contemporary composers, in the company of Poulenc's iconic 1956 song cycle, Le travail du peintre. Additional works by Barbara Jazwinski, Louis Karchin, Friedrich Kern, Andrew MacDonald and Guy Sacre. Reservations: 212-998-8750 or maison.francaise@nyu.edu -- View the texts by clicking on the composers' names below, or access all texts here. Francis Poulenc, Le travail du…
Panelists: Bashir Abu Manneh, Nadia Ben Youssef, Debby Farber Moderator: Nadia Abu El-Haj Respondent: Audra Simpson, Department of Anthropology, Columbia University Chair: Brian Boyd The Center for Palestine Studies, in partnership with the NGO Zochrot, and Forensic Architecture, will be holding a scholarly panel within the framework of the exhibition, Ground Truth: Testimonies of Destruction and Return in Al-Araqib, to…
On Thursday, October 11th please join us for “Khlebnikov, Tatlin, and the Utopian Geopoetics of the Russian Avant-garde”, a talk with Harsha Ram from U.C. Berkeley. This talk is part of the Occasional Series, sponsored by the NYU Jordan Center for the Advanced Study of Russia. Most models of world literature since Goethe have focused on the spatial grid provided by…
Manuela Consonni (The Hebrew University and Vidal Sassoon International Center for the Study of Antisemitism). Introduced and moderated by Federico Finchelstein (The New School for Social Research). Copresented by the History Department at Eugene Lang College, the New School for Social Research and The Janey Program in Latin American Studies. Free admission. Through a re-reading of seminal reflections by Levinas, Arendt,…
Vincenzo Boccia, President of Confindustria (The General Confederation of Italian Industry). Introduced by Stefano Albertini (NYU) and Letizia Airos Soria (Editor in chief of i-Italy Network). Vincenzo Boccia was born in Salerno in 1964 and graduated in Economics and Commerce. He is the CEO of Arti Grafiche Boccia and, on May 25th 2016, he was elected the 30th President of…
Claude Lévi-Strauss, our contemporary Emmanuelle Loyer, in conversation with Emmanuelle Saada and Camille Robcis To RSVP, please click here. *In French with English translation Emmanuelle Loyer recently published a widely acclaimed biography on French anthropologist Claude Lévi-Strauss, which has just been translated into English as Lévi-Strauss: A Biography. In this talk, she discusses how Lévi-Strauss took a critical perspective on the…
“100 years of Czechoslovakia and the USA as Partners: Democracy, Security and Market Economy,” a talk by Jan Machacek, a Czech columnist, musician and university lecturer. He covers political, economic, European and geopolitical issues. Currently he publishes his columns in the Czech daily newspaper Lidove noviny and writes his daily column called Monitor JM online. He also provides analysis for…
Blank Forms presents a Henning Christiansen retrospective, marking the first institutional survey of his work in America. Henning Christiansen (1932-2008) was a Danish composer, musician, and artist best known as a pivotal member of the Nordic avant-garde. Enamored with, but not beholden to, the Fluxus movement he helped shape, Christiansen’s simple conception of music as sound organized in time continues to provide…
Women's Voices, Women's Stories Jeanne Balibar in conversation with historians Anne-Emmanuelle Demartini, Emmanuelle Loyer, and Charlotte de Castelnau-L’Estoile, moderated by Emmanuelle Saada To RSVP, please click here. Violette Nozière, the criminal, Delphine Seyrig, the actress, Páscoa, the slave. French actress Jeanne Balibar grapples with these three figures in a roundtable conversation with three French historians who have researched and written…
On Friday, October 12th please join us for a talk with Marijeta Bozovic from Yale University on :Avant-Garde Post– : Radical Poetics after the Soviet Union”. This study examines the poetic and theoretical output of a constellation of contemporary leftist Russian poets—linked by way of the journal , Kraft chapbook series, Free Marxist Press, and a number of poetry festivals and events…
With Christopher Edling. From the Center for European and Mediterranean Studies at NYU.
Deutsches Haus at NYU and the University Alliance Ruhr present a conversation with Frances Guerin, Professor of Film and History of Art at the University of Kent in Paris, and John J. Curley, Associate Professor of Art History at Wake Forest University on "Dismantling Concepts. A Conversation on the Paintings of Gerhard Richter." About the talk: Guerin and Curley will discuss Richter's career-long interrogation of the medium…
The story of Elena Lucrezia Cornaro Piscopia, the first woman ever to receive a doctorate from a university By and with Laura Caparrotti (Narrator) And with Nyssa Duchow (Violin) Set by Sarah Edkins 1678, Padua. Elena Cornaro Piscopia becomes the first woman to obtain a doctorate from a university. Her story begins in Venice, in a beautiful palace on the water.…
For the third time, the New York City landmark Bohemian National Hall is opening its doors for guided tours, offering the rare opportunity to see not only the building mysteries but also Antonin Dvorak's manuscript. Enrich your visit with the exclusive tasting of the Czech wheat beer. The tour of Bohemian National Hall will take visitors through 5 floors and…
Join Harry Koumrouyan as he discusses his latest novel, L’Impératrice des Indes (the Empress of the Indies) just out in France with les éditions de l’Aire, and the challenges of writing a novel on the Armenian genocide. The protagonists are hardly twenty years old when they meet on board the Empress of the Indies, a vessel crossing the Atlantic for the very…
French food critic François-Régis Gaudry will discuss Let’s Eat France!, a mouthwatering sum of 1,250 specialty foods, 375 iconic recipes, 350 topics, 260 personalities, plus hundreds of maps, charts, tricks, tips, and anecdotes and everything else you want to know about the food of France. Throughout the pages of this unprecedented encyclopedia, you’ll come across French food icons like Colette, Victor Hugo…
Celebrating the first contemporary performance of Lorenzo Da Ponte’s The Musical Bee (L’ape musicale) with a series of talks. The schedule is below. Da Ponte’s final libretto and the first Italian opera conceived and staged in the United States, returns to New York 188 years after its debut – thanks to the invitation extended by Columbia University to Claudio Orazi,…
From the Center for European and Mediterranean Studies at NYU.
By and with Francesco Andolfi Directed by Janice Orlandi Followed by a Q&A with Francesco Andolfi. A young “scamp” from Mergellina enrolls in the Italian Air Force in the 1930s in order to help his large poor family. As a pilot, he will get to know the world and obtain success, until World War II. Through a series of adventures…
Deutsches Haus at NYU presents a lecture by Hanjo Berressem, Professor of American Literature and Culture at the University of Cologne, and DAAD Visiting Scholar at Deutsches Haus at NYU in September and October on "How We Read: Towards An Ecological Philology." About the talk: How do we read within today’s complex and diverse media ecology? What are the practices and…
A Talk and Exhibition There were more than 50,000 Czechs and Slovaks living in New York City in the early 20th century and they continue to have a presence today. The exhibition Czech and Slovak New York 1848-2018 offers a rare opportunity to explore the many locations in New York City with connections to Czech and Slovak history, and to…
Please join the East Central European Center and the Harriman Institute for a talk with Piotr Kosicki, Assistant Professor in the History Department at the University of Maryland, about his new book Catholics on the Barricades: Poland, France, and "Revolution," 1891-1956 (Yale University Press, 2018). RSVP required to Elidor Mehilli at em705@hunter.cuny.edu Piotr Kosicki will speak about his new book, a collective intellectual biography that examines generations…
Casa Italiana hosts this book club that meets once a month to discuss contemporary Italian books in Italian. The Club is open to anyone and its purpose is to offer the possibility to practice the Italian language. Everybody is encouraged to speak. The group suggests the books, usually by contemporary Italian authors, that reflect the changes that have taken place…
Please join the Njegoš Endowment for Serbian Language and Culture and the Harriman Institute for a book launch and discussion of Dubravka Ugrešić’s recent novel Fox, translated by Ellen Elias-Bursac and David Williams, with the author Dubravka Ugrešić and translator Ellen Elias-Bursac. The conversation will be moderated by Aleksandar Bošković (Columbia). With characteristic wit and narrative force, Fox takes us from Russia to Japan, through Balkan minefields and American road trips, and from…
Enzo Ferrari Power, Politics, and the Making of an Automotive Empire (2018, David Bull Publishing) by Luca Dal Monte The author in conversation with Stefano Albertini (NYU). When Enzo Ferrari was born in 1898, automobiles were still a novelty in his native Italy. When he died ninety years later, the company he built stood at the top of a global industry,…
Reading and panel discussion on Elsa Morante’s La Storia (History, a Novel). In Italian with English translation. Organized by Centro Primo Levi and the Italian Cultural Institute on the 80th anniversary of the promulgation of the Racial Laws and the 75th anniversary of the deportation of the Jews of Rome. Free admission “An indictment against all the fascisms of the world.…
Rameau and Traetta (1727 - 1779) 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…
Please join the Ukrainian Studies Program at the Harriman Institute, Columbia University for a presentation by Ambassador Yuriy Scherbak. Yuriy M. Scherbak (Shcherbak) is a Ukrainian writer, screenwriter, publicist, epidemiologist, politician, diplomat, and environmental activist. He is a Doctor of Medicine (1983) and Laureate of the Y. Yanovsky Literary Prize (1984) and the O. Dovzhenko State Prize (1984). Yuriy Scherbak graduated from…
Co-presented by NYU Department of History and Centro Primo Levi. Ruth Ben Ghiat and Alexander Stille in conversation with Mauro Canali on his new research and book La scoperta dell’Italia on American correspondents in Fascist Italy. Respondent to be announced. Mauro Canali’s new research, published as La scoperta dell’Italia, examines the activity, impact, and perspectives of American correspondents in Italy from 1900 to 1945 and the beginnings of the modern tradition of international political…
What if populism was more than the image of demagoguery seen across our media? Join Chantal Mouffe and Jonathan Smucker as they discuss the “populist moment” that Western democracies face today and what it means for the left, themes from Mouffe’s latest book, For a Left Populism, just out in the US with Verso Books. In English. Free and open to the public. No RSVP necessary. Chantal…
Please join the Ukrainian Film Club of Columbia University for a screening of the film Frost (2017) as part of the Fall 2018 Olena Yershova Retrospective Film Series at Columbia. Producer Olena Yershovawill participate in the discussion. Frost, directed by Sharunas Bartas of Lithuania, is an unheroic road story of discovery when a selfless Lithuanian couple drives a truck loaded with humanitarian aid for Ukrainians…
The festival will include 18 films and feature 7 U.S. premiere screenings and 9 NYC premieres, and will include notable classic films that have rarely been seen outside of Europe as well as the latest features, documentaries, and animation films from some of the best established and upcoming filmmakers from Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania. Click here to see the full film line up…
In conjunction with the exhibition NeoRealismo: The New Image in Italy, 1932-1960 Roma città aperta (Italy, 1945, 103 min.) In ITALIAN with ENGLISH subtitles Directed by Roberto Rossellini Starring Anna Magnani, Aldo Fabrizi, Marcello Pagliero Introduced by Stefano Albertini, NYU This harrowing 1945 drama by Roberto Rossellini centers on the Nazi occupation of Rome and the brave few who struggled against…
From the moment Czech composer Antonin Dvorak stepped ashore to assume the post of Director of the National Conservatory of Music of America in September 1892, he was besieged by reporters anxious to follow his every move. Active behind the scenes was music impresario Jeannette Meyer Thurber, Founder and President of the Conservatory and a New York mover and shaker.…
To RSVP, please click here. A salon concert of duos, sonatas and showpieces by Debussy, Auguste Franchomme, Chopin, Fauré, Saint-Saens, Koechlin, and Poulenc. Some historically pertinent tidbits will be explained from the stage by Louise Dubin. FULL PROGRAM - Chopin Etude, Op. 25, No. 7, arr. for cello and piano by Auguste Franchomme - Auguste Franchomme Air Irlandais, Varié, Op. 25,…
Organized by Lucien Nouis (NYU) L’imaginaire de l’asile, du refuge, du sanctuaire de l’accueil fait aux persécutés, aux souffrants, de l’hospitalité offerte à l’étranger, traverse la pensée du long XVIIIe siècle, de la révocation de l’Édit de Nantes jusqu’à la fin de la Révolution. Mais c’est souvent sous le signe de la perte que cet imaginaire se déploie, comme si les…
The Goethe-Institut, together with its partners, showcases excellent opportunities for German speakers in Germany as well as in the US. Participants will find out about studying in Germany without tuition fees, scholarships, internships, exchange programs, work and research opportunities. Advanced registration for individuals is not necessary. However, if you are a teacher and would like to bring your class to…
Deutsches Haus at NYU presents "Recent Drawings," an exhibition by the artist Hermann Zschiegner. The opening will take place on Friday, October 19, from 6 to 8 pm, and will feature an artist talk. The exhibition will remain on view through Friday, November 9. About the exhibition: To create the drawings in this show, Hermann Zschiegner wrote a javascript program…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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,…
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).…
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…
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…
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…
To RSVP, please click here. The hegemony of finance compels a new orientation for everyone and everything: companies care more about the moods of their shareholders than about longstanding commercial success; governments subordinate citizen welfare to appeasing creditors; and individuals are concerned less with immediate income from labor than with appreciation of their capital goods, skills, connections, and reputations. In this…
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…
Wolf-Ferrari and Chausson 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 of…
In March 1968, in reaction to a student rebellion, the communist government of Poland launched a noisy propaganda campaign against the alleged Zionists, who were accused of a conspiracy to undermine socialist Poland. The campaign of slander, harassment, and persecution forced half of Poland’s Jews into exile and deeply affected the life of those who remained. For the fiftieth anniversary…
Women, Gender, and War in Italian Renaissance Literature Moral Combat Women, Gender, and War in Italian Renaissance Literature (2018, University of Toronto Press) by Gerry Milligan The author in conversation with Virginia Cox (NYU), Clare Carroll (CUNY) and Jane Tylus (Yale). The Italian sixteenth century offers the first sustained discussion of women’s militarism since antiquity. Across a variety of genres,…
To RSVP, please click here. Screening and discussion with filmmaker Malek Bensmaïl, in conversation with Madeleine Dobie and Mohamed Amer Meziane. Algerian documentary filmmaker Malek Bensmaïl set up his camera in the newsroom of the famous daily paper El Watan, the spearhead of the Algerian independent press, to film the procedures and thought processes behind journalism during the last presidential election. Accommodated…
Author’s Talk: Kevin J. McNamara RSVP: newyork@svu2000.org Free. Suggested donation $5.00 Mr. McNamara will introduce his comprehensive account of the highly dramatic events that led to the founding of Czecho-Slovakia in 1918. The story involves an ad hoc army of ex-POWs that inadvertently seized all of Siberia, global espionage, high-stakes diplomacy, and America’s own Czechs and Slovaks, who raised funds…
A SYMPOSIUM DISCUSSION on the current MoMA exhibit, "Toward a Concrete Utopia: Architecture in Yugoslavia 1948-1980” with Svetlana Broz, Gardens of The Righteous Worldwide, Sarajevo & Vladimir Kulić, Florida Atlantic University School of Architecture Emily Greble, Vanderbilt University Matthew Worsnick, Vanderbilt University Aleksandar Hemon, Princeton University Larry Wolff, Remarque Insitute, NYU Co-sponsored by the Center for European and Mediterranean Studies and the NYU…
Titled “The Guests: Edward Said and Joseph Conrad,” this lecture addresses Edward W. Said’s concern, over forty years, with Conrad. A fascinating conversation emerges between the two men’s work, one concerned with aesthetics, displacement and empire, and sheds an interesting light on the present moment. REGISTRATION RECOMMENDED The Fall 2018 Edward W. Said Memorial Lecture will be given by Hisham…
A lecture by Alessandro Vettori, Rutgers University Introduction by Maria Luisa Ardizzone, NYU Was Dante a Franciscan? An analysis of the Donation of Constantine in relation to Dante’s political and theological arguments proves that Dante had strong affinity to Franciscan thinkers and their work certainly influenced his rejection of church wealth. Alessandro Vettori is Professor of Italian and Comparative Literature…
To RSVP, please click here. Screening and discussion with filmmaker Malek Bensmaïl, in conversation with Madeleine Dobie and Etienne Balibar. With exceptional archival materials and many interviews (Algeria, France, Italy, United-States) Malek Bensmaïl’s documentary about Gillo Pontecorvo’s legendary 1965 film, The Battle of Algiers, will give us, sixty years after, a strong look back at this film halfway between history and legend.…
As Emmanuel Macron’s call to “Make the Planet Great Again” reminds us, there is a cultural aspect to climate change—each culture maps its understanding of the physical world (nature, physis) in different ways. This conference-festival titled “French Natures” thus asks: what do French and Francophone literature, film, visual art, theater, and philosophy make of our planet? How can they help us…
Join us for our monthly film evening. 13 year-old Sinikka vanishes on a hot summer night. Her bicycle is found in the exact place where a girl was killed 23 years ago, forcing those involved in the original case to face their past. Based on the crime novel The Silence by Jan Costin Wagner and directed by Baran bo Odar (Dark, 2017).…
Recital with members of the Czech Philharmonic and Carnegie Hall's Ensemble Connect. Welcome the Czech Philharmonic to New York with their new Chief Conductor, Semyon Bychkov, and view the original manuscript of Antonín Dvorak's Cello Concerto to celebrate the anniversary of 100 years of Czech independence. Program: Antonin Dvorak: "Silent Woods" op. 68/V Antonin Dvorak: String Quartet No. 12 in…
Celebrate Halloween at the National Historic Landmark Mansion of the Ukrainian Institute of America. Are the faceless spirits of the past still lurking within this magnificent French Gothic turn of the century mansion? Join the Costume Ball and find out. Saturday, October 27, 9PM – 2AM 2 East 79th Street, New York, NY Open bar | Hors d’oeuvres | Music by DJ jetsol Best Costume Prize and other surprises…
Emanuele Caruso, 2018 La terra buona (The Good Place) (Italy, 2018, 110 min.) In ITALIAN with ENGLISH subtitles Directed by Emanuele Caruso Written by Emanuele Caruso and Marco Domenicale Starring Lorenzo Pedrotti, Fabrizio Ferracane, Viola Sartoretto, Cristian Di Sante Followed by a Q&A with director Emanuele Caruso The film is inspired by true events. The largest wilderness zone in Europe…
To RSVP, please click here. Gender studies have long faced indifference. But today, they are confronted with two symmetrical problems: instrumentalization and rejection. On the one hand, the rhetoric of “sexual democracy” has been mobilized for xenophobic and racist purposes. On the other hand, reactionaries attack the so-called “ideology of gender.” Which is more threatening? Éric Fassin is Professor of Sociology…
Global Economic Governance: Can Fragmentation be Overcome? Marco Buti Director General for Economic and Financial Affairs at the EU Commission in conversation with Adam Tooze Kathryn and Shelby Cullom Davis Professor of History & Director of the European Institute This event is made possible thanks to the support of the European Union. Sponsored by the European Institute and the Center…
CLARE FITZGERALD Associate Director for Exhibitions and Gallery Curator, Institute for the Study of the Ancient World, NYU The Département des Monnaies, médailles, et antiques (Department of Coins, Medals, and Antiquities) at the Bibliotèque nationale de France had its foundation in the Cabinet du roi (King’s Cabinet) begun by Charles V (r. 1364–80.). The Cabinet comprised collections of art objects…
Ghouls and goblins alike will agree, there’s no better way to celebrate Halloween than with our annual Halloween Dance Party! You are guaranteed to have a frightfully fun time. Our professional dancers will show you the tricks and treats of dancing the night away, followed by an amazing dance performance. Dress Code: to impress. People in costumes will pay $5…
To RSVP, please click here. A book talk by Daniel Cohen, the head of the economics department of the École normale supérieure and a professor and a founding member of the Paris School of Economics. Economic growth - and hope of better things to come - is the religion of the modern world. Yet its prospects have become bleak, with crashes…
Over the past two centuries energy transitions have occurred across the world at a seemingly relentless pace, reshaping forms of social life, economic organization, and political governance. This conference will explore the causes, courses, effects, and aftershocks of energy transitions—both those that succeeded and those that failed—in North America and Europe during the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. CONFERENCE PROGRAM THURSDAY,…
The 10th annual PoetryFest celebrates Ireland and America's great literary connection by showcasing some of the best poets working today. Presented with and at the Irish Arts Center. Curated by Nick Laird. Thursday, November 1 7pm: The Tom Quinlan Lecture in Poetry with Seamus Heaney Centre for Poetry Prize-winner Richard Osmond. Click here for more information and registration. Friday, November 2 Favorite Poems Tickets…
Please join us on Thursday, November 1st for “Film Editing as Women’s Work: Esfir Shub, Elizaveta Svilova, and the Culture of Soviet Montage”, a talk with Lilya Kaganovsky, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. This event is part of the Occasional Series, sponsored by the NYU Jordan Center for the Advanced Study of Russia. This study takes as its point of departure the history…
A Conversation with Sherrill Milnes The second Adventure in Italian Opera with Fred Plotkin of this season features renowned American baritone Sherrill Milnes, whose commanding stage presence and majestic voice starred over 650 times at the Met placing him in the all time operatic Hall of Fame. In ENGLISH. From the Casa Italiana Zerilli-Marimo.
To celebrate the first complete English translation of Uwe Johnson’s magnum opus Anniversaries (New York Review Books, 2018) translator Damion Searlsjoins critics Renata Adler and Liesl Schillinger for a reading and discussion of this German postwar classic, examining both its significance a unique literary document of New York in the 1960s, and its continued resonance 50 years later in a world of increasing inequality, authoritarianism, and violence.…
Join us for a book talk celebrating the publication of Gary Shteyngart's new novel Lake Success. Shteyngart will be in conversation with Suketu Mehta, NYU Professor of Journalism. Narcissistic, hilariously self-deluded, and divorced from the real world as most of us know it, hedge-fund manager Barry Cohen oversees $2.4 billion in assets. Deeply stressed by an SEC investigation and by…
A biopic that offers an intimate insight into the family life of Antonin Dvorak who wrote his Cello Concerto while in New York City. The third movement was a tribute to his sister-in-law, Josefína, who had written him a letter saying she was seriously ill. Director: Jaroslav Brabec, 2015, 102 min, Czech Republic. In Czech with English subtitles. Free and…
A child of the Great Depression, Elaine Mokhtefi left the United States in the early 1950s. She was on the run from McCarthyism and from the provincialism she'd encountered as a student in segregated Georgia. After time in Paris, she moved to Algiers which, following independence in 1962, has become a beacon and safe haven for radicals all around the…
Organized by Denis Hollier and Zakir Paul In Fall 2018, Fordham University Press will publish Maurice Blanchot: A Critical Biography, a translation of Christophe Bident’s groundbreaking life of the writer and critic, as well as Death Now, the final volume of of Blanchot’s Chronicles of Intellectual Life, written from 1941-1944. Finally, Minuit has recently published Jean-François Hamel's, Nous sommes tous la pègre (Les années 68 de Blanchot), an…
Jonas Carpignano (2015) This screening is part of the NYU SPS Center for Applied Liberal Arts Fall 2018 Film Series The Immigrant Experience: Visions of Diaspora on Film in America and Abroad. As immigration ignites new conversations in the U.S., it continues to be a divisive issue across the globe. This film series explores the experiences of people who leave…
The Polish Cultural Institute New York teams up with Brooklyn purveyors of Old World Jewish Foods, The Gefilteria, and celebrated Polish Chef, Malika, for dinner events As part of its centenary celebration of the regaining of Polish Independence, the Polish Cultural Institute (PCI) New York presents “Roots & Radishes”, a two-night pop-up dining series in Greenpoint, Brooklyn, on November 2…
In commemoration of the 100th anniversary of the proclamation of the independence of the Western Ukrainian Republic and its unification with the Ukrainian National Republic, the Shevchenko Scientific Society in America, the Ukrainian Academy of Arts and Sciences in the U.S. and the Ukrainian Institute of America are sponsoring a conference in New York City. The conference will feature three…
The Polish Cultural Institute New York teams up with Brooklyn purveyors of Old World Jewish Foods, The Gefilteria, and celebrated Polish Chef, Malika, for dinner events As part of its centenary celebration of the regaining of Polish Independence, the Polish Cultural Institute (PCI) New York presents “Roots & Radishes”, a two-night pop-up dining series in Greenpoint, Brooklyn, on November 2…