Exhibition opening: On December 2, 1938, just weeks after Kristallnacht, the first group of unaccompanied Jewish refugee children arrived in the United Kingdom. LBI and Yeshiva University Museum launch an exhibition exploring this remarkable effort that saved some 10,000 children, many of whom never saw their parents again.
Short Films from the Naples Film Festival In collaboration with the Naples Film Festival. The following films were selected specifically for Casa Italiana by a special jury made up of graduate and Ph.D. students of the NYU Department of Italian Studies: Così in terra by Pier Lorenzo Pisano (Ita, 2018, 13') Roberto Citran, one of the most talented actors in…
“Jacek Dehnel paints prewar Poland—‘laced with gilt and stucco in the cities, and heavy with the smell of cow pats and fruit lying in the grass in the countryside’—in the vibrant hues of a fairy tale. A multigenerational epic that spans a century and most of Eastern Europe, Lala is an astounding achievement, particularly considering Dehnel wrote it between the…
The New Literature from Europe Festival (NLE), New York City’s top European literary event, will bring to the city leading and emerging voices from 14 countries in dialogue with some of today’s foremost authors, editors and translators. For its 14th installment, NLE will celebrate cultural diversity and heritage while addressing the current challenges of globalization and migration. Come hear important new voices in translation, discover new ones…
This symposium will tackle some of the cellular mechanisms that go awry in neurodegenerative diseases, with special emphasis on how innovative cell biological approaches promise to decipher the pathogenetic events underlying these devastating conditions. Schedule 9:00 – 9:40 am Registration and Poster Set-up 9:40 – 9:55 am Welcome and Overview: David Freedberg (Italian Academy, Columbia), Francesco Genuardi (Consul General of…
On Tuesday, November 27th please join us for “The Vory: understanding Russia’s gangsters in their historical and political context” with Mark Galeotti (Institute of International Relations Prague). This event is part of the Occasional Series, sponsored by the NYU Jordan Center for the Advanced Study of Russia. Mark Galeotti talks about his new book, The Vory: Russia’s super mafia (Yale UP), and…
Deutsches Haus at NYU presents a conversation on "Migration and Art" among Silvia Fehrmann, Director of the DAAD's Artists-in-Berlin Programme; the artist Andy Graydon; the photographer Stefan Falke; Nathalie Anglès, the director of Residency Unlimited; and the journalist and writer Claudia Steinberg. About the panel: In the past two years, the issue of migration, borders, and walls has become ever…
Nathalie Kosciusko-Morizet is a former French politician who currently works as Vice-President of Cybersecurity at Capgemini, a French multinational consulting company. Educated at Polytechnique (X1992), she rose in the ranks of the French Government to become the Secretary of State for Digital Development and then Minister of Environment, under President Nicolas Sarkozy. She was a Member of Parliament for 10…
Italian music today 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…
Paris-based international lawyer and political writer Laurent Cohen-Tanugi will present and discuss his new book, Resistance: The Populist Challenge to Democracy (Ed. de l’Observatoire, Paris, 2018). The discussion will tackle the topics of Brexit; Donald Trump’s election and the midterms in the United States; the demise of mainstream parties in the West and the rise of the extreme right in Europe; the…
Please join us for a talk with Cholpon Turdalieva, Professor in the Anthropology Program at the American University of Central Asia, as part of the Celebrating Chinghiz Aitmatov at 90 event series. Cholpon Turdalieva will present a paper analysing the concept of mobility and movement in the works of Chingiz Aitmatov with regard to spatial geography and development of transport in the Soviet era.…
A film by Tamar Tal Anati. Italy, November 1943. The Italian Social Republic orders the arrest of all Jews present on its territory. A Florentine family, the Gnagnattis, composed of parents, four children and two grandmothers, flees the first round up in the city and seeks refuge on the mountains. The brothers spent months hiding in a cave in the Tuscan…
Brian Richardson, University of Leeds A lecture by Brian Richardson, University of Leeds During the Italian Renaissance, women became more prominent as authors and as patrons, and new works argued in favor of their worth and abilities. But how far could laywomen and nuns take part in the processes of circulating texts from authors to readers or listeners? How did…
Czech and Slovak artists, professionals, students, and scholars are challenged to introduce the subject of their project, research or studies in a short presentation limited to six minutes. In English. Free. Suggested donation $5.00 Light refreshments. Moderated by Christopher Harwood, Ph.D., Columbia University Presenters: Vojta Ciml (software SlidesLive developer), Vladimír Dzuro (UN Chief investigator), Martin Gajdošík (post-doc research scientist in…
For students and young adults only! Opera to the People is a group open to students or other young present and future audience members in order to delve into the world and language of opera, with the objective of fostering a new generation of attentive opera-goers. The group meets to watch and listen to recordings of a particular opera that…
Raphael Gross, the first Jewish historian to head Germany’s premiere public history institution (Deutsches Historisches Museum) is currently preparing a new critical edition of the diaries of Anne Frank. His lecture will address her father’s role in making the diary the “emotional anchor” of West Germany’s first confrontation with what would later be known as the Holocaust. Born in Zurich,…
The Legacy of an Italian Renaissance Woman Pazzi Lazzi presents Isabella Unmasked The Legacy of an Italian Renaissance Woman One Actress, Ten Characters. One Musician, Ten Instruments Written by Chiara Durazzini and Walter Valeri Featuring Chiara Durazzini with music by Dan Meyers In 1589, the Commedia dell’Arte show La Pazzia di Isabella (The Madness of Isabella) was a triumph at…
Long excluded from the French literary canon and academic departments, non-hexagonal literatures in French have been valorized and recognized within the academy over the last few decades. The “francophone turn” has been one of the deepest and most transformative changes in French studies, opening new fields of inquiry. Many have since accused the francophone advent to ascribe a lower status…
Opening performance "For Now" 11/29/2018, 7:00pm Motions is a program on the traumatic effects of immigration law, transforming the exhibition venue into an event space with an ad hoc cinema room screening works on rotation by Lawrence Abu Hamdan, Edgardo Aragón, Kader Attia, Ursula Biemann, Ewa Einhorn and Jeuno JE Kim, Harun Farocki, Charles Heller and Lorenzo Pezzani – Forensic Oceanography, Daryl Celeste Meador, and Yoshua Okón. The lobby of Motions features a…
Honoring the centenary of the world premiere of Puccini’s triptych There was a world premiere at the Metropolitan Opera House last night when three one-act operas by Puccini were sung and acted… We do not doubt that it could not have been bettered at Milan, Paris or London…The success of the new triple bill is unquestionable. - James Gibbons…