The Harriman Institute is pleased to present the exhibit Moscow: Gay Cruising Sites of the Soviet Capital, 1920s-1980s featuring a series of works photographs by artist Yevgeniy Fiks. "What is the attitude of bourgeois society to homosexuals? Even if we take into account the differences existing on this score in the legislation of various countries, can we speak of a specifically bourgeois attitude…
Are the borders and boundaries between religions any more secure than those between nations? Working with major Jewish modernist writers such as Sholem Asch and Henry Roth, Maeera Shreiber (University of Utah) questions and examines our assumptions about religious differences and explores the high-voltage emotional consequences of trafficking in that volatile space of interfaith encounters she calls the Jewish-Christian Borderzone.…
How do Latino Jews identify? Can they choose their identity or is it assigned to them? What is it like to be both Latino and Jewish in the United States? Join author Laura Limonic in conversation with Eric Lach of The New Yorker about her fascinating book. Laura Limonic analyzes the changing construction of race and ethnicity in the United…
To RSVP, please click here. This interdisciplinary symposium explores a crucial but little-studied issue with growing importance today: what is the value of harm suffered by victims, whether of terrorism, crime or natural disasters. In law, politics, economics and public opinion, answers differ widely, and unequal treatment is the norm. Across the globe, victims evoke a range of feelings, from compassion verging…
Contemporaries of Dostoevsky and Tolstoy and predecessors of Diaghilev’s World of Art and the Russian avant-garde, the group of artists known as the Peredvizhniki was no less significant for Russian art and culture of the time. Including virtually every leading painter, notably key representatives of realism and nationalism such as Repin and Shishkin, the group was celebrated for its innovative…
Alexander Goerlach (Carnegie Council for Ethics and International Affairs): Homo Empathicus—How to Save Liberal Democarcy Located at the 3rd Floor East, Room 324. From the Center for European and Mediterranean Studies at NYU.
Carlo Levi's 'Disegni della Cecità' Blind Visions Carlo Levi's Disegni della Cecità Curated by Nino Sottile Zumbo With the participation of Antonino Milicia On view through December 13 Mon-Fri 10-6 An exhibit of drawings by author and artist Carlo Levi (1902-1975), made during a period of temporary blindness caused by diabetes. In 1973, while bedridden, he had a special wooden…
The Frankfurt Book Fair celebrates Norway as the Guest of Honor at this program at Scandinavia House, presented by Margit Walsø and Oliver Møystad/NORLA. The event will include a panel on the “Success Criteria for Books in Translation,” followed by a reception. Panelists include Håkon Harket, Editor at Forlaget Press (Norway); Richard Stoiber, Editor at Matthes & Seitz (Germany); Peter Blackstock,…
Aufbau—a German-language weekly published in New York and circulated worldwide—was an essential platform for the generation of refugees from Hitler and the displaced people and concentration camp survivors who arrived in the United States after the war. The publication served to link thousands of readers looking for friends and loved ones in every part of the world. In its pages…
Talks with TGM (2018). Director: Jakub Červenka, runtime: 80 min, In Czech with English subtitles. A special screening as a tribute to Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk. The film will be followed by a discussion with Masaryk's great-granddaughter Charlotta Kotik and Dagmar Hájková, a researcher from the Masaryk Institute and Archives of the Czech Academy of Sciences. Synopsis: On 26 September 1928,…
The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum has published a comprehensive study of its core holdings of late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century art. Thannhauser Collection:French Modernism at the Guggenheim brings to light revelatory new scholarship on the history of the German-Jewish Thannhauser family and galleries and, more broadly, the cultural milieu of Europe in the first decades of the twentieth century. Featuring…
Centro Primo Levi Readings Presented in collaboration with Centro Primo Levi. The Heart of a Stranger An Anthology of Exile Literature (2020, Pushkin Press) Edited by André Naffis-Sahely The editor in conversation with: Jenny Xie (NYU, Graywolf poet) Aaron Robertson (Lit Hub Editor and translator of Ethiopian memoirist Martha Nasibù) Jonathan Galassi (poet and translator, Farrar, Straus and Giroux) The Heart of a Stranger charts…
At the first edition of Science Café, Dagmar Hájková, a researcher who specializes in Czech history of the first half of the 20th century, will present the current research from the Masaryk Institute and Archives of the Czech Academy of Sciences focused on Tomas Garrigue Masaryk and his presence. Dagmar Hájková is a senior researcher in Masaryk Institute and Archive…
Irish Writers in the Irish American Press (University of Massachusetts Press, 2018) spans the period from Oscar Wilde’s 1882 American lecture tour to the months following JFK’s assassination and covers the century in which Irish American identity was shaped by immigration, religion, politics, and economic advancement. Through a close engagement with Irish American periodicals, Dr. Stephen Butler offers a more nuanced…
This event will recur Every Day until Sep. 14, 2019 French theater director and visual artist Philippe Quesne invites you into a parallel universe where there are no humans and no words. In this mysterious underground world, larger-than-life moles are not solitary creatures, but the architects of something between a utopian community and a punk rock band. “Mr. Quesne specializes in finding…
This workshop is organized by the ScienceCampus “Eastern Europe – Global Area” (EEGA), a collaborative research network spanning over three German states, funded by the Leibniz Association (https://www.leibniz-gemeinschaft.de/en/). EEGA focuses on Eastern Europe’s changing role in current and historical processes of globalization (www.leibniz-eega.de). The event is meant to present recent findings of this network and to engage in a debate…
As part of the CALA Fall 2019 film series "Fragile Earth: Environmental Films Around the World,” the NYU Center for Applied Liberal Arts and Deutsches Haus at NYU present a screening of the documentary film "Erde" ("Earth"), 2019, directed by Nikolaus Geyrhalter. The introduction will be held by Nandini Thiyagarajan. About the film: Several billion tons of earth are moved annually by humans - with…
The extended Walkowitz family arrived in Paterson from Lodz, Poland as early as 1910. It was a Jewish World of Yiddishkeit in which Daniel Walkowitz was raised. As a radical student activist in the late 1950s and 1960s, he imagined himself walking in the footsteps of his Paterson grandparents who fought to improve the living and working conditions in the…
Featuring Andrew Seaton (New York University). The European History & Politics Workshop is supported by the European Institute at Columbia University. The workshop will meet on select Mondays over the course of the academic year at Columbia University (Philosophy 302) from 12:00pm-1:30pm. Participants will discuss pre-circulated work-in-progress over a light lunch. Please note that these workshops are by invitation only.…
Harold L. Poor’s biography of Kurt Tucholsky is the most important and thorough work on the famed German-Jewish author in English: a still unmatched labor of love by the Rutgers history professor. For this book—originally published as Kurt Tucholsky and the Ordeal of Germany 1914–1935 in 1968, Poor spent years of research. He also visited Tucholsky’s widow Mary Gerold in her home…
A panel discussion featuring Steven Kaplan, host of the radio and TV show "Tolkovishche with Seva Kaplan" and Rafael Shimunov, an artist an activist from Queens, moderated by Professor Anna Katsnelson. The majority of Russian-speaking immigrants in the U.S. are Republican-leaning. According to U.S. News and World Report, 70% to 75% of Russian and Ukrainian immigrants voted for Republican candidates in the 2008 and…
Expanding the World of Literature: Tash Aw, in conversation with Mark Mazower To RSVP, please click here. How hard is it to remain within our comfort zones when we read and write? How does the writer’s gaze remain unwittingly locked by long-established conventions? As the world’s economic power bases have begun to shift away from Western nations of the past few decades,…
Da Vinci as a Young Man A presentation of WeAreLeonardo , a project by Italian mixed-media artist Vittoria Chierici focused on visually portraying Leonardo Da Vinci as a young man, on the occasion of the 500th anniversary of his death. Chierici will take the audience on a journey by virtually leaping into her photojournalistic suitcase, the final work that contains…
Irving Goh's talk will center around the preposition “to.” "Through conceptual phrases that mobilize that very preposition, namely Levinas’s “face to face,” Derrida’s democracy-, justice-, and hospitality- “to-come,” Irigaray’s I love toyou,” and Nancy’s “being-to,” I will draw out the preposition’s ontological, ethical, and political stakes. That is important today for our contemporary world, which, on the one hand, is so globally connected, and…
Danish jazz violinist Svend Asmussen, known worldwide as “The Fiddling Viking,” was greatly loved throughout Scandinavia. From the age of 15 until Asmussen’s death last year, San Francisco-based Danish violinist Mads Tolling kept in frequent contact with the older musician, who counseled him on his early musical training. Asmussen later donated a large chunk of his music collection to Mads, including…
In this new series, speakers at Scandinavia House will explore the reasons why Nordic countries lead surveys of societies with high levels of trust, happiness, gender equality, and quality of life. By many measures, these countries are among the most successful societies worldwide. In these lectures, we’ll look at how individual countries have successfully addressed certain issues that confront all societies.…
Adventures in Italian Opera with Fred Plotkin / Dante and... Casa Italiana's two popular series Adventures in Italian Opera with Fred Plotkin and Dante and... meet up for their first event of the season, focusing on Dante's presence in the world of opera (and classical music in general). Fred Plotkin will be leading a conversation with American conductor Michael Hurshell, Artistic Director…
Daughters of 1968 (University of Nebraska Press, 2019) is the story of French feminism between 1944 and 1981, when feminism played a central political role in the history of France. The key women during this epoch were often leftists committed to a materialist critique of society and were part of a postwar tradition that produced widespread social change, revamping the…
Deutsches Haus at NYU co-presents together with the Taub Center for Israel Studies at NYU and Leo Baeck Institute a talk with Dr. Carole Fink about her book West Germany and Israel: Foreign Relations, Domestic Politics, and the Cold War, 1965–1974, and a conversation between the author and Dr. David G. Marwell, American historian and the former director of the Museum of Jewish Heritage…
US Premiere Created by Open Heart Surgery Theatre Directed by Coleen MacPherson La Mama Theater Downstairs | 66 East 4th Street (Basement Level) Thursday to Saturday at 8PM; Sunday at 5pm Tickets: $25 , $20 Student/Senior Tickets Run Time: 70 Minutes (No Intermission) The Polish Cultural Institute is pleased to invite you to the US debut of "This Is Why…
Known for her paintings of erotic female nudes, Lene Schneider-Kainer divorced her husband in 1926 and set off on an artistic odyssey across Asia. Retracing Marco Polo’s journey, the intrepid artist travelled from opium dens in Isfahan to Buddhist temples in the Himalayas and from brothels in Agra to the Peking Opera. When she died, Schneider-Kainer left her travel diary,…
Religion and Rituality Fourth Annual Conference of the Francophone Society of the Philosophy of Religion To RSVP, please click here. Rites are a privileged subject matter for anthropology as they allow to subsume under the same concept of religion various practices by which human societies manifest the systems of belief around which they are organized; they also signify, within the succession of…
As part of the Brooklyn Book Festival 2019, one of America’s premier book festivals and the largest free literary event in New York City, Deutsches Haus at NYU presents together with the PEN Translation Committee, and PEN America's Children’s and Young Adult Books Committee the panel discussion Translating Visual Stories: Graphic Novels, Comics, Picture Books, and Illustrated YA with Kristi Fernandez, Lyn Miller-Lachmann,…
Join us for our annual event commemorating the Jewish community of Vilna through poetry, music, and presentation including readings and performances by Rivka Augenfeld, Michael Fox, Ellen Perecman, Ruth Baran-Gerold, and Mikhl Baran. Chaired by Elliot Palevsky, the program will include a presentation on YIVO’s forthcoming YIVO Bruce and Francesca Cernia Slovin Online Museum by YIVO’s Executive Director Jonathan Brent…
The fourth concert in the series of Dvorak’s complete chamber works with a performance by the Apollo Trio. Selections include Dvorak’s Piano Trio No. 1 in B flat Major, dreamlike with dramatic moments; Trio No. 4 - the beloved “Dumky”; and the contemplative “Silent Woods” for cello and piano. The Apollo Trio has performed at major venues both in New…
Jean-Baptiste Del Amo is one of France’s most exciting and ambitious young writers. He will be discussing Animalia (Grove Editions, translation by Frank Wynne), the English translation of his acclaimed Règne animal (Gallimard, 2016). Animalia, his fourth novel, is his first to appear in English. His debut novel, Une éducation libertine, won the Prix Goncourt du Premier Roman. About Animalia The small village of Puy-Larroque, southwest France,…
The subject of her new book, Lily E. Hirsch introduces us to a woman who truly persisted. Anneliese Landau pushed past bias to earn a PhD in musicology in 1930. She then lectured on early German radio, breaking new ground in a developing medium. After the Nazis forced the firing of all Jews in broadcasting in early 1933, Landau worked…
NYU’s Center for European and Mediterranean Studies and Deutsches Haus at NYUpresent a screening of the film Hotel Auschwitz (2018). The screening will be followed by a conversation about the many questions this thought-provoking film raises. The participants will be the film’s director, Cornelius Schwalm; the film’s co-producer Katharina Bellena; the actor Patrick von Blume; and Christian Martin, the current Max Weber…
Organized in collaboration with Prof. Giovanni Braico (NYU). Co-hosted by the Albanian Institute. The Arbëreshë (or Italo-Albanian) people are the descendants of the Albanian refugees who fled to Italy between the 14th and 18th centuries as a consequence of the Ottoman invasion of the Balkans. The Arbëreshë are currently found in scattered villages around Southern Italy and Sicily, and zealously preserve their…
Monday, SEPTEMBER 23 at 7 pm Bohemian National Hall, 3rd floor 321 E 73 St, NYC A leading young Czech flutist Jana Jarkovská will present compositions for solo flute and flute & electronics by five contemporary Czech women composers, Sylvie Bodorová, Eliška Cílková, Ivana Loudová, Terezie Švarcová, and Sonya Vetchá. Appreciating the flute’s wide range of melodic and dramatic expression,…
Jazztopad Festival in cooperation with The Adam Mickiewicz Institute and The Polish Cultural Institute New York present The Jazztopad Festival, a leading event of its kind in Poland...” – NATE CHINEN, THE NEW YORK TIMES “...Jazztopad stands as an internationally renowned festival with a clearly defined ethos, one that combines a strong respect for the traditions and roots of the…
Nadia Urbinati: How Populism Transforms Democracy From the NYU Center for European and Mediterranean Studies.
As part of the European Seminar Series, Nadia Urnamati will discuss how Populism transforms Democracy. All sessions will take place at the Center for European and Mediterranean Studies, King Juan Carlos I of Spain Center, 3rd Floor East, Room 324, 53 Washington Square South 3rd Floor East, New York, NY 10012. Light fare will be served.
Giuseppe Marotta 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…
A book talk with author Maxim Osipov on his story collection Rock, Paper, Scissors and Other Stories (NYRB, April 2019). Maxim Osipov, who lives and practices medicine in a town ninety miles outside Moscow, is one of Russia’s best contemporary writers. In the tradition of Anton Chekhov and William Carlos Williams, he draws on his experiences in medicine to write stories of great subtlety…
Director Margarethe von Trotta weaves a wondrously compelling tale of friendship and feminism around the relationship of two seemingly opposite women. Olga is a professor of women’s literature, while Ruth is a gifted and extremely reticent artist who is desperately fearful of the outside world. From their first meeting, they share a warmth and understanding whose intensity “can be only…
PLAY, TALKBACK, AFTERPARTY. "Woman Alone" unveils the story of Maria and the elements of her domestic life that entrap her. She grapples to cope with the pressure of her crazy father-in-law while raising a baby and dealing with a voyeuristic neighbor. Will Maria, an embodiment of physically, verbally or non-verbally abused women, find the courage to escape? WOMAN ALONE /…
Irish Screen America presents its annual film festival, bringing the very best in contemporary Irish cinema to New York. The three-day series will showcase critically acclaimed films and will host a selection of filmmaker Q&A’s, industry panel discussions, and receptions. Read more about Irish Screen America NYC
What makes poetry such a fitting vessel for bringing past trauma into conversation with the present? Julia Kolchinsky Dasbach suggests the mode she has termed lyric witness, which creates a liminal space between documentary and imaginative representation, between what can be remembered and what evades memory, and between an ancestral past and the intergenerational present. She read and discuss poetry…
Horkheimer and Adorno with Axel Honneth and Bernard E. Harcourt To RSVP, please click here. Seminar session on the early Frankfurt School with Professors Axel Honneth and Bernard E. Harcourt discussing Max Horkheimer's 1937 essay, "Traditional and Critical Theory," and Theodor Adorno's 1931 essay, "The Actuality of Philosophy." The seminar Critique 13/13 during the 2019-2020 academic year returns to brilliant texts in critical…
Dante and Joyce In collaboration with NYU's Glucksman Ireland House and Medieval and Renaissance Center. A lecture by Patrizia Grimaldi-Pizzorno, Università di Siena In Ulysses 13, Joyce encrypts key allusions to Dante Alighieri’s Purgatorio. To understand the metapoetic significance of the female protagonist Gerty MacDowell and the reason why she is lame, one must in fact turn to Canto XXVIII where…
DANCE PERFORMANCE, TALKBACK, AFTERPARTY. This captivating dance performance delves into the present-day issues of identity and loss of privacy. Accompanied by live music, WATCH NOW follows a couple undergoing a difficult time in their relationship. Their fluid interplay sees mutual motions of pushing and pulling as they manipulate and gently caress each other along with refusing contact and inflictingdistress. The…
Cristina Pato is the 2019⁄20 King Juan Carlos Chair in Spanish Culture and Civilization, NYU King Juan Carlos I of Spain Center.
Bohemian Benevolent and Literary Association (BBLA) and the Vaclav Havel Library Foundation (VHLF) request the pleasure of your company at the 2019 Gala Celebrating the 30th Anniversary of the Velvet Revolution. The guests honor are Ambassador CRAIG STAPLETON and Mrs. DOROTHY STAPLETON. Master of ceremonies: NICHOLAS D. LOWRY, President of Swann Auction Galleries. HIGHLIGHTS A tribute to two outstanding supporters…
Exploring Italy's Cultural DNA Presented by the American Italian Cultural Roundtable Commendatore Aldo Mancusi, President In association with The Enrico Caruso Museum The Alchemy of Italy Exploring Italy's Cultural DNA A presentation by Carla Gambescia Author of La Dolce Vita University: An Unconventional Guide to Italian Culture from A to Z Please note: This event is only open to members…
To RSVP, please click here. Raoul Peck (I Am Not Your Negro) offers a soul-shaking account of the Rwandan genocide as seen through the eyes of a Hutu man fighting to save his Tutsi wife and children as the unstoppable tide of violence encroaches. Steadfastly refusing to sentimentalize or sugarcoat any aspects of the story, Peck dares us to look away, making…
Gina Marie Guadagnino's debut novel, The Parting Glass (Simon & Schuster, 2019) is a story that explores identity, social class, and sexuality in the Irish diaspora of New York in the 1830s. Praise for The Parting Glass “In this delectable debut, Guadagnino uses romance and thwarted desire to vividly recreate the class and ethnic conflicts of early-19th-century New York City. “…
Speakers Duygu Demir, PhD candidate in the History, Theory, and Criticism of Art and Architecture, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Sonal Khullar, Associate Professor of Art History, University of Washington; and Hamed Yousefi, filmmaker and PhD candidate in art history, Northwestern University, will present their perspectives on artistic modernism in Turkey, India, and Iran, respectively, in the 1960s and ’70s. Exploring the political context…
Haunted by his father's portrait of his grandparents who vanished in the Holocaust, Joseph Koerner returns to Vienna to solve their mystery. Completed eighty years after the Anschluss, The Burning Child (2019, 113 min.) is a moving, visually-stunning journey through Vienna's urban and psychic interior to a buried past, where dreams of home became, for a city's most ardent homemaker's, an unimaginable…
Deutsches Haus at NYU and the General Consulate of the Federal Republic of Germany in New York present a lecture by Marianne Birthler, former Federal Commissioner for the Stasi Archives, on “30 Years on: Achievements and Challenges Since the Peaceful Revolution and the Fall of the Berlin Wall.” The lecture will be followed by a conversation between Marianne Birthler and David Gill, Consul…
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…
SPECIAL EVENT. Live virtuoso performance by legendary orchestra GYPSY DEVILS. This talented ensemble of Romani musicians from Slovakia plays original arrangements by combining classical pieces with musical genres such as jazz, ethno, flamenco and Gypsy. Together with interweaving styles, they add rhythmical and harmonic changes imbued with extraordinary brilliance. Performers: Ernest Sarkozi (cimbalom), Silvia Sarkozi (solo singing, cello), Stefan Banyak…
PRESENTATION OF PERFORMANCE PROJECTS, DISCUSSION. Engaging, behind-the-scenes glimpse at "Hungarian Acacia" and other performance projects conceived to address the public discourse in Hungary in a satirical way. Artists-directors Kristof Kelemen and Bence Gyorgy Palinkas will discuss their creative practice and working methods and show footage of Hungarian Acacia iterated as a live event as well as an onstage re-enactment of…
directed by Piotr Borowski at the REHEARSAL FOR TRUTH Theater Festival Saturday, September 28, 2019 7:30 p.m. Bohemian National Hall 321 East 73rd Street New York, NY 10021 FREE and open to the public. Seats are limited, on first come, first served basis. Reserve your seat online at eventbrite. The production will be performed in Polish with English subtitles. There…
PLAY, TALKBACK, AND AFTERPARTY. Join us to experience TRUTH, an intriguing play by Piotr Borowski. TRUTH exposes a lack thereof: an existence fraught with the absence of the sacred, devoid of any mystery, purpose or metaphysical worth. While the main character of TRUTH is not present, the scene is preoccupied with striving for knowledge and new creation, as well as…
A book talk with Jasmin Hasićand Dženeta Karabegović, editors of the new volume Bosnia and Herzegovina’s Foreign Policy Since Independence(Palgrave Macmillan, March 2019). This book is the first to provide a comprehensive and systematic analysis of the foreign policy of Bosnia and Herzegovina, a post-conflict country with an active agency in international affairs. Bridging academic and policy debates, the book summarizes and further examines…
Prof. Gutman's book tells the story of Armenian migration to North America in the late Ottoman period, and Istanbul’s efforts to prevent it. It shows how, just as in the present, migrants in the late 19th and early 20th centuries were forced to travel through clandestine smuggling networks, frustrating the enforcement of the ban on migration. Further, migrants who attempted…
A roundtable discussion moderated by Professor Tanya Domi (Columbia/SIPA). It is a precipitous moment in Balkan history. The European Union is weighing the accession candidacies of North Macedonia and Albania, with decisions pending before the German Bundestag that are likely to influence outcomes in Brussels. The negotiations for the Serbia-Kosovo agreement have been fraught with tension for months, and are currently at a standstill. Bosnia had yet…
"What does it mean to discover an unspoken Nazi past in your family? In a moment defined by chance and circumstance, I learned of my German grandfather’s support for the Nazi regime, a fact that had never been openly talked about. Using my family’s struggle with memory as a site of inquiry, I examine the process of remembering, its transmission,…
Join us for a discussion on Proust in Black (Proust au Noir), an essay/fictional work by Fanny Daubigny. Moderated by professor and author Caroline Weber. In Proust in Black, the City of Angels turns into a theater of the Faubourg Saint-Germain and A la recherche du temps perdu becomes a noir novel. Albertine is a Femme Fatale and Marcel a detective down on his…
A talk with political scientist Yana Gorokhovskaia. Regional and local elections in Russia are marked by low voter turnout and typically attract little attention at home and abroad. This summer, however, an election for seats in a rubber-stamp regional legislature drew over 50,000 protesters to the streets, resulted in 2,500 detentions, and ended with embarrassing losses for pro-regime United Russia…
“Playing rock music in the USSR was like fighting for freedom. Opposing the hypocrisy and pressure of the Soviet system, musicians tried to build a new Russia without totalitarian ideology, without censorship and the imperialistic pattern of behaviour. Rock was an active cultural and social force. When the USSR collapsed, rock music became part of the mainstream and lost its…
To RSVP, please click here. Laurent Cohen-Tanugi and Adam Gopnik explore ideas about current threats to democracy, the meaning and value of liberalism, and the rise of populism in the U.S., France, Great Britain and beyond, explored in their recent books, Cohen-Tanugi’s Résistances: La démocratie à l’épreuve, and Gopnik’s A Thousand Small Sanities: the Moral Adventure of Liberalism. Cohen-Tanugi’s book focuses on…
Benedetta, Aeropoetry, Futurism and Fascism A lecture by Lucia Re, UCLA Through the analysis of the aeropoem “Volontà e poesia del golfo di Napoli,” which features the arrival of Mussolini in Naples in November 1936, this presentation discusses the relationship between art and politics in the work of Benedetta Cappa Marinetti. In ENGLISH. From the Casa Italiana Zerilli-Marimo.
Opening celebration for this exhibition that tells the personal stories of artists uprooted from their homelands, whose work is linked by a sense of loss and displacement. Ticket Info: Free; reservations at art-exile.bpt.me or 800-838-3006
The award-winning Norwegian-Sámi artist Mari Boine joins us with accompanist Georg Buljo for performances of her original compositions. Since her breakthrough 30 years ago with the solo album Gula Gula, Mari has released more than a dozen highly acclaimed albums that combine jazz and rock with the traditional folk music of the Norwegian Sámi, with music sung in a traditional…
To RSVP, please click here. Europe is responding to the climate challenge and the Paris Agreement with a strong vision on a low carbon society. Building on 20 years of developing climate policies, it has formulated a ‘net zero emissions’ target for 2050. This means a commitment towards fundamental sustainability transitions of the energy, transport, and food systems. The climate target is…
Two Flags 2019, 60 mins. Director: Pankaj Rishi Kumar In English and French with subtitles in English Two Flags chronicles the life and politics of Pondicherry, a former French colony in South India where 6,000 Tamils who identify as French gear up for the French presidential elections of 2017. The film explores the idea of state, citizenship and home in…
Featuring David Robarge, Chief Historian, Central Intelligence Agency. Covert action historically has been perhaps the most controversial and least understood function of the CIA. While all presidents since World War II have used covert action to try to influence the political situation in countries of interest to advance US national security interests, they sometimes have done so to rescue failing foreign…
The Race to Define the Renaissance and the Rise of the Connoisseur A lecture by Joseph Luzzi, Bard College How did the rediscovery of Sandro Botticelli’s art, especially his blockbuster set of Dante drawings purchased in London in 1882 by the German government, contribute to the race to define “the Renaissance” in 19th-century Europe? Prof. Luzzi will begin answering this…
WELCOMING REMARKS: Barbara Faedda (Italian Academy) INTRODUCTION: Barbara Faedda and Lynda Dematteo SPEAKERS: Daniela Calanca (Università di Bologna): "Fashion and cultural heritage: complexity and articulations" Barbara Carnevali (École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris): "Milanese style as cultural heritage: fashion, architecture, design" Emanuele Coccia (École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris): "Dior and the invention of Frenchness as…
Featuring Olivier Wieviorka, ENS Paris-Saclay, documentary co-director. After Hitler: the Untold Story (2016, 90 min), directed by Olivier Wieviorka and David Korn-Brzoza. Documentary film screening and discussion with historian and co-director Olivier Wieviorka about the role of the historian in creating documentary films.
The Parisian fashion industry has always been the visible tip of an invisible web of exchanges. What we call French couture, far from being only French and influenced by French creativity and know-how, has always been a microcosm of globalization, with crucial contributions from foreigners and immigrants, transfers and hybridizations of techniques, ideas, styles, consumption habits, etc., which are often…
On March 6, 1957, Ghana gained its independence from Great Britain. Under the famed leadership of Kwame Nkrumah, the first newly independent sub-Saharan African country had several pressing questions on its plate: Who was Ghanaian? What were the new government’s duty and role to its citizens? Moreover, what would Ghana’s political and economic relationship to the Capitalist and Socialist world…
Post-Soviet Masculinities: Sex, Power, and the Vanishing Subject Eliot Borenstein Ph.D. Slavic Languages and Literatures Professor of Russian and Slavic Studies, Collegiate Professor, New York University From the Center for Europe and Mediterranean Studies.
Deutsches Haus at NYU presents a reading of “How to Live Smartly, Joyfully, Healthily, Exuberantly, Happily – and very Long. The Wisdom of Centenarians: A World Tour,” and a conversation among the authors Klaus Brinkbäumer and Samiha Shafy, and moderated by the psychologist and aging researcher Ursula M. Staudinger. The discussion will revolve around the age-old question of how to…
The Ornament of the World tells the story of a remarkable time in history when the Muslims, Christians and Jews forged a common cultural identity that frequently transcended their religious differences. Ornament will retrace a nearly 800-year period in medieval Spain, from the 8th through 15th centuries, during which the three cultures, though they competed and sometimes fought, managed to…
Parts 1 & 2 On the occasion of the exhibit Blind Visions: Carlo Levi's Disegni della Cecità, on view at Casa Italiana through December 13. Screening of parts 1 and 2 of the 4-part television movie: Christ Stopped at Eboli (Italy/France, 1979, 110 of 220 min.) In ITALIAN with ENGLISH subtitles Directed by Francesco Rosi Written by Francesco Rosi, Tonino Guerra,…
At this dual event with Charlotta Öfverholm, Scandinavia House presents the live performance Lucky (2018) and the film Dance or Die (2019). Charlotta Öfverholm’s entire adult life, as well as a large part of her childhood and early years, has been filled with the world of dance. As a performer and choreographer with some of the world’s most renowned artists, she has constantly strived…
Glucksman Ireland House opens its doors as a recording hub for Americans who celebrate being both Irish and black/brown. An oral historian will record with you, or facilitate the recording of a conversation between you and your friend, family member or colleague. RSVP to irish.stories@nyu.edu
Recital for Flute, Clarinet, and Piano Casa Afternoons invite our neighbors and their families to enjoy the arts in a relaxed atmosphere. Recital for flute, clarinet, and piano Ginevra Petrucci, flute Kostja Kostic, clarinet Matthew Oden, piano Program: Dmitri Shostakovich (1906-1975) Four waltzes Gabriel Faure (1855-1924) Morceau de Concours Sicilienne Matthew Oden (b. 1986) Anachronism No.1 Ernest Chausson (1855-1899) Andante et Allegro…
Cocktails & Silent Auction 6:00pm Musical Entertainment 7:30pm Dinner 8:00pm After Party 9:30pm Thank you for your interest in the Ukrainian Institute of America Gala. Tickets are now SOLD OUT! Please contact our office at 212-288-8660 to be added to our waitlist.