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…
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…
To RSVP, please click here. Documentary film screening and discussion with historian and co-director Olivier Wieviorka about the role of the historian in creating documentary films. In the five years that separated the end of the Second World War from the start of the Cold War, the world had hoped for a lasting peace, but instead found itself on the brink of…
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.
This event focuses on a recently discovered text by the late Franco-Algerian philosopher Jacques Derrida. Geschlecht III, rediscovered in the Derrida archive and newly published in French (forthcoming in English), is the “missing” installment in Derrida’s four-part series on Martin Heidegger and the German word Geschlecht(meaning, among other things, “sex,” “race,” and “species”). Geschlecht III presents us with one of Derrida’s most sustained engagements with Martin Heidegger,…
Join the Ukrainian Studies Program at the Harriman Institute for a panel moderated by Mark Andryczyk featuring Olena Jennings, Alexander J. Motyl, Dzvinia Orlowsky, and Irene Zabytko. What are the different ways that Ukrainian literature can be defined in 2019? Literature written in the Ukrainian language? Literature written by citizens of Ukraine in any language? Literature written in Ukrainian outside of Ukraine? Literature…
Featuring Olivier Wieviorka (author), École Normale Supérieure de Paris-Saclay; Robert O. Paxton, Columbia University; and Mark Mazower, Columbia University. Olivier Wieviorka talks about his newly translated book, The Resistance in Western Europe, 1940–1945 (Columbia University Press, 2019), a sweeping analytical history of the underground anti-Nazi forces during World War II. Featuring responses by Robert O. Paxton and Mark Mazower.
MODERATED DISCUSSION. Pavla Niklova, Director of Vaclav Havel Library Foundation (VHLF), has invited participants from the oral history collection Havel Conversations and authors of the new book Havel v Americe (Havel in America)—featuring interviews from the project—to share their experiences. The event will also honor the achievements of Ambassador William Luers, Director of the Iran Project and Adjunct Professor at…
MODERATED DISCUSSION. Pavla Niklova, Director of Vaclav Havel Library Foundation (VHLF), has invited participants from the oral history collection Havel Conversations and authors of the new book Havel v Americe (Havel in America)—featuring interviews from the project—to share their experiences. The event will also honor the achievements of Ambassador William Luers, Director of the Iran Project and Adjunct Professor at…
Parts 3 & 4 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 3 and 4 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, Raffaele La…
Join for a talk by Julie George, Visiting Associate Professor of International and Public Affairs, SIPA and Associate Professor of Political Science, Queens College and the Graduate Center, CUNY. How do politicians in weakly institutionalized states make decisions on whether and when to defect from teetering regimes? What considerations haunt politicians as they decide to stay with a ruling party or to join…
Origins and History On the Italian Stage is a series of lectures conceived and led by Laura Caparrotti that journeys into the history of Italian Theater to explore its language, and its contribution to Italian society and world theater. This lecture will address Goldoni and the use of dialect in Italian theater; the relationship between a theater for the people and…
Archeologie di un testo (Studj romanzi 2018) Presented by the NYU Department of Italian Studies with the Global Dante Project of New York. Studj Romanzi (2018) Vita nuova Archeologie di un testo Edited by Maria Luisa Ardizzone (NYU), Teodolinda Barolini (Columbia University) Featuring essays by Roberto Antonelli, Maria Luisa Ardizzone, Luca Azzetta, Teodolinda Barolini, Igor Candido, Donato Pirovano, Roberto Rea, Jelena…
Francesco Dillon (cello) and Emanuele Torquati (piano) "The two performers succeed masterfully" —Il Corriere Musicale "Dillon and Torquati gave a warm and fluent performance... perfect balance of delicacy and momentum." —Il Giornale della Musica Anticipating the 250th anniversary of his birth, the Italian Academy presents Beethoven's complete works for cello and piano performed by two of Italy's finest musicians, cellist…
Join for a book talk with Oscar Jonsson, current Director of the Stockholm Free World Forum (Frivärld) and associated researcher at the Swedish Defense University, on The Russian Understanding of War: Blurring the Lines between War and Peace (Georgetown University Press, November 2019). This book analyzes the evolution of Russian military thought and how Russia's current thinking about war is…
As part of the European Seminar Series, Harold James will discuss the The Euro-Crisis. 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.
We will hear from NYU Global and Distinguished Professor of Russian and Slavic Studies Boris Groys, who will speak about “The Cold War Between the Medium and the Message: Western Abstract Art vs. Socialist Realism.” It is well known that the Cold War was represented in the context of art by the conflict between Modernist, or, more precisely, abstract and figurative, realist…
Opening reception for the artist: Thursday, October 10, 6:00 to 8:00 PM. Please RSVP to attend. Art at the Institute is pleased to announce Legends and Parables, an exhibition of thirty-four paintings by Yohanan Petrovsky-Shtern, exploring and chronicling the embodiment of human celebration and drama founded on deceptively simple impressions of Jewish folk and religious life. The exhibition opens October…
This workshop will bring together scholars working on Siberia from different angles, and allow each writer to apply expertise and perspective to the others. The commentators are experts in one or another thematic aspect of the work. Convened by Professor Yanni Kotsonis, presenters will include David Darrow, Alberto Masoero, and Susan Smith-Peter. Ada Dialla, Igor Khristoforov, and Nathaniel Knight will serve as…
Deutsches Haus at NYU presents a conversation between Andreas Bernard, Professor for Cultural Studies at the Leuphana University and currently DAAD Visiting Scholar at Deutsches Haus at NYU, Nicholas Mirzoeff, Professor of Media, Culture and Communication at New York University about Bernard’s book “Theory of the Hashtag” (Polity, 2019), digital activism, and the role the hashtag continues to play in…
In his small village in Northern Finland, 25-year-old Turo’s only source of satisfaction is his amateur metal band, which he and his friends have played in for 12 years — despite never having had a single gig. But when the organizer of a major Norwegian heavy metal festival unexpectedly shows up in town and they have a surprise chance to…
Join the Romanian Cultural Institute and the East Central European Center at the Harriman Institute for an event in the Leon Feraru Conference Series, featuring professors Mona Momescu and Christopher J. Caes. Click here to RSVP. To honor the memory of the writer, academic, and diplomat who did more than anybody else at the beginning of the 20th century to…
Concert of the legendary Prague rock underground band Garage that became a symbol of total artistic and uncompromising independence and freedom. Followed by Tribute to Bohumil Krčil: Book Launch: Sebráno v New Yorku (2018, Torst). „If you would like to know the sound of the Velvet Revolution then you should attend the concert of the Garage band from Prague.” --Václav…
The16th annual CortoCircuito Short Film Festival will present more than 50 films. A not-to-miss opportunity to watch samples of today’s best Latino short filmmaking, including award winners from film festivals such as Cannes, Guadalajara, Locarno and San Sebastian; shorts that are rarely screened in the U.S.; premieres from all over Latin America and Spain; as well as a rich selection…
Opening October 12 at Scandinavia House, Cutting Edges: Nordic Concrete Art from the Erling Neby Collection presents concrete art from the Nordic countries in a collection never before seen in the U.S. Curated by Karin Hellandsjø, Director Emeritus of the Henie Onstad Art Centre, this exhibition presents over 30 key works from major artists in painting, drawing, and sculpture. A…
Join for a book launch of The Compatriots: The Brutal and Chaotic History of Russia's Exiles, Émigrés, and Agents Abroad (PublicAffairs, October 2019) with authors Andrei Soldatov and Irina Borogan. The authors of The Red Web examine the shifting role of Russian expatriates throughout history, and their complicated, unbreakable relationship with the mother country–be it antagonistic or far too chummy.…
Join us for a discussion with French Historian and mass violence expert Jacques Sémelin and historian Robert O. Paxton on Semlin’s new book, The Survival of the Jews in France, 1940-1944. Between the French defeat in 1940 and liberation in 1944, the Nazis killed almost 80,000 of France’s Jews, both French and foreign. Compared to other nations, however, this death toll…
To RSVP, please click here. What distinguishes populism from run-of-the-mill democratic politics? And why should we be concerned by its rise? In Me the People, Nadia Urbinati argues that populism should be regarded as a new form of representative government, one based on a direct relationship between the leader and those the leader defines as the “good” or “right” people. Urbinati shows that, while populist…
Anna Steegmann and Claudia Steinberg in person! Three German women establish new lives for themselves in the Big Apple. In what became one of his commercially most successful features, director Rosa von Praunheim follows Anna, Claudia, and Ulli with the camera as they look for love in 1980s New York. A must-see for all who came to New York seeking…
Lecture and discussion with Ivo Svejkovský, the Head of International Cooperation at the Institute of Physics of the Czech Academy of Sciences. How can our society benefit from the results of the scientific research Ivo Svejkovsky will introduce the Institute of Physics of the Czech Academy of Sciences (FZU). Emphasis will be put on actual examples of how society can…
Join the Harriman Institute and the Saltzman Institute of War and Peace Studies for a book talk with George Beebe, author of The Russia Trap: How Our Shadow War with Russia Could Spiral into Nuclear Catastrophe (St. Martin's Publishing Group, September 2019), moderated by Peter Clement (Harriman Insitutte, Saltzman Institute, SIPA). Registration is required via the Columbia/SIPA events calendar, and is currently limited…
Women Sing Bass 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…
To RSVP, please click here. Joshua Cole talks about his new book, Lethal Provocation: The Constantine Murders and the Politics of French Algeria (Cornell UP, 2019), that explores an episode of anti-Jewish violence in the Algerian city of Constantine on August 3-5, 1934. The Constantine riots were an important event in Algerian, French, and Jewish history but their origins have been the subject…
Mahnaz Yousefzadeh, NYU A lecture by Mahnaz Yousefzadeh, NYU This lecture will address the particular role the figure of Dante played in the process of national unification of Italy by discussing the relevance of this history for the contemporary moment, as neighborhoods, cities and nations are pondering how to enter a global economy and society without losing cultural genes and artistic heritage.…
Tonight, Jon Gertner discusses his new book The Ice at the End of the World, which examines how for the last 150 years explorers and scientists have sought to understand Greenland, first in hopes that it would serve as a gateway to the North Pole, and later in discovery of essential information about our climate. In addition to what Greenland’s ice…
Join the Ukrainian Studies Program at the Harriman Institute, Columbia University for a presentation by Oksana Kis(National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine). In the 1940-50s, tens of thousands of Ukrainian women were sentenced to long-term imprisonment in the Gulag for political charges. Their experiences of living in the most brutal conditions of the Soviet camps have not yet been the subject of…
A panel discussion with Yinon Cohen, Katherine Franke and Alain Dieckhoff. Moderated by Chiara Superti To RSVP, please click here. The Israeli elections of April and September 2019 highlighted, yet again, the profound rifts that divide Israeli society. But the now familiar political haggling that ensued did not only reveal traditional left-right divides. More significantly, it put into sharp focus the religious-secular…
Join AJHS and CJH for a film screening followed by a conversation with Director Oren Rudavsky about the fascinating life and legacy of Joseph Pulitzer. Joseph Pulitzer: Voice of the People explores the remarkable man behind the prestigious prizes. A Jewish immigrant from Hungary, Joseph Pulitzer began as a gifted journalist before becoming a successful publisher and businessman. Pulitzer was famous…
This season, Swedish pianist Per Tengstrand returns to Scandinavia House for the Music on Park Avenue concert series with a special presentation of famous piano concerti performed with musicians from Princeton chamber music group Opus 21. This evening, Tengstrand and Opus 21 musicians Sophia Winograd and Bryant So (violin), Johanna Linna (viola), and Ian Kim (cello) will be performing George Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in…
In November 2018, Felwine Sarr and Bénédicte Savoy released a report that had been prepared for the President of France entitled The Restitution of African Cultural Heritage. Toward a New Relational Ethics. This report has set in motion a debate that could have a profound impact on the status of African art held in collections around the world. During this…
In November 2018, Felwine Sarr and Bénédicte Savoy released a report that had been prepared for the President of France, Emmanuel Macron, entitled The Restitution of African Cultural Heritage. Toward a New Relational Ethics. This report has set in motion a debate that could have a profound impact on the status of African art held in collections around the world.…
Taking Wing 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 Underworld…
Deutsches Haus at NYU will proudly award the seventh annual Volkmar and Margret Sander Prize to Dr. Susan Neiman, the director of the Einstein Forum in Berlin. Sander Gilman, distinguished Professor of the Liberal Arts and Sciences and Psychiatry at Emory University, will hold the laudatory speech in honor of Dr. Susan Neiman. A musical performance by Devony Smith (soprano) and Danny Zelibor…
Environmental Films Around the World Screening of “When Two Worlds Collide” 2016 ‧ Documentary ‧ 1h 43m By Heidi Brandenburg and Mathew Orzel. Introduced by Odi Gonzalex, NYU CLACS. From population growth and urbanization to climate change, the films in this series present different perspectives on the biggest threats to the environment and reflect on possible solutions and pathways for…
From Florence to New York Drs. Ann Wilkins and David Wilkins, two of the curators of the Sisters in Liberty: From Florence, Italy to New York, New York exhibition at the Ellis Island Museum of Immigration (October 18, 2019—April 26, 2020), will discuss Pio Fedi’s monumental Libertà della Poesia (1883) on the tomb of the Risorgimento author Giambattista Niccolini in the church of Santa Croce, in Florence.…
Take a tour of the Ukrainian Institute of America as part of the 17th Annual Open House New York Weekend, America’s largest architecture and design event. Saturday, October 19th: Free half-hour tours are offered at 10:30am, 11:30am, 1:30pm, 2:30pm, 3:30pm, 4:30pm. Sunday, October 20th: Free open to the public access on a drop-in basis from 12:00-6:00pm. No tours offered on…
PANEL DISCUSSION and PICNIC LUNCHEON closing reception of Balance in Nature: Sculptures by Jerzy “Jotka” Kedziora The Polish Cultural Institute NY is proud to announce a panel discussion “Art must get out of museums and reach the people” on the occasion of the closing reception of Balance in Nature! Sculptures by Jerzy “Jotka” Kedziora exhibition currently on view at the…
Discover the beauty of the Irish language in a program designed for learners of all levels, led by Paul Ferris, Hilary Mhic Suibhne, Pádraig Ó Cearúill, and Pádraig McGonagle, and Sarah Waidler.
For the fourth 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 a unique book presenting Alphonse Mucha's Slav Epic. LAST TOUR STARTS AT 5PM Open House New York is known locally, nationally and internationally for its free Annual OHNY…
In 1827 Russian poet Pyotr Vyazemsky (1792-1878) wrote in a letter from Paris: "Many see patriotism as unqualified praise of everything that is your own. Turgot called this "servant patriotism,” du patriotisme d’antichambre. In our country we could call it "kvas patriotism." Why move false patriotism out of the antechamber and into the realm of food and drink? This invocation…
The NYU Department of German and Deutsches Haus at NYU present “Objectivity and the Humanities - Prospects for a New Realism,” a talk by Professor Markus Gabriel. Over the last decades, the humanities have come under pressure from the scientific worldview. To many, it seems as if the humanities provide us at best with less-than-objective knowledge claims. Arguably, there are…
Join Violaine Huisman and Omar Berrada as they discuss Huisman’s second novel, Rose désert, just published in France by Gallimard. In Rose désert, Violaine, depressed and approaching thirty, decides to cross the desert from Morocco to Sénégal. Throughout this unlikely and perilous journey, she reflects on loss and control. She mentally revisits her love affairs and explores her romantic and sexual awakening with…
Join for a screening of the documentary film Oscar (2018), introduced by the directors Eugene Tsymbal and Aleksandr Smoljanskiand followed with a discussion moderated by Mark Lipovetsky and Daria Ezerova. Run time: 90 minutes This crowdfunded, award-winning project is the story of one of the most famous Russian artists, Oscar Rabin (1928-2018), who challenged the Soviet communist system and won. In 1974, he organized an open-air…
Rosella Postorino 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…
The ascendency of historical archival studies has re-focused attention on the relationship between record-keeping practices, the extension of authority across composite domains, and the redefinition of sovereignty between the fifteenth and the eighteenth centuries. Yet when positing the “archive” as an object of research, scholars dedicated to the history and evolution of documentary repositories also risk returning to culturalist modes…
Join the Harriman Institute and the Kolodzei Art Foundation for the opening reception of the exhibit Sergei Volokhov: Theory of Reflection. Selections from the Kolodzei Art Foundation. This exhibition features selected drawings from the 1980s by prominent Russian artist Sergei Volokhov. These imaginative drawings on specially prepared paper are contemplations by the artist on Russian history and his personal memories. Exhibit runs October 22…
Presented by Save Venice This event is organized and presented by Save Venice. A lecture by Melissa McGill, artist Artist Melissa McGill will speak about her most recent public artwork, Red Regatta, an unprecedented series of large-scale choreographed regattas of traditional vela al terzo sailboats, hoisted with hand-painted red sails, that activated Venice’s lagoon and waterways last May through October 2019. This…
Praised as “fierce, fearless, and virtuosic… unapologetically stylistically omnivorous and versatile” (New Music Box) and “trailblazing…skillful composer-performers” (The New Yorker), The Rhythm Method string quartet strives to re-imagine the string quartet in a contemporary, feminist context. In this performance, the quartet will present a program of music by contemporary Scandinavian composers Kristin Bolstad and Ole-Henrik Moe (Norway); 19th-century Swedish composer…
Join for a talk with Rhiannon Dowling, Postdoctoral Research Scholar at the Harriman Institute. Rhiannon Dowling will present on her book project, a cultural and intellectual history of crime in the Soviet Union, which argues that, of all of the promises that the Soviet state failed to fulfill, the most crucial, and most devastating, was the promise to eliminate crime with its…
Professor Gans-Morse will report preliminary results from a field experiment examining a novel, bottom-up approach to improving judicial transparency: the videotaping of court hearings. Random assignment of pre-trial detention hearings in Kyiv city courts to videotaping by an Ukrainian non-governmental organization offers insights into whether increased transparency can improve key aspects of the rule of law, such as judges’ adherence…
Genoa's Staglieno Cemetery In partnership with the Bogliasco Foundation. Once deemed “the most beautiful cemetery in the world” (Le Figaro), Genoa’s monumental cemetery is a museum unique in the world, with some of the 19th century’s most stunning and elaborate statuary. Against a historical background that evokes the period’s crucial sociopolitical shifts, poet Grace Schulman (BF ‘18), visual artist Susan…
Join the Harriman Institute and the Columbia Institute for Religion, Culture and Public Life (IRCPL) for a book talk with Anya Bernstein, author of The Future of Immortality: Remaking Life and Death in Contemporary Russia (Princeton University Press, 2019), in conversation with Anton Vidokle (e-flux) and Adam Leeds (Slavic Languages). As long as we have known death, we have dreamed…
Join the Ukrainian Film Club at Columbia University for the unofficial US premier of the 2019 military drama Beshoot, followed by a discussion with director Ivan Tymchenko and producer Svitlana Soloviova, moderated by Professor Yuri Shevchuk. The soldiers of the Donbas Volunteer Battalion are at the center of this war drama inspired by real-life events. Two Ukrainian fighters who volunteered to repel the…
In April 1986, the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant exploded and sent upwards of 50 million curies into the surrounding environment. Working through archives, Brown encountered many contradictory accounts of the disaster and its effects. Realizing that though people and archives lie, trees probably don’t, she turned to scientists—biologists, foresters, physicians and physicists—to help her understand the ecology of the greater…
Oct. 24 European Seminar Series | Belinda Davis: Extraparliamentary Opposition in West Germany, 1962-1983 As part of the European Seminar Series, Belinda Davis will discuss extraparliamentary opposition in West Germany in the years 1962-1983. 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…
Professor Belinda Davis of Rutgers University speaks about extraparliamentary opposition in West Germany, from1962 to 1983. From the Center for European and Mediterranean Studies.
Speaker: Emily Wilbourne Respondent: TBA Details: TBA Sponsors: Department of Italian and European Institute To attend email: pmt2114@columbia.edu. Part of the Italian and Mediterranean Colloquium series.
Primo Levi at 100 Presented in collaboration with Centro Primo Levi Affection and Survival Primo Levi and Friendship in the Camp A lecture by Uri Cohen, Tel Aviv University Affection is a lesser known aspect of the human and Jewish experience in the camps. Mostly it is related to the fractured past of which the camp is the present. Having…
Presentation of a limited edition book offering a glimpse at the smallest details of Mucha's artworks, unveiling the magnificent Slav Epic in an unseen form. Q&A with the author. The time has come for the spectacular cycle of paintings created by the Czech artist Alphonse Mucha, the Slav Epic, to be followed by a procession of prodigious books intended to…
Feminism in Independent Ukraine: From an Allergen to the Last Hope Oksana Kis Ph.D. History/Ethnology Senior Research Associate, Senior Scholar Department of Social Anthropology Institute of Ethnology national Academy of Sciences of Ukraine http://social-anthropology.org.ua/ From the Center for European and Mediterranean Studies.
Neapolitan in Exile 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…
Based on a true story, the directorial debut of popular Swedish personalities Filip and Fredrik is an outrageous, unconventional comedy set in the 1980s about an eccentric villager who decides to put his sleepy hamlet on the map by assembling the world’s longest layer cake. When in 1984 the small town of Koping is named “the most boring town in…
Ghouls and goblins alike will agree, there’s no better way to celebrate Halloween than with a dance party at Manhattan’s historic Bohemian National Hall. Live music by Ex press Band. Dance show by professional dancers Stephen & Alexandra Hughes will teach you the tricks and treats of dancing the night away. Plus, there will be a Halloween costume contest! Program:…
Just in time for Halloween, Ron Sopyla and Ellen Shapiro of the Hans Christian Andersen Storytelling Center bring some Nordic “not-too-scary” troll stories to Scandinavia House! In this combined event, kids will first hear some tales from Scandinavia and the far North, and then participate in a “crankle”-making workshop, in which they will make scrolls that can be read from a…
Contrary to dusty first impressions, genealogy can be an adventure. In Dan Oren's book, The Wedding Photo, a visit to an abandoned Polish Jewish cemetery in 1993 launches a 20-year search to solve the mystery of "Who is Buried in Sarah's Tomb?" A visit with a cousin unearths a breathtaking photo of a Berlin family wedding from 1926 and leads…
Join Mikhal Dekel in conversation with Natalia Aleksiun about a family story that complicates our understanding of refuge, displacement, new homes, and the unexpected fate of child refugees. Tehran Children: A Holocaust Refugee Odyssey tracks the fates of those Polish Jews who during WWII were "saved by deportation.” It follows them alongside other Polish nationals from their Polish hometowns, into the Soviet interior,…
Join for a talk with Peter Reddaway on his book The Dissidents: A Memoir of Working with the Resistance in Russia, 1960-1990(Brookings Institution Press). It has been nearly three decades since the collapse of the Soviet Union—enough time for the role that the courageous dissidents ultimately contributed to the communist system’s collapse to have been largely forgotten, especially in the West. This…
Presenting Fabio Parasecoli's "Food" Food (2019, MIT Press) by Fabio Parasecoli The author in conversation with Meryl Rosofsky (NYU) A consumer's guide to the food system, from local to global: our part as citizens in the interconnected networks, institutions, and organizations that enable our food choices. Everybody eats. We may even consider ourselves experts on the topic, or at least…
Director Levan Akin joins us to discuss his new film And Then We Danced, which has recently been selected as the Swedish entry for the Best International Feature Film at the 92nd Academy Awards. In this passionate tale of love and liberation set against the backdrop of Georgian traditional dance, ambitious young Merab has been training from an early age…
With a wealth of archival footage and detailed re-enactments, this film recounts the incredible story of Emanuel Ringelblum, who secretly led a team of writers and intellectuals to preserve a vibrant Jewish culture in the Warsaw Ghetto shortly after the Nazis took over. What resulted was a startlingly deep and diverse portrait of European Jewish life, as the Oyneg Shabes…
Bio: Krug is an author and illustrator whose work has appeared in publications around the world. She was named Illustrator of the Year 2019 by the Victoria and Albert Museum, and her book, “Belonging: A German Reckons with History and Home”, about WWII and her German family history, won the 2019 National Book Critics Circle Award. Abstract: Heimat (Belonging: A…
A series of talks and workshops curated by Les Éditions de l’Épure, a French publishing house founded in 1991 by architects Sabine Bucquet-Grenet and Pascale Blin that combines the arts, architecture, design and gastronomy. The event includes a French/Swiss Cheese challenge “Happy Hour”! From 5 to 9pm, Albertine will run a pop-up shop with a selection of books from Les…
Centro Primo Levi Rhodes Jewish Historical Foundation in partnership with NYU Casa Italiana Zerilli Marimò Kehila Kedosha Janina American Sephardi Federation present: Los Corassones Avlan Conversations on Jewish Life on the Island of Rhodes A multimedia pop-up installation in the West Village On view October 29 - November 24, 2019 Sun-Thu 12-1:30pm and 5-9pm Fri 1-4pm Sat 5-10pm Los Corassones Avlan…
What Makes It "Bel Canto"? 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…
To RSVP, please click here. In this intimate family history that spans from the 1930s to today, Audrey Celestine traces fragments of the lives of three generations of the same family. The history moves from the Caribbean to Algeria and the Mediterranean and passes through the North of France. It shows how one family’s small history can shed light on the larger…
Networking meet up for young Czech professionals. Enjoy a fresh, cooling cucumber lemonade while connecting with your peers in the city that never sleeps. Are you a student or a young professional who has just arrived to New York City and needs to know "the best places to go for brunch" or "which day is free entry to major NYC…
Yarimar Bonilla is Associate Professor of anthropology at Hunter College, CUNY. Her work focuses on questions of sovereignty, citizenship, and race across the Americas. She has tracked these issues across a broad range of sites: anti-colonial labor activism in the French Caribbean, the role of digital protest in the Black Lives Matter movement, the politics of the Trump presidency, and…
Opening of an exhibition focusing on historical context of the Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia as well as explaining the circumstances under which the Czechoslovak Communist Party initially took power. Curated by the National Museum of the Czech Republic to celebrate the 30th anniversary of the Velvet Revolution. The exhibition is on view until January 12, 2020. A set of illustrations…
Elad Kabilio and the MusicTalks ensemble embark on a musical journey across Israel’s diverse sites with a concert of music inspired by the landscapes of Israel. Ticket Info: $15 general; $10 YUM members & YU students, faculty, staff at musictalksplaces.bpt.me or 800-838-3006
TBA Contact Information Peggy Quisenberry pq2@columbia.edu
Three of the formative revolutions that shook the early 20th century world occurred almost simultaneously in regions bordering one another. Though the Russian, Iranian, and Young Turk Revolutions all exploded between 1904 and 1911, they have never been studied through their linkages until now. Roving Revolutionaries probes the interconnected aspects of these three revolutions through the involvement of the Armenian…
Join the Ukrainian Studies Program at the Harriman Institute, Columbia University for the conference Five Years of War in the Donbas: Cultural Responses and Reverberations. The conference will gather an international array of scholars to discuss the diverse ways that Ukrainian culture has been stirred by the recent war between Ukraine and Russia in the Donbas. At the bottom of…
Curated by Nick Laird Presented in association with Glucksman Ireland House NYU Journey into an orbit of ideas and thoughts with some of the world’s most eminent poets from Ireland and North America. This year’s festival features a special tribute to Seamus Heaney in celebration of the US publication of 100 Poems, a seminal anthology of his work, and an exhibition of Heaney…
A lunchtime conversation on the current Habsburg armor exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art with Curator Pierre Terjanian and Brigitte Bedos-Rezak, New York University Thomas DaCosta Kaufmann, Princeton University Elizabeth Pilliod, Rutgers University Pamela Smith, Columbia University Larry Wolff, New York University
To RSVP, please click here. Presented as part of the Music Performance Program, by the Department of Music and Maison Française. Program: All Too Soon (Duke Ellington) Reflections in D (Ellington) Nuages (Claude Debussy) Melancholia (Ellington) Voiles (Debussy) Prelude to a Kiss (Ellington) Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune (Debussy) Take the “A” train (Billy Strayhorn) Dylan Band is a 22-year-old saxophonist…
For the eighth year, Glucksman Ireland House will welcome the winner of one of the poetry world’s most coveted prizes, the Seamus Heaney Centre for Poetry Prize for First Full Collection as judged by a select committee at Queens University Belfast. This year’s judges were Professor Nick Laird, Chair of Creative Writing at the Seamus Heaney Centre; Professor Edna Longley, critic and Professor…
The Librettist Composes 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…
Celebrated French writer Catherine Cusset leads a French Book Club, exploring new tendencies in French and Francophone literature in a relaxed setting. Discussion is in French. The new series takes place at La Maison Française of NYU on several Friday evenings from 6:00 to 7:30 p.m. Fall semester dates and titles to be discussed are: Friday, September 27: Edouard Louis, Qui a tué mon père? Friday, November 1: Annie…
Deutsches Haus at NYU presents a reading by the author and current writer-in-residence at Deutsches Haus at NYU, Nina Bußmann, from her recent novel Earth's Mantle is Hot and Partially Molten, followed by a conversation with the acclaimed Germanist, writer and mastermind of @neinquarterly, Eric Jarosinski. Cover of book "Earth's Mantle is Hot and Partially Molten" About the book: On…
Mouse Ceramic Studio, 1012 Beverley Rd. Brooklyn, NY Please note: This workshop takes place at Mouse Ceramic Studio (1012 Beverley Rd. Brooklyn, NY) and is only open to a limited number of Casa Italiana Members. Please make sure to reserve. A one day hands-on workshop on the ancient art of pottery and vessel making in clay as practiced by ancient…
SAT—NOV 2—2 PM $12 (Free for ASF Members), Ages 5-10 Advance registration recommended Scandinavia House presents Saturday Art Workshops for children ages 5 and up! This fall, kids will explore themes related to our exhibition Cutting Edges, with artist-led workshops that each address one of the central themes of concrete art explored in the Gallery show. Pure forms, colors, and principles…
This season, Swedish pianist Per Tengstrand returns to Scandinavia House for the Music on Park Avenue concert series with a special presentation of famous piano concerti performed with musicians from Princeton chamber music group Opus 21. In today’s event, Tengstrand presents a solo performance of “The Goldberg Variations” by Johann S. Bach, consisting of an aria with diverse variations for harpsichord…
Join Antoine Vigne as he presents his latest novel, American Dreamer, just out in France with editions Courtes et Longues. Moderated by Jean Poderos. In American Dreamer, Juan is a young, undocumented Mexican man who lives in El Paso. Passionate about science and astronomy, he decides to pursue academia, but due to his clandestine status, he is forced to flee and…
On the Island of Rhodes, after the Shabbat, families gathered for the Havdalah, the ceremony that separates the day of rest from the beginning of a new week of work. After the recitation of the prayers over sweet wine and a bowl of spices, life resumed as before the pause of the sixth day. The women would seat in the…
"Daddy is a Hero" is a humorous, immersive story about a family: love between parents and a brother and sister who stick together even though they fight. Love helps them to overcome dragons, illnesses, and more. This performance also includes live music. The show is performed by an independent puppet theater company LokVar - two actors with large and small…