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Between Serialism and Suprematism: Nikolai Roslavets’s Modernist Music

Marshall D. Shulman Seminar Room 420 W 118th Street, #1219 International Affairs Building, New York City

Please join the Ukrainian Studies Program at the Harriman Institute, Columbia University for a presentation by Leah Batstone (Hunter College, CUNY). The compositions of Nikolai Roslavets, one of many Ukrainian composers often mistaken for Russian, demonstrate the unique musical position of Ukraine in the history of early twentieth-century music. As a mediator between the compositional serialism of the Second Viennese School of…

Vital Subjects: Race and Biopolitics in Italy

Casa Italiana Zerilli-Marimò (NYU) 24 West 12th Street, New York City

Book presentation: Vital Subjects. Race and Biopolitics in Italy (1860-1920) (2016, Liverpool University Press) by Rhiannon Noel Welch (Rutgers University). The author in conversation with David Forgacs (NYU) and Ann Morning (NYU). Moderated by Ara Merjian (NYU) and Rebecca Falkoff (NYU) Since World War II, Italy has struggled to recast both its colonial past and its alliance with Nazi Germany. For many…

A Man Called Ove: Book Talk with Fredrik Backman

Swedish author Fredrik Backman joins us at Scandinavia House for an informal discussion of his work, including his New York Times best-selling novel A Man Called Ove. A Man Called Ove is Backman’s delightfully quirky debut novel in which a grumpy, yet lovable man finds his solitary world turned on its head when a boisterous young family movies in next…