King Juan Carlos Chair CRISTINA PATO | A CONVERSATION WITH CRISTINA PATO AND KENNETH S. KOSIK: An Invisible Ancestry and the Unquiet Genes of the Brain
Location: King Juan Carlos I of Spain Center 53 Washington Square S, New York, NY, United StatesVenue: KJCC Auditorium // 53 Washington Square South, NYC Reception to Follow Cristina Pato is the 2019 / 2020 King Juan Carlos Chair in Spanish Culture and Civilization, NYU King Juan Carlos I of Spain Center. In this conversation, artist and educator Cristina Pato and neuroscientist Kenneth S. Kosik will talk about music, memory loss, […]
BOOK TALK: THE BAGHDAD CLOCK A Reading and Conversation with Award-Winning Iraqi Novelist Shahad Al Rawi and Translator Luke Leafgren
Hagop Kevorkian Center for Near Eastern Studies 255 Sullivan St., New York, NY, United StatesBaghdad, 1991. In the midst of the first Gulf War, a young Iraqi girl huddles with her neighbors in an air raid shelter. There, she meets Nadia. The two girls quickly become best friends and together they imagine a world not torn apart by civil war, sharing their dreams, their hopes and their desires, and […]
DAY 1: FIFTH ANNUAL INDO-AMERICAN ARTS COUNCIL (IAAC) LITERARY FESTIVAL
Hagop Kevorkian Center for Near Eastern Studies 255 Sullivan St., New York, NY, United StatesThe fifth annual IAAC Literary Festival will take place in New York City on October 19th and 20th and will feature the work of authors from around the world, whose heritage lies in the Indian subcontinent as well as literary pieces that are inspired by India. Along with the addition of Poetry, IAAC will be expanding the Literary Festival to provide a platform for Children's Literature emanating from India […]
EL CIERVO ENCANTADO ON “ARRIVALS” AN ARTIST TALK WITH DRAMATIC FRAGMENTS
Monday Oct. 21 6:00pm-8:00pm NYU's Department of Performance Studies 721 Broadway, PS Studio, Room 612 New York, NY 10003
Indocumentales – Sanctuary (2019) Screening
Mon, October 21, 2019 6:30 PM – 9:00 PM EDT King Juan Carlos I Center 53 Washington Sq S Auditorium New York, NY 10012
The Task of the Choteadora: A Conversation with Jacqueline Loss
October 22 @ 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm 721 broadway New York, NY
HATE: THE RISING TIDE OF ANTI-SEMITISM IN FRANCE (AND WHAT IT MEANS FOR US)
Tuesday Oct. 22 6:30pm-8:00pm La Maison Française 16 Washington Mews
WOMEN AND MIGRATION: RESPONSES IN ART AND HISTORY
WOMEN AND MIGRATION: RESPONSES IN ART AND HISTORY Tuesday, Oct. 22 6:30pm-8:30pm Department of Social and Cultural Analysis, Flex Space 20 Cooper Square, 4th Floor
Spanish Republican Exile / Intimate Portraits: Federica Montseny, the Indomitable (2016)
October 22, 2019 7:00 pm KJCC Auditorium // 53 Washington Square South, NYC
Africa~Diaspora Forum: Peter Hulme
Location: King Juan Carlos I of Spain Center Room 342E 53 Washington Square S, New York, NY, United StatesIn the 1920s in New York the jazz cabaret was seen as offering what the writer Eric Walrond called “Africa undraped”, and its sound was the tom-tom. This talk will explore the period’s fascination with that instrument and with what it might signify, focusing on two texts entitled Tom-Tom, both of which offer to associate contemporary Harlem with “Africa”, in one or another of its manifestations.