This event will recur Every Day until Apr. 6, 2019 The festival takes place at a number of NYC locations. Events at La Maison Française of NYU are listed below. FRIDAY, APRIL 5, 2:15 P.M. Parler avec le corps et la musique: qu'est-ce que c'est la voix humaine? Roland Auzet (compositeur et metteur en scène), Koffi Kwahulé (dramaturge), François Noudelmann (philosophe). Modératrice: Prof. […]
Round table discussion | FROM PLAZA MAYOR TO WASHINGTON SQUARE: SPANISH REPUBLICAN EXILES AT NYU Eighty year ago, on April 1, 1939, the Spanish Civil War was officially declared over. One of its many tragic outcomes was the exile of as many as 500,000 people. Some of those fleeing, like the poet Antonio Machado, would […]
CWS Series | Conversation about the work of María Dueñas Venue: KJCC Auditorium // 53 Washington Square South In Spanish Reception to Follow A conversation with the author María Dueñas accompanied by Mariela Dreyfus (NYU) and James D. Fernandez (NYU) María Dueñas is PhD in English Philology and was a full professor at the Universidad […]
NYU Center for French Language presents “La Sonothèque Nomade” at Africa House – April 4-5, 2019 The Center for French Language and Cultures is happy to invite you to La Sonothèque Nomade – an artistic residency and musical event on Thursday and Friday, April 4-5, 2019. La Sonothèque Nomade is a lively, nomadic, and poetic space of listening and recording […]
CLACS is proud to present “Innocence Lost”, by Marie Cruz Soto (NYU Gallatin) as part of the Racisms in Comparative Perspective Working Group. Abstract: “Innocent Lost” is the fifth chapter of The Life of Isla Nena: Disposability, Unruliness and the Colonial Order of Things in Vieques, Puerto Rico. The book manuscript broadly traces the makings of disposability […]
August 19, 2019 marks the 100th anniversary of Afghanistan’s independence from Britain. Commemorating the roots and legacies of that watershed event, Faiz Ahmed presents a vibrant account of the first Muslim-majority country to form a fully sovereign government, ratify a constitution, and promulgate an original body of national laws after the fall of the Ottoman Empire. […]
Venue: KJCC Auditorium // 53 Washington Sq. South, NYC Reception to Follow PATHWAYS AND FOOTSTEPS IN DETENTION: MIGRANTS’ AND PRISONERS’ TRANSLUCENCY - MEXICO/ U.S. BORDER How do female prisoners escape their cells in order to be seen at the borders of nations, institutions and disciplines? How do obscured migrants and prisoners leave traces within systems […]
oin us for lunch with Dr. Malbrán, critic and curator of contemporary art, as well as co-instructor for the upcoming course Art and Politics in the City: NYC and Buenos Aires. The talk will center on Dr.Malbrán’s current research, an examination of micromuseums in Argentina, particularly the small Ingeniero White Harbor Museum. In discussing how museums […]
Please join us on Friday, April 5th for “Between the Hammer and the Anvil: Buriat-Mongols, the Soviet Union and Imperial Japan”, a presentation by Tatiana Linkhoeva, New York University. This event is part of the Colloquium Series, sponsored by the NYU Jordan Center for the Advanced Study of Russia. The Soviet Union and Imperial Japan have been […]
Born April 7, 1915, Billie Holiday is considered one of the greatest American jazz singers of all time. Author Grayson Dantzic shares behind-the scenes anecdotes and images from his 18-year journey making his book Jerry Dantzic:Billie Holiday at Sugar Hill. Through the rediscovering of his late father Jerry Dantzic's unseen photographs of Billie Holiday taken in 1957, the […]
