Every month, the international houses at NYU host exciting social and cultural events.
Here are just a few coming up in February:
(for more information and events, click on the links to the individual websites)
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The Ninth AnnualTelos Conference: Universal History, Philosophical History, and the Fate of Humanity
Friday,
February 13th - Sunday, February 15th
The
2015 Telos-Paul Piccone Institute conference will consider the philosophical,
historical, and political significance of universal history in the contemporary
world by focusing on three problem areas: the possibility of universal history,
the alternatives to universal history, and the value of universal history. What
would be the historical and philosophical basis for universal history today?
How would universal history deal with the problem of human diversity? What is
the relationship between universal history and values? This conference will
address the issues surrounding the place of universal, philosophical, “big” and
world history both at the current point of time and in the past, in the West
and other civilizations. It will also examine those characteristics of
modernity that would need to be addressed by universal history, such as
economics and technology, capitalism and industrialization, global
transportation and communication. We will discuss these issues, as well as
related aspects, e.g., religious visions of history, the role of history in
cultural identity, global agricultural ecologies, and the universalizing
effects of epidemics. Featured speakers for the conference include: Joseph
Bendersky, Russell A. Berman, Christopher Coker, Jay Gupta, Wayne Hudson,
Jonathan Israel, Ulrike Kistner, Tim Luke, Greg Melleuish, Adrian Pabst, David
Pan, Maria Piccone, and Susanna Rizzo.
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Friday,
January 16th - Saturday, February 28th
Deutsches
Haus at NYU presents the exhibition opening of Florian Reischauer's solo show Grüß
Gott - A Fairy Tale, a narration based on childhood memories which takes
place in a little village in the countryside. It deals with traditions,
recurring seasons, the feeling of being protected by a familiar constant and a
certain consciousness of being stuck in time. A never-ending story with an
unwritten plot, which is nevertheless created by its protagonists.
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Friday,
February 13th, 8:00 p.m.
Dublin-native
New Yorker Ivan Goff is a master of the uilleann pipes and flute who has
performed with many distinguished Irish musicians. He is also working on his
PhD in ethomusicology at NYU, teaching courses on Celtic musis. He is currently
a member of Ghost Trio, an acclaimed group that also includes singer Iarla Ó
Lionáird and Virginia-born fiddler Cleek Schrey. Cleek, who will join Ivan for this concert,
plays both standard fiddle and a custom-made hardangerfele, a Norwegian
violin fitted with ghostly sounding sympathetic strings.
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NYU Casa Italiana
Zerilli-Marimó and public broadcasters WETA and WNET present a preview of:
A
new film for PBS premiering February 17 & 24, 9-11pm
With
a special sneak peek of WNET's Italian Americans of New York and New Jersey
With
remarks by New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio
Followed
by a Panel featuring:
Bestselling Author Gay Talese
Bestselling Author Gay Talese
Filmmaker John Maggio
Writer
Maria Laurino
The Italian Americans, narrated by acclaimed actor Stanley Tucci, explores the evolution of Italian Americans from the late 19th Century to today, from “outsiders” once viewed with suspicion and mistrust, to some of the most prominent leaders of business, politics and the arts today. Award-winning writer/producer John Maggio (Billy The Kid, Boy in the Bubble) presents in the two-part, four-hour series a portrait of Italian American life that includes interviews with Tony Bennett, John Turturro, Gay Talese, House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi and U.S. Supreme Court Associate Justice Antonin Scalia, among others. The Italian Americans peels away myths and stereotypes to reveal a world uniquely Italian and uniquely American.
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Monday,
February 23rd, 7:00 p.m.
Mathias
Enard is a French writer and translator. An expert in Arabic and Persian, he
lived throughout the Middle East before settling in Barcelona. In addition to Bréviaire
des artificiers (Verticales, 2007) and L’alcool et la nostalgie
(Editions Inculte, 2011), Enard is the author of five novels and a graphic
novel published by Actes Sud. La perfection du tir (2003, Prix des Cinq
Continents de la francophonie), his first book, is a narrative of a sniper
during a civil war in an unspecified country based on Lebanon. Remonter
l’Orénoque was published in 2005. In 2008, Actes Sud published Enard’s Zone,
a novel of a single sentence of over 500 pages. The story of a French
intelligence agent who previously had fought alongside Croat forces during the
Yugoslav wars in the early 1990s, the novel won several prizes, including the
Prix Décembre, the Prix Candide, and the Prix du Livre Inter, and was published
in an English translation by Charlotte Mandel. In 2010, Enard published Parle-leur
de batailles, de rois et d’éléphants (Prix Goncourt des lycéens) based on a
probably fictive visit of Michelangelo to Constantinople in 1506, followed by Rue
des voleurs (2012) and a graphic novel, Tout sera oublié (2013).
Conversation in French
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