Events Calendar
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February 11: Exhibition Lecture
Speaker:
Peter Biehl
Location:
2nd Floor Lecture Hall
Date: Thursday, February 11
Time: 6:00 p.m.
*reception to follow
Deconstructing the Myth of the Great Mother Goddess: Masking and Breaking the Human Body in Old Europe
Dr. Biehl will provide an overview of how the people of Old Europe represented the human body in the form of anthropomorphic figurines made of clay, bone and marble in the 6th and 5th millennium BC and discuss how studying visual representations of the human body can aid us in understanding identity and personhood in the past. One of the main ...
February 16: Visiting Research Scholar Lecture
Speaker:
Xiaoli Ouyang
Location:
2nd Floor Lecture Room
Date: Tuesday, February 16
Time: 6:00 p.m.
*reception to follow
Temple Treasury Records and Local Politics in Ur III Mesopotamia
This lecture targets a group of Umma texts dated to the Ur III dynasty (c. 2112-2004 BCE), probably the best documented period in Mesopotamian history. Umma is the province with the largest number of texts, accounting for almost one third of the 90,000 or so records from this period. This group of texts documents the delivery of ...
February 18: Exhibition Film Screening
Location:
2nd Floor Lecture Hall
Date: Thursday, February 18
Time: 7:00 p.m.
Wasps’ Nest (Cuibul de Viespi) (1986)
Directed by Horea Popescu 115 min, Rating: NR A sharp social satire about greed, hypocrisy and lack of morals, as well as a stylized picture of the rising bourgeoisie at the beginning of the 20th century, Wasps’ Nest is an adaptation of Alexandru Kiriţescu's ...
March 2: Visiting Research Scholar Lecture
Speaker:
Nicola Aravecchia
Location:
2nd Floor Lecture Room
Date: Tuesday, March 2
Time: 6:00 p.m.
*reception to follow
March 4: Exhibition Film Screening
Location:
2nd Floor Lecture Hall
Date: Thursday, March 4
Time: 7:00 p.m.
Reenactment (Reconstituirea) (1968)
Directed by Lucian Pintilie 100 min, Rating: NR Pulled from theaters after two weeks and banned for the following 22 years, during which Lucian Pintilie himself took up exile in France, Reenactment riled the authorities because of the jaundiced eye it cast upon Romanian society in the early years of Ceauşescu’s reign, though it’s easy to ...
March 8: Public Lecture
Speaker:
Arlo Griffiths
Location:
2nd Floor Lecture Room
Date: Monday, March 8
Time: 6:00 p.m.
Rediscovering the inscriptions of Campa (Vietnam)
The aim of this lecture is to inform the interested New York public on recent developments in the study of the written records of ancient 'Indianized' polities in Southeast Asia. We will take as example the epigraphic corpus of the ancient Campa kingdom(s), which lay in what is now central and southern Vietnam. The study of Campa ...
March 16: Visiting Research Scholar Lecture
Speaker:
Oleksandr Symonenko
Location:
2nd Floor Lecture Room
Date: Tuesday, March 16
Time: 6:00 p.m.
*reception to follow
March 30: Visiting Research Scholar Lecture
Speaker:
Christine Proust
Location:
2nd Floor Lecture Room
Date: Tuesday, March 30
Time: 6:00 p.m.
*reception to follow
April 1: Exhibition Film Screening
Location:
2nd Floor Lecture Hall
Date: Thursday, April 1
Time: 7:00 p.m.
12:08 East of Bucharest (A fost sau n-a fost?) (2006)
Directed by Corneliu Porumboiu 89 min, Rating: NR Courtesy of Palisades Tartan A provincial television station decides that it’s going to produce a show on the occasion of the 16th anniversary of the fall of the communist government, focusing on what transpired in that town at the exact time that Ceauşescu fell. Unhappily, the only ...
April 8: Exhibition Musical Performance
Georgy Valdchev & Lora Tchekoratova
Location:
Oak Library, Second Floor
Date: Thursday, April 8
Time: 7:00 p.m.
This wonderful performance featuring Bulgarian musicians, violinist Georgy Valtchev and pianist Lora Tchekoratova will showcase works by Eastern European composers inspired by the musical traditions of Bulgaria, Romania and Moldova. Works by Bulgarian lesser-known composers Vladigerov and Kaufman will be among those performed, including transcriptions from original folk material and delightful miniatures inspired by the Romantic ...
April 20: Visiting Research Scholar Lecture
Speaker:
Mantha Zarmakoupi
Location:
2nd Floor Lecture Room
Date: Tuesday, April 20
Time: 6:00 p.m.
*reception to follow
May 4: Visiting Research Scholar Lecture
Speaker:
Muriel Debie
Location:
2nd Floor Lecture Room
Date: Tuesday, May 4
Time: 6:00 p.m.
*reception to follow
May 18: Visiting Research Scholar Lecture
Speaker:
Caroline Sauvage
Location:
2nd Floor Lecture Room
Date: Tuesday, May 18
Time: 6:00 p.m.
*reception to follow
