Join us for an evening with award-winning documentary filmmaker Ric Burns and Riccardo Bruscagli, scholar and co-writer, in conversation about their film, DANTE: Inferno to Paradise. DANTE: Inferno to Paradise explores the power and drama of Dante Alighieri’s great masterwork, The Divine Comedy. The documentary dives into the riveting life and times of the poem’s
Save the date for the annual Economos Orthodoxy in America Lecture. This year, the lecture will be delivered by Joseph McShane, S.J., president emeritus of Fordham University.
Andrea Tornielli is an Italian journalist and longtime "vaticanista" who now oversees the various Vatican media outlets. Tornielli’s latest book, The Life of Jesus, is a reimagining of the life of Jesus that, like the TV series The Chosen, helps readers approach the story of Jesus with fresh eyes and an open heart. The book
This interdisciplinary panel discussion will feature Mathias Risse, the Berthold Beitz Professor in Human Rights, Global Affairs, and Philosophy and the director of the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy at Harvard University; and Mekela Panditharatne, senior counsel for the Brennan Center for Justice's Elections & Government Program, where her work focuses on election integrity.
This event will celebrate the launch of two new books by Joy Ladin: Once Out of Nature: Selected Essays on the Transformation of Gender and Family, a new collection of poems. She will read from both books and reflect on what Jewish identity can teach us about trans identity, what trans identity can teach us
This talk will explore how Jewish memorial books, yizker-bikher, created by Holocaust survivors or by pre-war Jewish émigrés from Eastern Europe, have engaged and encouraged various forms of mappings. These include both material cartographic images published in memorial books and performative acts of mapping the space of Jewish Eastern Europe undertaken by two groups of
