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Symposium: Threatened Heritage. Bears Ears, Chaco, and Beyond

Italian Academy (Columbia) 1161 Amsterdam Avenue, New York City

Trump's recent decision to reduce Bears Ears—and continuing threats to the integrity of Chaco—represent a further assault on indigenous heritage and history in the United States. This symposium is intended to set out and to protest the scale of the potential for damage to these precious sites. Invited speakers include: Angelo Baca, Amalia Cordova, Sandy Grande, Carrie Heitman, Elizabeth Hutchinson, Honor…

Lecture/Panel: Nation Building: Why Some Countries Come Together While Others Fall Apart

La Maison Française (Columbia) Buell Hall, 515 West 116th Street, New York City

To RSVP, please click here. Why is national integration achieved in some diverse countries, while others are destabilized by political inequality between ethnic groups, contentious politics, or even separatism and ethnic war? Traversing centuries and continents from early nineteenth-century Europe and Asia to Africa from the turn of the twenty-first century to today, Andreas Wimmer delves into the forces that encourage…

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Concert: AMEN AMIN AMAN: Jewish Music from Ancient Times until Today, from the Middle East to the West

Casa Italiana Zerilli-Marimò (NYU) 24 West 12th Street, New York City

On the occasion of the tenth anniversary celebrations of the creation of the Union for the Mediterranean and after the Conference "Perspectives on Sustainable Development Cooperation Towards the Eradication of Poverty and Youth Unemployment in the Mediterranean Sea Area”at the General Secretariat ONU, the concert “Amen Amin Aman” inaugurates the 2018 series of cultural events dedicated to the Promotion of…

Film Screening & Discussion. The Saline: In the Net

1201 International Affairs Building 420 W 118th St, New York City

Please join us for a screening of the documentary film The Saline: In the Net, a co-production of the Center for Investigative Journalism of Montenegro (CIN-CG) and TV Vijesti, followed by a discussion with one of its screenwriters, Milka Tadić Mijović. Run time: 38 minutes English subtitles The Saline: In the Net highlights the corruption that threatens to destroy one of the most important…

Germany’s Policy Towards European Integration: Still Muddling through or Leaping Forward

Deutsches Haus NYU 42 Washington Mews, New York City

Deutsches Haus at NYU presents "Germany's Policy Towards European Integration: Still Muddling Through or Leaping Forward?",  a lecture by Dr. Gabriele Abels, Jean Monnet Chair and professor of German and European politics at the University of Tübingen, Germany. The lecture will be followed by a discussion between Dr. Abels and Dr. Sheri Berman, professor of political science at Barnard College. Germany…

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The Albertine Book Club Reads ‘Incest’ by Christine Angot

Albertine 972 5th Avenue, New York

Cécile David-Weill and Caroline Weber will moderate our group discussion on Christine Angot’sIncest, translated from the French by Tess Lewis (Archipelago Books). Incest relates the violent relationship Christine Angot had with her father and audaciously confronts its readers with one of our greatest taboos. Angot’s writing goes fast, strong and far, disrupts forms, framework, as well as mainstream literary codes. So much so…

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