23rd Annual World Convention of the Association for the Study of Nationalities (ASN)

Harriman Institute 420 West 118th St., New York City

The Harriman Institute hosts the 23rd Annual ASN World Convention. REGISTRATION IS REQUIRED. Click here to register.  Over 150 Panels in Nine Sections:  Nationalism Studies Migration & Diasporas Balkans Russia Ukraine and Belarus Central Europe (including Baltics & Moldova) Eurasia (including Central Asia & China) Caucasus (North and South) Turkey, Greece (and Cyprus) Thematic Panels on: The Rise of the Far Right in Europe…

Talk: Humanitarianism And The Century Of Wars

The New School 6 East 16th Street, New York

Historians Davide Rodogno (The Graduate Institute) and Sergio Luzzatto (University of Turin) will present and discuss their current research on cases in which, during the century that was theater to two world conflicts, the notion of humanitarian intervention took shape and and shaped the societies that received it as well as those that practiced it. Admission: this program is primarily meant for an academic audience.…

Lecture: Italian Incompleteness (A lecture by Roberto Esposito)

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

A lecture by Roberto Esposito, Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa Italy is a country trapped in an incurable state of incompletion, condemned to the eternal pursuit of something that has always eluded it, incapable of achieving development that corresponds to its potential. The challenge is to work on this incompletion, on the energy contained in potentiality that has never been…

May Made Me

Albertine 972 5th Avenue, New York

The mass protests that shook France in May 1968 changed European politics to this day. Students demonstrated, workers went on general strike, factories and universities were occupied. At the height of its fervor, it brought the entire national economy to a halt. Fifty years later, Mitch Abidor and Todd Gitlin will delve into the oral testimonies of those young rebels…

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