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Kino Polska: New Polish Cinema

Peter Jay Sharp Building 30 Lafayette Ave, Brooklyn

Kino Polska: New Polish Cinema features seven films, including three New York premieres, highlighting directors who are revitalizing contemporary Polish cinema. The series brings together the best new works by Poland’s boundary-pushing women filmmakers. The series opens with Agnieszka Holland and Katarzyna Adamik’s „Spoor” (2017). The critically acclaimed eco-thriller was Poland’s 2018 Oscar submission and winner of the Silver Bear…

SCIENTIFIC CURATING: MUSEUMS IN GERMANY AS A PROFESSIONAL FIELD FOR YOUNG SCHOLARS by Christoph Willmitzer

Deutsches Haus Columbia 420 West 116th Street, New York City

Museums perceive themselves as scientific institutions but what does this mean for the daily practice of a curator? How has the unique genre of literature exhibitions changed over the last 15 years? What are the opportunities in German museums that await young scholars with a background in the humanities? The lecture will try to give answers to these questions based…

THE EXTREME GONE MAINSTREAM?: COMMERCIALIZATION AND FAR RIGHT YOUTH CULTURE IN GERMANY AND THE U.S.

Deutsches Haus NYU 42 Washington Mews, New York City

Deutsches Haus at NYU and the University of Cologne New York Office present a talk by Cynthia Miller-Idriss, Professor of Education and Sociology at the American University in Washington, DC, and former fellow of the Morphomata International Center for Advanced Studies at the University of Cologne, about her recent book The Extreme Gone Mainstream: Commercialization and Far-Right Youth Culture in Germany (Princeton University Press,…