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Film Screening of Ruth Kaaserer’s “Gwendolyn”

Anthology Film Archives 32 Second Avenue (at 2nd Street), New York

Screening details This event will recur Every Day until Nov. 8, 2018. Ruth Kaaserer is the recipient of the 2017 Erste Bank's ExtraVALUE Film Award, which she received for Gwendolyn at the 2017 Viennale. On the occasion of her residency at Deutsches Haus at NYU, Deutsches Haus co-presents together with Anthology Film Archives, Erste Bank, and the Austrian Cultural Forum two screenings of Gwendolyn (2017), on Wednesday, November 7,…

Building-Up and Breaking-Down: Figures of Liminality in Goethe’s Novella and George Simmel’s “The Ruin” by Aleksandra Prica

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

The talk explores how in Goethe’s short story Novella (1828) and Georg Simmel’s philosophical essay "The Ruin" (1911) ruins are prominently featured to make an argument about the conditions of aesthetic and philosophical representation. The use of the ruin ultimately sheds light on each works’ respective status in the broader context of literary history and the history of philosophy. Contact…

“Belonging:” A Conversation between Nora Krug and Nicole Rudick

Deutsches Haus NYU 42 Washington Mews, New York City

Deutsches Haus at NYU and the New York Institute for the Humanities at NYU present a reading by the author Nora Krug from her recent graphic memoir Belonging followed by a conversation between her and the writer and editor Nicole Rudick. About the book: Nora Krug was born decades after the fall of the Nazi regime, but the Second World War cast a long…

Books in Cities: The Demand for Literature in France on the Eve of the Revolution – Robert Darnton

La Maison Française (NYU) 16 Washington Mews, New York City

New research in a new field, the history of books, goes back to a question raised by Daniel Mornet in a famous article of 1910: What did the French read on the eve of the Revolution?  This lecture is intended to answer that question and to explore related issues in cultural history by explaining how publishing and the book trade…

Masaryk, Czechoslovak Jews, and the Case for Liberal Democracy

Bohemian National Hall 321 E 73rd St., New York

Lecture by Hillel J. Kieval, Goldstein Professor of Jewish History and Thought, Washington University in St. Louis. With the commemoration of the 100th anniversary of the proclamation of the First Czechoslovak Republic, questions concerning the future of the democratic order in Europe and beyond abound. Do nationalist and populist movements pose a threat to democratic constitutions? What is “illiberal democracy?”…