Dmitry Bykov – Taboo in Russia: banned or suppressed issues-Lecture and Q&A

Jordan Center for the Advanced Study of Russia 19 University Place, 2nd Floor, New York City

Please join us on Wednesday, February 6th for “Taboo in Russia: banned or suppressed issues“, a Q&A with Dmitry Bykov. This event is part of the Occasional Series, co-sponsored by the NYU Jordan Center for the Advanced Study of Russia. This event will be held in Room 405 The Silver Center for the Arts, 100 Washington Square Any political regime should…

The Barbarity of the Metropolis: Towards a Biopolitics of Radical Social Transformation

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

A talk by Guillaume Faburel To RSVP, please click here. Metropolization implies ceaseless urban expansion and an ever faster-paced life. It transforms towns into entrepreneurial firms and generates economic exclusion, spatial segregation, and social suffering, all while fueling the environmental crisis, to the point that large cities are increasingly rejecting it, evidenced by various forms of resistance. From a turn toward…

Unworthy

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

A Novel by Antonio Monda Unworthy (Penguin Random House, 2018) by Antonio Monda English translation by John Cullen The author in conversation with Mary Karr and Fr. James Martin, S.J. “With storytelling finesse, Antonio Monda has written a compact and forceful book that might be a morbid erotic tale out of Boccaccio, exposing the tormented lust of the clergy.” –Philip…