Lecture: Chris Gratien
Richard Ettinghouse Library 255 Sullivan St., New YorkFrom the Center for European and Mediterranean Studies at NYU
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The Second Exchange: The Treaty of Lausanne and the Deportation of Greek Americans
Hagop Kevorkian Center 255 Sullivan Street, New York CityDuring the 1920s and 30s, the US deported thousands of Greeks, and the Convention Concerning the Exchange of Greek and Turkish Populations at Lausanne (1923) inadvertently aided in the process. But was the role of the postwar international system in this "second exchange" mere coincidence? This paper explores how the Treaty of Lausanne enabled the US to deport Ottoman Greek…
“Flowers for Otello”: A Performance and Conversation with Esther Dischereit
Deutsches Haus Columbia 420 West 116th Street, New York CityDeutsches Haus at NYU and NYU's Department of German present a spoken word performance of Esther Dischereit's "Flowers for Otello" with the author and current DAAD Chair of Contemporary Poetics, and Katharina Menschick. The performance will be followed by a conversation between Esther Dischereit and Ela Gezen, Associate Professor and Undergraduate Program Director at UMass Amherst. About "Flowers for Otello:" "Flowers for…