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The Rise of Populism: Trump versus Putin

1219 International Affairs Building 420 West 118th Street, New York City

Please join us for a lecture by Victoria Zhuravleva, Head of the Center for North American Studies, Primakov National Research Institute of World Economy and International Relations (IMEMO) Moscow, Russia. In the last few years the notion of “populism” has become one of the most frequently mentioned global trends. An army of populist politicians, brought to power by angry people disappointed by…

Escape from Vichy: The Refugee Exodus to the French Caribbean – Eric T. Jennings

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

To RSVP, please click here. In the early years of World War II, thousands of political refugees traveled from France to Vichy-controlled Martinique in the French Caribbean, en route to what they hoped would be safer shores in North, Central, and South America. While awaiting transfer from the colony, the exiles formed influential ties—with one another and with local black dissidents. Escape from…

Black and White with Red Sauce

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

Spaghetti alla Tarantino A lecture by Mary Ann McDonald Carolan, NYU Tiro a Segno Visiting Professor Quentin Tarantino’s indebtedness to the spaghetti western and its masters, Sergio Corbucci and Sergio Leone in particular, is legendary. Elements of that genre appear in Django Unchained (2012) and The Hateful Eight (2015). The American director’s penchant for violence and gratuitous bloodshed has resulted…