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Exhibit Opening. Listen to Silence and Speak: The Leningrad Underground and Joseph Brodsky

Harriman Institute 420 West 118th St., New York City

Exhibit runs March 26 – May 10, 2019. Exhibit hours are Monday–Friday, 9:30AM – 5:00PM excluding university holidays. Please join us for a reception in celebration of the opening of the exhibit Listen to Silence and Speak: The Leningrad Underground and Joseph Brodsky, a photography exhibit curated by Natasha Sharymova. “In the late 1950s I met and befriended a group of young artists and poets. I devoted all my…

Language and Politics: Let’s Tell It Like It Is

Deutsches Haus NYU 42 Washington Mews, New York City

Deutsches Haus at NYU and the Center for European and Mediterranean Studiespresents a conversation among Anastasia Colosimo, Wolfgang Freitag, and Christian Martin about "Politics and Language: Let's Tell It Like It Is." Language and politics are two spheres that, intuitively, seem to be closely intertwined. Yet, their exact relationship is open to contestation, thus becoming a matter of politics itself. In the most…

Nordic Journalist Panel: Approaches To Immigration

Scandinavia House 58 Park Avenue, New York City

This Tuesday, Nordic-U.S. journalists based in NYC join Scandinavia House for a conversation on the changing landscape of immigration policies in the United States and in their home countries. What trends do they see as journalists occurring in Scandinavia and in the U.S.?  What challenges do they face, as foreign journalists, reporting in the U.S. compared to their own nations?…

Divine Diamonds: Gender, Embodiment, and Movement in the French Banlieue – Margaret C. Flinn

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

Two recent French films (Divines, Benyamina, 2016; Bande de filles, Sciamma), directed by women and featuring racially and ethnically marked girls’ bodies in movement, have achieved notable critical and popular success. Residents of the Parisian banlieue, these girls share a heritage of post/colonial immigration. This talk interrogates how these films represent gendered bodies and how those bodies are offered to be seen, but…