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Love and Politics in the Balfour Family

The European Institute at Columbia University 420 W 118th St #1205, New York City

Susan Pedersen, Columbia: “Love and Politics in the Balfour Family.” This is part of the European History & Politics Workshop, supported by the European Institute at Columbia University. The workshop will meet on select Mondays over the course of the academic year at Columbia University (Philosophy 302) from 12:00pm-1:30pm. Participants will discuss pre-circulated work-in-progress over a light lunch. Please note…

Paris Underworld: A True Belle Époque Story

Albertine 972 5th Avenue, New York

The Brooklyn Rail and Albertine Books team up and explore the underworld in an evening celebrating the newly released Vice, Crime, and Poverty by Dominique Kalifa and Eugene Sue’s Les Mystères de Paris new serialized translation. Beggars, outcasts, urchins, waifs, prostitutes, criminals, convicts, madmen, fallen women, lunatics, degenerates—part reality, part fantasy, these are the grotesque faces that populate the underworld, the dark inverse of…