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MOSCOW: Gay Cruising Sites of the Soviet Capital, 1920S-1980S

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

The Harriman Institute is pleased to present the exhibit Moscow: Gay Cruising Sites of the Soviet Capital, 1920s-1980s featuring a series of works photographs by artist Yevgeniy Fiks. "What is the attitude of bourgeois society to homosexuals? Even if we take into account the differences existing on this score in the legislation of various countries, can we speak of a specifically bourgeois attitude…

The Heart of a Stranger

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

Centro Primo Levi Readings Presented in collaboration with Centro Primo Levi. The Heart of a Stranger An Anthology of Exile Literature (2020, Pushkin Press) Edited by André Naffis-Sahely The editor in conversation with: Jenny Xie (NYU, Graywolf poet) Aaron Robertson (Lit Hub Editor and translator of Ethiopian memoirist Martha Nasibù) Jonathan Galassi (poet and translator, Farrar, Straus and Giroux) The Heart of a Stranger charts…

Science Cafe: Research on Masaryk with Dagmar Hajkova

Bohemian National Hall 321 E 73rd St., New York

At the first edition of Science Café, Dagmar Hájková, a researcher who specializes in Czech history of the first half of the 20th century, will present the current research from the Masaryk Institute and Archives of the Czech Academy of Sciences focused on Tomas Garrigue Masaryk and his presence. Dagmar Hájková is a senior researcher in Masaryk Institute and Archive…

IRISH WRITERS IN THE AMERICAN PRESS, 1882-1964

Glucksman Ireland House NYU One Washington Mews, New York City

Irish Writers in the Irish American Press (University of Massachusetts Press, 2018) spans the period from Oscar Wilde’s 1882 American lecture tour to the months following JFK’s assassination and covers the century in which Irish American identity was shaped by immigration, religion, politics, and economic advancement. Through a close engagement with Irish American periodicals, Dr. Stephen Butler offers a more nuanced…