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The Steppe Tradition in International Relations: Russians, Turks and European State Building 4000 BCE–2017 CE by Iver B. Neumann

Marshall D. Shulman Seminar Room 420 W 118th Street, #1219 International Affairs Building, New York City

Join us for a talk with Iver B. Neumann, incoming Director of the Fridtjof Nansen Institute, Oslo, Norway, and Adjunct Professor at the Museum of Cultural History, University of Oslo, on the book he co-authored, The Steppe Tradition in International Relations: Russians, Turks and European State Building 4000 BCE–2017 CE (Cambridge University Press, June 2018). Neumann and Wigen counter Euro-centrism in the study of international…

Mobilizing for the Climate Emergency

Columbia Journalism School 2950 Broadway, New York

Environmentalist and author Bill McKibben was among the first journalists to sound the alarm about the perils of climate change over 30 years ago, and he has continued to be a leading voice in raising awareness about climate disruption and a leader in launching an international climate movement as founder of 350.org. Marie Toussaint is a jurist and French member…

The Stuff of Soldiers: A History of the Red Army in World War II Through Objects

Jordan Center for the Advanced Study of Russia 19 University Place, 2nd Floor, New York City

The Stuff of Soldiers uses everyday objects to tell the story of the Great Patriotic War as never before. Brandon Schechter attends to a diverse array of things—from spoons to tanks—to show how a wide array of citizens became soldiers, and how the provisioning of material goods separated soldiers from civilians. Through a fascinating examination of leaflets, proclamations, newspapers, manuals,…

Critique 13/13 Seminar

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

For RSVP, please click here. The seminar Critique 13/13 in 2019-20 returns to brilliant texts in critical theory: Adorno, Althusser, Arendt, de Beauvoir, Du Bois, Fanon, Foucault, Freire, Horkheimer, Lorde, Said, Sartre, and others, in order to examine the current state of critical theory and ask how contemporary critical thought and practice function in these troubled times. The idea, in essence,…

Italian Dialect Theater

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

From 1900 to Today On the Italian Stage is a series of lectures conceived and led by Laura Caparrotti that journeys into the history of Italian Theater to explore its language, and its contribution to Italian society and world theater. This lecture will focus on Italian dialect theater from the 20th century to present times, especially in the ouvre of…

Politicizing the Past in D’Aubigné’s Tragiques – Ashley Voeks

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

This talk aims to explore the politicization of the past in Protestant poet-soldier-historian Agrippa d’Aubigné’s epic, Les Tragiques (1616). Focusing on the epic’s book of martyrs, “Les Feux,” it will be argued that D’Aubigné revives sixteenth-century accounts of Protestant martyrdom to propagate an alternate understanding of the religious minority in seventeenth-century France. The martyrs of “Les Feux” are not victims…