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Book Talk. Giuseppe Mazzini’s Young Europe and the Birth of Modern Nationalism in the Slavic World by Anna Procyk

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

Join the Ukrainian Studies Program and the East Central European Center at the Harriman Institute for a presentation by Anna Procyk of her book Giuseppe Mazzini’s Young Europe and the Birth of Modern Nationalism in the Slavic World (University of Toronto Press, 2019). Giuseppe Mazzini’s Young Europe and the Birth of Modern Nationalism in the Slavic World examines the intellectual currents in Eastern…

The Sower (Le Semeur)

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

To RSVP, please click here. Following the coup d’état of December 2, 1851, President Louis Napoleon Bonaparte was crowned Emperor Napoleon III, setting off a bloody campaign of repression to root out his opponents. In some regions, entire villages were cleared of their adult male population. Marine Francen’s ravishing first feature uses this historical context and the true story of…

Modernity, Fascism & Resistance

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

How Four Ethiopians Confronted, Maneuvered and Survived the Italo-Ethiopian War of 1935-1941 In collaboration with Centro Primo Levi NYU Department of History NYU Tisch School of the Arts NYU Department of Italian Studies NYU Center for the Study of African and the African Diaspora (CSAAD) Modernity, Fascism & Resistance How Four Ethiopians Confronted, Maneuvered and Survived the Italo-Ethiopian War of 1935-1941…

C& Projects X Ragga NYC: Planetary Connections

Goethe-Institut New York 30 Irving Place, New York City

Contemporary And (C&) is an art magazine and a dynamic space for issues and information on contemporary art from Africa and its global diaspora. Co-founded in 2013 by Julia Grosse and Yvette Mutumba and co-published by ifa, C& has gained a worldwide reach. In addition to the editorial content published online and in print, C& also runs multiple offline projects…

Lecture: The Aftermath of WWII in Czechoslovakia

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

Lecture by historian Vojtech Kyncl from the Institute of History of the Czech Academy of Sciences, with archival footage including unique shots from Pilsen, accompanied by recordings from Czech Radio, and followed by Q&A. The defeat of the Nazi Third Reich was an impatiently awaited result of the European nations’ struggle for freedom. The last weeks of the war at…

Legacy of Blood: Jews, Pogroms, and Ritual Murder in the Lands of the Soviets

Center for Jewish History 15 W. 16th Street, New York City

The most extreme legacies of tsarist antisemitism were pogroms and blood libels. These events were central to the Jewish experience in late tsarist Russia, the only country with widespread anti-Jewish violence in the early twentieth century. After the Soviets came to power, they claimed that they had eliminated both these phenomena. In her new revelatory book, Legacy of Blood: Jews,…