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Efratia Gitai: Correspondance 1929–1994

Museum of Modern Art 11 West 53rd St., New York

Centro Primo Levi Editions is pleased to announce the English language publication of Efratia Gitai: Correspondence 1929–1994, with a stage reading of a selection of the letters featuring Barbara Sukowa, Ronald Gutman and pianist Yali Levi Schwartz. Born in 1909 in Haifa to Russian Zionist parents, Efratia Gitai was “the eldest daughter” of the Second Aliyah, the second wave of Jewish immigrants to Ottoman Palestine.  Her…

Scholars and their Kin: A Symposium

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

A growing number of scholars are making their own relatives their object of study. These personal family histories mark a significant shift in scholarly practice and writing, with far-reaching methodological, political, and ethical implications. Scholars and Their Kin is one of the first symposia to bring together scholars who are presently writing in this vein or have recently done so.…

Contesting the Classroom. Reimagining Education in Moroccan and Algerian Literatures

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

To RSVP, please click here. Introduction, Madeleine Dobie Respondent, Sophia Mo Contesting the Classroom is the first scholarly work to analyze both how Algerian and Moroccan novels depict the postcolonial classroom, and how postcolonial literatures are taught in Morocco and Algeria. Drawing on a corpus of contemporary novels in French and Arabic, it shows that authors imagined the fictional classroom as a…

Cold War Archives Research (CWAR) Workshop and Conference

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

RSVP not required - Seating will be first come, first served. Link to PDF of conference program here   12:55-1:00pm – Introductory Remarks Victoria Phillips, Adjunct Lecturer, European Institute & Coordinator, Cold War Archives Research Project 1:00pm-1:45pm – Keynote Speaker Patryk Babiracki, Author of Soviet Soft Power in Europe, Assistant Professor in Russian and East European history at the University…

Music Concert by Robert Lotreck

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

To RSVP, please click here. Presented as part of the Music Performance Program, by the Department of Music and Maison Française.

The Maamtrasna Murders: Panel including Colm Toibin and other Distinguished Panelists

Glucksman Ireland House NYU One Washington Mews, New York City

In 1882 the brutal murders of the Joyce family in Maamtrasna, western Ireland, were succeeded by a series of legal trials and executions, made especially infamous by the wrongful conviction and execution of Irish-speaker Myles Joyce. These events are the subject of a recent book by Professor Margaret Kelleher, Fulbright Visiting Scholar at New York University: The Maamtrasna Murders: Language,…

Perspectives on Russia from Now into the Next Generation

1201 International Affairs Building 420 W 118th St, New York City

Please join the Program on U.S.-Russia Relations at the Harriman Institute for a talk with Brigadier General Peter B. Zwack U.S. Army (Retired), a Global Fellow at the Kennan Institute for Advanced Russian Studies. This event will be live streamed on our Facebook page via Facebook Live. Follow us and enable Facebook Live notifications to watch the event. From 2012…

From Internationalism to Cosmopolitanism: Literature and Cinema between the Second and Third World (with Rossen Djagalov, New York University)

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

Would there have been a Third World without the Second? Perhaps, but it would have looked very different. Although most histories of these geopolitical blocs and their constituent societies and cultures are written in reference to the West, the interdependence of the Second and Third Worlds is evident not only from a common nomenclature but also from their near-simultaneous disappearance…

Britt-Marie Was Here /Britt-Marie Var Har New Nordic Cinema: Female-Focused

Scandinavia House 58 Park Avenue, New York City

Based on the bestselling novel by author Fredrik Backman (A Man Called Ove), this comedic drama follows the journey of 63-year-old Britt-Marie as she works to find a new purpose in life after discovering her husband’s infidelity. For most of her life, Britt-Marie has been fastidious about order, compulsively making sure that her life and home are routine and organized.…

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