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The Ranking Game from a Hungarian Perspective

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

Please join us for a talk with Péter Érdi, author of Ranking: The Unwritten Rules of the Social Game We All Play (Oxford University Press, October 2019). This event will be live streamed on our Facebook page via Facebook Live. Follow us and enable Facebook Live notifications to watch the event. Human beings are competitive. We like to see who is stronger, richer, better,…

“Kafka With Wings:” An Evening with Daniela Emminger and Liesl Schillinger

Deutsches Haus NYU 42 Washington Mews, New York City

Deutsches Haus at NYU presents a reading by the author and current Max Kade writer-in-residence at Deutsches Haus at NYU, Daniela Emminger, from her recent novel Kafka with Wings, followed by a conversation with writer Liesl Schillinger. Daniela Emminger's novel follows a woman's search for her long-lost Kyrgyz friend, exploring the history and culture of Kyrgyzstan while delving into themes…

Prof. Juliane Rebentisch (Princeton): Invisibility as a Political Problem. Notes on Hannah Arendt

Deutsches Haus Columbia 420 West 116th Street, New York City

Hannah Arendt advocates a concept of political freedom that is intimately linked to the appearance of the person on the public stage. However, Arendt's theory of public appearance is wrested from the problems of disappearance and invisibility - under totalitarian regimes, under conditions of slavery and poverty. To better understand the intuition behind Arendt's persistent adherence to a notion of…

The Two Faces of Soviet Technocracy: Engineer-Utopians and Apparatchik-Intellectuals, and What Happened With Their Ideas Later

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

Please join us for a talk with Ilya Kukulin (National Research University Higher School of Economics, Moscow). In the 1990s, political and economic reforms in post-Soviet Russia neither absolutely failed nor turned out to be obviously successful. It is better to say that their results became unpredictable for their initiators, as well as for participants and witnesses. Among these unforeseen consequences are…

Lo squadrone bianco

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

(The White Squadron, 1936) In conjunction with the exhibition Propaganda: The Art of Political Indoctrination On view at Casa Italiana March 4 - April 17, 2020 Lo squadrone bianco (Italy, 1936, b/w, 94 min.) In ITALIAN with ENGLISH subtitles Directed by Augusto Genina Starring Fosco Giachetti, Antonio Centa, Fulvia Lanzi Introduced by Alberto Zambenedetti, University of Toronto From the Casa Italiana Zerilli-Marimo.