This event will be held virtually as a Zoom meeting: https://nyu.zoom.us/j/97955477217. In the brief civil war that followed the collapse of the USSR, Boris Yeltsin’s pro-Western government was opposed by a strange coalition that the neoliberal media called “the communofascists” or “the red- and-browns.” These clichés were part of a campaign to discredit and de-humanize the resistance to the radical…
This event will be held virtually as a Zoom webinar and streamed via YouTube Live. There will be no in-person event. Register here for the Zoom webinar, or tune in on YouTube Live. Please join us for an event in the Russia's Worlds Lecture Series, a discussion with Bathsheba Demuth (Brown University) and Ilya Vinkovetsky (Simon Fraser University). BIOGRAPHIES Bathsheba Demuth is Assistant…
The Hagop Kevorkian Center and the Department of Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies at NYU kindly invite you to join us on February 22 at 12:30pm NYC / 7:30pm Beirut for the first Arabic lecture of the semester: “The Economic Crisis in Lebanon” by renowned economist Kamal Hamdan, featuring discussant Jad Ghosn. Dr. Hamdan will offer insight on the current…
The early twentieth century was a period of assimilation and acculturation for large segments of the Jewish population living in the United States and Central and Eastern Europe. It was also a time of development and flowering for cinema – a new, democratic art form. Focusing on documentaries as well as feature silent films, 2019 Jan Karski & Pola Nirenska Award…