Events Search and Views Navigation

Event Views Navigation

Today
Ongoing

Virtual Cinema: Africa on the Seine, L’Envers du décor, A Nation is Born, Lamb

Online

This program of documentary shorts is both a stirring introduction to the Beninese/Senegalese filmmaker Paulin Soumanou Vieyra, considered the first sub-Saharan African film director and a rich overview of the period of African independence and nation-building. Vieyra’s 1955 essay film Africa on the Seine (co-directed with Mamadou Sarr) begins on the banks of the Niger but moves quickly to Paris, “the capital…

Free

Reframing Human Rights in a Turbulent Era

Online

Join us in discussing Gráinne de Búrca’s upcoming book, Reframing Human Rights in a Turbulent Era. In recent years, human rights have come under fire, with the rise of political illiberalism and the coming to power of populist authoritarian leaders in many parts of the world who contest and dismiss the idea of human rights.

Free

Thinking with Julia Kristeva

Online

On the occasion of the publication of The Philosophy of Julia Kristeva, ed. Sara G. Beardsworth, in The Library of Living Philosophers, Open Court Publishing Company, 2020 and of At the Risk of Thinking: An Intellectual Biography of Julia Kristeva, by Alice Jardine, Bloomsbury Publishing, 2020.

Free

Post-Socialist Rehabilitations: Disability, Race, Gender and Sexuality and the Limits of National Belonging by Kateřina Kolářová

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 Minority Inclusion and Exclusion in Soviet and Post-Communist Societies Speaker Series, a discussion with Kateřina Kolářová, Assistant Professor of Cultural Studies…

La Convivencia: Exploring Sephardic Music’s Traditions of Peace and Coexistence

This event will be held virtually as a Zoom webinar. There will be no in-person event. Register here for the Zoom webinar. The Kupferberg Holocaust Center, the Department of Music at Queensborough Community College, the Queensborough Performing Arts Center (QPAC), and the Harriman Institute at Columbia University present a performance by Merima Ključo, accordion, and Jelena Milušić, voice, with guest artist Mirna Lekić,…

The Tenor of Irish-Jewish Relations in 19th-20th Century New York

Online

Join us on March 17th at 7pm for a discussion with Dr. Hasia Diner and Dr. Jeffrey Gurock as they question the long-accepted visions of Hibernians and Hebrews at constant loggerheads and look to complicate the historical narrative with examples of common ground and cooperation.  Dr. Diner will speak to the histories of American Jews and Irish American’s entwined with each other starting in 19th century.

Free