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Book Talk: Governing Habits: Treating Alcoholism in the Post-Soviet Clinic by Eugene Raikhel

Please join us for the fifth event of our Work of Care in Russia speaker series, a book talk by Eugene Raikhel, author of Governing Habits: Treating Alcoholism in the Post-Soviet Clinic (Cornell University Press, 2016). Moderated by Svetlana Borodina. Critics of narcology—as addiction medicine is called in Russia—decry it as being “backward,” hopelessly behind contemporary global medical practices in relation to addiction and substance abuse, and…

Elements of Border and Infrastructure: Water II

Zoom

Please join the Hagop Kevorkian Center for another installment of our series "Elements of Border and Infrastructure." This event will be on the theme of "Water" and will feature a conversation with Jatin Dua (Michigan), Laleh Khalili (Queen Mary Univ. of London), and Nathalie Peutz (NYU-Abu Dhabi) moderated by journalist and Kevorkian Center Visiting Scholar, Atossa Abrahamian (The Nation). This…

Discourses and Likes: Emancipation Going Viral

Online

Thomas Mann House Los Angeles and Deutsches Haus at NYU present a conversation on “Discourses and Likes: Emancipation Going Viral” between Fatma Aydemir and Mohamed Amjahid, which will be moderated by Ulrich Baer (NYU). In the last couple of years, queer-feminist, antiracist, and emancipatory discourses have become increasingly visible, both in the United States and in the German and European…