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The Black Experience in French Cinema – Film Festival and Conference

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

Organized by Isabelle Boni-Claverie (French film director, screenwriter, visiting professor at NYU in Spring 2019) and Frédéric Viguier (Institute of French Studies, GSAS) Presented by Institute of French Studies and Cinema Studies APRIL 11 - COMING TO TERMS WITH THE COLONIAL EXPERIENCE The first film ever made by black people, Afrique sur Seine, was directed in 1956 by a group of African…

Georgian Jews

Center for Jewish History 15 W. 16th Street, New York City, NY, United States

At the Crossroads of Sephardic, Mizrahi, and Russian-Speaking Worlds: A Three-Part Learning and Cultural Series on the Greater Sephardic Communities of the Former Soviet Union Back by popular demand, the American Sephardi Federation’s Young Sephardi Scholars Series is excited to once again host a 3-part learning and cultural series about the Russian-speaking Jewish (RSJ) communities of the Greater Sephardic world.…

$18 – $36

IN DIALOGUE: POLISH JEWISH RELATIONS

YIVO Institute for Jewish Research 15 West 16th Street, NYC, New York City, NY, United States

This past year, tensions between the Polish government and the international Jewish community rose following a controversial law making it an offense for anyone to accuse Poland of participating in the Holocaust or other Nazi crimes. According to the U.S. State Department, this law “could undermine free speech and academic discourse.” In this context, exploring the history of Polish-Jewish relations…

What is Suffering Worth? Perspectives Across Disciplines on the Treatment of Victims

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

To RSVP, please click here. This interdisciplinary symposium explores a crucial but little-studied issue with growing importance today: what is the value of harm suffered by victims, whether of terrorism, crime or natural disasters. In law, politics, economics and public opinion, answers differ widely, and unequal treatment is the norm. Across the globe, victims evoke a range of feelings, from compassion verging…

Religion and Rituality

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

Religion and Rituality Fourth Annual Conference of the Francophone Society of the Philosophy of Religion To RSVP, please click here.  Rites are a privileged subject matter for anthropology as they allow to subsume under the same concept of religion various practices by which human societies manifest the systems of belief around which they are organized; they also signify, within the succession of…

The Restitution Debate: African Art in a Global Society

Italian Academy (Columbia) 1161 Amsterdam Avenue, New York City, NY, United States

In November 2018, Felwine Sarr and Bénédicte Savoy released a report that had been prepared for the President of France, Emmanuel Macron, entitled The Restitution of African Cultural Heritage. Toward a New Relational Ethics. This report has set in motion a debate that could have a profound impact on the status of African art held in collections around the world.…

The Restitution Debate: African Art in a Global Society

Italian Academy (Columbia) 1161 Amsterdam Avenue, New York City, NY, United States

In November 2018, Felwine Sarr and Bénédicte Savoy released a report that had been prepared for the President of France entitled The Restitution of African Cultural Heritage. Toward a New Relational Ethics. This report has set in motion a debate that could have a profound impact on the status of African art held in collections around the world. During this…

Conference. Five Years of War in the Donbas: Cultural Responses and Reverberations

#1512 International Affairs Building 420 West 118th Street, New York City, NY, United States

Join the Ukrainian Studies Program at the Harriman Institute, Columbia University for the conference Five Years of War in the Donbas: Cultural Responses and Reverberations. The conference will gather an international array of scholars to discuss the diverse ways that Ukrainian culture has been stirred by the recent war between Ukraine and Russia in the Donbas. At the bottom of…

Conference. New Actors and Strategies for Fighting and Investigating Corruption in the Western Balkans

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

Join the Harriman Institute and the Centre for the Study of Corruption at the University of Sussex for a two-day workshop exploring the latest academic and practitioner trends in researching and addressing corruption in the Western Balkans. This event will bring together academics working on corruption, think-tankers and activists from the region, and investigative journalists, who play an increasingly important…

Memories Are Made of This: 30 Years after the Fall of the Berlin Wall

Deutsches Haus NYU 42 Washington Mews, New York City, NY, United States

Deutsches Haus at NYU and NYU’s Center for European and Mediterranean Studies present "Memories Are Made of This: 30 Years after the Fall of the Berlin Wall," a conference commemorating the 30th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall. This conference will take place on Thursday, November 7, and Friday, November 8, consisting of a keynote address by DAAD Visiting Scholar at…