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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…

Festival Albertine 2019: The Climate Moment

Albertine 972 5th Avenue, New York, NY, United States

At this point in human and geological history, dealing with climate chaos is a race: can we move fast enough to prevent civilization-scale collapse? —Bill McKibben Festival Albertine 2019, curated by environmentalist and author Bill McKibben, will take on climate change. For three days, leading thinkers, politicians, activists, artists, and authors will come together to discuss the urgency to act,…

Rewiring Democracy: Beyond “Us” and “Them” – Conference

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

An international conference co-organized by Jeanne Etelain and Phillip John Usher Our current moment is one in which our understanding of democracy is placed under critical pressure, making it increasingly difficult to divide the world into "them" and "us"‐‐ and equally difficult to even know what is meant when we say "we." Whereas a certain modern tradition defies the political via the…

Competing Truths: Art and the Objects of History after the Council of Trent

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

This is a two-day symposium to be jointly held at the Italian Academy and The Frick Collection and Frick Art Reference Library on November 15 and 16. The event will bring together scholars and museum professionals in order to investigate how Italian art helped to formulate competing truths in the long aftermath of the Council of Trent, and how the…