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Cold War Archives Research (CWAR) Workshop and Conference

Harriman Institute 420 West 118th St., New York City, NY, United States

RSVP not required - Seating will be first come, first served. Link to PDF of conference program here   12:55-1:00pm – Introductory Remarks Victoria Phillips, Adjunct Lecturer, European Institute & Coordinator, Cold War Archives Research Project 1:00pm-1:45pm – Keynote Speaker Patryk Babiracki, Author of Soviet Soft Power in Europe, Assistant Professor in Russian and East European history at the University…

The Divided Society

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

Revised program: 11:00AM Welcome: Barbara Faedda, Italian Academy A brief introduction to Reset Dialogues: Jonathan Laurence 11:15AM     Opening talk: Mark Lilla Jelani Cobb, Respondent Discussion moderated by Marina Calloni 12:45PM Break 1:45PM-3:30PM   Roundtable with Sheri Berman, Ian Buruma, Jedediah Purdy Discussion moderated by Lisa Anderson The new decade has revealed deepening fault lines and unrelieved polarization. In contemporary…

VIRTUAL EVENT. Roundtable on Literary Translation

Register here for the Zoom webinar, or tune in on YouTube Live. Please join the East Central European Center at the Harriman Institute for a round table discussion in celebration of National Translation Month. This round table on the art of literary translation and the business of publishing translated literature from East Central Europe will include a program of literary readings…

Shaping the Past: Town Hall

Conference on Innovative Forms of Memory Culture On October 8 and 9, we kick off our project Shaping the Past with the Monument Lab Town Hall. This digital conference explores new models and practices for how we might shape the past in ways that continue to confront legacies of racist, sexist, and colonial systems of knowledge and to strengthen democracy through public…

Marking Absences – Shifting Narratives

Urban landscapes are augmented layers of hegemonic power that materializes in buildings, street maps, and monuments in the public space. After the killing of George Floyd in 2020, the removal of white supremacist statues and symbols from cities across the world has become one of the central demands of protesters. While removing monuments to past figures and events can be…

Psalmody through the Ages: Music and the Book of Psalms – A Four-Part Digital Conference on Zoom

The book of Psalms echoes from the ancient Jerusalem Temple to the modern concert hall, and its role as an inspiration for musical works is unquestionable. In this digital conference, we bring together scholars from across disciplines to begin to answer the following question: How are we to understand the relationship between the book of Psalms and the music it…

Shared History Conference

A conference of Leo Baeck Institute – New York | Berlin in Cooperation with the German Federal Agency for Civic Education (Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung) and the Jewish Museum Berlin, supported by the German Federal Foreign Office. Live online, December 7–9, 2020. Attendance via video conference is free with advance registration. The conference languages will be German and English with…

Online Event: Les pépites au fond du tamis : ce qu’on retiendra de notre expérience de l’enseignement du français au temps de la Covid-19.

Online

This year's free, annual workshop for teachers of French, co-presented by the Columbia French Department and the Metropolitan Chapter of the American Association of Teachers of French, will feature presentations on the theme of "Les pépites au fond du tamis : ce qu'on retiendra de notre expérience de l'enseignement du français au temps de la Covid-19."

Free

Machines À Écrire: Pierre Michon In Conversation With Laure Adler

Online

We launched our new series on contemporary writing in 2018. Led by a prominent figure in French culture, we invite four writers every year in order to reflect and discuss on a chosen theme. These interviews will each take place on a Monday night; the following day, the invited authors will give public lectures, and their works will be integrated…

Free