Three years ago, President Macron called for "a sovereign, democratic, and united Europe". For her part, Chancellor Merkel emphasized that "Europeans must take their fate into their own hands.” Participants in this session will discuss whether Europeans have made progress towards these goals.
Fifty years after she published her first book, If they Come in the Morning: Voice of Resistance, Angela Davis remains one of the most influential writers on culture, gender, capitalism, race, and justice. With such a rich history of activism and writing, it can be difficult to get a full picture of her work. This reading group, facilitated by Marian Jones and Natalie Adler, focuses…
Join the NYU's Center for European and Mediterranean Studies (CEMS) for a discussion of transatlantic relations under the Biden administration. Participants: Anu Bradford (Columbia University Law School); Andreas Nick (Member of Parliament, Christian Democratic Union of Germany); Damian Leader (Department of International Relations, NYU) This event will take place over Zoom. Please follow this link to register.
Deutsches Haus at NYU and the University of Cologne New York Office present “Identity, Belonging, and the Role of the Artist in the Contemporary Graphic Novel,” a conversation between the illustrators and artists Nora Krug and Büke Schwarz, moderated by Professor Stefan Börnchen. Both Nora Krug’s graphic memoir “Belonging: A German Reckons with History and Home” and Büke Schwarz’s debut graphic novel “Jein” draw inspiration from…
American-Scandinavian Foundation invites you to a virtual conversation between filmmaker Lo Dagerman and author Mark Greene on “Masculinity and Culture”, moderated by Benjamin Mier-Cruz on March 9. Immediately following WWII, a young Swedish journalist, Stig Dagerman, is sent into war-torn Europe. He writes a path-breaking travelogue from the ruins of Germany, and is in 1947 dispatched to Paris. French manhood…
Radical Diversity is a discussion series presented by several Goethe-Institut locations in North America in collaboration with its Goethe Pop Ups, the Thomas Mann House, and the Institute for Social Justice & Radical Diversity under the sponsorship of the Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung North America.
The Making of a Man (48 min, 2019) explores courage, cowardice and toxic masculinity across time and place (postwar France, Sweden and contemporary USA). Its point of departure is a play by Swedish writer Stig Dagerman, set in Paris reeling in the aftermath of Nazi occupation.
Johannes von Moltke is professor of German Studies and Film, TV and Media, at the University of Michigan. His most recent books include "The Curious Humanist: Siegfried Kracauer in America" and "Last Letters: The Prison Correspondence between Helmuth James and Freya von Moltke 1944-45." For registration, please email germanic@columbia.edu.
In his Discourses on Livy, Machiavelli compared the act of imposing new political orders on an uncivilized population to the carving of a statue from a piece of rough marble: an allusion, according to many scholars, to Michelangelo’s David. Did Michelangelo respond in some way to Machiavelli’s allusion? The University of Pennsylvania is the joint producer of this series—through the Italian Studies section…
Sex, Love, and Letters is the first study of a virtually unexplored cache of letters to Simone de Beauvoir, the brilliant, magnetic, and polarizing French feminist and philosopher from ordinary women and men around the world. This author-reader bond was fraught with misunderstanding, thwarted desire, and illusions, but also, Judith Coffin argues, emphatically reciprocal.
Read and discuss Scandinavian literature in translation as part of our Nordic Book Club, now online! Each month we select a novel from some of the best Nordic literary voices. Discussions have typically taken place the last Tuesday of the month at Scandinavia House but will now be taking place bi-weekly as an online meeting. Book club participants will all…
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.
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.
Four short films by Paulin Vieyra are being presented by the Columbia Maison Française online from March 14 through March 21: Africa on the Seine, L'Envers du décor, A Nation is Born, and Lamb. This conversation and is presented as part of the Columbia Maison Française Tournées Film Festival.
Following the withdrawal of the United Kingdom from the European Union, the UK and the EU signed at the end of December 2020 a Trade and Cooperation Agreement which applies provisionally pending its ratification by the EU. Consul General Phillips on will discuss the main components of the agreement and the opportunities and challenges which lie ahead. Speaker: Antony Phillipson,…
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 a meeting of the Russian Film Club with speakers Pavel Khazanov (Rutgers), John MacKay (Yale), Peter Rutland (Wesleyan). Moderated by Daria Ezerova (Harriman Institute)…
More than six hundred years ago, a conspiracy theory about the murder of children went viral in a brand new medium, and it has circulated in ever-changing forms to the present day, inspiring vigilantism, mob violence, and state persecution.
On April 10, join us for a book talk with Laura Linstedt and translator David Hackston on My Friend Natalia, the author’s U.S. debut, available from Liveright Publishing on March 23, 2021. My Friend Natalia is a linguistic sexual thriller centered on one woman’s potent affliction: Natalia cannot stop thinking about sex. The unnamed, ungendered therapist who narrates the novel has leapt at the chance to…
On April 17, American-Scandinavian Foundation invites you to a virtual talk with photographer Anne Helene Gjelstad on her documentary book Big Heart, Strong Hands, out now from Dewi Lewis Publishing. She will be joined by moderator & photographer Erika Larsen (Sàmi: Walking with Reindeer). Big Heart, Strong Hands is the story of the women on the Estonian islands Kihnu and Manija in the…
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 a meeting of the Russian Film Club with speakers Tatiana Mikhailova (Columbia), Elena Prokhorova (William & Mary), and Sasha Prokhorov (William & Mary). Moderated by Daria Ezerova (Harriman Institute) and Mark…
This year-long series starts from a simple premise: What does it look like to think, engage, and do research in this digital age? This is not a call for researchers to simply produce digital outputs - but we live in an ever-increasingly digital world. In order to better activate our scholarship, and to grasp the terrain in which our research…
What is a national writer? Individual creator and recognized representative of a collective identity, he is the embodiment of an image of the nation through his work and through his person between literature and politics. In The Factory of the National Writer. Between literature and politics, Anne-Marie Thiesse went in search of this eminent figure, obvious, and of definition however uncertain. “Literary nation” among all,…
This year long series starts from a simple premise: What does it look like to think, engage, and do research in this digital age? This is not a call for researchers to simply produce digital outputs - but we live in an ever increasingly digital world. In order to better activate our scholarship, and to grasp the terrain in which…