Catherine Cusset is the award-winning, best-selling author of thirteen novels published by Gallimard. She taught literature at Yale between 1991 and 2002 and lives in New York City. Her novel Un brillant avenir received the Goncourt des Lycéens Prize in 2008 and her novel L’autre qu’on adorait was a finalist for the Goncourt Prize in 2016. The Story of Jane was published by Simon & Schuster in 2001 and Life of…
Man muss Hannes Stein glauben, wenn er im Prolog seines neuen Buches den Wunsch formuliert, er hätte rasch den Roman zur Pandemie geschrieben und nicht schon viele Jahre daran gearbeitet. Und doch mutet es unter heutiger Perspektive geradezu unheimlich an, wie sich die beiden Hauptfiguren, Julia Bacharach und Bodo von Unruh, in einer menschenleeren Hotelbar kennenlernen und miteinander zu flirten…
February 23: Reproduction/Reproduction: Approaching Dante from Afar March 16: Forging the People: Machiavelli, Michelangelo April 6: Montaigne, the Wave, the Diagram: Depicting Life (and Death) The University of Pennsylvania is the joint producer of this series—through the Italian Studies section of the Department of Romance Languages, and the Center for Italian Studies. Carlo Ginzburg (born 1939) has taught at the University of Bologna,…
Online event open to all. Please join us at this link. *Please note that you will need to have a Zoom account and be signed in to join the meeting. With Sissoko Anzoumane (Coalition International des Sans Papiers et Migrants), Solène Brun (Institut Convergences Migrations), and Fadil Njoya. Moderated by Fred Salin (IFS/NYU and IRIS/EHESS).
Feb 24, 2021 / 12:30-2PM (NYC/EST Time) / Zoom signup Uprisings we are told move not by contamination but by resonance. It’s the affective force of the uprising itself that is the current of both movement and change. Bodies acting together in risk is transformative. A change that starts not with consciousness but with the body, from what was once…
The Lafargue Clinic was founded in 1946 by a group of black intellectuals and German-Jewish doctors. These activists joined together to answer a pressing need in New York -the need for psychiatric care for Black people. Blacks were historically denied access to clinics and hospitals that provided for the mental needs of the city. Further, black intellectuals argued that their communities suffered…
Go behind the stories and peer inside the archives at the CJH book discussion, led by Lauren Gilbert, Senior Manager for Public Services at the Center for Jewish History. This session will feature a discussion of The Lost Shtetl by Max Gross, winner of the 2020 National Jewish Book Award in the "Book Club" category. A work of speculative fiction and magical…
Fanny von Arnstein was an important figure in the history of the Enlightenment. Born into a wealthy Jewish family in Berlin, she married and moved to Vienna, where she founded a salon attracted politicians, artists, writers, and other prominent figures. Included in this list are Madame de Staël, Arthur Schopenhauer, and Amadeus Mozart. Hilde Spiel's biography provides "a vivid portrait of…
Philosophy, in the 21st century, has changed: its practices and languages are no longer those of the previous century. A turning point has been taken by new generations and thinkers from diverse origins who, more than commenting on the old masters, are taking philosophy into new fields: health, ecology, neurosciences, security warfare, non-Western thought, trans-identities, the rights of non-human living…
Anson Rabinbach (Princeton University) in conversation with Stefanos Geroulanos (History, New York University) on his new book Staging the Third Reich: Essays in Cultural and Intellectual History This event will take place over Zoom. Please follow this link to register.
