Discussion

  1. Events
  2. Discussion

Events Search and Views Navigation

Event Views Navigation

Today

Carlo Ginzburg on Dante “Reproduction/Reproduction: Approaching Dante from Afar”

Online

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,…

En Premiére Ligne? Race, Immigration et Mobilisations en Temps de Pandémie

Online

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).

Free

GLOBAL UPRISING: Space & Time I: Crowds, Bodies, Affect

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…

Color on My Mind: The History of the First Black Mental Health Clinic in America

Online

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…

Free

People of the Book Club: The Losh Shtetl with Author Max Gross

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…

LBI Book Club, Vol. XIII: Fanny Von Arnstein: Daughter of the Enlightenment

Online

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…

Free

20/21 Philosophers: Aliocha Wald Lasowski

Online

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…

Free

European Seminar: Anson Rabinbach

Online

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.

Space Talks: Tamara Alvarez – The Eighth Continent

Online

In the context of a Moon race where multiple actors are rushing to get hold of limited resources located in a reduced area, several international fora and working groups have been created to regulate the occupation of these lunar regions and the exploitation of their resources. In this lecture, Tamara Álvarez examines the ways in which these regulatory practices are…

New Renaissance in Women’s Voice

Online

Presented by Polish Cultural Institute New York in collaboration with Residency Unlimited. In the midst of the cultural reckoning spurred by the #metoo movement and in the turmoil of infringement on women’s civil rights both in Poland and the US resulting in new political and civil movements on the rise, women activists in the arts haved been continuing their mission while facing new…