This event will be held virtually as a Zoom webinar and streamed via YouTube Live. There will be no in-person event. Registrants will receive a link to independently view the film prior to the live event. Click here to register for the event and access the webinar link, or tune in on YouTube Live. The East Central European Center at the Harriman Institute presents…
HOST: Casilda García López GUEST: Niño de Elche Link: https://wnyu.org/programs/radiole A partnership between KJCC’s partnership and NYU’s radio (WNYU) “A transatlantic musical voyage across Spanish music of today and yesterday. In partnership with the King Juan Carlos I Center at NYU, we will conversate with notable guest speakers of the heritage that makes the now of Spanish music.” Defining flamenco…
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…
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 the Program on U.S.-Russia Relations at the Harriman Institute for a panel discussion about Russian influence in the Middle East. PANELISTS Russia in the Middle East: Priorities and…
The era of the Enlightenment, which gave rise to our modern conceptions of freedom and democracy, was also the height of the trans-Atlantic slave trade. America, a nation founded on the principle of liberty, is also a nation built on African slavery, Native American genocide, and systematic racial discrimination. White Freedom traces the complex relationship between freedom and race from the eighteenth…
For the first installment of “Women, Feminists, and Other Poets: A Series of Readings and Conversations,” the Jordan Center will host Nastya Denisova, Kit Eginton, Anna Glazova, and Alex Niemi. This April, the Jordan Center will host 6 contemporary Russian poets for a series of readings and conversations. With a view to the recent anthology F-Letter: New Russian Feminist Poetry (isolarii, 2020), this…
Deutsches Haus at NYU and the Consulate General of Switzerland in New York present a conversation between writer and translator Susan Bernofsky and poet and writer Eileen Myles about Bernofsky's “Clairvoyant of the Small: The Life of Robert Walser,“ the first English-language biography of Swiss author Robert Walser. In their conversation, Myles and Bernofsky will reflect on Walser's intriguing work and life, problems of…
Chantal Thomas is a novelist, screenwriter and essayist. Farewell to the Queen was her first great success for which she won the Femina Prize in 2002. She is an 18th century specialist, notably Sade and Casanova. She has just been elected to the French Academy. She will talk about her last three books: East Village Blues (Seuil 2019), Café Vivre (Seuil 2020) and De Sable et de neige (Mercure de France…
The Mews Book Club, hosted by Catherine Cusset, explores new tendencies in French and Francophone literature in a relaxed setting. Discussion is in French. The book to be discussed is Les Adieux à la reine by Chantal Thomas.
Moderated by Laetitia Marie Ndiaye, Columbia University. Book synopsis: Strange signs in black paint on doors all over Paris. At first glance, one might believe the work of a tagger. Commissioner Adamsberg detects a dull threat, a hint of evil. For his part, Joss Le Guern, the Town Crier of the Place Edgar-Quinet, wonders who slips into his message box of incomprehensible announcements.