The Family Clause Virtual Book Talk with Jonas Hassen Khemiri
OnlineJonas Hassen Khemiri, the acclaimed author of Montecore, joins Scandinavia House for a Virtual Talk to discuss The Family Clause, a novel about a family on the verge of collapse.
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Turning Points: Joseph Stiglitz and Thomas Piketty in Dialogue
A live virtual transatlantic event September, 10th 2020 | 1:00-2:15 pm EST (New York) | 19:00-20:15 GMT+2 (Paris) REGISTER HERE *This is a simulcast event to be broadcast live on Zoom and also on YouTube and Facebook. A simultaneous French translation will be available on Le Monde.fr and on Zoom. Are widening inequalities and the wealth gap at a tipping point? Join…
Turning Points: Joseph Stiglitz and Thomas Piketty in Dialogue
REGISTER HERE Thursday, September 10, 1:00-2:15 P.M. EST (New York) / 19h00-20h15 GMT+2 (Paris) *This is a simulcast event to be broadcast live on Zoom and also on YouTube and Facebook. A simultaneous French translation will be available on Le Monde and on Zoom. Are widening inequalities and the wealth gap at a turning point? Join Joseph Stiglitz and Thomas Piketty in a transatlantic dialogue on the COVID-19 pandemic and global economic insecurities, racial disparities and…
Musician, Midwives, Soldiers, Rabbis: Whose Story Will Become Jewish History?
Join Elisheva Carlebach, Deborah Dash Moore, Dara Horn, and Itamar Borochov in a discussion about Confronting Modernity, 1750–1880, Vol. 6 of The Posen Library of Jewish Culture and Civilization, edited by Elisheva Carlebach. Hear voices rarely included in Jewish culture, such as that of Roza, a multilingual Jewish midwife and that of a Jewish soldier during the American Civil War. Learn about the powerful religious music inspiring artists…
GLOBAL UPRISING: Racism, Racialization, Anti-Blackness
Zoom signup How might we think uprising in light of the resurgence and relegitimization of racial/racist thought? How do we think historically about the return of certain colonial grammar and rhetoric in right-wing reactionary thought—"reverse colonization,” “white genocide,” “replacement theory”? In the now total collapse of the multicultural normative consensus and imagery of the global village, how does this period…
Equity, Inclusion, and Immigration in Nordic Countries
OnlineIn this virtual panel, four distinguished guests join us for a discussion on inequality both in the Nordic countries and the U.S. Featuring: Swedish hip-hop artist Jason "Timbuktu" Diakite, Swedish author Jonas Hassen Khemiri, Danish author Simon Pasternak, Swedish-Ethiopian chef and restaurateur Marcus Samuelsson.
Radical Diversity: Houston
A discussion series with Max Czollek and Mohamed Amjahid Radical Diversity is presented by several Goethe-Institut locations in North America in collaboration with its pop-up branches, the Thomas Mann House, and the Institute for Social Justice & Radical Diversity under the sponsorship of the Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung North America. This event takes place September 16, at 2.00 PM CDT via Zoom. ZOOM…
Etienne Balibar’s Complete Works – A discussion with Etienne Balibar, Emmanuelle Saada, and Bernard Harcourt, moderated by Souleymane Bachir Diagne
To sign up for this virtual transatlantic event, RSVP here. The first two volumes of Oeuvres complètes by French philosopher Etienne Balibar were recently published by La Découverte as Histoire interminable. D’un siècle l’autre. Ecrits I and Passions du concepts. Epistémologie, théologie et politique. Ecrits II. Etienne Balibar’s friends and colleagues at Columbia University, Souleymane Bachir Diagne, Emmanuelle Saada, and…
Etienne Balibar’s Complete Works – A discussion with Etienne Balibar, Emmanuelle Saada, and Bernard Harcourt, moderated by Souleymane Bachir Diagne
To sign up for this virtual transatlantic event, RSVP here. The first two volumes of Oeuvres complètes by French philosopher Etienne Balibar were recently published by La Découverte as Histoire interminable. D’un siècle l’autre. Ecrits I and Passions du concepts. Epistémologie, théologie et politique. Ecrits II. Etienne Balibar’s friends and colleagues at Columbia University, Souleymane Bachir Diagne, Emmanuelle Saada, and…
How Covid-19 is Reshaping Politics in Europe
REGISTER HERE TO RECEIVE THE LINK TO THE EVENT. This roundtable discussion will examine how responses to the pandemic have differed between countries and from the USA; how the pandemic rearranged political fault lines within or between countries; and what impact the pandemic might have had on existing discussions about populism and the European Union. With Hadas Aron (Center for…