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Film Screening & Discussion. Stories from the Chestnut Woods

Museum of the Moving Image 36-01 35th Avenue, Astoria, New York

Please join the Museum of the Moving Image and the Harriman Institute for the U.S. premiere of the 2019 film Stories from the Chestnut Woods, with director Gregor Božič in person. This event is part of the First Look 2020 festival. Tickets available on the Museum of the Moving Image website. Film runtime: 81 minutes. In Slovene and Italian with English subtitles. Dir. Gregor Božič. Italy, Slovenia,…

$15

Stories of New York: City College Cinema and Sanctuary

Center for Jewish History 15 W. 16th Street, New York City, NY, United States

This February and March, join historians, writers, filmmakers, and alumni at the Center for Jewish History for a series of discussions and films about City College, its rich Jewish history, and its transformative role in the lives of so many. Part III: Cinema and Sanctuary It was the first documentary film school in the United States and it began in…

$15

The Challenge of Independent Russian-speaking Media in the U.S. and the World

Rennert Hall, Kraft Center 606 West 115th Street, New York, NY, United States

Presented by RTVI in collaboration with the Russian American Foundation and the Harriman Institute at Columbia University, this roundtable discussion will bring together Russian and American journalists, scholars, political scientists, historians and independent authors who will jointly explore the claims of propagandistic media influence, disinformation and foreign interference in the context of modern broadcasting, and address the disruptive intervention on new…

Epidemics, Disease, and Plagues in Jewish History and Memory — Live on Zoom

Epidemic diseases usually strike humans indiscriminately. Yet the social and cultural responses to them can often exacerbate the differences that set people apart. The plague first broke out in Europe in 1348, but it recurred every generation, and was a feature of daily, social, and cultural life. For Jews, outbreaks of disease carried a double threat: one biological, the other…

VIRTUAL EVENT. Ukraine and the Historically Driven Supply-Side Theory of Participation in Religion

This event will be held virtually as a Zoom webinar as well as on our Facebook page via Facebook Live. There will be no in-person event. Click here at 12pm to join the Zoom webinar, or tune in on the Harriman Institute's Facebook page. Please join the Program on U.S.-Russia Relations at the Harriman Institute for a presentation by Tymofii Brik, Assistant Professor at the Kyiv…

Black, Brown And Green Voices

Join on Zoom for conversations on the interactions between African Americans and Irish in the U.S. and beyond. ______________________________________________ April 30, 1pm: Lenwood Sloan, artist and scholar of dance and popular culture, will be interviewed by NYU's Dr. Miriam Nyhan Grey about his work on the interconnections between these groups. Please RSVP online for the Zoom session Here

20/20 Vision in a Time of Crisis – A conversation with Etienne Balibar, Adam Tooze, Souleymane Bachir Diagne, Emmanuelle Saada, moderated by Bernard Harcourt

To sign up for this virtual transatlantic event, RSVP here. The Covid-19 pandemic and public health crisis; economic collapse; waves of anti-racist protests; threats to democracy and rising authoritarianism in the U.S. and elsewhere, all against a backdrop of an ever-worsening climate crisis... how can we make sense of the current moment in history? Bernard Harcourt engages Etienne Balibar, Souleymane…

LIVE FROM THE ARCHIVES: Rosh Hashanah Recipes

About the Series: A new National Endowment for the Humanities CARES grant enables AJHS to bring curated objects and documents straight to you through new digital storytelling methods. In these live interactive Zoom sessions, you’ll see documents close up and pose questions to archivists and historians about what you are examining. Ticket Info: Free; register at forms.office.com to receive a link to…

Online Nordic Book Club Presents: The Summer House by Philip Teir

Zoom

Read and discuss Scandinavian literature in translation as part of the Nordic Book Club, now online. Each month, the club selects a novel from some of the best Nordic literary voices. This month's feature is The Summer House by Philip Teir.

Book Club on Kaouther Adimi’s Our Riches

Join the Albertine Book Club for a lively Zoom conversation on Our Riches by Kaouther Adimi, translated from the French by Chris Andrews (New Directions). The discussion will be moderated by Albertine Bookseller Adam Hocker. Our Riches celebrates quixotic devotion and the love of books in the person of Edmond Charlot, who at the age of twenty founded Les Vraies Richesses…