On Saturday, September 12, 2020, the Ukrainian Institute of America’s Music at the Institute (MATI) Concert Series will stream a Preview of the 2020/2021 Season outdoors from the steps of the Ukrainian Institute of America, featuring alumni & students of the Yale School of Music and the University of Connecticut; Deputy Dean of the Yale School of Music, violinist Melvin…
Digital Forays in Middle Eastern Studies // A year-long series 2020-2021: 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 last 20 years have been marked by the expansion and creation of many archival projects across the Middle East. What is saved? Who decides what is of worth? How accessible does it become? How are artists and cultural works accessing, making, and moving beyond archives? When speaking of Archives & Activation // Artists & Access, what are the absences, gaps,…
The virtual exhibition Holodomor: A Remembrance commemorates the 87-year anniversary of the Holodomor Famine-Genocide, which occurred in Ukraine in 1932-33. It is a visual arts presentation featuring the works of Ukrainian-American artist Lydia Bodnar-Balahutrak. In 1991, the artist traveled to Ukraine for the first time. She states: “My eyes and soul were opened to a land that was beautiful but…
When Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg was growing up, she found inspiration in the trail-blazing accomplishments of Henrietta Szold and Emma Lazarus. In this segment, we pay homage to RBG by drawing on our own archives to lend more dimension to her heroes. We'll also uncover an unexpected archive that provided one of the late Justice's first gleanings of feminism and…
Wednesday, November 11, 2020 | 5:00pm EST Live stream on facebook.com/kjccnyu/live This event will be held in Spanish Over the past 25 years Paul Ramirez-Jonas has sought to challenge the definitions of art and the public and to engineer active audience participation and exchange. He has been made public in galleries, institutions and urban spaces around the world. He has…