20/21 Philosophers: Laurent de Sutter

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Laurent de Sutter (born in 1977 in Brussels, Belgium) is Professor of Legal Theory at Vrije Universiteit Brussel. He is the author of more than twenty award-winning books, translated into a dozen languages. He has been visiting researcher at Waseda University, Bonn University and Yeshiva University, as well as invited professor at New York University, Université Catholique de Louvain and Facultés…

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The Annual Barra Ó Donnabháin Lecture: Manchán Magan

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Explore these interwoven trails which create a map of Irishness, yesterday, today and tomorrow. A virtual excursion, traversing land and lore, with Manchán Magan, filmmaker, travel writer and author of Thirty-Two Words for Field, (Gill Books, 2020).

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Global 1979: Geographies and Places of the Iranian Revolution

The spring 2021 lecture series on Global '79 explores the global processes which shaped the making of the Iranian revolution. The revolution’s global character cannot be understood except in terms of a circulatory system of flows of people and ideas between Iran, the West, Middle East, Asia, and those in Latin America. The invited speakers and discussants will highlight the…

The Zenithist Woman

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 East Central European Center at the Harriman Institute and the Njegoš Endowment for Serbian Language and Culture for a presentation by Žarka Svirčev, Research Associate at the Institute for Literature…

Silsila: FIRST IMPRESSIONS: PRINT MEDIA IN THE MODERN ISLAMIC WORLD

Part of the Silsila Spring 2021 Lecture Series, Translations Link to Register here.   The first examples of print in the Islamic world, in the form of block print amulets and scrolls, date to the tenth century. From those early productions until the present, various printing technologies and practices have played an important role in Islamic art and visual culture, particularly during the…

Arabic Lecture Series: صوت المرأة ثورة: التحرّك الثوريّ المستمرّ في السودان

The Hagop Kevorkian Center and the Department of Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies at NYU kindly invite you to join us on April 14 at 12:30pm NYC / 6:30pm Sudan for the final event in this semester’s Arabic Lecture Series: “The Voice of Women is Revolution: Ongoing Activism in Sudan.” This event brings together activist and journalist Sohair Abdelrahim Ahmed,…

China’s Military and Security Diplomacy in Central Asia

This event will be held virtually as a Zoom webinar and streamed via YouTube Live. There will be no in-person event. Please note that the date of the event has been changed. It will be held on April 15th. Register here for the Zoom webinar, or tune in on YouTube Live. Please join us for the 4th Annual Edward A. Allworth Memorial Lecture,…

Russia’s Worlds: The Second World War and the Postwar Settlement

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 us for an event in the Russia's Worlds Lecture Series, a discussion with Michael David-Fox (Georgetown University) and Francine Hirsch (University of Wisconsin-Madison). BIOGRAPHIES Michael David-Fox is a…

Lecture with Hüseyin Yılmaz: “Early Ottoman Translation and Transmission of Knowledge”

Lecture with Hüseyin Yılmaz: "Early Ottoman Translation and Transmission of Knowledge" April 16, 2021 / 12:30 - 2:00PM (NYC/EST Time) / Zoon Signup This event is part of the 2nd Mid-Atlantic Ottoman Studies Workshop hosted by the Ottoman and Turkish Studies Initative at NYU (OTS-NYU). The Workshop comprises a series of panels and lectures held on Fridays throughout the Spring…

Katarzyna Kobro and Debora Vogel as “Composers of Space”

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 East Central European Center at the Harriman Institute for a presentation by Michalina Kmiecik (Jagiellonian University in Kraków). This event is part of the event series East Central Vanguard: New…