20/21 Philosophers: Frédéric Worms

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Philosophy, in the 21st century, has changed: its practices and languages are no longer those of the previous century. A turning point has been taken by new generations and thinkers from diverse origins who, more than commenting on the old masters, are taking philosophy into new fields: health, ecology, neurosciences, security warfare, non-Western thought, trans-identities, the rights of non-human living…

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Speeches from a Life in Diplomacy, Former Irish Ambassador to the U.S. Anne Anderson

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Anne Anderson has had a forty-five year career in Irish diplomacy. She joined the Department of Foreign Affairs in 1972, on the eve of Ireland's entry to the European Economic Community. She retired in 2017 from her final diplomatic posting as Ireland's Ambassador to the United States.

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Guest Lecture: Johannes von Moltke

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Johannes von Moltke is professor of German Studies and Film, TV and Media, at the University of Michigan. His most recent books include "The Curious Humanist: Siegfried Kracauer in America" and "Last Letters: The Prison Correspondence between Helmuth James and Freya von Moltke 1944-45." For registration, please email germanic@columbia.edu.

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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…

Many Masks: The Radical Politics and Performance of Míra Holzbachová

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 Meghan Forbes, Leonard A. Lauder Postdoctoral Fellow in Modern Art at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. This…

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…