“And the Story Goes on…: A Conversation with Cornelia Funke”

The Consulate General of Germany New York and Deutsches Haus at NYU, in collaboration with the German Language School Conference (GLSC), present a reading from Reckless 4, the most recently published novel by Cornelia Funke, followed by a conversation between the acclaimed German storyteller and illustrator and Juliane Camfield, Director of Deutsches Haus at NYU. This reading and conversation, which…

Black, Brown and Green Voices: Brian Dooley

November 18th, 12:30pm EST/5:30pm GMT On November 18th, Brian Dooley will share his reflections on his, now twenty-year old book, Black and Green: The Fight for Civil Rights in Northern Ireland and Black America (Pluto Press). Click to register    Find out more about our research initiatives in this vein here: https://as.nyu.edu/irelandhouse/academic-initiatives/black--brown-and-green-voices.html This is an event is in collaboration with NYU's Office of…

Kraft: A Conversation among Jonas Lüscher, Tess Lewis, and Ulrich Baer

Deutsches Haus at NYU and the Consulate General of Switzerland in New York present a conversation between Jonas Lüscher and Tess Lewis about Jonas Lüscher's most recent novel, Kraft, and the function of political fiction in a polarized world, which will be moderated by Ulrich Baer. Book cover “Kraft” About the novel: “Richard Kraft, a German professor of rhetoric and aging…

Denaturalized. How Thousands Lost Their Citizenship and Lives in Vichy France – Claire Zalc in Conversation with Rebecca Kobrin and Emmanuelle Saada

To sign up for this event, click here. Thousands of naturalized French men and women had their citizenship revoked by the Vichy government during the Second World War. Once denaturalized, these men and women, mostly Jews who were later sent to concentration camps, ceased being French on official records and walked off the pages of history. As a result, we…

The Mews Book Club: D’Autres Vies Que La Mienne by Emmanuel Carrére

Online

The Mews Book Club, curated by Catherine Cusset, is back! Explore new tendencies in French and Francophone literature in a relaxed setting. Discussion is in French. The book to be discussed is D'autres vies que la mienne by Emmanuel Carrère. Please purchase and read the book in advance. You can purchase the paperback version on Albertine's website or on Amazon.

Translating the Hidden Soul: The Discovery and Collaborative Treatment of the Early Work of Mykola Bazhan

This event will be held virtually as a Zoom webinar and streamed via YouTube Live. There will be no in-person event. Click here to purchase Quiet Spiders of the Hidden Soul from Book Culture NYC. Register here for the Zoom webinar, or tune in on YouTube Live. Please join the Ukrainian Studies Program at the Harriman Institute for a presentation of the new…

Loss & Legacy: The Half-Century Quest to Reclaim a Birthright Stolen by the Nazis

By 1929 Helene and Samuel Gronner reach economic success and social prominence in the German town of Ilmenau. But when Nazi ideology grips the community, neighbors begin to shun Jewish-owned businesses like theirs. After near daily antisemitic encounters in school, they resolve to send Jochen, their teen-aged younger son, to Palestine. It's not until the war ends that he discovers that his parents…

Maria Stepanova: Poetry and Prose

Register here for the Zoom webinar or tune in on YouTube Live. Please join us for an event with poet, essayist, and journalist Maria Stepanova. Moderated by Professor Mark Lipovetsky. This event is part of our Contemporary Culture Series. Maria Stepanova is a poet, essayist, journalist and the author of ten poetry collections and three books of essays. She has received several Russian and international…

Book Club on Amin Maalouf’s Origins

Join us for a lively Zoom conversation on Origins by Amin Maalouf, translated from the French by Catherine Temerson, FSG. Set during the last quarter of the nineteenth century and the first quarter of the twentieth, in the mountains of Lebanon and in Havana, Cuba, Origins recounts the family history of the generation of Maalouf’s paternal grandfather, Boutros. Why did…