Five years after her international triumph Girlhood, writer-director Céline Sciamma returns with a poignant feminist revision of the historical romance. In the late eighteenth-century, Marianne, a free-spirited painter, travels to a remote island off the coast of Brittany to paint a portrait of Héloïse, a young woman whose mother has recently taken her out of a convent to marry her to…
Join us as we honor Bank of America's Anne Finucane and New York Times Pulitzer-winning journalist Dan Barry at the 9th Annual Gala, which will be held online on February 23 at 7pm EST. Past honorees have included luminaries such as Loretta Brennan Glucksman, Pete Hamill, Buzzy O'Keeffe, Ted Smyth, Sir James Galway, Paul Muldoon, Alice McDermott, Colum McCann, Danny McDonald, Carl Shanahan, Niall O'Dowd, Peter Quinn, Jim Rooney, Dómhnall Slattery…
Online event open to all. Please join us at this link. *Please note that you will need to have a Zoom account and be signed in to join the meeting. With Sissoko Anzoumane (Coalition International des Sans Papiers et Migrants), Solène Brun (Institut Convergences Migrations), and Fadil Njoya. Moderated by Fred Salin (IFS/NYU and IRIS/EHESS).
The Lafargue Clinic was founded in 1946 by a group of black intellectuals and German-Jewish doctors. These activists joined together to answer a pressing need in New York -the need for psychiatric care for Black people. Blacks were historically denied access to clinics and hospitals that provided for the mental needs of the city. Further, black intellectuals argued that their communities suffered…
Fanny von Arnstein was an important figure in the history of the Enlightenment. Born into a wealthy Jewish family in Berlin, she married and moved to Vienna, where she founded a salon attracted politicians, artists, writers, and other prominent figures. Included in this list are Madame de Staël, Arthur Schopenhauer, and Amadeus Mozart. Hilde Spiel's biography provides "a vivid portrait of…
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…
Recent alumni of the MA in Irish and Irish-American Studies share insights on their publications that have emerged from their research at NYU. At 6.15pm, we will move into the MA Open House portion of the event. Hosted by the Director of Graduate Studies, Dr. Miriam Nyhan Grey, one will be able to learn about the M.A. in Irish and Irish-American…
Three years ago, President Macron called for "a sovereign, democratic, and united Europe". For her part, Chancellor Merkel emphasized that "Europeans must take their fate into their own hands.” Participants in this session will discuss whether Europeans have made progress towards these goals.
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…