Online Book Club: Tous les hommes n’habitent pas le monde de la même façon by Jean-Paul Dubois
OnlineModerated by Zachary Desjardins-Mooney, Columbia University
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The New York Librarian Who Spied on American Nazis
OnlineFlorence Mendheim went undercover at a moment in which American Nazism was flourishing. Local Nazi groups in the New York area were distributing propaganda, setting up summer camps, and hosting large rallies. Mendheim, an employee of the New York Public Library, was inspired to document and resist these groups.
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Disability and the Archive: Teresa Deevy in Context
OnlineDramatists, scholars, and disability activists have started taking an interest in a deaf Irishwoman who was once considered the premiere national playwright of her day: Teresa Deevy. Interest in her life and works has taken different shapes, from those drawn to her representations of women living circumscribed lives in 1930s Ireland to those who want to recover a neglected history…
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Dr. Sindy Joyce, Growing Up in Science Life Stories Series
OnlineIn collaboration with NYU's Center for Neural Science, Dr. Sindy Joyce will be interviewed as part of the Growing Up In Science Life Stories series. This is a series of talks, founded by NYU's Prof. Weiji Ma, in which scientists tell their life story, including struggles that they have had to overcome and with a special interest in scientists from underrepresented groups.…
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Book Launch: Emile Chabal’s France
OnlineJoin us as a panel of experts discuss Emile Chabal's new short introduction to postwar France. The book explores the contradictions that have shaped French history over the last eighty years, from the calamitous defeat by Hitler's armies in 1940 through decolonisation, the gilets jaunes and the response to COVID-19. Structured around the idea of paradox, Chabal paints a picture…
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Roundtable Discussion: Le hirak en Algérie : chemins parcourus, perspectives d’avenir
OnlineThe Algerian uprising known as the hirak is about to reach its second anniversary. Stalled by the COVID pandemic and confronting powerful entrenched interests, the protestors face crucial political choices. The current state of the movement and its possible future are discussed by three leading observers.
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Panel Discussion: Paper Trails: Memorials in an Age of Anxiety
OnlineIn the aftermath of the 2015 terror attacks in Paris, people paid tribute to the victims by bringing to the sites flowers, notes, candles, paintings – all sorts of offerings forming spontaneous memorials. Sarah Gensburger was one of the sociologists who documented their evolution, while the Paris Archives collected their contents. Similarly, Nora Philippe filmed the Women’s March on Washington…
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20/21 Philosophers: Delphine Horvilleur
OnlinePhilosophy, 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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Panel Discussion: Another Modernity: Elia Benamozegh’s Jewish Universalism
OnlineAnother Modernity is a rich study of the life and thought of Elia Benamozegh, a nineteenth-century rabbi and philosopher whose work profoundly influenced Christian-Jewish dialogue in twentieth-century Europe. Benamozegh, a Livornese rabbi of Moroccan descent, was a prolific writer and transnational thinker who corresponded widely with religious and intellectual figures in France, the Maghreb, and the Middle East. This idiosyncratic figure,…
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Virtual Cinema: “Portrait of a Young Lady on Fire”
OnlineFive 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…
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