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King Juan Carlos Chair CRISTINA PATO | ROUND TABLE AND RECITAL: Bilingual Societies and Sustainability: Spain’s other languages

King Juan Carlos I of Spain Center 53 Washington Square South, New York, United States

Cristina Pato is the 2019 / 2020 King Juan Carlos Chair in Spanish Culture and Civilization, NYU King Juan Carlos I of Spain Center. This round table and poetry recital will focus on the idea of cultural sustainability through the experience of three mayor editors of Galician, Catalan, and Basque literature. Francisco Castro, writer and director of Editorial Galaxia (Galicia),…

Book Club on Kaouther Adimi’s Our Riches

Join the Albertine Book Club for a lively Zoom conversation on Our Riches by Kaouther Adimi, translated from the French by Chris Andrews (New Directions). The discussion will be moderated by Albertine Bookseller Adam Hocker. Our Riches celebrates quixotic devotion and the love of books in the person of Edmond Charlot, who at the age of twenty founded Les Vraies Richesses…

GLOBAL UPRISING: Racism, Racialization, Anti-Blackness

Zoom signup How might we think uprising in light of the resurgence and relegitimization of racial/racist thought? How do we think historically about the return of certain colonial grammar and rhetoric in right-wing reactionary thought—"reverse colonization,” “white genocide,” “replacement theory”?  In the now total collapse of the multicultural normative consensus and imagery of the global village, how does this period…

How Covid-19 is Reshaping Politics in Europe

Zoom

This event will recur Every Day until Sep. 17, 2020 Please note: Registration is required to receive the Zoom Meeting ID. Please follow this link to register. Please also note that you will need to have a Zoom account and be signed in to join the meeting. After China, Europe became one of the first major epicenters of the COVID-19…

Race and Policing in Europe and the United States: A Transatlantic Conversation

NO REGISTRATION REQUIRED. USE THIS LINK TO ATTEND THE EVENT ON SEPTEMBER 30. PLEASE NOTE THAT YOU WILL NEED TO HAVE A ZOOM ACCOUNT AND BE SIGNED IN TO JOIN. DOWNLOAD ZOOM HERE. With Rebekah Delsol (Open Society Justice Initiative), Fabien Jobard (Political Science, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Paris and Berlin), Donna Murch (History, Rutgers University). Moderated by…

VIRTUAL EVENT. Roundtable on Literary Translation

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 round table discussion in celebration of National Translation Month. This round table on the art of literary translation and the business of publishing translated literature from East Central Europe will include a program of literary readings…

COVID-19 in Iran: A Conversation on the Coronavirus Pandemic and Public Health in Iran

A panel of interdesplinary scholars will discuss the medical and sociopolitical aspects of the current crisis of COVID-19 in Iran. They will explore similar public health instances in the modern history of Iran. The conversation will situate COVID-19 in the sociohistorical, political, medical, and cultural contexts in which the discipline of public health has emerged and has been interpreted and…

Family History Today: Donating Your Family Papers – How, When, Where and Why?

Karen Franklin, Director of Family Research at the Leo Baeck Institute, is donating her voluminous family papers to LBI, providing her a unique dual perspective on the donation process as both a donor and a recipient. This session will address what you can do to organize and prepare your collection for donation to ensure that the material will be accessible…

90 degrees of Deguy

Registration information to come. At 90, with nearly 90 books, poet-philosopher and intellectual impresario extraordinaire Michel Deguy will be celebrated live for all he’s brought to thought for three-quarters of a century. Three roundtables will round out the three hours. In Deguy’s presence and with his comments, an international array of speakers will congregate around three prompts:   Introduction by…