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Camera Caucasica: Networks of Photographic Practices in the Transimperial Caucasus (with Dominik Gutmeyr and Discussant Naomi Caffee)

Join us for another installment of the 19v Seminar Series! Against the backdrop of photographic practices in the wider Caucasus region, this presentation looks to address theoretical and methodological specifics of the history of photography in imperial times and to map some of the networks that provided the conceptual and practical basis for the production, circulation and reception of photographic…

Belarus: Looking Forward and Looking Eastward

Join us for another virtual meeting of the New York-Russia Public Policy Seminar. This panel is  co-hosted by Columbia University’s Harriman Institute and the New York University Jordan Center for the Advanced Study of Russia. This month, our distinguished panelists will bring a comparative perspective to the ongoing anti-regime protests in Belarus. Drawing on current and ongoing research, they will discuss…

Navalny and the Kremlin: Politics and Protest in Russia

Join us for another virtual meeting of the New York-Russia Public Policy Seminar. This panel is co-hosted by Columbia University’s Harriman Institute and the New York University Jordan Center for the Advanced Study of Russia. Register for the Zoom webinar: http://bit.ly/3cm5Qsh. The event will also be live-streamed on YouTube: https://bit.ly/3prucEK.  The arrest of opposition politician Alexei Navalny has generated a political crisis in Russia. Upon…

Panel Discussion: Is there a European Identity?

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This session will explore whether the EU integration process has forged a sense of common identity (culturally and politically) among Europeans. Participants will also discuss how minorities and migrants relate to such an identity.

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Love and Revolution: Alexander Pushkin’s “Gabrieliad” and the Erotic Utopia of an American Socialist

Join us for another installment of the 19v Seminar Series! This event will be held virtually as a Zoom meeting: https://nyu.zoom.us/j/99102207490.  In this talk, Professor Ilya Vinitsky, with discussant Maxim Hanukai, will focus on aesthetic and ideological implications of the first translation of the “Gabrieliad” (Гавриилиада, 1821) into English (and, for that matter, into any foreign language) by Max Eastman…

Memory Laps: A Conversation with Artist Elana Katz

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In the framework of our Shaping the Past event series and with the joint screening of two performance films by Elana Katz, we are presenting Memory Laps: A Conversation with Artist Elana Katz. Social trauma, collective memory, and the historical erasure of oppressed bodies have driven art creation for decades. This discussion will deepen the analysis of Elana Katz’s performance films Aiming for Hopelessness (2021) and Running on…

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Jewish Life in Late Antiquity

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Thanks to the order of a Roman Emperor from 321 CE that allowed the municipal council of the Roman colony at the site of modern-day Cologne to compel Jews to service, we know that Jews were part of late Roman society in the northern European provinces at least 17 centuries ago. A tiny ring of similar age bearing a menorah…

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Turgenev’s Modern Pastoral: Peasants and the Struggle with Modernity in Russian Realism

Join us for another installment of the 19v seminar. This event will be held virtually as a Zoom meeting: https://nyu.zoom.us/j/99102207490.  This talk will explore how the pastoralism of Notes from a Hunter neither ignores history nor gives up on the nostalgic dream of frozen time as it moves between poles of dynamism and repose and struggles with the relentless expectations of…

“A Farther Shore”: American Reflections on the Advent of Irish Independence (1921-22)

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This third seminar of our series – Independent Ireland and Transatlantic Diplomacy is hosted by New York University's Glucksman Ireland House, in association with the ACIS & the Consulate General of Ireland in New York. The panel will feature - Francis M. Carroll (University of Manitoba);  Marion R. Casey (NYU); Miriam Nyhan Grey (NYU); Bernadette Whelan (University of Limerick) – as well as Ireland’s Ambassador Daniel Mulhall.

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The Food Fix: Superplants, Microbe Sidekicks and Nutrient Heroes

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Global food systems are under pressure on a scale previously unencountered. A crisis is looming, fueled by population growth, climate change, water scarcity, energy supply and now the pandemic. The world must feed an estimated population of 9 billion by 2050 with diminishing natural resources while also ensuring the health of people and the planet. Luckily, emerging technologies and new research…

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