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New Works Wednesdays: The Mediterranean Diaspora in Late Antiquity: What Christianity Cost the Jews with Ross Shepard Kraemer

The Mediterranean Diaspora in Late Antiquity examines the fate of Jews living in the Mediterranean Jewish diaspora after the Roman emperor Constantine threw his patronage to the emerging orthodox (Nicene) Christian churches. About the Author Ross Shepard Kraemer is Professor Emerita of Religious Studies and Judaic Studies at Brown University, where she specialized in early Christianity and other religions of the…

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Comics of the New Europe

José Alaniz (University of Washington) and Martha Kuhlman (Bryant University) and Biz Nijdam (University of British Columbia) will discuss the recently published edited collection Comics of the New Europe. This edited collection offers insights into the comics cultures of a number of post-socialist countries including the former East Germany, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Poland, the former Yugoslavia, Hungary, Romania, and…

Mediterranean Imaginaries and the Making of Italians

Konstantina Zanou (Columbia University) in conversation with Claudio Fogu (UC Santa Barbara) on the occasion of the publication of his book: The Fishing Net and the Spider Web. Mediterranean Imaginaries and the Making of Italians (Palgrave, 2020) The book explores the role of Mediterranean imaginaries in one of the preeminent tropes of Italian history: the formation or ‘making of’ Italians. While previous scholarship on…

Post-Socialist Rehabilitations: Disability, Race, Gender and Sexuality and the Limits of National Belonging by Kateřina Kolářová

This event will be held virtually as a Zoom webinar and streamed via YouTube Live. There will be no in-person event. Register here for the Zoom webinar, or tune in on YouTube Live. Please join us for an event in the Minority Inclusion and Exclusion in Soviet and Post-Communist Societies Speaker Series, a discussion with Kateřina Kolářová, Assistant Professor of Cultural Studies…

Irregular Readings: A Conversation with Anja Kampmann and Anne Posten

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NYU Center for the Humanities, Stanford University’s Division of Literatures, Cultures and Languages, and Deutsches Haus at NYU present the inaugural event of "Irregular Readings," a conversation with novelist and poet Anja Kampmann who will read from her highly acclaimed debut novel, High as the Waters Rise (Catapult, 2020), and from her poetry. She will then discuss her writing with literary translator Anne Posten who…

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Identity Representation in the Novels of Ivo Andrić

This event will be held virtually as a Zoom webinar and streamed via YouTube Live. There will be no in-person event. Register here for the Zoom webinar, or tune in on YouTube Live. Please join the Harriman Institute and the Njegoš Endowment for Serbian Language and Culture at the East Central European Center for a talk with Tihomir Brajović (University of Belgrade/Hankuk University). Moderated…

The Sanatorium Movement, the Union of Towns and the Envisioning of Post-War Russia, 1914-1917 (with Yoshiro Ikeda)

During the First World War, Russia’s government and public organization sent sick and wounded soldiers to various health resorts across the empire. The ideal aim of this project was to heal the combatants with the help of the bountiful nature of the homeland. In this enterprise, the treatment of tuberculous soldiers in the sanatorium occupied a special place. It had…

Radical Women: Jolán Simon and Other Female Artists in Hungarian Avant-Garde Periodicals

This event will be held virtually as a Zoom webinar and streamed via YouTube Live. There will be no in-person event. 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 presentation by Gábor Dobó, literary historian and researcher at the Kassák Museum – Petőfi Literary Museum, Budapest. This…

Radical Women: Jolán Simon and Other Female Artists in Hungarian Avant-Garde Periodicals

This event will be held virtually as a Zoom webinar and streamed via YouTube Live. There will be no in-person event. 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 presentation by Gábor Dobó, literary historian and researcher at the Kassák Museum – Petőfi Literary Museum, Budapest. This…

20/21 Philosophers: Frédéric Gros

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Frédéric Gros, professeur d'humanités politiques à Sciences-po Paris, est un spécialiste de la pensée de Michel Foucault dont il a édité les derniers cours au Collège de France (1980-1984) et dirigé l'édition des oeuvres dans la Bibliothèque de la Pléiade.

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