In the fourth program of the series, Bernice Lerner, author of All the Horrors of War: A Jewish Girl, a British Doctor and the Liberation of Bergen-Belsen (Johns Hopkins, 2020) and Susan Jacobowitz, author of the manuscript Far from Childhood: A Holocaust Memoir, discuss with Natalia Aleksiun their parents' interrupted childhoods during the Holocaust in the Carpathian Mountains. The authors will reflect on their work uncovering the life trajectories…
Deutsches Haus at NYU and the Consulate General of Germany New York present a moderated panel discussion among Angelika Bammer, Andrew Gross, Susanne Rohr, Cornelius Schwalm, and James Young in the context of the recent publication of Susanne Rohr’s new book, Von Grauen und Glamour: Repräsentationen des Holocaust in den USA und Deutschland .
Born in 1978, Pierre Vesperini is a Researcher at the CNRS with a HDR (Habilitation à Diriger des Recherches = Accreditation to Supervise Research). An alumnus of the École normale supérieure de la rue d’Ulm and the École française de Rome, he authored four books: La philosophia et ses pratiques d’Ennius à Cicéron (2012) ; Droiture et mélancolie. Sur les écrits de Marc Aurèle (2016) ;…
Isabelle Queval is a university professor in education and training at INSHEA-Université Paris Lumières and director of Grhapes (Research group on disability, accessibility and educational and school practices - UR 7287). Former high-level athlete (tennis), associate of philosophy, she devoted her thesis to "a philosophical history of the notion of surpassing oneself".
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 our Rule of Law in Autocracy: The Legal Dimension of Russian Politics speaker series, a presentation by Peter H. Solomon (University of Toronto). This…
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 a discussion with Timothy Frye, author of Weak Strongman: The Limits of Power in Putin's Russia (Princeton University Press, April 6, 2021), in conversation with Alexander Cooley (director,…
Join LBI and The Gross Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies of Ramapo College of New Jersey for a conversation with Griselda Pollock and Kerry Wallach about the work and life of the Berlin-born Jewish artist, Charlotte Salomon (1917-1943). Michael Riff, Director of The Gross Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies at Ramapo College of New Jersey, will moderate the event.
Open Austria Art + Tech Lab and Deutsches Haus at NYU present a conversation between renowned author Daniel Kehlmann and philosopher and AI researcher Bryan McCann, who will discuss collaborating on “AI Storytelling,” an innovative project in which they jointly explore and experiment with the process of creating new stories by working with an NLP-based (natural language processing) algorithm named CTRL.
The new Center for the Study of the Holocaust, Genocide, and Crimes Against Humanity at the Graduate Center—CUNY launches its public programming with “In Honor of Barbara Engelking and Jan Grabowski: New Scholarship on the History and Memory of the Holocaust in Poland.” Chaired by Dr Joanna Sliwa, the program showcases a wave of outstanding young historians: Miranda Brethour, Alicja…
For the second installment of “Women, Feminists, and Other Poets: A Series of Readings and Conversations,” the Jordan Center will host Oksana Vasyakina, Elena Fanailova, and Stephanie Sandler. This April, the Jordan Center will host 6 contemporary Russian poets for a series of readings and conversations. With a view to the recent anthology F-Letter: New Russian Feminist Poetry (isolarii, 2020), this series probes…