20/21 Philosophers: Isabelle Queval

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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".

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Manipulated Justice in Russia: Influence in Prosecutions and Conflict Resolution

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…

Weak Strongman: The Limits of Power in Putin’s Russia by Timothy Frye

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,…

A Conversation on Charlotte Salomon

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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.

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Kehlmann in CTRL: A Conversation Among Daniel Kehlmann, Bryan McCann & Clara Blume

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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.

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In Honor of Barbara Engelking and Jan Grabowski

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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…

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Women, Feminists, and Other Poets: A Series of Readings and Conversations

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…

20/21 Philosophers: Tristan Garcia

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Tristan Garcia est né en 1981 à Toulouse. Auteur de plusieurs romans parus aux éditions Gallimard, il poursuit sa recherche en métaphysique (Forme et objet, PUF, 2011), tout en publiant des essais portant aussi bien sur l'influence de l'électricité sur notre conception de la vie, que la politique des identités (Nous, Grasset, 2016), l'éthique animale (Nous, animaux et humains, F.…

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“Fast Hell”: Alexander Osang Im Gespräch Mit Jana Hensel

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Deutsches Haus at NYU präsentiert ein Gespräch über das neue Buch von Alexander Osang, Fast hell (, Aufbau Verlag, 2021), zwischen dem Autor und der Journalistin Jana Hensel. ***Please note that this conversation will be held in German***

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Women, Feminists, and Other Poets: A Series of Readings and Conversations

For the third installment of “Women, Feminists, and Other Poets: A Series of Readings and Conversations” the Jordan Center will host poets Dina Gatina, Polina Barskova, and Vlazhyna Mort alongside professor and translator Ainsley Morse. 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…