Latest Past Events

Perspectives on Russia from Now into the Next Generation

1201 International Affairs Building 420 W 118th St, New York City

Please join the Program on U.S.-Russia Relations at the Harriman Institute for a talk with Brigadier General Peter B. Zwack U.S. Army (Retired), a Global Fellow at the Kennan Institute for Advanced Russian Studies. This event will be live streamed on our Facebook page via Facebook Live. Follow us and enable Facebook Live notifications to watch the event. From 2012…

How Biased Are We? A Conversation about Perception, Cognition, and Accuracy

Deutsches Haus NYU 42 Washington Mews, New York City

Deutsches Haus at NYU, University Alliance Ruhr, and the German Research Foundation (DFG) present a conversation among Emily Balcetis (NYU), Lee Jussim (Rutgers University), and Albert Newen (Ruhr-University Bochum) as moderator, exploring the concept of human perception and its inherent biases that affect our understanding of the world. About the event: Perceptions are the window to our world. Rather than merely producing…

King Juan Carlos Chair CRISTINA PATO | A CONVERSATION WITH YO-YO MA: Culture and Social Responsibility in the Bach Project and Beyond

KJCC Auditorium 53 Washington Square South, New York

In this event Cristina will engage Yo-Yo, the humanist, into a conversation about cultural collaboration, social responsibility and about the lessons learned throughout the process of creating, and developing the groundbreaking Bach Project.* Yo-Yo Ma’s multi-faceted career is testament to his enduring belief in culture’s power to generate trust and understanding. Whether performing new or familiar works from the cello…