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Book Talk. Crude Intentions: How Oil Corruption Contaminates the World by Alexandra Gillies

Marshall D. Shulman Seminar Room 420 W 118th Street, #1219 International Affairs Building, New York City, NY, United States

Join for a talk with Alexandra Gillies about her new book, Crude Intentions: How Oil Corruption Contaminates the World (Oxford University Press, January 2020). Crude Intentions examines the corruption crisis that erupted during the 2008 to 2014 oil boom, when nine trillion dollars in new money flooded the oil-producing world. Observing the oil boom is like placing a drop of dye in…

Europa’s Opera: Three Acts

Deutsches Haus NYU 42 Washington Mews, New York City, NY, United States

Europa’s Opera: Three Acts is a collaboration among three of NYU’s International Houses: NYU Casa Italiana Zerilli-Marimò, Deutsches Haus at NYU, and La Maison Française of NYU, and will showcase productions by three of New York City’s most innovative opera companies. In the late 16th century, in what could be described as a revolutionary act, a group of intellectuals, from an array of different…

Absolute Zero: An Evening with Ukrainian Writer Artem Chekh

International Affairs Building Columbia

Join the Ukrainian Studies Program and Razom for Ukraine for an evening with Ukrainian writer Artem Chekh. The event will feature readings by Mr. Chekh from his landmark 2017 book Tochka Nul (Absolute Zero), a lyrical diary capturing his experiences as a soldier in the Donbas war. The book was translated into English by Olena Jennings and Oksana Lutsyshyna and will be…

The Rule of Law and Forced Migration ASF Visiting Lecture with Tom Syring

Scandinavia House 58 Park Avenue, New York City, NY, United States

WED—February 12—7 PM, free RSVP In tonight’s event, ASF Visiting Lecturer Tom Syring will discuss the unprecedented rise of people who have been forcefully displaced and the challenges posed by these patterns, as well as the complex issues behind responses by states and regional organizations in the Americas and Europe. In the past five years, the world has witnessed an…

Book Talk. A Sacred Space Is Never Empty: A History of Soviet Atheism by Victoria Smolkin

Marshall D. Shulman Seminar Room 420 W 118th Street, #1219 International Affairs Building, New York City, NY, United States

Join the Harriman Institute and the Institute for the Study of Religion, Culture and Public Life (IRCPL) for a talk with author Victoria Smolkin about her book A Sacred Space Is Never Empty: A History of Soviet Atheism (Princeton University Press, 2018). When the Bolsheviks set out to build a new world in the wake of the Russian Revolution, they expected religion to…

Forgetful Remembrance: Social Forgetting Vernacular Historiography of A Rebellion in Ulster

Glucksman Ireland House NYU One Washington Mews, New York City, NY, United States

In his latest multiple award-winning book Forgetful Remembrance: Social Forgetting and Vernacular Historiography of a Rebellion in Ulster, (Oxford University Press, 2018) Professor Guy Beiner (Ben-Gurion University) compellingly uses the 1798 rebellion to illustrate the dynamics of social forgetting and the paradoxes involved when communities persistently endeavour to forget inconvenient events. Guy Beiner is a professor of modern history at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev. He…

Talk: Julie Urbisova, My Home in NOLA

Bohemian National Hall 321 E 73rd St., New York, NY, United States

Friendly gathering with Czech journalist Julie Urbisova who lives in New Orleans. In her new book "My home in Nola" (in Czech language) she not only captures the everyday life of an European woman in the center of American South, but mainly covers typical NOLA and Louisiana topics such as Mardi Gras, jazz or fine cuisine. Julie Urbisova is a…

Adventures in Italian Opera with Fred Plotkin

Casa Italiana Zerilli-Marimò (NYU) 24 West 12th Street, New York City, NY, United States

A Conversation with Mark Rucker The fifth Adventure in Italian Opera with Fred Plotkin of this season features Mark Rucker, the stalwart American baritone who has sung leading Verdi roles at the Met, London, Vienna, Berlin and elsewhere, and is also one of the most important opera educators of our time, ably passing on his knowledge to future generations of singers. In ENGLISH. From the Casa…

Ilya Kabakov and the Rubbish Heap of History

Jordan Center for the Advanced Study of Russia 19 University Place, 2nd Floor, New York City, NY, United States

The current success of Ilya and Emilia Kabakov as internationally renowned installation artists builds on Ilya Kabakov’s work in the Soviet Union. In this talk, Komaromi will explore Kabakov’s artistic relationship to both the Russian and Soviet cultural legacy and the western gaze. Specifically, she will show how Kabakov’s work with found “trash” objects in the 1980s is distinct from…