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The Nordic Model Sweden’s Welfare System & The Future of Work

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

In this new series, speakers at Scandinavia House will explore the reasons why Nordic countries lead surveys of societies with high levels of trust, happiness, gender equality, and quality of life. By many measures, these countries are among the most successful societies worldwide. In these lectures, we’ll look at how individual countries have successfully addressed certain issues that confront all societies.…

Arabic Translation at the End of Imperial Spain (1714-1814)

Casa Hispanica Columbia 612 W 116th St, New York

Speaker: Claire Gilbert (University of Saint Louis) Respondent: TBA Moderators: Pier Mattia Tommasino (Columbia University, Italian) and Seth Kimmel (Columbia University, LAIC) This paper studies how scholars and politicians of the Ilustración relied on medieval precedents in Spanish Arabism for philological and political projects. Those precedents were related to the politics of belonging and exclusion which shaped early modern Spanish society. Their memory and…

Roma | New York 1948-1964

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

The Murray and Isabella Rayburn Foundation Before|After Roma | New York 1948-1964 The Murray and Isabella Rayburn Foundation Before | After (Silvana Editoriale, 2019) by Germano Celant A panel featuring: Emily Braun, CUNY Germano Celant, art historian, critic, curator Laura Mattioli, Founder of CIMA Isabella Del Frate Rayburn, IDF Art Consultants Giorgio Spanu, Olnick Spanu The two-volume set Roma / New…

Republication of Dorothy Macardle’s, Dark Enchantment

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

Dorothy Macardle (1889-1958) was an Irish novelist, playwright, and popular historian. Her 1942 feminist Gothic novel, The Uninvited, was adapted for the screen by Hollywood in 1944. The editor of Tramp Press's republication of Dark Enchantment (1953), Caroline Heafey, will speak on the author’s work. Tramp Press was launched in Dublin by Sarah Davis-Goff and Lisa Coen in 2014.

The Newish Jewish Encyclopedia

Center for Jewish History 15 W. 16th Street, New York City, NY, United States

Deeply knowing, highly entertaining, and just a little bit irreverent, The Newish Jewish Encyclopedia is an unputdownable encyclopedia of all things Jewish and Jew-ish covering culture, religion, history, habits, language, and more. Readers will refresh their knowledge of the Patriarchs and Matriarchs, the artistry of Barbra Streisand, the significance of the Oslo Accords, the meaning of words like balaboosta,balagan, bashert, and bageling. Understand all…

$15

Lecture: Forgotten Geographies of Artistic Diplomacy w/ Sarah-Neel Smith

Hagop Kevorkian Center 255 Sullivan Street, New York City, NY, United States

Dr. Sarah-Neel Smith will discuss Turkey’s art world of the 1960s and ’70s through the lens of Abby Grey’s collecting activities, focusing on the intersection of art and international discourses about democracy in the wake of World War II.

“One of the Greatest Untold Stories of WWII”: A Decade-Long Quest after my Father and a Quarter Million other Holocaust Refugees

Center for Jewish History 15 W. 16th Street, New York City, NY, United States

It is a largely unknown and astonishing fact that most Polish Jews who escaped Nazi extermination survived as refugees in Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, Iran and India. Mikhal Dekel, whose then 13-year-old father was such a refugee, will share her archival research and global travel to retrace their 13,000 mile route. Dekel tells a story at once intimate and historically sweeping, conversing…

$5

On Finding and Fabricating: Memory and Family History in Katja Petrowskaja’s “Maybe Esther”

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

Deutsches Haus at NYU presents a talk by DAAD Visiting Scholar Susanne Rohr about the desire for continuity, identity, and belonging in one’s own family history and her interpretation of Katja Petrowskaja’s collection of stories, Maybe Esther. About the event: A topic that is being broadly discussed in contemporary German and U.S.-American literature is a desire for continuity, identity, and…

A Woman’s Perspective: An Evening with Zuzana Justman

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

Mon, November 25, 2019 at 7:00 pm at Bohemian National Hal,cinema 321 E 73 St, New York City The Czech-American Emmy Award-winning filmmaker and writer will discuss three of her major films Voices of the Children (1996), A Trial in Prague (2000), and Czech Women: Now We Are Free (1993) Moderated by Helena Fisera and Christopher Harwood Limited seating! RSVP:…

On the Shoulders of Giants: Rabelaisian Authorial Avatars in the Age of Print – Virginia Krause

La Maison Française (NYU) 16 Washington Mews, New York City, NY, United States

The point of departure for this talk is the controversial hypothesis that Les Œuvres de Louise Labé was not the work of a woman author, but rather a literary hoax by a group of male poets. Rather than weighing in on this on-going polemic, however, Krause asks to what extent the conditions underlying the Labé hypothesis apply more generally to…