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Collaborating with the Enemy? The Human Dynamics of Cross-Front Line Water Infrastructure in the War in Eastern Ukraine (2014-2019)

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

The ongoing conflict in eastern Ukraine has disrupted economic networks for millions of Ukrainians living near the war zone, a densely industrialized and urbanized region. They have had to adapt their livelihoods to the realities of a front line that shattered past routines such as trade routes, work commutes, access to health care facilities and schools. From this perspective, the local water distribution…

Ian Thomson: Writing About Levi

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

Primo Levi at 100 Presented in collaboration with Centro Primo Levi, in collaboration with the Italian Cultural Institute of New York. Author Ian Thomson presents the new edition of his classic biography of Primo Levi. From the Preface I did not choose to write Levi’s biography; Levi had no sooner died than a London publishing house approached me. At first I…

Spanish Republican Exile / Intimate Portraits: Sender Barayón. A Trip to the Light (2019)

KJCC Auditorium 53 Washington Square South, New York

From the Spanish Civil War to a counterculture guru of the sixties, electronic music composer, artist, and writer Ramón Sender Barayón was born in Madrid in 1934. His father was Ramón J. Sender, one of the most renowned Spanish writers of the twentieth century and his mother, Amparo Barayón, was a woman ahead of her time. The Spanish civil war…