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Denis’s Drifting Bodies – Elisabeth Hodges

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

"This paper analyzes Claire Denis’s first English-language film, High Life (2018) and the effects of spatial-temporal drift on filmic and human bodies. Set in the not distant future, the director’s interstellar story tacitly evokes the films of Andrei Tarkovsky and Stanley Kubrick, yet the look of High Life departs from the familiar stark white palette of the science fiction genre colored…

The 21st Annual Ernie O’ Malley Lecture: Ambassador Daniel Mulhall

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

Declaring Independence: USA 1776, Ireland 1919 Ambassador Daniel Mulhall will address the relationship between Ireland and the United States with emphasis on the countries’ Declarations of Independence for which Ireland celebrates its 100th anniversary in 2019. Ambassador Mulhall took up duty as Ireland's 18th Ambassador to the United States in August 2017. He joined the Department of Foreign Affairs in…

Talk by Johannes Lehmann (Bonn): Rage, Borders, Masculinity – The Political of Anger and the Politics of Affect (in the New Rightist Mouvement)

Deutsches Haus Columbia 420 West 116th Street, New York City, NY, United States

Johannes Lehmann (Bonn): Rage, Borders, Masculinity - The Political of Anger and the Politics of Affect (in the New Rightist Mouvement) Against the background of a theory of political rage, the lecture develops the thesis that the imaginary of boundaries, of masculinity and the call for more rage and anger (thymos), as expressed from the political ‚right‘, form a strong…

An-Magritt Liv Ullmann: A Celebration

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

In this adaptation of the Norwegian trilogy Bread of Night by Johan Falkberget, the young An-Magritt has cultivated exceptional survival skills from a young age. Orphaned by her mother’s suicide following public humiliiation for an affair with a soldier — and raised only by her grandfather — she has grown up in a harsh environment dominated by men, teaching herself…

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Lessons from the Propaganda Underground: How Cold War Optics Can Help Us Read Our World

1219 International Affairs Building 420 West 118th Street, New York City, United States

Featuring Margaret Peacock, University of Alabama.   The twentieth century witnessed the advent of modern propaganda. Many associate propaganda with the Nazi regime, with its vitriolic efforts to conjure militant hyper-nationalism and anti-Semitism. But far more pervasive and long lasting was the propaganda that characterized the Cold War that followed. Propagandists from the Soviet Union and the United States mobilized new…

Book Talk. Strategic Frames: Europe, Russia, and Minority Inclusion in Estonia and Latvia by Jennie L. Schulze

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

Join the Program on U.S.-Russia Relations at the Harriman Institute for a talk with Jennie L. Schulze, author of Strategic Frames: Europe, Russia, and Minority Inclusion in Estonia and Latvia(University of Pittsburgh Press, 2018). Strategic Frames analyzes minority policies in Estonia and Latvia following their independence from the Soviet Union. It weighs the powerful influence of both Europe and Russia on their policy…

Book Talk. Courage and Fear by Ola Hnatiuk

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

Join the Ukrainian Studies Program at the Harriman Institute, Columbia University for a presentation by Ola Hnatiuk of her book Courage and Fear (Academic Studies Press, 2019). Thoughtful, insightful, exceptionally well researched and moving at the same time, Courage and Fear is the book that plunges the reader into the depth of the history in one of the most contested places on the European map. The…

Ian Thomson: Writing About Levi

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

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…

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, NY, United States

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…