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Guadeloupe, Martinique & Puerto Rico. Comparing Post-Colonial, Non-Sovereign Trajectories

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

Yarimar Bonilla is Associate Professor of anthropology at Hunter College, CUNY. Her work focuses on questions of sovereignty, citizenship, and race across the Americas. She has tracked these issues across a broad range of sites: anti-colonial labor activism in the French Caribbean, the role of digital protest in the Black Lives Matter movement, the politics of the Trump presidency, and…

Roving Revolutionaries: Armenians & Connected Revolutions in the Russian, Iranian, & Ottoman Worlds

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

Three of the formative revolutions that shook the early 20th century world occurred almost simultaneously in regions bordering one another. Though the Russian, Iranian, and Young Turk Revolutions all exploded between 1904 and 1911, they have never been studied through their linkages until now. Roving Revolutionaries probes the interconnected aspects of these three revolutions through the involvement of the Armenian…

American Dreamer: An Afternoon with Antoine Vigne

Albertine 972 5th Avenue, New York, NY, United States

Join Antoine Vigne as he presents his latest novel, American Dreamer, just out in France with editions Courtes et Longues. Moderated by Jean Poderos. In American Dreamer, Juan is a young, undocumented Mexican man who lives in El Paso. Passionate about science and astronomy, he decides to pursue academia, but due to his clandestine status, he is forced to flee and…

Where Evil Leans Hard on Good

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

Italy's Migrant Detention Centers and Colonial Concentration Camps A lecture by Stephanie Malia Hom Followed by a conversation between the author and Prof. Ruth Ben-Ghiat (NYU) Stephanie Malia Hom presents an excerpt from her new book, Empire’s Mobius Strip: Historical Echoes in Italy’s Crisis of Migration and Detention (Cornell UP, 2019). Italy’s current crisis of Mediterranean migration and detention has…

Phil Rosenthal in Conversation with Marjorie Ingall

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

Everyone knows Phil Rosenthal loves to eat. The star of the hit series, Somebody Feed Phil, and co-creator of Everybody Loves Raymond, travels the world to taste the best local cuisine. So, what will we feed Phil at the Center for Jewish History? With hundreds of vintage Jewish cookbooks here in the archives, we have a few recipes in mind.…

Monuments Without Heroes

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

Medardo Rosso and the Contemporary Origins of Modern Sculpture A lecture by Sharon Hecker, art historian Two decades after unification, Italy was characterized by uncertain nationalism and ambivalent internationalism. The generation that grew up in the aftermath of the Risorgimento was filled with hopes followed by disillusionment. The death of Risorgimento hero Giuseppe Garibaldi in 1882 intensified feelings of anxiety…

Antisemitism and the Russian Revolution

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

When the Bolsheviks came to power in 1917, they announced the overthrow of a world scarred by exploitation and domination. In the very moment of revolution, these sentiments were put to the test as antisemitic pogroms swept the former Pale of Settlement. The pogroms posed fundamental questions of the Bolshevik project, revealing the depth of antisemitism within sections of the…

Vile Bodies: Reassessing Chernukha in Recent RussianCinema

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

Join us for a talk with Daria Ezerova, Postdoctoral Research Scholar at the Harriman Institute. It has become clear that chernukha was neither a one-time Soviet phenomenon, nor limited exclusively to the Russian context. And yet, the reemergence of chernukha aesthetics in the Russian cinema of the mid-2000s was unexpected, to say the least. Neither a response to a degenerated political…

From Gruyère to Gatchina: The Meanings of Cheese in Modern Russia

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

Although Russia has an extensive tradition of dairy products including fresh cheese, ripened and aged cheeses were introduced from abroad at least by the seventeenth century, and they immediately took on all sorts of new meanings. Cheese was a commodity, an object of international trade. Cheese was the product of technology that Russians came to hope to master. And cheese…