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Sisters in Liberty

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

From Florence to New York Drs. Ann Wilkins and David Wilkins, two of the curators of the Sisters in Liberty: From Florence, Italy to New York, New York exhibition at the Ellis Island Museum of Immigration (October 18, 2019—April 26, 2020), will discuss Pio Fedi’s monumental Libertà della Poesia (1883) on the tomb of the Risorgimento author Giambattista Niccolini in the church of Santa Croce, in Florence.…

Kvas Patriotism in Russia: Cultural Problems, Cultural Myths

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

In 1827 Russian poet Pyotr Vyazemsky (1792-1878) wrote in a letter from Paris: "Many see patriotism as unqualified praise of everything that is your own. Turgot called this "servant patriotism,” du patriotisme d’antichambre. In our country we could call it "kvas patriotism." Why move false patriotism out of the antechamber and into the realm of food and drink? This invocation…

Objectivity and the Humanities – Prospects for a New Realism: A Lecture by Professor Markus Gabriel

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

The NYU Department of German and Deutsches Haus at NYU present “Objectivity and the Humanities - Prospects for a New Realism,” a talk by Professor Markus Gabriel. Over the last decades, the humanities have come under pressure from the scientific worldview. To many, it seems as if the humanities provide us at best with less-than-objective knowledge claims. Arguably, there are…

Lecture: Archives and Archivalities: Record-Keeping and Sovereignty in Early Modern Eurasia

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

The ascendency of historical archival studies has re-focused attention on the relationship between record-keeping practices, the extension of authority across composite domains, and the redefinition of sovereignty between the fifteenth and the eighteenth centuries. Yet when positing the “archive” as an object of research, scholars dedicated to the history and evolution of documentary repositories also risk returning to culturalist modes…

Red Regatta

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

Presented by Save Venice This event is organized and presented by Save Venice. A lecture by Melissa McGill, artist Artist Melissa McGill will speak about her most recent public artwork, Red Regatta, an unprecedented series of large-scale choreographed regattas of traditional vela al terzo sailboats, hoisted with hand-painted red sails, that activated Venice’s lagoon and waterways last May through October 2019. This…

We’re All Thieves Here: The Soviet War on Crime and the End of Criminal Justice Reform, 1959-1991

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

Join for a talk with Rhiannon Dowling, Postdoctoral Research Scholar at the Harriman Institute. Rhiannon Dowling will present on her book project, a cultural and intellectual history of crime in the Soviet Union, which argues that, of all of the promises that the Soviet state failed to fulfill, the most crucial, and most devastating, was the promise to eliminate crime with its…

Transparency and the Rule of Law: Preliminary Results From a Field Experiment in Ukraine

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

Professor Gans-Morse will report preliminary results from a field experiment examining a novel, bottom-up approach to improving judicial transparency: the videotaping of court hearings. Random assignment of pre-trial detention hearings in Kyiv city courts to videotaping by an Ukrainian non-governmental organization offers insights into whether increased transparency can improve key aspects of the rule of law, such as judges’ adherence…

The Future of Immortality: A Book Talk with Anya Bernstein

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 Columbia Institute for Religion, Culture and Public Life (IRCPL) for a book talk with Anya Bernstein, author of The Future of Immortality: Remaking Life and Death in Contemporary Russia (Princeton University Press, 2019), in conversation with Anton Vidokle (e-flux) and Adam Leeds (Slavic Languages). As long as we have known death, we have dreamed…

The Great Chernobyl Acceleration

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

In April 1986, the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant exploded and sent upwards of 50 million curies into the surrounding environment. Working through archives, Brown encountered many contradictory accounts of the disaster and its effects. Realizing that though people and archives lie, trees probably don’t, she turned to scientists—biologists, foresters, physicians and physicists—to help her understand the ecology of the greater…

Extraparliamentary Opposition in West Germany, 1962-1983: European Seminar Series

Center for European and Mediterranean Studies (NYU) 53 Washington Square South, 3rd Floor East, New York, United States

Oct. 24 European Seminar Series | Belinda Davis: Extraparliamentary Opposition in West Germany, 1962-1983 As part of the European Seminar Series, Belinda Davis will discuss extraparliamentary opposition in West Germany in the years 1962-1983. All sessions will take place at the Center for European and Mediterranean Studies, King Juan Carlos I of Spain Center, 3rd Floor East, Room 324, 53 Washington Square South…