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Violent Beginnings: Defending and Constructing the ‘black’ Ghanaian Citizen in the Cold War

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

On March 6, 1957, Ghana gained its independence from Great Britain. Under the famed leadership of Kwame Nkrumah, the first newly independent sub-Saharan African country had several pressing questions on its plate: Who was Ghanaian? What were the new government’s duty and role to its citizens? Moreover, what would Ghana’s political and economic relationship to the Capitalist and Socialist world…

On Sex, Race, Nation, Humanity: Reading Derrida’s Geschlecht III

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

This event focuses on a recently discovered text by the late Franco-Algerian philosopher Jacques Derrida. Geschlecht III, rediscovered in the Derrida archive and newly published in French (forthcoming in English), is the “missing” installment in Derrida’s four-part series on Martin Heidegger and the German word Geschlecht(meaning, among other things, “sex,” “race,” and “species”). Geschlecht III presents us with one of Derrida’s most sustained engagements with Martin Heidegger,…

The Resistance in Western Europe, 1940–1945 – Book Launch and Discussion

La Maison Française (Columbia) Buell Hall, 515 West 116th Street, New York City, NY, United States

Featuring Olivier Wieviorka (author), École Normale Supérieure de Paris-Saclay; Robert O. Paxton, Columbia University; and Mark Mazower, Columbia University. Olivier Wieviorka talks about his newly translated book, The Resistance in Western Europe, 1940–1945 (Columbia University Press, 2019), a sweeping analytical history of the underground anti-Nazi forces during World War II. Featuring responses by Robert O. Paxton and Mark Mazower.

Rehearsal for Truth 2019: In Conversation, Havel in America

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

MODERATED DISCUSSION. Pavla Niklova, Director of Vaclav Havel Library Foundation (VHLF), has invited participants from the oral history collection Havel Conversations and authors of the new book Havel v Americe (Havel in America)—featuring interviews from the project—to share their experiences. The event will also honor the achievements of Ambassador William Luers, Director of the Iran Project and Adjunct Professor at…

Skirball Talks: Slavoj Žižek: “Disorder Under Heaven”

Skirball Center for Performing Arts 566 LaGuardia Place, New York

As part of NYU Skirball Talks, the NYU Department of German and Deutsches Haus at NYU present Disorder under Heaven with Slavoj Žižek. Event information: Our situation is dangerous, there are uncertainties and elements of chaos in our environment, in international relations, in biotechnology, in sexual relations… But it is here that we should remember Mao’s old motto: “There is great disorder under heaven, so the situation is…

Rogues, Cowards and Ideologues: Social Networks and Regime Transformation in Georgia

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

Join for a talk by Julie George, Visiting Associate Professor of International and Public Affairs, SIPA and Associate Professor of Political Science, Queens College and the Graduate Center, CUNY. How do politicians in weakly institutionalized states make decisions on whether and when to defect from teetering regimes? What considerations haunt politicians as they decide to stay with a ruling party or to join…

Italian Dialect Theater

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

Origins and History On the Italian Stage is a series of lectures conceived and led by Laura Caparrotti that journeys into the history of Italian Theater to explore its language, and its contribution to Italian society and world theater. This lecture will address Goldoni and the use of dialect in Italian theater; the relationship between a theater for the people and…

Vita Nuova

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

Archeologie di un testo (Studj romanzi 2018) Presented by the NYU Department of Italian Studies with the Global Dante Project of New York. Studj Romanzi (2018) Vita nuova Archeologie di un testo Edited by Maria Luisa Ardizzone (NYU), Teodolinda Barolini (Columbia University) Featuring essays by Roberto Antonelli, Maria Luisa Ardizzone, Luca Azzetta, Teodolinda Barolini, Igor Candido, Donato Pirovano, Roberto Rea, Jelena…

Book Talk. The Russian Understanding of War: Blurring the Lines between War and Peace by Oscar Jonsson

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

Join for a book talk with Oscar Jonsson, current Director of the Stockholm Free World Forum (Frivärld) and associated researcher at the Swedish Defense University, on The Russian Understanding of War: Blurring the Lines between War and Peace (Georgetown University Press, November 2019). This book analyzes the evolution of Russian military thought and how Russia's current thinking about war is…

The Euro-Crisis: European Seminar Series

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

As part of the European Seminar Series, Harold James will discuss the The Euro-Crisis. 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 3rd Floor East, New York, NY 10012. Light fare will be served.