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THE WORLD OF AUFBAU: HITLER’S REFUGEES IN AMERICA

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

Aufbau—a German-language weekly published in New York and circulated worldwide—was an essential platform for the generation of refugees from Hitler and the displaced people and concentration camp survivors who arrived in the United States after the war. The publication served to link thousands of readers looking for friends and loved ones in every part of the world. In its pages…

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Science Cafe: Research on Masaryk with Dagmar Hajkova

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

At the first edition of Science Café, Dagmar Hájková, a researcher who specializes in Czech history of the first half of the 20th century, will present the current research from the Masaryk Institute and Archives of the Czech Academy of Sciences focused on Tomas Garrigue Masaryk and his presence. Dagmar Hájková is a senior researcher in Masaryk Institute and Archive…

HAROLD POOR, KURT TUCHOLSKY, AND THE ORDEAL OF GERMANY

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

Harold L. Poor’s biography of Kurt Tucholsky is the most important and thorough work on the famed German-Jewish author in English: a still unmatched labor of love by the Rutgers history professor. For this book—originally published as Kurt Tucholsky and the Ordeal of Germany 1914–1935 in 1968, Poor spent years of research. He also visited Tucholsky’s widow Mary Gerold in her home…

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Expanding the World of Literature

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

Expanding the World of Literature: Tash Aw, in conversation with Mark Mazower To RSVP, please click here.  How hard is it to remain within our comfort zones when we read and write? How does the writer’s gaze remain unwittingly locked by long-established conventions? As the world’s economic power bases have begun to shift away from Western nations of the past few decades,…

WeAreLeonardo

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

Da Vinci as a Young Man A presentation of WeAreLeonardo , a project by Italian mixed-media artist Vittoria Chierici focused on visually portraying Leonardo Da Vinci as a young man, on the occasion of the 500th anniversary of his death. Chierici will take the audience on a journey by virtually leaping into her photojournalistic suitcase, the final work that contains…

Prepositional Existence, or Perhaps Only a Preposition Can Save Us – Irving Goh

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

Irving Goh's talk will center around the preposition “to.” "Through conceptual phrases that mobilize that very preposition, namely Levinas’s “face to face,” Derrida’s democracy-, justice-, and hospitality- “to-come,” Irigaray’s I love toyou,” and Nancy’s “being-to,” I will draw out the preposition’s ontological, ethical, and political stakes. That is important today for our contemporary world, which, on the one hand, is so globally connected, and…

Dante and… Opera

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

Adventures in Italian Opera with Fred Plotkin / Dante and... Casa Italiana's two popular series Adventures in Italian Opera with Fred Plotkin and Dante and... meet up for their first event of the season, focusing on Dante's presence in the world of opera (and classical music in general). Fred Plotkin will be leading a conversation with American conductor Michael Hurshell, Artistic Director…

The Nordic Model: Norway’s Penal Reform

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

In this new series, speakers at Scandinavia House will explore the reasons why Nordic countries lead surveys of societies with high levels of trust, happiness, gender equality, and quality of life. By many measures, these countries are among the most successful societies worldwide. In these lectures, we’ll look at how individual countries have successfully addressed certain issues that confront all societies.…

An evening with Jean-Baptiste Del Amo

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

Jean-Baptiste Del Amo is one of France’s most exciting and ambitious young writers. He will be discussing Animalia (Grove Editions, translation by Frank Wynne), the English translation of his acclaimed Règne animal (Gallimard, 2016).  Animalia, his fourth novel, is his first to appear in English. His debut novel, Une éducation libertine, won the Prix Goncourt du Premier Roman. About Animalia The small village of Puy-Larroque, southwest France,…

ANNELIESE LANDAU’S LIFE IN MUSIC: NAZI GERMANY TO ÉMIGRÉ CALIFORNIA, WITH DR. LILY E. HIRSCH

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

The subject of her new book, Lily E. Hirsch introduces us to a woman who truly persisted. Anneliese Landau pushed past bias to earn a PhD in musicology in 1930. She then lectured on early German radio, breaking new ground in a developing medium. After the Nazis forced the firing of all Jews in broadcasting in early 1933, Landau worked…