Deutsches Haus at NYU presents a panel discussion among Christine Landfried, Joyce Mushaben, Boris Vormann, and Steven Sokol (moderator) on looking ahead at Germany in 2021. Opening remarks will be provided by David Gill, the German Consul General in New York. After four terms as Germany’s chancellor, Angela Merkel will step down in 2021. The new leadership of the Christian…
Philosophy, in the 21st century, has changed: its practices and languages are no longer those of the previous century. A turning point has been taken by new generations and thinkers from diverse origins who, more than commenting on the old masters, are taking philosophy into new fields: health, ecology, neurosciences, security warfare, non-Western thought, trans-identities, the rights of non-human living…
In this talk, Professor Zhuravskaya will discuss her forthcoming paper “Diffusion of Gender Norms: Evidence from Stalin’s Ethnic Deportations”, co-authored with Antonela Miho and Alexandra Jarotschkin. In this paper the scholars study horizontal between-group cultural transmission using a unique historical setting, which combines exogenous group exposure with no control over how and whether the representatives of different groups interact. Stalin’s…
Find our which book won this year’s Albertine Prize live during our annual Albertine Prize Award Ceremony! Join Honorary Co-Chairs, American author Rachel Kushner and French literary critic François Busnel, as they announce the winners live at 1pm EST on December 9th, followed by a discussion with the winning author and translator, moderated by Literary Hub’s Executive Editor, John Freeman. Register to…
By 1929 Helene and Samuel Gronner reach economic success and social prominence in the German town of Ilmenau. But when Nazi ideology grips the community, neighbors begin to shun Jewish-owned businesses like theirs. After near daily antisemitic encounters in school, they resolve to send Jochen, their teen-aged younger son, to Palestine. It's not until the war ends that he discovers that his parents…
The talk will investigate links between narrative modes and visions of economy that defined Russian sentimentalism. While in English-language Russianist scholarship social aspects of sentimental fiction have been largely ignored, they occupy a central place both in Soviet-era studies and in contemporary interpretations of English and French sentimentalism. Through a close reading of Karamzin’s classic Poor Liza I will illuminate…
Born in Vienna in the 1920s, Eva Kollisch was sent as a teenager on a 1938 Kindertransport to England. She then was able to come to the United States, where the family was reunited. The author writes about these experiences, as well as growing up in the world of left-wing politics and culture in New York, finding her way as…
Florence Mendheim went undercover at a moment in which American Nazism was flourishing. Local Nazi groups in the New York area were distributing propaganda, setting up summer camps, and hosting large rallies. Mendheim, an employee of the New York Public Library, was inspired to document and resist these groups.
In collaboration with NYU's Center for Neural Science, Dr. Sindy Joyce will be interviewed as part of the Growing Up In Science Life Stories series. This is a series of talks, founded by NYU's Prof. Weiji Ma, in which scientists tell their life story, including struggles that they have had to overcome and with a special interest in scientists from underrepresented groups.…
The Lafargue Clinic was founded in 1946 by a group of black intellectuals and German-Jewish doctors. These activists joined together to answer a pressing need in New York -the need for psychiatric care for Black people. Blacks were historically denied access to clinics and hospitals that provided for the mental needs of the city. Further, black intellectuals argued that their communities suffered…