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Conference: Specters of Kant, They Say

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

Haunting has been the name—the signature, writing, event—of Immanuel Kant in 20th-century France. Impetus to many commentaries, controversies, and indeed to the emergence of singular thoughts, the French reception of Kant’s texts has not been simple or straightforward. Yet, unlike a certain “French Hegel” (or “Marx,” or “Nietzsche,” or “Freud,” or “Heidegger”), the (his)stories of Kant’s French specter/s remain to…

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Roundtable Discussion. Politicized Justice in Putin’s Russia

#1512 International Affairs Building 420 West 118th Street, New York City, NY, United States

Please join us for a roundtable that will bring together experts on law and politics in Putin’s Russia, both academics and practitioners. The experts will discuss the issue of political uses of law in today’s Russia, examining in particular the role of protest-related trials and recent affairs involving high-ranking officials in the functioning of Putin’s regime during his latest term (2012-2018). Along…

The Mediterranean by Law: Europe and the Maghreb, 16th-19th Century — Italian Mediterranean Colloquium

Heyman Center for the Humanities 74 Morningside Dr, New York, NY, United States

Presenter Guillaume Calafat (Paris 1, La Sorbonne, IAS, Princeton University) Trials and Jurisdictional Pluralism in the Western Mediterranean (1590-1630). Corsicans at Courts between Ottoman North Africa and Southern Europe Presenter Jessica Marglin (University of Southern California, IEA Paris) The Extraterritorial Century: Rethinking Nationality and Religion in the Mediterranean, 1815-1915 Respondents Simona Cerutti (EHESS Paris, Italian Academy Columbia University) Lauren Benton (Vanderbilt University) Moderators Pier…

Lecture: Visualizing Revolutionaries in 1960s and 1970s Italy

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

THE WORKER, THE MILITANT AND THE MONSTER: Visualizing Revolutionaries in 1960s and 1970s Italy: A lecture by Jacopo Galimberti, University of Manchester Over the past twenty years, and particularly after the publication of Empire (2000), the theoretical insights of the 1960s and 1970s Italian far left have been reappraised by scholars, architects and artists. However, little has been written about the work of the…

Music: Klangtext I Michael Pisaro

Deutsches Haus Columbia 420 West 116th Street, New York City, NY, United States

The music and ideas of Wandelweiser composer Michael Pisaro are featured in an evening of performances and discussion at Columbia University's Deutsches Haus. This event will showcase musicians from New York's aaaviary collective, Columbia University German Department's Ross Shields, New York-based writer, interdisciplinary artist, and Wandelweiser specialist, G Douglas Barrett, and the composer himself. Works including Pisaro's 'fields have ears'…

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From Abie’s Irish Rose to Anna Riley’s Rabbi Jake: The Irish-jewish Couple in Feature Films

King Juan Carlos I of Spain Center 53 Washington Square South, New York, United States

From Abie’s Irish Rose to Anna Riley’s Rabbi Jake: The Irish-jewish Couple in Feature Films Lawrence Baron, Professor Emeritus of Modern Jewish History at San Diego State University speaks on how American feature films about Irish-Jewish romances have conveyed varying messages from extolling the “Melting Pot” ideal, exposing inter-ethnic tensions, epitomizing interfaith toleration, reflecting changing gender roles, and embracing multicultural diversity. The lecture…

Exhibit No. 1: 5846, 5851, and 5852 V. The Population and Migration Authority

Ludlow 38 38 Ludlow Street, New York, United States

Hinda Weiss & Asaf Weitzen Through colors, rhythms, and sounds, the video work and installation 5846, 5851, and 5852 v. the Population and Migration Authority portrays an Israeli supreme court's decision regarding three people requesting not to be sent to the Holot Detention Facility.* Truths embedded within a given language are explored in relation to the rights of asylum seekers and immigrants…

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Property in War and Revolution

King Juan Carlos I of Spain Center 53 Washington Square South, New York, United States

This symposium presents new scholarship by five up and coming scholars doing path-breaking work on what happens to property in times of war and revolution, ranging from the eighteenth century to the twentieth. The papers explore the fate of objects over a wide swath of time and variety of regimes in Europe and North America. Each author will give a…

Film: Measuring the World

Goethe-Institut New York 30 Irving Place, New York City, NY, United States

Their childhoods couldn’t have been more different: Alexander von Humboldt, born into a noble family, had the best private tutors in Berlin, a wealthy and prestigious family home and the protection of the powerful. Carl Friedrich Gauß grew up in poverty, was beaten by his classmates and teachers and then, once his mathematical talents could no longer be overlooked, he…

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Concert: New World, New Music

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

[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jhqVGxlBcr8] New World, New Music is a celebration of the 125th anniversary of Antonin Dvorak’s Symphony No. 9, From the New World. As our contribution to the celebration, we have commissioned renowned composer and native New Yorker Bruce Adolphe and visual artists James Rouvelle and Lili Maya, known as maya + rouvelle, to create an integrative arts experience that will…