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Book Launch. The Cultural Life of Capitalism in Yugoslavia: (Post)Socialism and its Other

Thursday, April 5, 2018 6:00pm Marshall D. Shulman Seminar Room (1219 International Affairs Building, 420 W 118th St) Please join us for a book launch and discussion of Cultural Life of Capitalism in Yugoslavia: (Post)Socialism and Its Other (Palgrave, 2017), edited by Dijana Jelača, Maša Kolanović and Danijela Lugarić. The book offers a thought-provoking rethinking of the standard binary division between socialist…

The Transatlantic Partnership: Europe and the US in a New Era

Rosenthal Pavilion, Kimmel Center for University Life 60 Washington Square South

Are Europe and the United States destined to grow apart after over 70 years of partnership? Join academics, policy-makers, and other members of the international community in an examination of the transatlantic ties that have generally united Europe and the US; the current status of that relationship, including the issues that divide us; and areas in which a strengthened partnership…

Revolution Every Day: Early Soviet Posters and the Propagandizing of Women

Harriman Institute 420 West 118th St., New York City, NY, United States

Thursday, April 5, 2018 6:00pm - 8:00pm Ella Weed Room, 223 Milbank Hall, Barnard College Please join us for a talk with Christina Kiaer (Art History, Northwestern University). Most of us are sure that Russian revolutionary posters are propaganda, even those made by renowned artists of the Russian avant-garde in their attempt to bring “art into life.” At this retrospective moment of…

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After the Elections: The Rise of Italy’s Third Republic?

Columbia Graduate School of Journalism 2950 Broadway, New York City, NY, United States

Location: World Room, 3rd Fl Pulitzer Hall, Columbia Graduate School of Journalism. Panelists: Carlo Invernizzi-Accetti, City College, CUNY Anthony Silberfeld, Bertelsmann Foundation Alexander Stille, Columbia University Nadia Urbinati, Columbia University Moderator Adam Tooze, Columbia University Presented by The European Institute & The Bertelsmann Foundation. Co-sponsored by The Department of Italian, The Columbia European Society, and The Columbia European Union Student Association.

Leslie Adelson (Cornell): “The Future as Contested Ground: A Comparative Approach to Narrative Future-Making in Minority Literature in Contemporary Germany”

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

What does it mean to speak, as Hannah Arendt once did, of the broken “heart of time”? This lecture analyzes innovative forms of radical futurity in little known 21st-century fiction by Emine Sevgi Özdamar, who holds emblematic status on Germany’s path from Turkish migration to transcultural Europe, and Michael Götting, who has authored the first sustained novel about Black German…

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Book Talk with Susan Smith-Peter on “Imagining Russian Regions: Subnational Identity and Civil Society in Nineteenth-Century Russia”

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

On Friday, April 6th please join us for “Imagining Russian Regions: Subnational Identity and Civil Society in Nineteenth-Century Russia”, a book talk with Susan Smith-Peter (CUNY Staten Island). This talk is part of the Occasional Series, sponsored by the Jordan Center for the Advanced Study of Russia. In Imagining Russian Regions: Subnational Identity and Civil Society in Nineteenth-Century Russia, Susan Smith-Peter…

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Book Launch. The Power of Language and Rhetoric in Russian Political History by Richard S. Wortman

Harriman Institute 420 West 118th St., New York City, NY, United States

Friday, April 6, 2018 4:30pm 1201 International Affairs Building (12th Floor, 420 W 118th St) Please join us to celebrate the publication of Richard S. Wortman's The Power of Language and Rhetoric in Russian Political History (Bloomsbury Academic, 2018). In this book Wortman examines the rhetorical force of certain key words in the discourses of Russian state, political thought, and literature. He shows…

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Exhibition Opening: Elias Wessel’s “In the End, though, Nothing is Lost”

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

Deutsches Haus at NYU presents the exhibition Elias Wessel's "In the end, though, nothing is lost." Please join us for the exhibition opening accompanied by an artist talk on Friday, April 6, at 6:00pm. The exhibition will be on view until May 26. Exhibition information The pictorial source of “In the End, Though, Nothing is Lost” are photographs of landscapes taken by…

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Kvartirnik @ NYU

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

Please join us at the 2nd installment of “Kvartirnik @ NYU” to witness Mikhail Borzikin (Televizor) perform his all-time classics, new songs, and to participate in a conversation about Soviet-Russian Rock and its effects. Hosted by Mike (Misha) Danilin of the NYU Department of Russian and Slavic Studies and co-sponsored by the Jordan Center for the Advanced Study of Russia,…

Blarney Star Concert Series: Màire Ní Chathasaigh & Chris Newman

Glucksman Ireland House NYU One Washington Mews, New York City, NY, United States

In the 1980s West Cork native Máire Ní Chathasaigh pioneered a modern traditional music style on the harp, introducing the dance music repertoire, rhythm and ornamentation associated with fiddle, pipes and flute to her instrument and helping to explode the stereotype of the Irish harpist as a gowned performer of semi-classical parlor music. She found a musical and life partner…