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Pierre Bourdieu: A Heroic Structuralism

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

To RSVP, please click here. Jean-Louis Fabiani’s recent book, Pierre Bourdieu: Un Structuralisme héroïque, offers a remarkable intellectual portrait of the great French sociologist, and has been very well received in France as a major contribution to understanding Bourdieu’s work. Fabiani traces the genealogy of Bourdieu’s major concepts—le champ, la distinction, le capital—and the genesis of his method within the space of…

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Film Screening & Discussion: The Living Fire

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

Please join the Ukrainian Film Club at Columbia University for a screening of the documentary film The Living Fire (2014) by Ostap Kostiuk. Ukrainian with English subtitles. Professor Yuri Shevchuk will introduce the film and moderate the discussion. This stunningly beautiful and poetic film chronicles three generations of Ukrainian Carpathian shepherds who struggle to keep their ancient trade alive in the face…

Putin’s Last Term?

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

Please join the The Harriman Institute of Columbia University and New York University’s Jordan Center for the Advanced Study of Russia for a panel discussion on “Putin’s Last Term?”, featuring panelists Henry Hale (George Washington University), Yoshiko Herrera (University of Wisconsin-Madison), Kimberly Marten (Barnard College and Columbia University), and Graeme Robertson (University of North Carolina Chapel Hill). This event is part of the New York Russia Public Policy Seminar,…

EXHIBIT OPENING. Just in Case | На всякий случай

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

Please join us for an opening reception of the exhibit Just in Case | На всякий случай, a series of photo essays by artist Valerie Zimmer that explores the narrative of Russian-speaking Jewish immigrants through objects they brought with them. Exhibit runs April 9 – May 18, 2018. Exhibit hours are Monday–Friday, 9:00AM–5:00PM excluding University Holidays. This series of photo essays focuses on Russian-speaking…

Book Presentation: The Politics of Opera

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

Co-hosted with Salon Sanctuary Concerts: The Politics of Opera. A History from Monteverdi to Mozart (2017, Princeton University Press) by Mitchell Cohen. The author in dialogue with Eric Banks, Director of the New York Institute for the Humanites. From Vincenzo Galilei to the French Revolution, author Mitchell Cohen offers a compelling and sweeping investigation into the intersections of music and…

Film: May Fools (Milou en Mai)

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

To RSVP, please click here. An eccentric French family meets in the country for the funeral of their matriarch (Paulette Dubost), which takes place at the same time as the 1968 student revolts in Paris. Even with the latest updates of the riots coming in over the airwaves, the family prefers to focus on petty squabbles and personal matters rather than…

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German-Jewish after 1945

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

Historian Michael Brenner (American/University of Munich) will discuss contemporary Jewish life in Germany on the occasion of the English-language publication of A History of Jews in Germany since 1945 (Indiana University Press, 2017). Brenner, the volume’s editor, will join historian Atina Grossmann (Cooper Union), who contributed a chapter of the book focused on the period 1945–1949. Originally published in German in 2012,…

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Anna Haifisch’s Von Spatz

Desert Island 540 Metropolitan Ave., Brooklyn, NY

German illustrator Anna Haifisch will read from her latest graphic novel Von Spatz. An absurdist tale about artists in crisis, Von Spatz follows a mentally exhausted Walt Disney trying to recover at the Von Spatz Rehabilitation Center. There Disney meets Tomi Ungerer and Saul Steinberg, and together, they embark on a regimen of relaxation and art therapy. Expanding on her graphic exploration of the anxieties…

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Exhibition: Artists Caught Behind the Iron Curtain

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

Encounter the original works Lee Freeman collected from cutting edge artists from communist-era Czechoslovakia, art pieces that might have never breathed and prospered without his vigorous determination to bring them across the Iron Curtain. Exhibition will be on view April 12th - May 4th, 2018 The opening is free and open to the public. For more information, please visit www.czechcenter.com. RSVP…

Film Faction: Woyzeck

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

1979. Germany. Directed by Werner Herzog. With Klaus Kinski, Eva Mattes, Wolfgang Reichmann. At what point do we regard the conditions of an individual’s existence, rather than the individual himself, as responsible for his actions, regardless of how heinous these may become? Werner Herzog - the enigmatic filmmaker central to New German Cinema - addresses this question in his 1979 filmic adaptation…

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