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What (Jewish) Identity is Not…

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

LECTURE/PANEL DISCUSSION: What (Jewish) Identity is Not… A talk by Rabbi Delphine Horvilleur To RSVP, please click here. The question of identity is a preoccupation in both France and the United States today, for somewhat different reasons, and debates about identity politics play out in very different ways in the two countries. Rabbi Delphine Horvilleur has spoken and written about the…

Kindertransport – Rescuing Children on the Brink of War

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

Exhibition opening: On December 2, 1938, just weeks after Kristallnacht, the first group of unaccompanied Jewish refugee children arrived in the United Kingdom. LBI and Yeshiva University Museum launch an exhibition exploring this remarkable effort that saved some 10,000 children, many of whom never saw their parents again.

41° Parallelo

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

Short Films from the Naples Film Festival In collaboration with the Naples Film Festival. The following films were selected specifically for Casa Italiana by a special jury made up of graduate and Ph.D. students of the NYU Department of Italian Studies: Così in terra  by Pier Lorenzo Pisano (Ita, 2018, 13') Roberto Citran, one of the most talented actors in…

Cell Biology of Neurodegeneration

Italian Academy (Columbia) 1161 Amsterdam Avenue, New York City, NY, United States

This symposium will tackle some of the cellular mechanisms that go awry in neurodegenerative diseases, with special emphasis on how innovative cell biological approaches promise to decipher the pathogenetic events underlying these devastating conditions. Schedule 9:00 – 9:40 am Registration and Poster Set-up 9:40 – 9:55 am Welcome and Overview: David Freedberg (Italian Academy, Columbia), Francesco Genuardi (Consul General of…

The Vory: understanding Russia’s gangsters in their historical and political context

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

On Tuesday, November 27th please join us for “The Vory: understanding Russia’s gangsters in their historical and political context” with Mark Galeotti (Institute of International Relations Prague). This event is part of the Occasional Series, sponsored by the NYU Jordan Center for the Advanced Study of Russia. Mark Galeotti talks about his new book, The Vory: Russia’s super mafia (Yale UP), and…

The State(s) We’re In: A New Age of Transatlantic Relations – Migration and Art

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

Deutsches Haus at NYU presents a conversation on "Migration and Art" among Silvia Fehrmann, Director of the DAAD's Artists-in-Berlin Programme; the artist Andy Graydon; the photographer Stefan Falke; Nathalie Anglès, the director of Residency Unlimited; and the journalist and writer Claudia Steinberg. About the panel: In the past two years, the issue of migration, borders, and walls has become ever…

Nathalie Kosciusko-Morizet: Europe in the digital age

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

Nathalie Kosciusko-Morizet is a former French politician who currently works as Vice-President of Cybersecurity at Capgemini, a French multinational consulting company. Educated at Polytechnique (X1992), she rose in the ranks of the French Government to become the Secretary of State for Digital Development and then Minister of Environment, under President Nicolas Sarkozy. She was a Member of Parliament for 10…

Learning to love it

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

Italian music today What Makes It Italian? Discovering National Character in Music is a music listening and discussion group that meets at Casa Italiana and is open to everyone. Participation is free. The group is led by Gina Crusco, who guides listening at Bard LLI and Riverdale Y, and who has been music instructor at The New School and director of…

Resistance: The Populist Challenge to Democracy

Albertine 972 5th Avenue, New York, NY, United States

Paris-based international lawyer‎ and political writer Laurent Cohen-Tanugi will present and discuss his new book, Resistance: The Populist Challenge to Democracy  (Ed. de l’Observatoire, Paris, 2018). The discussion will tackle the topics of Brexit; Donald Trump’s election and the midterms in the United States; the demise of mainstream parties in the West and the rise of the extreme right‎ in Europe; the…

Lecture-Performance: “On the Imaginary Domain, Or Who Gets to Be a Person?”

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

Fictive Witness #3 Professor Drucilla Cornell looks at our current society in which people seem to live in different universes. In “On the Imaginary Domain, Or Who Gets to Be a Person?” she suggests that is the case because of the increasingly divided way in which we imagine our world and ourselves. For her, imagination is not individual but instead thrives…