Register here for the Zoom webinar or tune in on YouTube Live. Please join us for a panel discussion about Russian Formalist Yuri Tynianov. This event is part of our Contemporary Culture Series. In 2019, Academic Studies Press published Permanent Evolution, the first English-language volume of theoretical works by Yuri Tynianov, one of the most dazzling representatives of Russian Formalism. This panel…
Join us as we get ready for Halloween with author and illustrator Laurent Sanguinetti who will read from Himboo-Humboo, his latest book just published by Le Seuil Jeunesse. The reading will be followed by an interactive collective workshop led by Laurent Sanguinetti on Zoom. Children will be invited to create their own special monster, chat with Laurent Sanguinetti, and share their…
The Bolsheviks promised to provide universal public health. As part of that effort, they sought to make interactions between doctors and patients regular and normal. Seeing a doctor and receiving medical care would be important points of contact with Soviet power. However, with increased interactions between physicians and the public also came increased opportunities for misunderstandings and conflicts. Patients, particularly…
When Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg was growing up, she found inspiration in the trail-blazing accomplishments of Henrietta Szold and Emma Lazarus. In this segment, we pay homage to RBG by drawing on our own archives to lend more dimension to her heroes. We'll also uncover an unexpected archive that provided one of the late Justice's first gleanings of feminism and…
A music Listening series hosted by Casa Italiana Zerilli-Marimo (NYU). Renaissance Humanism lastingly stamped Florentine culture, heard in the balance and rationality of its music. Composers discussed include Luca Marenzio. Participation is free.
Nordic Authors You Should Know at Scandinavia House continues with a focus on Sami literature with Johanna Domokos and Saami poet, musician, and scriptwriter Niillas Holmberg. Moderated by Harald Gaski. The panelists will discuss Sami literature and culture today. Please send audience questions ahead of the discussion to info@amscan.org.
Read and discuss Scandinavian literature in translation as part of our Nordic Book Club. Each month we select a novel from some of the best Nordic literary voices. Discussions have typically taken place the last Tuesday of the month at Scandinavia House but will now be taking place bi-weekly as an online meeting.
The fourth in our series exploring new research. Shalva Weil discusses her new book "The Baghdadi Jews in India: Maintaining Communities, Negotiating Identities and Creating Super-Diversity." This book explores the extraordinary differentiation of the Baghdadi Jewish community over time during their sojourn in India from the end of the eighteenth century until their dispersion to Indian diasporas in Israel and…
Nov, 4th, 1.00pm EST/6.00pm GMT John, the New York Times bestselling author of A Book of Bones (Hodder /Stoughton) goes back to the very beginning of Private Investigator Charlie Parker’s astonishing career in his brand new novel The Dirty South: A Thriller (Emily Bestler Books/Atria Books). John will be in conversation with NYU’s Dr. John Waters. This event will run for…
In contrast to vital records, family photos do not impart clear, standardized information and have always posed a genealogical challenge. In 2019, amateur genealogist and data scientist Scott Genzer developed a technique for using free online facial recognition tools to identify people in photographs, and has successfully applied it to historical photos of the Jewish community of his ancestral town,…
