This session will explore whether the EU integration process has forged a sense of common identity (culturally and politically) among Europeans. Participants will also discuss how minorities and migrants relate to such an identity. February 2, 2021: Thierry Grillet interviews writer Kamel Daoud (pre-recorded in French). The video will be posted on Columbia Global Centers | Paris YouTube Channel. February 9, 2021 | 1pm (New York) | 7pm (Paris): Join Mark…
Join us for another installment of the 19v Seminar Series! This event will be held virtually as a Zoom meeting: https://nyu.zoom.us/j/99102207490. In this talk, Professor Ilya Vinitsky, with discussant Maxim Hanukai, will focus on aesthetic and ideological implications of the first translation of the “Gabrieliad” (Гавриилиада, 1821) into English (and, for that matter, into any foreign language) by Max Eastman…
Édouard Glissant (1928-2011) est mort il y a dix ans, laissant une œuvre immense et une pensée révolutionnaire. Poète, philosophe, romancier, dramaturge, activiste, ethnologue, pédagogue, il s’est investi dans tous les langages avec l’ambition de transformer les imaginaires. Né en Martinique, il a développé une philosophie du Tout-Monde en rupture avec les universalismes européens, leur opposant une histoire multiple et…
"AFRICAN MUSLIMS IN BRAZIL AND LATIN AMERICA: AN ANTERIOR HISTORY" Wednesday, February 3rd 12:30pm-2:30pm Part of the Silsila Spring 2021 Lecture Series, Translations Link to Register here. 12.30-12.45 Introduction, Finbarr Barry Flood, Silsila/NYU 12.45-1.15 Michael Gomez, NYU, "African Muslims in the New World: A Context" 1.15-1.45 Margarita Rosa, Princeton University, "African Muslims and the Du’as of the 1835 Slave Revolt" 1.45-2.30 Questions and Discussion Michael Gomez Title: African…
Frédéric Viguier traces the history of La Cause des pauvres en France - the defense of the poor people's rights in France since 1945. He describes efforts by organizations such as ATD Quart Monde and the Federation working on behalf of inhabitants living in temporary camps and cites de transit (Fédération des acteurs de la solidarité dans les campements et les cités de…
From the author of the wildly acclaimed Night Boat to Tangier, one of the New York Times’ 10 Best Books of 2019, stories of rural Ireland in the classic mode: full of love, melancholy and magic, bedecked in some of the most gorgeous prose being written today.
After so long under lockdown, what better lunch companion than the “happiest man in the world”? Matthieu Ricard, a biologist-turned-Buddhist, French interpreter to the Dalai Lama, will join us to talk about his personal journey from France to the Himalaya Mountains, his encounter with Buddhism, the practice of meditation and its link to photography, and finally the climate crisis.
Philosophy, in the 21st century, has changed: its practices and languages are no longer those of the previous century. A turning point has been taken by new generations and thinkers from diverse origins who, more than commenting on the old masters, are taking philosophy into new fields: health, ecology, neurosciences, security warfare, non-Western thought, trans-identities, the rights of non-human living…
This event will be held as a Zoom meeting: https://nyu.zoom.us/j/92920017194. In October 1962, as the Cuban Missile Crisis raged, New York City Ballet (NYCB) toured the Soviet Union, performing seventeen ballets by George Balanchine. The tour was part of the Soviet-American cultural exchange, arranged by the governments of the US and USSR as part of their Cold War strategies. The…
In the framework of our Shaping the Past event series and with the joint screening of two performance films by Elana Katz, we are presenting Memory Laps: A Conversation with Artist Elana Katz. Social trauma, collective memory, and the historical erasure of oppressed bodies have driven art creation for decades. This discussion will deepen the analysis of Elana Katz’s performance films Aiming for Hopelessness (2021) and Running on…