Presenter: Peter Kitlas (Emory University) Discussant: Tunç Şen (Columbia University) Moderator: Pier Mattia Tommasino (Columbia University) Throughout his career as a Viennese ‘language boy,’ Franz von Dombay (d. 1810) collected hundreds of personal letters, which he collated in several scrapbooks. While past scholars have done much work to demonstrate the ways in which Dombay excelled in his service across Morocco…
This event will take place at 42 Washington Mews. This semester, according to NYU guidelines, in-person events will be open to NYU students, staff, and faculty only. Daily Covid-19 Screeners will be checked at the door. Members of NYU should RSVP here. NYU's Department of German and and Deutsches Haus at NYU present "Fantasmical Anatomies: A Performative Lecture in Dialogue" by…
**The event will take place in French** Hybrid event: open in person to the NYU community, open online to the public RSVP In-person HERE (NYU Community ONLY) RSVP Zoom HERE (General Public) Lauréate du Prix Médicis, et finaliste du Prix Goncourt pour son dernier roman Le Voyage dans l’Est (2021), la romancière Christine Angot sera en conversation avec Laure Adler à la Maison Française…
About the event: Drawing on her 2021 James Ford Lectures, Jane Ohlmeyer re-examines Ireland’s role in empire through the lens of early modernity. In this lecture, she explores four interconnected themes. First, as England’s first colony, Ireland formed an integral part of the English imperial system. Second, as well as being colonized the Irish operated as active colonists in the English and…
RSVP here. “A far-reaching meditation on the relationship between individual and society”, Le joli mai is a portrait of Paris and Parisians shot during May 1962. It is a film with several thousand actors including a poet, a student, an owl, a housewife, a stockbroker, a competitive dancer, two lovers, General de Gaulle and several cats. Filmed just after the…
Filmmaker Friedl Kubelka vom Gröller and Dietmar Schwärzler (sixpackfilm) will be at the event in person! The Friedl Kubelka vom Gröller film series is presented by and at Anthology Film Archives, in collaboration with Erste Bank, Deutsches Haus at NYU, the Austrian Cultural Forum New York, and sixpackfilm. Tickets can be bought online here or at Anthology's box office (32 2nd Ave, New York, NY 10003) on the…
GLOBAL UPRISINGS CONFERENCE NYU’s Kevorkian Center is hosting an in-person two-day conference, from April 21-22, to cap off our Global Uprising series. In Fall 2020, we took the George Floyd Uprising and the ten-year anniversary of the start of the Arab Revolts as our launching points for 14 conversational sessions across the academic year that brought together dozens of thinkers, activists, artists, and…
Filmmaker Friedl Kubelka vom Gröller and Dietmar Schwärzler (sixpackfilm) will be at the event in person! The Friedl Kubelka vom Gröller film series is presented by and at Anthology Film Archives, in collaboration with Erste Bank, Deutsches Haus at NYU, the Austrian Cultural Forum New York, and sixpackfilm. Tickets can be bought online here or at Anthology's box office (32 2nd Ave, New York, NY 10003) on the…
Please join us for the launch of the new volume Rethinking the Gulag: Identities, Sources, Legacies (Indiana University Press, March 2022). Editors Alan Barenberg and Emily Johnson will be joined by contributors Gavin Slade (Nazarbayev University), Mikhail Nakonechnyi (University of Helsinki), and Sarah Young (University College London), discussant Dan Healey (University of Oxford), and moderator Mark Lipovetsky (Columbia University). The Soviet Gulag was one of the largest, most complex, and deadliest systems of incarceration in the…
Join us for a conversation with artist Maureen O’Leary, historian Miriam Nyhan Grey, and curator Pamela Jean Tinnen as they discuss the history and impact of Ireland’s Easter Rising through the lens of O’Leary’s series Portraits of Ireland’s Easter Rising Leaders on view in Schwartz Plaza Vitrines through June 17, 2022. Portraits of Ireland’s Easter Rising Leaders is an exhibition in collaboration with Glucksman Ireland House,…
