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Jane Ohlmeyer, “Ireland, Empire, and The Early Modern World”

Jerome Green Hall 435 West 116th Street, New York, NY

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…

The Lovely Month of May (Le joli mai)

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

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…

Screening: Friedl Kubelka Vom Gröller – Program 1

Anthology Film Archives 32 Second Avenue (at 2nd Street), New York, United States

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…

The Global Uprising Conference

The Kevorkian Center 50 Washington Square South, New York, NY, United States

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…

Screening: Friedl Kubelka Vom Gröller – Program 2

Anthology Film Archives 32 Second Avenue (at 2nd Street), New York, United States

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…

Book Panel. Rethinking the Gulag: Identities, Sources, Legacies

Online

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…

Depicting Irish History: Virtual Artist Talk

Zoom

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,…

Exhibit Closing. The Untold Stories of Russian History

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

Join us for the closing reception for our exhibit The Untold Stories of Russian History, featuring a dialogue between the artist Mikhail Magaril and his friend Michael Weintraub, a connoisseur of rare books and works on paper. The event will also feature a display of Magaril’s original artist’s books, including Doctors’ Plot, Lullaby, Alphabet and others. The Untold Stories of Russian History consists of twenty-three original works, including painting,…

Vague Justice: Absurd and Grotesque Accounts of Late Soviet Prorabotka Meetings

Online

The genres of the absurd and grotesque are prominent in artistic and literary representations of state socialism. In the paper being discussed at this event, Svetlana Stephenson argues that these genres are also present in the storytelling of (ex)Soviet citizens, through their diaries and oral history accounts. For example, the narratives of extra-judicial shaming rituals (prorabotka meetings) often reveal the…

Eyes that Lead: The History of Guide Dogs for the Blind in East Central Europe and Beyond

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

Please join the East Central European Center at the Harriman Institute for a lecture by Monika Baár, István Deák Visiting Professor at the Harriman Institute. Moderated by ECEC co-directors Aleksandar Bošković and Christopher Caes. The lecture explores a hitherto overlooked episode in the history of human-animal relations: the establishment of professional guide dog training after the First World War, which had its origins in…