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Lecture: Dacia Maraini, Writing Like Breathing

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

Speaker: Dacia Maraini Moderator: Elizabeth Leake Professor, Dept. of Italian, Columbia University Welcoming remarks: Jo Ann Cavallo Chair, Dept. of Italian, Columbia University Dacia Maraini is one of Italy’s most prominent contemporary authors. She has won, among other prizes, the Campiello (1990) and Strega (1999), which are the most prestigious Italian literature awards. Her books have been translated into twenty-two languages,…

Film Screening: NSU: The Perpetrators

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

German History X In 1990, Jena’s economy is the worst it’s been since World War II. Many young people in East Germany drift from school into unemployment, witness their parents’ insecurity, and feel the impotence of the police and state. They feel disoriented, unloved, and aggrieved, and begin to consider themselves second-class citizens failed by the state. One of them…

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Mick Moloney: If It Wasn’t for the Irish and the Jews

Glucksman Ireland House NYU One Washington Mews, New York City, NY, United States

"If It Wasn't for the Irish and the Jews: Exploring Irish and Jewish Historical Musical Links and Influences on Musical Theatre, Vaudeville, Tin Pan Alley America" In recent years Mick Moloney has been actively involved in documenting Irish American music from 1880 to 1920, a time when vaudeville and Tin Pan Alley flourished with the fertile contributions of Irish and…

Who was Baya? Outsider? Insider?

La Maison Française (NYU) 16 Washington Mews, New York City, NY, United States

This panel will consider the work of the Algerian artist Baya Mahieddine (1931-1998); Jean Dubuffet's travels in Algeria and concomitant formulation of his definition of “art brut”; and the late Assia Djebar's writing on Baya at the end of the Algerian War of Independence. Speakers include Natasha Boas, curator of the exhibition; author Omar Berrada; Denis Hollier, professor of French Literature, Thought, and Culture, NYU; and Kent Minturn, Visiting…

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Berlin Living Rooms: A Conversation with Dominique Nabokov

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

‘After New York Living Rooms and Paris Living Rooms, voilà: Berlin Living Rooms, the third and final photographic instalment in the trilogy. It is the culmination of a project that started in 1995 when Tina Brown, then the editor-in-chief of the New Yorker magazine, commissioned me an essay. The idea was to photograph writers’ rooms without the writers present. I decided it would be more revealing…

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March Mash-Up: A Family Festival

Leo Baeck Institute 15 West 16th Street, New York City, United States

So many Jewish traditions under one roof! Join us as we team up with our partner organizations at the Center for Jewish History for a Purim-themed March Mash-Up of family fun. Laugh along with a puppet show, enjoy storytelling from many lands, make colorful craft projects, sing-along to classic Jewish songs, and experience the delightful diversity of Jewish culture from…

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Books: Yasmine al Massri

Discover unique and beautiful tales by women from the Arab world! Award-winning actress Yasmine Al Massri (Miral and ABC’s hit TV show Quantico) brings to life traditional Syrian and Lebanese folktales, passed down through generations of women, and collected by Najla Khoury in Pearls on a Branch: Oral Tales. Khoury originally published these tales in Arabic in 2014, having collected them…

Sex, Law, and Sovereignty in French Algeria

The European Institute at Columbia University 420 W 118th St #1205, New York City, United States

Judith Surkis, Associate Professor, Rutgers University presents an excerpt from “Sex, Law, and Sovereignty in French Algeria”. This is part of the European History & Politics Workshop, supported by the European Institute and GSAC at Columbia University. The workshop will meet on select Mondays over the course of the academic year at Columbia University (Philosophy 302) from 11:30am-12:45pm. Participants will…

Book: Stalin: Waiting for Hitler, 1929-1941

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

On Monday, March 5th please join us for “Stalin: Waiting for Hitler, 1929-1941″, a book talk by Stephen Kotkin (Princeton University).  In 1929, Joseph Stalin, having already achieved dictatorial power over the vast Soviet Empire, formally ordered the systematic conversion of the world’s largest peasant economy into “socialist modernity,” otherwise known as collectivization, regardless of the cost. What it cost, and…

Sexuality, Disability, and Aging: Queer Temporalities of the Phallus

Deutsches Haus Columbia 420 West 116th Street, New York City, NY, United States

To RSVP please click here. Jane Gallop talks about adult-onset disability, middle-aging, and sexuality. The project brings together crip theory, feminist aging studies, queer temporality, psychoanalysis, and anecdotal theory. It considers how disability that begins in midlife and/or the entrance to middle age are lived as a threat to one's sexuality and one's gender, but also how these perspectives can supply…

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