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…
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…
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…
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…
As migrants embark on perilous journeys across oceans and deserts in pursuit of sanctuary and improved living conditions, what is the responsibility of those safely ensconced in the nations they seek to enter? Moved by repeated tragedies among immigrants attempting to enter eastern and southern Europe, Patrick Chamoiseau assails the hypocrisy and detachment that allow these events to happen. --…
Rodolfo Llinás is Thomas and Suzanne Murphy Professor of Neuroscience and Chairman Emeritus of the Department of Physiology & Neuroscience at the NYU School of Medicine. More on Dr. Llinás This event is part of the exhibit The Beautiful Brain: The Drawings of Santiago Ramón y Cajal, held at NYU Grey Art Gallery between January 9 and March 31, 2018. The exhibit was…
Deutsches Haus at NYU presents a conversation between Andreas Bernard and Alexander Galloway about Bernard's book Persons of Interest: The Status of the Self in Digital Cultures. What is striking about today’s methods of self-representation and self-perception – the profiles of social media but also the various locational functions on smartphones or the bodily measurements of the “quantified-self movement” – is the…
Panelists: Ara Merjian (NYU) Ann Goldstein (The New Yorker) Breixo Viejo (Columbia University) Benedikt Reichenbach (editor, English edition of Pasolini's Bodies and Places) In 1980 in Rome, two film critics - Michele Mancini and Giuseppe Perrella - produced an elaborate, 600-page volume of images taken from Pasolini’s films and organized into an extensive taxonomy of “bodies” and “places”: Pier Paolo Pasolini: Corpi e luoghi. Reviews of…
Graphic novelist Pénélope Bagieu and award-winning writer Mona Eltahawy discuss Bagieu’s latest book Brazen (Culottées) just out in the US with First Second. Throughout history and across the globe, one characteristic connects the daring women of Brazen: their indomitable spirit. With her characteristic wit and dazzling drawings, celebrated graphic novelist Pénélope Bagieu profiles the lives of these feisty female role models, some world…
Elizabeth Jacquet de La Guerre (1665-1729) was undoubtedly one of the most important and progressive composers of her generation. She was one of the first French composers (alongside François-Couperin, Sébastien de Brossard and Jean-Féry Rebel) to devote herself to the sonata form, and her cantatas broke new ground in France. With her relatively early work Jeux à l'honneur de la victoire,…