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KINO!2018 Festival of German Films New York

Landmark at 57 West 657 West 57 St., New York, NY

Once again, KINO! delivers fresh German films 
to New York City, this year at a new uptown location, from April 6-12. Now in its fifth year as an independent festival, the program was curated by New York film professionals—distributor Meghan Wurtz, journalist Karl Rozemeyer, and festival consultant Marian Masone—who have selected a wide cross-section of high-quality, remarkable films that will challenge your views of the…

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The CIA and the Covert Cold War — Cold War Power series

1219 International Affairs Building 420 West 118th Street, New York City, United States

David Robarge Chief Historian, Central Intelligence Agency Free and open to the public, please RSVP here. Organized by Prof. Victoria Phillips. Co-sponsored by The European Institute, The Harriman Institute, and The History Department.

Pierre Bourdieu: A Heroic Structuralism

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

To RSVP, please click here. Jean-Louis Fabiani’s recent book, Pierre Bourdieu: Un Structuralisme héroïque, offers a remarkable intellectual portrait of the great French sociologist, and has been very well received in France as a major contribution to understanding Bourdieu’s work. Fabiani traces the genealogy of Bourdieu’s major concepts—le champ, la distinction, le capital—and the genesis of his method within the space of…

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Film Screening & Discussion: The Living Fire

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

Please join the Ukrainian Film Club at Columbia University for a screening of the documentary film The Living Fire (2014) by Ostap Kostiuk. Ukrainian with English subtitles. Professor Yuri Shevchuk will introduce the film and moderate the discussion. This stunningly beautiful and poetic film chronicles three generations of Ukrainian Carpathian shepherds who struggle to keep their ancient trade alive in the face…

Assisted Reproductive Technologies – Cultural & Ethical Vales From a Comparative Perspective

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

This two-day Franco-American workshop seeks to compare the cultural, ethical, religious, historical and policy implications of how reproductive technologies have developed and now impact our two national contexts. In both countries, advanced reproductive technologies have long been in development and are now in widespread use. France and the United States share a certain number of similar conceptions relative to kinship…

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Putin’s Last Term?

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

Please join the The Harriman Institute of Columbia University and New York University’s Jordan Center for the Advanced Study of Russia for a panel discussion on “Putin’s Last Term?”, featuring panelists Henry Hale (George Washington University), Yoshiko Herrera (University of Wisconsin-Madison), Kimberly Marten (Barnard College and Columbia University), and Graeme Robertson (University of North Carolina Chapel Hill). This event is part of the New York Russia Public Policy Seminar,…

EXHIBIT OPENING. Just in Case | На всякий случай

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

Please join us for an opening reception of the exhibit Just in Case | На всякий случай, a series of photo essays by artist Valerie Zimmer that explores the narrative of Russian-speaking Jewish immigrants through objects they brought with them. Exhibit runs April 9 – May 18, 2018. Exhibit hours are Monday–Friday, 9:00AM–5:00PM excluding University Holidays. This series of photo essays focuses on Russian-speaking…

Book Presentation: The Politics of Opera

Casa Italiana Zerilli-Marimò (NYU) 24 West 12th Street, New York City, NY, United States

Co-hosted with Salon Sanctuary Concerts: The Politics of Opera. A History from Monteverdi to Mozart (2017, Princeton University Press) by Mitchell Cohen. The author in dialogue with Eric Banks, Director of the New York Institute for the Humanites. From Vincenzo Galilei to the French Revolution, author Mitchell Cohen offers a compelling and sweeping investigation into the intersections of music and…

Film: May Fools (Milou en Mai)

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

To RSVP, please click here. An eccentric French family meets in the country for the funeral of their matriarch (Paulette Dubost), which takes place at the same time as the 1968 student revolts in Paris. Even with the latest updates of the riots coming in over the airwaves, the family prefers to focus on petty squabbles and personal matters rather than…

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German-Jewish after 1945

Center for Jewish History 15 W. 16th Street, New York City, NY, United States

Historian Michael Brenner (American/University of Munich) will discuss contemporary Jewish life in Germany on the occasion of the English-language publication of A History of Jews in Germany since 1945 (Indiana University Press, 2017). Brenner, the volume’s editor, will join historian Atina Grossmann (Cooper Union), who contributed a chapter of the book focused on the period 1945–1949. Originally published in German in 2012,…

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