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MOSCOW: Gay Cruising Sites of the Soviet Capital, 1920S-1980S

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

The Harriman Institute is pleased to present the exhibit Moscow: Gay Cruising Sites of the Soviet Capital, 1920s-1980s featuring a series of works photographs by artist Yevgeniy Fiks. "What is the attitude of bourgeois society to homosexuals? Even if we take into account the differences existing on this score in the legislation of various countries, can we speak of a specifically bourgeois attitude…

This Is Why We Live

La Mama Theater 66 East 4th Street (at Bowery & 2nd Ave), New York City, NY, United States

US Premiere Created by Open Heart Surgery Theatre Directed by Coleen MacPherson La Mama Theater Downstairs | 66 East 4th Street (Basement Level) Thursday to Saturday at 8PM; Sunday at 5pm Tickets: $25 , $20 Student/Senior Tickets Run Time: 70 Minutes (No Intermission) The Polish Cultural Institute is pleased to invite you to the US debut of "This Is Why…

Irish Screen America: Oct. 25-27th

Cantor Film Center NYU 36 East 8th Street, New York City, NY, United States

Irish Screen America presents its annual film festival, bringing the very best in contemporary Irish cinema to New York. The three-day series will showcase critically acclaimed films and will host a selection of filmmaker Q&A’s, industry panel discussions, and receptions. Read more about Irish Screen America NYC

Rehearsal for Truth 2019: Hungarian Acacia (Hungary)

Bohemian National Hall 321 E 73rd St., New York, NY, United States

PRESENTATION OF PERFORMANCE PROJECTS, DISCUSSION. Engaging, behind-the-scenes glimpse at "Hungarian Acacia" and other performance projects conceived to address the public discourse in Hungary in a satirical way. Artists-directors Kristof Kelemen and Bence Gyorgy Palinkas will discuss their creative practice and working methods and show footage of Hungarian Acacia iterated as a live event as well as an onstage re-enactment of…

Studium Teatralne’s „Truth”

Bohemian National Hall 321 E 73rd St., New York, NY, United States

directed by Piotr Borowski at the REHEARSAL FOR TRUTH Theater Festival Saturday, September 28, 2019 7:30 p.m. Bohemian National Hall 321 East 73rd Street New York, NY 10021 FREE and open to the public. Seats are limited, on first come, first served basis. Reserve your seat online at eventbrite. The production will be performed in Polish with English subtitles. There…

Rehearsal for Truth 2019: Truth (Poland)

Bohemian National Hall 321 E 73rd St., New York, NY, United States

PLAY, TALKBACK, AND AFTERPARTY. Join us to experience TRUTH, an intriguing play by Piotr Borowski. TRUTH exposes a lack thereof: an existence fraught with the absence of the sacred, devoid of any mystery, purpose or metaphysical worth. While the main character of TRUTH is not present, the scene is preoccupied with striving for knowledge and new creation, as well as…

BOOK TALK. BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA’S FOREIGN POLICY SINCE INDEPENDENCE

Marshall D. Shulman Seminar Room 420 W 118th Street, #1219 International Affairs Building, New York City, NY, United States

A book talk with Jasmin Hasićand Dženeta Karabegović, editors of the new volume Bosnia and Herzegovina’s Foreign Policy Since Independence(Palgrave Macmillan, March 2019). This book is the first to provide a comprehensive and systematic analysis of the foreign policy of Bosnia and Herzegovina, a post-conflict country with an active agency in international affairs. Bridging academic and policy debates, the book summarizes and further examines…

Book Talk: The Politics of Armenian Migration to North America 1885-1915 w/ David Gutman

Hagop Kevorkian Center 255 Sullivan Street, New York City, NY, United States

Prof. Gutman's book tells the story of Armenian migration to North America in the late Ottoman period, and Istanbul’s efforts to prevent it. It shows how, just as in the present, migrants in the late 19th and early 20th centuries were forced to travel through clandestine smuggling networks, frustrating the enforcement of the ban on migration. Further, migrants who attempted…

To Join the EU or Not—Europe Must Decide: Drift and Unrest Dominates Western Balkans

Marshall D. Shulman Seminar Room 420 W 118th Street, #1219 International Affairs Building, New York City, NY, United States

A roundtable discussion moderated by Professor Tanya Domi (Columbia/SIPA). It is a precipitous moment in Balkan history. The European Union is weighing the accession candidacies of North Macedonia and Albania, with decisions pending before the German Bundestag that are likely to influence outcomes in Brussels. The negotiations for the Serbia-Kosovo agreement have been fraught with tension for months, and are currently at a standstill. Bosnia had yet…

Talk by Roger Frie (author of Not in my Family): “Legacies of Perpetration: Confronting my Family’s Nazi Past.”

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

"What does it mean to discover an unspoken Nazi past in your family? In a moment defined by chance and circumstance, I learned of my German grandfather’s support for the Nazi regime, a fact that had never been openly talked about. Using my family’s struggle with memory as a site of inquiry, I examine the process of remembering, its transmission,…