Conference. New Actors and Strategies for Fighting and Investigating Corruption in the Western Balkans

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

Join the Harriman Institute and the Centre for the Study of Corruption at the University of Sussex for a two-day workshop exploring the latest academic and practitioner trends in researching and addressing corruption in the Western Balkans. This event will bring together academics working on corruption, think-tankers and activists from the region, and investigative journalists, who play an increasingly important…

Memories Are Made of This: 30 Years after the Fall of the Berlin Wall

Deutsches Haus NYU 42 Washington Mews, New York City, NY, United States

Deutsches Haus at NYU and NYU’s Center for European and Mediterranean Studies present "Memories Are Made of This: 30 Years after the Fall of the Berlin Wall," a conference commemorating the 30th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall. This conference will take place on Thursday, November 7, and Friday, November 8, consisting of a keynote address by DAAD Visiting Scholar at…

Festival Albertine 2019: The Climate Moment

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

At this point in human and geological history, dealing with climate chaos is a race: can we move fast enough to prevent civilization-scale collapse? —Bill McKibben Festival Albertine 2019, curated by environmentalist and author Bill McKibben, will take on climate change. For three days, leading thinkers, politicians, activists, artists, and authors will come together to discuss the urgency to act,…

Rewiring Democracy: Beyond “Us” and “Them” – Conference

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

An international conference co-organized by Jeanne Etelain and Phillip John Usher Our current moment is one in which our understanding of democracy is placed under critical pressure, making it increasingly difficult to divide the world into "them" and "us"‐‐ and equally difficult to even know what is meant when we say "we." Whereas a certain modern tradition defies the political via the…

Film: Bauhaus Spirit: 100 Years of Bauhaus

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

What does a Latin American favela have to do with an old workers’ settlement in Dessau? What is the connection between a Jewish socialist in a rural commune and the children in a school class in Stockholm? All of these stories concern visions and the practical attempts to make them come true. Nearly a hundred years ago, a radical artistic utopian…

An Evening of Mediterranean and Balkan Music

148 W 4th St 148 W. 4th St., New York, NY, United States

Daphna Mor (voice, winds, percussion) and Kane Mathis (oud) return to Los Corassones Avlan with an intimate acoustic musical performances inspired by the tradition of families, women and neighbors sitting together to make music, on Saturday night in Rhodes. The crossover of melodies includes Turkish, Greek, Judeo-español, Balkan and Mediterranean as well as liturgical hymns – Piyutim -from the Synagogue…

Heart and Soul

Ukrainian Institute of America 2 East 79th Street, New York, NY, United States

HEART AND SOUL  Saturday, November 9, 2019 at 7:30 p.m. SUSAN LORETTE DUNN, soprano SOLOMIYA IVAKHIV, violin • CHRISTINE GROSSMAN, viola YVES DHARAMRAJ, cello • CHRISTINA DAHL, piano DVOŘÁK: Gypsy Songs, Op. 55: No. 1 Mein Leid ertönt, ein Liebespsalm, No. 4. Als die alte Mutter, No. 5. Reingestimmt die Saiten; PREVIN: Four Songs for Soprano, Cello, and Piano (1994);…

Prose & Pose: Circle the Square

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

A part of the new family program series, families will work together to discover the untold stories of Union Square through this activity-based walking tour! Ticket Info: $10 per family at bpt.me/4309884 or 800-838-3006  

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Film, performance: Karel Gott, Celebration of Life

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

Screening of a film from Karel Gott’s concert at Carnegie Hall and a performance by Czech swing singer Jan Smigmator, to honor the late pop singer Karel Gott , a romantic Czech crooner whose popularity behind the Iron Curtain helped earn him the nickname “Sinatra of the East.” Karel Gott (July 14, 1939 – October 1, 2019) won the Golden…

The Steppe Tradition in International Relations: Russians, Turks and European State Building 4000 BCE–2017 CE by Iver B. Neumann

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

Join us for a talk with Iver B. Neumann, incoming Director of the Fridtjof Nansen Institute, Oslo, Norway, and Adjunct Professor at the Museum of Cultural History, University of Oslo, on the book he co-authored, The Steppe Tradition in International Relations: Russians, Turks and European State Building 4000 BCE–2017 CE (Cambridge University Press, June 2018). Neumann and Wigen counter Euro-centrism in the study of international…