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Conference. The Holocaust in Yugoslavia and the Balkans

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

Join the Harriman Institute and the Kupferberg Holocaust Center for a two-day conference entitled "The Holocaust in Yugoslavia and the Balkans." Click here to register. PLEASE NOTE: Registration does not guarantee a seat. Seating is limited and will be available on a first come, first seated basis.   PROGRAM THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 20 6:30 pm: Screening of documentary film Besa: Rescue in…

New York International Children’s Film Festival Multiple Screenings

Scandinavia House 58 Park Avenue, New York City, NY, United States

Explore the world without leaving New York! The New York International Children’s Film Festival takes place February 21 through March 15, 2020 throughout New York City, with 10 screenings at Scandinavia House. For complete lineup and tickets visit nyicff.org/tickets. Fill out a ballot at every screening, and your votes will determine the Festival award winners. MOOMINVALLEY SAT—February 22—11 AM 66 min.…

$14

23RD NY Sephardic Jewish Film Festival

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

Lights, Camera, Action! The NYSJFF showcases contemporary voices steeped in the history, traditions, and rich mosaic culture of Greater Sephardic communities. This year’s festival includes premiere film screenings, intriguing stories, evocative documentaries, powerful narratives, Q&As with filmmakers, as well as special honorees, dignitaries, and diplomats. The Pomegranate Awards Ceremony celebrates Sephardi excellence in the arts. In partnership with YUM, ASF…

The Rest of the Story: Finding your Family in Online Newspapers

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

Janeen Bjork will share her search methodology using several case studies to illustrate the techniques of finding and preserving family items from online newspapers. She will discuss OCR (optical character recognition, the technology that allows newspapers to be searched online), and how to work around its significant failure rate. Other topics will include best practices for searching in popular newspaper…

$5

Community and Controversy: Jews, Anglicans, and Biblical Criticism

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

Featuring Edward Breuer, Hebrew University of Jerusalem. The European History & Politics Workshop is supported by the European Institute at Columbia University. The workshop will meet on select Mondays over the course of the academic year at Columbia University (Philosophy 302) from 12:00pm-1:30pm. Participants will discuss pre-circulated work-in-progress over a light lunch. Please note that these workshops are by invitation only.…

Discussion about the role of Polish language and Polish community in the context of bilingual education in New York

Consulate General of Poland 233 Madison Avenue, New York, NY, United States

We will have a pleasure to host an educator and researcher Fabrice Jaumont - the author of the book: “The Bilingual Revolution: The Future of Education is in Two Languages” Event will take place on February 24, 2020 from 4PM to 5:30PM (doors open at 3:30 PM) at the Consulate General of the Republic of Poland in New York 233…

StrategEast Westernization Index 2020: Cross-country Analysis

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

Join us for a presentation by Anatoly Motkin, founder and president of StrategEast. The StrategEast Westernization Index 2020 assesses the processes of adherence to Western values in post-Soviet countries outside of Russia across five dimensions: political, legal, economic, cultural, and lifestyle. This second edition of the Index, like the first one released in 2018, is the only report to analyze the fourteen…

Nordic Book Club The Summer of Ellen by Agnete Friis

Scandinavia House 58 Park Avenue, New York City, NY, United States

Read and discuss Scandinavian literature in translation as part of our Nordic Book Club. Each month we select a novel from some of the best Nordic literary voices. Discussions typically take place the last Tuesday of the month in the Halldór Laxness Library at Scandinavia House and online in our Goodreads group during the last week of the month. This week…

Narrating the Past: Innovative Strategies for Writing History – Ivan Jablonka & Brooke Kroeger

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

Why should historians consider developing new forms of historical writing, and of what might those forms consist? This discussion of craft will explore how historians can draw on literary and journalistic methods to construct and convey knowledge. Using  brief sample texts, historian and writer Ivan Jablonka and journalist Brooke Kroeger will demonstrate the practical application of specific strategies. Ivan Jablonka…