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20/20 Vision in a Time of Crisis – A conversation with Etienne Balibar, Adam Tooze, Souleymane Bachir Diagne, Emmanuelle Saada, moderated by Bernard Harcourt

To sign up for this virtual transatlantic event, RSVP here. The Covid-19 pandemic and public health crisis; economic collapse; waves of anti-racist protests; threats to democracy and rising authoritarianism in the U.S. and elsewhere, all against a backdrop of an ever-worsening climate crisis... how can we make sense of the current moment in history? Bernard Harcourt engages Etienne Balibar, Souleymane…

LIVE FROM THE ARCHIVES: Rosh Hashanah Recipes

About the Series: A new National Endowment for the Humanities CARES grant enables AJHS to bring curated objects and documents straight to you through new digital storytelling methods. In these live interactive Zoom sessions, you’ll see documents close up and pose questions to archivists and historians about what you are examining. Ticket Info: Free; register at forms.office.com to receive a link to…

Online Nordic Book Club Presents: The Summer House by Philip Teir

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Read and discuss Scandinavian literature in translation as part of the Nordic Book Club, now online. Each month, the club selects a novel from some of the best Nordic literary voices. This month's feature is The Summer House by Philip Teir.

Book Club on Kaouther Adimi’s Our Riches

Join the Albertine Book Club for a lively Zoom conversation on Our Riches by Kaouther Adimi, translated from the French by Chris Andrews (New Directions). The discussion will be moderated by Albertine Bookseller Adam Hocker. Our Riches celebrates quixotic devotion and the love of books in the person of Edmond Charlot, who at the age of twenty founded Les Vraies Richesses…

Exoticism Abroad: Vasilii Polenov and Ilia Repin’s Visual Experimentations with Ethnic and Racial Difference in Paris (with Maria Taroutina and Discussant Nathaniel Knight)

Join us for another installment of the 19v Seminar Series! Vasilii Polenov and Ilia Repin’s three-year sojourn in Paris from 1873 to 1876 as pensioners of the St. Petersburg Imperial Academy of Arts has long been the subject of considerable interest among Russian and Western scholars alike. To date, most investigations into this topic have centered on their formative encounter…

Family History Today: Portuguese Citizenship – Reconnecting with your Sephardic Iberian Ancestors

While Spain has ended its Law of Return for descendants of Sephardic Jews, Portugal continues to be an option for those wishing to reclaim their ancestors' citizenship. Rita Mayer Jardim, a Lisbon-based lawyer specializing in this path to Portuguese citizenship, will address the most common questions she receives from prospective applicants. Learn what is required to prove your Sephardic heritage,…

Turning Points: Joseph Stiglitz and Thomas Piketty in Dialogue

A live virtual transatlantic event September, 10th 2020 | 1:00-2:15 pm EST (New York) | 19:00-20:15 GMT+2 (Paris) REGISTER HERE *This is a simulcast event to be broadcast live on Zoom and also on YouTube and Facebook. A simultaneous French translation will be available on Le Monde.fr and on Zoom. Are widening inequalities and the wealth gap at a tipping point? Join…

Turning Points: Joseph Stiglitz and Thomas Piketty in Dialogue

REGISTER HERE Thursday, September 10, 1:00-2:15 P.M. EST (New York) / 19h00-20h15 GMT+2 (Paris) *This is a simulcast event to be broadcast live on Zoom and also on YouTube and Facebook. A simultaneous French translation will be available on Le Monde and on Zoom.  Are widening inequalities and the wealth gap at a turning point? Join Joseph Stiglitz and Thomas Piketty in a transatlantic dialogue on the COVID-19 pandemic and global economic insecurities, racial disparities and…

Musician, Midwives, Soldiers, Rabbis: Whose Story Will Become Jewish History?

Join Elisheva Carlebach, Deborah Dash Moore, Dara Horn, and Itamar Borochov in a discussion about Confronting Modernity, 1750–1880, Vol. 6 of The Posen Library of Jewish Culture and Civilization, edited by Elisheva Carlebach. Hear voices rarely included in Jewish culture, such as that of Roza, a multilingual Jewish midwife and that of a Jewish soldier during the American Civil War. Learn about the powerful religious music inspiring artists…