The virtual exhibition Holodomor: A Remembrance commemorates the 87-year anniversary of the Holodomor Famine-Genocide, which occurred in Ukraine in 1932-33. It is a visual arts presentation featuring the works of Ukrainian-American artist Lydia Bodnar-Balahutrak. In 1991, the artist traveled to Ukraine for the first time. She states: “My eyes and soul were opened to a land that was beautiful but…
This event will be held virtually as a Zoom webinar and streamed via YouTube Live. There will be no in-person event. Register here for the Zoom webinar, or tune in on YouTube Live. Please join us for the launch of the bilingual book They Will Understand Us in 100 Years. Lazar Khidekel, published alongside the first solo exhibition of brilliant artist and visionary architect Lazar…
This event will be held virtually as a Zoom webinar and streamed via YouTube Live. There will be no in-person event. Register here for the Zoom webinar, or tune in on YouTube Live. Please join the Ukrainian Studies Program at the Harriman Institute, Columbia University for a presentation by Valentyna Kharkhun (Nizhyn Mykola Gogol State University), moderated by Professor Mark Andryczyk. When the dismantling…
This event will be held virtually as a Zoom webinar and streamed via YouTube Live. There will be no in-person event. Register here for the Zoom webinar, or tune in on YouTube Live. Please join the Program on U.S.-Russia Relations at the Harriman Institute for a lecture by Victoria Zhuravleva (IMEMO). Zhuravleva will discuss Russian perceptions of the U.S. presidential campaigns and the 2020 election,…
Though “race” was never a category the Soviet authorities used much, their nationalities policy in the 1920s and support for interwar anti-colonial movements made the USSR probably the one country in the world that made anti-racism not only a domestic but an international priority and invested in it accordingly. Late Stalinism, with the collective punishment of whole peoples (and their…
Join us for a special sneak peek of new opera A Sweet Silence in Cremona. A new opera with music by Roberto Scarcella Perino, libretto by Mark Campbell. In collaboration with the Center for Contemporary Opera. While we await the return of live performances around the world, the Center for Contemporary Opera presents a unique series of free events featuring…
Join us for a Music Listening Series. What Makes It Italian? Discovering Regional Characteristics in Music is a music listening and discussion group that meets on Zoom and is open to everyone. Participation is free. Please email ginacrusco@gmail.com to confirm your attendance and receive an invitation link.
Deutsches Haus at NYU presents a panel discussion among Marion Brasch, Jörg Häntzschel, Annekatrin Hendel, Florian Reischauer, and Noah Isenberg (moderator) about creativity amidst a pandemic. Opening remarks will be provided by Yasemin Pamuk, Head of Cultural Affairs and Science at the Consulate General of the Federal Republic of Germany in New York. The COVID-19 pandemic has had an enormously…
Deutsches Haus at NYU presents a panel discussion among Kathleen Belew, Christian Martin (moderator), Paul Middelhoff, and Cynthia Miller-Idriss on the rise of the far-right in Germany and the U.S. Far-right, white supremacist groups are on the rise both in Germany and the United States. Perhaps most troubling about this consolidation and fortification of far-right movements in both places, is…
Deutsches Haus at NYU presents a panel discussion among Christine Landfried, Joyce Mushaben, Boris Vormann, and Steven Sokol (moderator) on looking ahead at Germany in 2021. Opening remarks will be provided by David Gill, the German Consul General in New York. After four terms as Germany’s chancellor, Angela Merkel will step down in 2021. The new leadership of the Christian…
