Ginzburg does a close analysis of the context in which the “Apology for Raymond Sebond,” the most famous of Montaigne’s Essays, emerged; this will pave the way to a new reading of the central, half-concealed argument of the “Apology.” The University of Pennsylvania is the joint producer of this series—through the Italian Studies section of the Department of Romance Languages,…
Global Uprising is a year-long series that revolves around one question: how do we rethink collective action from our present? Taking the current anti-racist uprising in America and the tenth anniversary of the Arab revolts as launching points for a set of workshops this series delves into the global coordinates of uprising today. Read more about the series here. ————————————————————————…
Pierre Bayard is best known to the general public for his essay "How to speak about books that we have not read?" (2007) where he criticizes the received idea that there is a clear border between reading and non-reading, and invites the reader to build a freer, less complex relationship with the literary text.
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 East Central European Center at the Harriman Institute and the Njegoš Endowment for Serbian Language and Culture for a presentation by Žarka Svirčev, Research Associate at the Institute for Literature…
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 an event in the Minority Inclusion and Exclusion in Soviet and Post-Communist Societies Speaker Series, a discussion with Tamar Shirinian, Postdoctoral Teaching Associate in…
Loosely based on the journalist and writer Chawki Amari’s travelog Nationale 1, Hassan Ferhani’s film creates such intimacy that we feel we are sitting next to the proprietor. Through Malika's exchanges with her customers, portrait of a woman, a landscape, and even a country emerges. One hundred virtual seats available.
Please join the Kevorkian Center for another Alumni Professional Development Event. We will be joined by two alumni, Adem Carroll, an activist and organizer with Burma Muslims in New York City and Cyrus Roedel, a podcaster and community organizer now based in Tunisia. Our guests will speak about their time at the Kevorkian Center, how it set up their career…
In the fourth program of the series, Bernice Lerner, author of All the Horrors of War: A Jewish Girl, a British Doctor and the Liberation of Bergen-Belsen (Johns Hopkins, 2020) and Susan Jacobowitz, author of the manuscript Far from Childhood: A Holocaust Memoir, discuss with Natalia Aleksiun their parents' interrupted childhoods during the Holocaust in the Carpathian Mountains. The authors will reflect on their work uncovering the life trajectories…
This program will be held virtually on Zoom and YouTube Live. There will be no in-person event. See program below for registration and live stream links. Please join the Harriman Institute at Columbia University and the Kupferberg Holocaust Center at Queensborough Community College, CUNY for a conference on the state of Roma human rights in the Balkans. The aim of this…
Deutsches Haus at NYU and the Consulate General of Germany New York present a moderated panel discussion among Angelika Bammer, Andrew Gross, Susanne Rohr, Cornelius Schwalm, and James Young in the context of the recent publication of Susanne Rohr’s new book, Von Grauen und Glamour: Repräsentationen des Holocaust in den USA und Deutschland .
