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The Maamtrasna Murders: Panel including Colm Toibin and other Distinguished Panelists

Glucksman Ireland House NYU One Washington Mews, New York City, NY, United States

In 1882 the brutal murders of the Joyce family in Maamtrasna, western Ireland, were succeeded by a series of legal trials and executions, made especially infamous by the wrongful conviction and execution of Irish-speaker Myles Joyce. These events are the subject of a recent book by Professor Margaret Kelleher, Fulbright Visiting Scholar at New York University: The Maamtrasna Murders: Language,…

Perspectives on Russia from Now into the Next Generation

1201 International Affairs Building 420 W 118th St, New York City, NY, United States

Please join the Program on U.S.-Russia Relations at the Harriman Institute for a talk with Brigadier General Peter B. Zwack U.S. Army (Retired), a Global Fellow at the Kennan Institute for Advanced Russian Studies. This event will be live streamed on our Facebook page via Facebook Live. Follow us and enable Facebook Live notifications to watch the event. From 2012…

From Internationalism to Cosmopolitanism: Literature and Cinema between the Second and Third World (with Rossen Djagalov, New York University)

Jordan Center for the Advanced Study of Russia 19 University Place, 2nd Floor, New York City, NY, United States

Would there have been a Third World without the Second? Perhaps, but it would have looked very different. Although most histories of these geopolitical blocs and their constituent societies and cultures are written in reference to the West, the interdependence of the Second and Third Worlds is evident not only from a common nomenclature but also from their near-simultaneous disappearance…

Britt-Marie Was Here /Britt-Marie Var Har New Nordic Cinema: Female-Focused

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

Based on the bestselling novel by author Fredrik Backman (A Man Called Ove), this comedic drama follows the journey of 63-year-old Britt-Marie as she works to find a new purpose in life after discovering her husband’s infidelity. For most of her life, Britt-Marie has been fastidious about order, compulsively making sure that her life and home are routine and organized.…

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From Left to Right: Lucy S. Dawidowicz, the New York Intellectuals, and the Politics of Jewish History

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

In honor of International Women’s Day, the AJHS and YIVO are delighted to host a panel discussion of Nancy Sinkoff’s new book, From Left to Right: Lucy S. Dawidowicz, the New York Intellectuals, and the Politics of Jewish History, the first comprehensive biography of a pioneer historian in the field of Holocaust Studies. Dawidowicz emerged from an interwar immigrant Yiddishist…

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The Ranking Game from a Hungarian Perspective

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

Please join us for a talk with Péter Érdi, author of Ranking: The Unwritten Rules of the Social Game We All Play (Oxford University Press, October 2019). This event will be live streamed on our Facebook page via Facebook Live. Follow us and enable Facebook Live notifications to watch the event. Human beings are competitive. We like to see who is stronger, richer, better,…

“Kafka With Wings:” An Evening with Daniela Emminger and Liesl Schillinger

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

Deutsches Haus at NYU presents a reading by the author and current Max Kade writer-in-residence at Deutsches Haus at NYU, Daniela Emminger, from her recent novel Kafka with Wings, followed by a conversation with writer Liesl Schillinger. Daniela Emminger's novel follows a woman's search for her long-lost Kyrgyz friend, exploring the history and culture of Kyrgyzstan while delving into themes…

Prof. Juliane Rebentisch (Princeton): Invisibility as a Political Problem. Notes on Hannah Arendt

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

Hannah Arendt advocates a concept of political freedom that is intimately linked to the appearance of the person on the public stage. However, Arendt's theory of public appearance is wrested from the problems of disappearance and invisibility - under totalitarian regimes, under conditions of slavery and poverty. To better understand the intuition behind Arendt's persistent adherence to a notion of…

The Two Faces of Soviet Technocracy: Engineer-Utopians and Apparatchik-Intellectuals, and What Happened With Their Ideas Later

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

Please join us for a talk with Ilya Kukulin (National Research University Higher School of Economics, Moscow). In the 1990s, political and economic reforms in post-Soviet Russia neither absolutely failed nor turned out to be obviously successful. It is better to say that their results became unpredictable for their initiators, as well as for participants and witnesses. Among these unforeseen consequences are…

Lo squadrone bianco

Casa Italiana Zerilli-Marimò (NYU) 24 West 12th Street, New York City, NY, United States

(The White Squadron, 1936) In conjunction with the exhibition Propaganda: The Art of Political Indoctrination On view at Casa Italiana March 4 - April 17, 2020 Lo squadrone bianco (Italy, 1936, b/w, 94 min.) In ITALIAN with ENGLISH subtitles Directed by Augusto Genina Starring Fosco Giachetti, Antonio Centa, Fulvia Lanzi Introduced by Alberto Zambenedetti, University of Toronto From the Casa Italiana Zerilli-Marimo.