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Lew Nussimbaum aka Essad Bey aka Kurban Said – Wanderer between Worlds

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

Born to a Jewish family in Kiev, raised in Baku, and converted to Islam in Berlin, Essad Bey’s orientalist writings reached a huge audience in the Weimar Republic. Although his novels and essays depicting life in locales such as Azerbaijan and the Caucasus helped shape notions of a mysterious and romantic East in the German public imagination, the Muslim community…

The Refugee-Diplomat

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

Venice, England, and the Reformation A lecture by Diego Pirillo, University of California, Berkeley The establishment of permanent embassies in fifteenth-century Italy has traditionally been regarded as the moment of transition between medieval and modern diplomacy. This talk proposes an alternative history of early modern diplomacy, centered not on states and their official representatives but around the figure of "the…

The Challenge of Independent Russian-speaking Media in the U.S. and the World

Rennert Hall, Kraft Center 606 West 115th Street, New York, NY, United States

Presented by RTVI in collaboration with the Russian American Foundation and the Harriman Institute at Columbia University, this roundtable discussion will bring together Russian and American journalists, scholars, political scientists, historians and independent authors who will jointly explore the claims of propagandistic media influence, disinformation and foreign interference in the context of modern broadcasting, and address the disruptive intervention on new…

The Late-Soviet Underground: (Re-)Collecting the Past (with Ainsley Morse, Dartmouth College)

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

In this talk Professor Ainsley Morse will present a paper which argues for collecting—meaning collecting variously ephemeral “things” (words, poems, books, writers, traditions, ways of life), but also “collecting” as a mode of writing—as both a pathology and a creative mode typical of unofficial literature and art of the late Soviet period. She will focus on two late-Soviet writers: the…

Lecture: How and Why Immigrant Muslim Communities Are Losing Women

NYU Abu Dhabi Institute 19 Washington Square North, New York

How and Why Immigrant Muslim Communities Are Losing Women: Nearly half of Muslim Americans never attend the mosque and have very few Muslim friends. How and why does “unmosquing” happen and to whom? Eman Abdelhadi traces second-generation immigrants’ engagement with Muslim communities using life history interviews and presents four trajectories that emerge from these data. Abdelhadi finds that while most Muslim…

Exhibit Opening. Kirill Radchenko: War and Peace

Harriman Institute 420 West 118th St., New York City, NY, United States

Please join the Harriman Institute and Novyi Zhurnal (The New Review) for a reception celebrating the opening of the exhibit Kirill Radchenko: War and Peace, featuring the photographs by the late journalist, cinematographer, and photographer Kirill Radchenko. The exhibit is organized in cooperation with PEN Moscow and its director Nadezhda Azhgikhina. Exhibit runs March 23 – May 15, 2020. Exhibit hours are Monday–Friday, 9:30AM – 5:00PM excluding university holidays. Radchenko…

Sephardic Art Song: A Musical Legacy of the Sephardic Diaspora

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

The history and culture of Sephardic Jewry can be found in the rich repertoire of Ladino (Judeo-Spanish) folksongs. These folksongs reflect on Jewish traditions and stories as well as universal human themes such as love, death, and despair. In the 20th and 21st century Western classical composers such as Alberto Hemsi, Yehezkel Braun, Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco, Joaquin Rodrigo, Wolf Simoni (Louis…

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Film Screening. The Lost Petition

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

Please join the Ukrainian Film Club at Columbia University for a screening of the little-known Ukrainian film classic The Lost Petition (1972), directed by Borys Ivchenko. The film is in Ukrainian with English subtitles. Professor Yuri Shevchuk will introduce the film and moderate the discussion. Inspired by a Mykola Hohol (a.k.a. Nikolai Gogol) short story, this heroic comedy takes place in 18th…

Open House for Master of Arts in Irish and Irish-American Studies

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

Come and learn about NYU’s MA in Irish and Irish-American Studies with an opportunity to meet faculty, students and alumni. Registration recommended. Learn about our M.A. in Irish and Irish-American Studies, part of NYU's Graduate School of Arts and Sciences: - Speak to current M.A. students and faculty - Get details about course offerings and curriculum - Learn about the…

Joyce Society “Looking back on it all in a kind of retrospective arrangement”

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

Professor Emeritus Michael Groden (Western University Canada) leads this month’s James Joyce Society meeting. Further info on www.joycesociety.org Please note that this event may be filmed, captured on audio and/or photographed.  All events are supported by members of Glucksman Ireland House. Become a member.