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The Rest of the Story: Finding your Family in Online Newspapers

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

Janeen Bjork will share her search methodology using several case studies to illustrate the techniques of finding and preserving family items from online newspapers. She will discuss OCR (optical character recognition, the technology that allows newspapers to be searched online), and how to work around its significant failure rate. Other topics will include best practices for searching in popular newspaper…

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Community and Controversy: Jews, Anglicans, and Biblical Criticism

The European Institute at Columbia University 420 W 118th St #1205, New York City, United States

Featuring Edward Breuer, Hebrew University of Jerusalem. The European History & Politics Workshop is supported by the European Institute at Columbia University. The workshop will meet on select Mondays over the course of the academic year at Columbia University (Philosophy 302) from 12:00pm-1:30pm. Participants will discuss pre-circulated work-in-progress over a light lunch. Please note that these workshops are by invitation only.…

Discussion about the role of Polish language and Polish community in the context of bilingual education in New York

Consulate General of Poland 233 Madison Avenue, New York, NY, United States

We will have a pleasure to host an educator and researcher Fabrice Jaumont - the author of the book: “The Bilingual Revolution: The Future of Education is in Two Languages” Event will take place on February 24, 2020 from 4PM to 5:30PM (doors open at 3:30 PM) at the Consulate General of the Republic of Poland in New York 233…

StrategEast Westernization Index 2020: Cross-country Analysis

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

Join us for a presentation by Anatoly Motkin, founder and president of StrategEast. The StrategEast Westernization Index 2020 assesses the processes of adherence to Western values in post-Soviet countries outside of Russia across five dimensions: political, legal, economic, cultural, and lifestyle. This second edition of the Index, like the first one released in 2018, is the only report to analyze the fourteen…

Nordic Book Club The Summer of Ellen by Agnete Friis

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

Read and discuss Scandinavian literature in translation as part of our Nordic Book Club. Each month we select a novel from some of the best Nordic literary voices. Discussions typically take place the last Tuesday of the month in the Halldór Laxness Library at Scandinavia House and online in our Goodreads group during the last week of the month. This week…

Narrating the Past: Innovative Strategies for Writing History – Ivan Jablonka & Brooke Kroeger

La Maison Française (NYU) 16 Washington Mews, New York City, NY, United States

Why should historians consider developing new forms of historical writing, and of what might those forms consist? This discussion of craft will explore how historians can draw on literary and journalistic methods to construct and convey knowledge. Using  brief sample texts, historian and writer Ivan Jablonka and journalist Brooke Kroeger will demonstrate the practical application of specific strategies. Ivan Jablonka…

Book Talk: Reversing the Colonial Gaze: Persian Travelers Abroad

Hagop Kevorkian Center 255 Sullivan Street, New York City, NY, United States

Reversing the Colonial Gaze: Persian Travelers Abroad, exploring the furthest reaches of the globe, Persian travelers from Iran and India travelled across Russian and Ottoman territories, to Asia, Africa, North and South America, Europe and beyond. Remapping the world through their travelogues, Reversing the Colonial Gaze offers a comprehensive and transformative analysis of the journeys of over a dozen of…

Phantastica: The Untold Story of Psilocybin Mushrooms

Albertine 972 5th Avenue, New York, NY, United States

Join Stéphanie Chayet and Fabrice Nadjari as they discuss Chayet’s book, Phantastica: ces substances interdites qui guérissent, which explores the forgotten history of mescaline, LSD and psilocybin mushrooms and how they could have revolutionized mental health, had history played out differently. In the early twentieth century, psychedelic drugs made their first appearance in Western science under the name phantastica. Chayet claims…

Dante’s Prayerful Pilgrimage

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

Typologies of Prayer in the Comedy Presented with NYU Department of Italian Studies and The Colloquium in the Humanities Dante's Prayerful Pilgrimage Typologies of Prayer in the Comedy (Brill, 2019) by Alessandro Vettori, Rutgers University Introduced by Maria Luisa Ardizzone, NYU In Dante’s Prayerful Pilgrimage, Alessandro Vettori provides a comprehensive analysis of the prayerful phenomenon in Dante’s Commedia and considers…