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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. 

Between Serialism and Suprematism: Nikolai Roslavets’s Modernist Music

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

Please join the Ukrainian Studies Program at the Harriman Institute, Columbia University for a presentation by Leah Batstone (Hunter College, CUNY). The compositions of Nikolai Roslavets, one of many Ukrainian composers often mistaken for Russian, demonstrate the unique musical position of Ukraine in the history of early twentieth-century music. As a mediator between the compositional serialism of the Second Viennese School of…

Conscious History: Polish Jewish Historians before the Holocaust

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

Natalia Aleksiun and Sam Kassow will discuss the legacies of Jewish historians before the Holocaust who wrote both academic and popular history for their community and engaged in creating a sense of Polish-Jewish belonging, while also fighting for their rights as an ethnic minority. What shaped their sense of both scholarly and communal mission? How relevant is their work to…

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Women in Comedy in Italian-American Theater

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

Special Guest: Gina Barreca 2020 marks the 100th birthday of Franca Valeri, the legendary Italian playwright and actress, the first to make a name for herself by writing and doing comedy in Italy. KIT - Kairos Italy Theater - and Casa Italiana Zerilli-Marimò are celebrating women in comedy with three events: Women in Comedy in Italian Theater (February 11), Women in…

Book presentation: Renata Fucikova, Bohemian Stories

Bohemian National Hall 321 E 73rd St., New York, NY, United States

Renata Fucikova, a renowned illustrator and author of literature for children and young adults, presents a graphic journey through the history of Czechs in the United States, capturing the bonds between the two countries through their lived experience. Short texts and vivid illustrations detail the fates of the cartographer Martin Bohemus, the rebel Vojta Náprstek, the Freethinker Ladimír Klácel; reveal…

Why the Far Right Kills

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

The October 2018 massacre at the Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh, committed by a Far Right activist, was the most lethal assault on Jews on U.S. soil in history. It was followed by attacks on synagogues in Poway, California and Halle, Germany. The Far Right has also massacred immigrants in El Paso, Texas and Muslims in Christchurch, New Zealand.…

The Divided Society

Italian Academy (Columbia) 1161 Amsterdam Avenue, New York City, NY, United States

Revised program: 11:00AM Welcome: Barbara Faedda, Italian Academy A brief introduction to Reset Dialogues: Jonathan Laurence 11:15AM     Opening talk: Mark Lilla Jelani Cobb, Respondent Discussion moderated by Marina Calloni 12:45PM Break 1:45PM-3:30PM   Roundtable with Sheri Berman, Ian Buruma, Jedediah Purdy Discussion moderated by Lisa Anderson The new decade has revealed deepening fault lines and unrelieved polarization. In contemporary…

Refuge in the Heights: The German Jews of Washington Heights with Robert Snyder

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

Rob Snyder, author of the book Crossing Broadway, Washington Heights and the Promise of New York City and Professor of Journalism and American Studies at Rutgers University-Newark, will help LBI celebrate its new exhibition on the German-Jewish refugees of Washington Heights with a talk on the northern Manhattan neighborhood once known as “Frankfurt on the Hudson” for its large population of German-Jewish…