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Adam Michnik Discusses Antisemitism In 20th Century Poland

YIVO Institute for Jewish Research 15 West 16th Street, NYC, New York City, NY, United States

Polish-Jewish relations have once again become an important topic. In February this year, the Polish parliament passed a law making it an offence, with up to three years imprisonment or a fine, for anyone who accuses the Polish state or people of participating in the Holocaust or other Nazi crimes. This attempt to re-write history and criminalize historical discourse caused…

The Lucullan Reading Circle

Goethe-Institut New York 30 Irving Place, New York City, NY, United States

Written in 1940 as a radio play by the poet and dramatist Bertolt Brecht, The Trial of Lucullus features the Roman general Lucullus facing judgment by a People’s Court in the underworld. Norwegian artist Per-Oskar Leu revisits this lesser-known Brecht work through a participatory performance, offering a contemporary reflection on the artist’s relationship to legal institutions, politics, and ideology. From…

SPECIAL OUTDOOR CINEMA EVENT: THE GROCER’S SON (Le Fils de l’épicier)

LOW LIBRARY STEPS at Columbia

It is summer, and Antoine (Nicolas Cazalé) is forced to leave the city to return to his family in Provence. His father is sick, so he must assume the lifestyle he thought he had shed—driving the family grocery cart from hamlet to hamlet, delivering supplies to the few remaining inhabitants. Accompanied by Claire (Clotilde Hesme), a friend from Paris whom…

France as a Laboratory of Culture: An International Workshop

La Maison Française (Columbia) Buell Hall, 515 West 116th Street, New York City, NY, United States

France as a Laboratory of Culture: An International Workshop This program is organized by French Cultural Studies and hosted by the Columbia Maison Française. PROGRAM: 9:15 AM: Welcome and Introduction 9:30 AM – 11:00 AM: Session A - Nicole Rudolph (Adelphi University): ‘The Innovative State: Eco-Quartiers as French Laboratories of “Green Culture”’ - Zachary R. Hagins (University of Arkansas at Little Rock): ‘#ClichéContreCliché: Instagram and the…

From Triumph to Crisis: Neoliberal Economic Reform in Postcommunist Countries

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

On Friday, September 7th please join us for a book talk with Hilary Appel (Claremont McKenna College) and Mitchell A. Orenstein (University of Pennsylvania) on From Triumph to Crisis: Neoliberal Economic Reform in Postcommunist Countries. Hilary Appel and Mitchell Orenstein will present their new book entitled From Triumph to Crisis: Neoliberal Economic Reform in Postcommunist Countries(Cambridge University Press 2018), which accounts for…

SCREENING OF “THE EDGE OF HEAVEN.” – CALA FALL 2018 FILM SERIES

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

As part of the CALA Fall 2018 Film Series “The Immigrant Experience: Visions of Diaspora on Film in America and Abroad,” the NYU Center for Applied Liberal Arts and Deutsches Haus at NYU present a screening of the 2008 German film  "The Edge of Heaven.", directed by Dir. Fatih Akin. This multi-layered drama follows the stories of six people, four Turks and two Germans,  as they…

INSIDE/OUTSIDE: A PANEL DISCUSSION WITH RODRICUS CRAWFORD, JACKIE SUMELL, AND BRETT DIGNAM

Ludlow 38 38 Ludlow Street, New York, United States

Due Process In 2013, Rodricus Crawford was convicted and sentenced to death in Louisiana. Held in Angola, he was the second-youngest man on death row. Three years later, the conviction was overturned, and Crawford was ultimately exonerated. Crawford will be joined by multidisciplinary artist jackie sumell and Columbia Law professor Brett Dignam for a panel discussion on the experience of solitary confinement and the challenges of…

Neorealism and Photography

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

In conjunction with the exhibition NeoRealismo: The New Image in Italy, 1932–1960 While the term “neorealism” is primarily associated with cinema and literature, photography was also involved in the wider turn toward social and humanist themes in Italy in the 1940s and ’50s. Photography documented the war’s impact and the conditions of ordinary Italians in the postwar years—and made these visible…

EXHIBITION OPENING: SAMUEL HENNE’S “DISPLACEMENTS”

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

Deutsches Haus at NYU presents "displacements," an exhibition of works by Samuel Henne. Please join us on Monday, September 10, at 6pm for the exhibition opening featuring a talk with the artist. The exhibition will be on view through October 13. About the exhibition: Uncover. Arrange. Displace. To make something appear. There is a fundamental connection between the works of Samuel…

European Integration and Democratic Backsliding in Central and Eastern Europe

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

Please join us for a talk with Laszlo Bruszt, Professor of Sociology at the Central European University, Budapest. The EU, until lately, was seen as the key promoter of liberal democracy in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE); nowadays it is pictured as a helpless outsider with weak powers to halt processes of de-democratization in the region. Bruszt takes issue with the…