A Look Ahead: Germany after Angela Merkel

Deutsches Haus at NYU presents a panel discussion among Christine Landfried, Joyce Mushaben, Boris Vormann, and Steven Sokol (moderator) on looking ahead at Germany in 2021. Opening remarks will be provided by David Gill, the German Consul General in New York. After four terms as Germany’s chancellor, Angela Merkel will step down in 2021. The new leadership of the Christian…

20/20 Philosophers: Jean-Godefroy Bidima

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Philosophy, in the 21st century, has changed: its practices and languages are no longer those of the previous century. A turning point has been taken by new generations and thinkers from diverse origins who, more than commenting on the old masters, are taking philosophy into new fields: health, ecology, neurosciences, security warfare, non-Western thought, trans-identities, the rights of non-human living…

Film Screening: Lovemobil

The German Film Office is pleased to present the award-winning documentary Lovemobil by Elke Margarete Lehrenkrauss as its last German Movie Night of 2020. The film will be available to viewers in New York State.  When night falls in rural Germany, old VW caravans decorated with flashy lights line country roads cutting through potato fields and dark forests. Inside these…

The Mews Book Club: D’Autres Vies Que La Mienne by Emmanuel Carrére

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The Mews Book Club, curated by Catherine Cusset, is back! Explore new tendencies in French and Francophone literature in a relaxed setting. Discussion is in French. The book to be discussed is D'autres vies que la mienne by Emmanuel Carrère. Please purchase and read the book in advance. You can purchase the paperback version on Albertine's website or on Amazon.

Virtual Czech Holiday Celebration

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A holiday sing-along and a film about the making and presentation of the American premiere of Georgius Zrunek's festive 18th century tri-lingual Christmas Mass. Introduction by Professor Michael Beckerman of New York University. The film features the Czech early music group Ritornello and NYU collegiate choristers as they prepare the delightful Zrunek work for concert, merging folk and spiritual traditions…

Shared History Conference

A conference of Leo Baeck Institute – New York | Berlin in Cooperation with the German Federal Agency for Civic Education (Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung) and the Jewish Museum Berlin, supported by the German Federal Foreign Office. Live online, December 7–9, 2020. Attendance via video conference is free with advance registration. The conference languages will be German and English with…

Belarus: Looking Forward and Looking Eastward

Join us for another virtual meeting of the New York-Russia Public Policy Seminar. This panel is  co-hosted by Columbia University’s Harriman Institute and the New York University Jordan Center for the Advanced Study of Russia. This month, our distinguished panelists will bring a comparative perspective to the ongoing anti-regime protests in Belarus. Drawing on current and ongoing research, they will discuss…

Can the EU Lead the Fight against Climate Change?

Participants in this session will discuss the European Green Deal: What has been achieved since the launch of the EU Green Deal in December 2019? What is the impact of the Covid crisis on efforts to address climate change? How is the EU partnering with other international actors to fight climate change? December 8, 2020: Thierry Grillet interviews climatologist Jean…

Online Book Club: The Brahmadells by Joanes Nielsen

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Read and discuss Scandinavian literature in translation as part of our Nordic Book Club, now online! Join us to discuss The Brahmadells by Joanes Nielsen, translated to English by Kerri A. Pierce. The Brahmadells, one of the first Faroese books to be translated into English, is an epic novel chronicling the lives of a particular family against the larger history of the…

“Text”: New Genre Cinema and New Media

Register here for the Zoom webinar, or tune in on YouTube Live. Please join the Harriman Institute and the Russian Film Club at Columbia University for a discussion with Nancy Condee, Stephen Norris, and Dusty Wilmes about the 2019 Russian thriller Text. This event is part of our Contemporary Culture Series. Klim Shipenko’s Text (2019) is a rare case of Russian thriller that has managed…