Online Book Club: Tous les hommes n’habitent pas le monde de la même façon by Jean-Paul Dubois
OnlineModerated by Zachary Desjardins-Mooney, Columbia University
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GLOBAL UPRISING: INSURRECTION AND REACTION: UPRISING AGAINST THE LEFT
Feb 9, 2021 / 12:30-2PM (NYC/EST Time) / Zoom signup We tend to think of uprising as the purview of the Left—what ‘we’ do as opposed to what ‘they’ do. And yet the last decade has seen an insurrectionist Right appropriate much of the Left’s style. Uprising today can often start with an ideological indeterminacy, around a populist refusal of…
The New York Librarian Who Spied on American Nazis
OnlineFlorence Mendheim went undercover at a moment in which American Nazism was flourishing. Local Nazi groups in the New York area were distributing propaganda, setting up summer camps, and hosting large rallies. Mendheim, an employee of the New York Public Library, was inspired to document and resist these groups.
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Online Nordic Book Club: The Women I Think About at Night by Mia Kankimaki
OnlineOn February 9, we’ll be discussing the book The Women I Think About at Night by Mia Kankimäki, who joined us last month for a book talk on the novel with moderator Heli Sirviö, available to stream here. Bored with her life and feeling stuck in her mid-40s, Mia Kankimäki decided to leave her job, sell her apartment, and travel the world to follow…
Disability and the Archive: Teresa Deevy in Context
OnlineDramatists, scholars, and disability activists have started taking an interest in a deaf Irishwoman who was once considered the premiere national playwright of her day: Teresa Deevy. Interest in her life and works has taken different shapes, from those drawn to her representations of women living circumscribed lives in 1930s Ireland to those who want to recover a neglected history…
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Dr. Sindy Joyce, Growing Up in Science Life Stories Series
OnlineIn collaboration with NYU's Center for Neural Science, Dr. Sindy Joyce will be interviewed as part of the Growing Up In Science Life Stories series. This is a series of talks, founded by NYU's Prof. Weiji Ma, in which scientists tell their life story, including struggles that they have had to overcome and with a special interest in scientists from underrepresented groups.…
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Book Launch: Emile Chabal’s France
OnlineJoin us as a panel of experts discuss Emile Chabal's new short introduction to postwar France. The book explores the contradictions that have shaped French history over the last eighty years, from the calamitous defeat by Hitler's armies in 1940 through decolonisation, the gilets jaunes and the response to COVID-19. Structured around the idea of paradox, Chabal paints a picture…
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Roundtable Discussion: Le hirak en Algérie : chemins parcourus, perspectives d’avenir
OnlineThe Algerian uprising known as the hirak is about to reach its second anniversary. Stalled by the COVID pandemic and confronting powerful entrenched interests, the protestors face crucial political choices. The current state of the movement and its possible future are discussed by three leading observers.
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Statuary Performances: Neo-Paganism and Memory in the American and Russian Far Right
This event will be held virtually as a Zoom meeting: https://nyu.zoom.us/j/98726318935. Whether it be of Robert E. Lee, Tsar Nicholas II, Huey Long or the head of the NKVD Feliks Dzerzhinsky, political statuary evokes a range of impassioned responses from groups as varied as the Proud Boys and Identity Evropa in the United States, and the Double-Headed Eagle and…
Panel Discussion: Paper Trails: Memorials in an Age of Anxiety
OnlineIn the aftermath of the 2015 terror attacks in Paris, people paid tribute to the victims by bringing to the sites flowers, notes, candles, paintings – all sorts of offerings forming spontaneous memorials. Sarah Gensburger was one of the sociologists who documented their evolution, while the Paris Archives collected their contents. Similarly, Nora Philippe filmed the Women’s March on Washington…
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