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Book Talk. Stalin’s Millenials: Nostalgia, Trauma, and Nationalism by Tinatin Japaridze

Please join us for a discussion with Tinatin Japaridze (MARS-REERS ’19), author of Stalin’s Millenials: Nostalgia, Trauma, and Nationalism (Lexington Books, February 2022), moderated by Alexander Cooley, Claire Tow Professor of Political Science, Barnard College. Stalin’s Millennials examines Joseph Stalin’s increasing popularity in the post-Soviet space, and analyzes how his image, and the nostalgia it evokes, is manipulated and exploited for political gain. The author argues…

People of the Book Club: “Eva and Eve” With Author Julie Metz

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Go behind the stories and peer into the archives at the CJH book discussion, led by Lauren Gilbert, Senior Manager for Public Services at the Center for Jewish History. Join a discussion of Eva and Eve: A Search for My Mother’s Lost Childhood and What a War Left Behind, a memoir by Julie Metz. After her mother passed, Julie discovered a keepsake book filled with…

Presentation Gabriela Trujillo:”L’invention de Louvette”

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**This event will take place in French** La Maison Française est ravie d'accueillir l'auteure Gabriela Trujillo pour une discussion autour son roman acclamé L'invention de Louvette. Son livre raconte l'enfance et l'adolescence d'une fille née dans un petit pays d'Amérique centrale. Opérée, suite à une lésion occulaire, Louvette explore les souvenirs enfouis de son passé et ses rêves d'avenir. Imaginatif…

“Eure Heimat ist unser Albtraum” / “Your Homeland is Our Nightmare”

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Deutsches Haus at NYU presents a conversation among Hengameh Yaghoobifarah, Sharon Dodua Otoo, Sasha Marianna Salzmann, and Jon Cho-Polizzi, which will be moderated by Tiffany Florvil to celebrate the digital publication of the English-language translation of Your Homeland Is Our Nightmare with TRANSIT Journal. RSVP here.

Divorare il cielo (Part I)

Casa Italiana hosts this book club online on the Zoom platform to discuss contemporary Italian books in Italian. The Club is open to anyone and its purpose is to offer the possibility to practice the Italian language. Everybody is encouraged to speak. The group suggests the books, usually by contemporary Italian authors, that reflect the changes that have taken place with time in…

Jerusalen, New York, and London: A Discussion of Three German-Jewish Diasporas

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Through the 1930s Jews fled Germany, and then Austria, seeking a safe haven as Nazi persecution intensified.  In this program, we will look at three cities of refuge, and neighborhoods within these cities that were focal points of settlement (Rehavia in Jerusalem, Washington Heights in New York, and Hampstead/Swiss Cottage in London in particular) for the new arrivals.  Speaking with…

Palestine/Israel, Visual Culture, And the World To Come: A Conversation Between Gil Hochberg and Shirly Bahar, Moderated by Helga Tawil Souri

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This event celebrates the recent publications of Gil Hochberg’s Becoming Palestine: Toward an Archival Imagination of the Future, and Shirly Bahar’s Documentary Cinema in Israel/Palestine: Performance, the Body, the Home. Join the authors and moderator Helga Tawil Souri for a conversation and a visual show and tell of some of the artwork explored in the books, followed by a Q…

Palestine/Israel, Visual Culture, And the World To Come

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This event celebrates the recent publications of Gil Hochberg’s Becoming Palestine: Toward an Archival Imagination of the Future, and Shirly Bahar’s Documentary Cinema in Israel/Palestine: Performance, the Body, the Home. Join the authors and moderator Helga Tawil Souri for a conversation and a visual show and tell of some of the artwork explored in the books, followed by a Q & A. Hochberg’s…

“Where Do I Belong?” Holocaust Survivors Return to Vienna

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In the midst of a refugee crisis, with an official count of 82.4 million forcibly displaced persons worldwide, the Center for the Study of the Holocaust, Genocide, and Crimes Against Humanity (GC-CUNY) and the Skirball Department of Hebrew and Judaic Studies (NYU) continue to offer a year-long series that tackles historical and current cases. What prompted Viennese Jews to return…

Machines à Écrire: Tierno Monénembo

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INFOS RSVP À SUIVRE **This event will take place in French** Sûr Zoom. Originaire de Guinée, Tierno Monénembo discutera de sa riche carrière littéraire et politique avec notre amie de longue date de La Maison Française Laure Adler dans le cadre de notre série "Machines à Écrire." Publié pour la première fois en 1979, le travail de Tierno parle des…