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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Please join us for the fifth event of our Work of Care in Russia speaker series, a book talk by Eugene Raikhel, author of Governing Habits: Treating Alcoholism in the Post-Soviet Clinic (Cornell University Press, 2016). Moderated by Svetlana Borodina. Critics of narcology—as addiction medicine is called in Russia—decry it as being “backward,” hopelessly behind contemporary global medical practices in relation to addiction and substance abuse, and…
Please join the Hagop Kevorkian Center for another installment of our series "Elements of Border and Infrastructure." This event will be on the theme of "Water" and will feature a conversation with Jatin Dua (Michigan), Laleh Khalili (Queen Mary Univ. of London), and Nathalie Peutz (NYU-Abu Dhabi) moderated by journalist and Kevorkian Center Visiting Scholar, Atossa Abrahamian (The Nation). This…
Thomas Mann House Los Angeles and Deutsches Haus at NYU present a conversation on “Discourses and Likes: Emancipation Going Viral” between Fatma Aydemir and Mohamed Amjahid, which will be moderated by Ulrich Baer (NYU). In the last couple of years, queer-feminist, antiracist, and emancipatory discourses have become increasingly visible, both in the United States and in the German and European…
“One Image, Two Acts” unravels the multifaceted systems of oil infrastructures spanned across unlikely geographies and material temporalities. Examining the photographic and film archives of British Petroleum (BP) during its operations in Iran, Iraq, and Kuwait, this film traces the visual and media infrastructures through which oil has operated as an agent of power in the colonial episteme. It unpacks…
Please join us for the launch of the new volume Rethinking the Gulag: Identities, Sources, Legacies (Indiana University Press, March 2022). Editors Alan Barenberg and Emily Johnson will be joined by contributors Gavin Slade (Nazarbayev University), Mikhail Nakonechnyi (University of Helsinki), and Sarah Young (University College London), discussant Dan Healey (University of Oxford), and moderator Mark Lipovetsky (Columbia University). The Soviet Gulag was one of the largest, most complex, and deadliest systems of incarceration in the…
