Please join us for a conversation about how to preserve and transmit the histories and legacies of dance, with Gabriele Brandstetter and Nanako Nakajima. Drawing on the research and performative processes of the cross cultural project “Dance Archive Box Berlin,” the conversation will address questions of archiving and re-creating dance through the traces and fragments of its archived remains: how…

Deutsches Haus at NYU and the DEFA Film Library at UMass Amherst present a conversation between Sara Blaylock(University of Minnesota Duluth) and Seth Howes (University of Missouri) to celebrate the publication of Sara Blaylocks’s new book, "Parallel Public: Experimental Art in Late East Germany" (MIT Press, March 2022).  

RSVP here. The world is in the midst of a storm that has shaped the history of modernity along a double fracture: on the one hand, an environmental fracture driven by a technocratic and capitalist civilization that led to the ongoing devastation of the Earth’s ecosystems and its human and non-human communities and, on the other, a colonial fracture instilled…

2022 marks the third time in the last twenty years that a candidate of the far right has advanced to the second round of presidential elections. Many expect this contest between Emmanuel Macron and Marine Le Pen to be closer than the last, noting the continued trend toward the extremes in French domestic politics and in Europe more generally. As…

GLOBAL UPRISINGS CONFERENCE NYU’s Kevorkian Center is hosting an in-person two-day conference, from April 21-22, to cap off our Global Uprising series. In Fall 2020, we took the George Floyd Uprising and the ten-year anniversary of the start of the Arab Revolts as our launching points for 14 conversational sessions across the academic year that brought together dozens of thinkers, activists, artists, and…

This event will take place at 42 Washington Mews. This semester, according to NYU guidelines, in-person events will be open to NYU students, staff, and faculty only. Daily Covid-19 Screeners will be checked at the door. Members of NYU should RSVP here. NYU's Department of German and and Deutsches Haus at NYU present "Fantasmical Anatomies: A Performative Lecture in Dialogue" by…