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…
Book launch for: “Nazi Billionaires – The Dark History of Germany’s Wealthiest Dynasties” by David de Jong (Harper Collins, 2022) Presenter: David de Jong, financial journalist and historian Moderator: Adam Tooze, Columbia University The event is free and open to the public. Proof of vaccination is required, and masks are to be worn over the mouth and nose at all times. Seating is limited…
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…
Presenter: Peter Kitlas (Emory University) Discussant: Tunç Şen (Columbia University) Moderator: Pier Mattia Tommasino (Columbia University) Throughout his career as a Viennese ‘language boy,’ Franz von Dombay (d. 1810) collected hundreds of personal letters, which he collated in several scrapbooks. While past scholars have done much work to demonstrate the ways in which Dombay excelled in his service across Morocco…
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…
**The event will take place in French** Hybrid event: open in person to the NYU community, open online to the public RSVP In-person HERE (NYU Community ONLY) RSVP Zoom HERE (General Public) Lauréate du Prix Médicis, et finaliste du Prix Goncourt pour son dernier roman Le Voyage dans l’Est (2021), la romancière Christine Angot sera en conversation avec Laure Adler à la Maison Française…
About the event: Drawing on her 2021 James Ford Lectures, Jane Ohlmeyer re-examines Ireland’s role in empire through the lens of early modernity. In this lecture, she explores four interconnected themes. First, as England’s first colony, Ireland formed an integral part of the English imperial system. Second, as well as being colonized the Irish operated as active colonists in the English and…
