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Turkey and Europe: Contested Identities in History

Speaker: Senem Aydın-Düzgit, Associate Professor of International Relations, Sabancı University Moderator: Tsveta Petrova, Adjunct Assistant Professor of Political Science, Columbia University Turkey’s and Europe’s perceptions of each other play a key role in shaping their relations at present. Recent public discourses in Europe often characterize Turkish and European identities as dichotomous and in opposition. However, this assessment is based on a fixed and static understanding…

Andrés Bello Chair Professor Keila Grinberg Second Public Lecture | Passados Presentes: Slavery and Memory Tourism in Rio de Janeiro

King Juan Carlos I of Spain Center 53 Washington Square South, New York, United States

Venue: KJCC Auditorium // 53 Washington Square South, New York Reception to Follow Recently, slavery has become an important theme in memory tourism. Just last year, in Rio de Janeiro, the Valongo wharf, which was the arrival place of the highest number of enslaved Africans in the Atlantic, was recognized as a UNESCO site, and is now being visited by…

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Lecture: Italian Colonialism and Resistances to Empire, 1930-1970

Casa Italiana Zerilli-Marimò (NYU) 24 West 12th Street, New York City, NY, United States

A lecture by Neelam Srivastava, Newcastle University: In this book, I provide a cultural history of Italian colonialism and its impact on twentieth-century ideas of empire and anti-colonialism. I explore the widespread political and literary responses to Italy’s invasion of Ethiopia in 1935, highlighting how Pan-Africanism grew from opposition to Italy’s late empire-building, and reading the work of George Padmore, Claude McKay,…

Talk: Deception, Myth, and Reality in Czech History

Bohemian National Hall 321 E 73rd St., New York, NY, United States

"Deception, Myth, and Reality in Czech History (1918-1948): A Perspective from the Archives" presented by Igor Lukes, a Professor of History and International Relations at Boston University, who writes primarily about Central Europe. His books include On the Edge of the Cold War: American Diplomats and Spies in Postwar Prague (New York: Oxford, 2012), Rudolf Slansky: His Trials and Trial…

Film: As I Open My Eyes

La Maison Française (Columbia) Buell Hall, 515 West 116th Street, New York City, NY, United States

To RSVP, please click here. As I Open My Eyes gives us a look at Tunisian youth on the eve of the Jasmine Revolution as they are pulled in all directions by conflicting forces: disenchantment, fear, creativity, rebellion against dictatorship, rejection of conservatism, and the courage to pursue their desires.

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Book Launch. The Cultural Life of Capitalism in Yugoslavia: (Post)Socialism and its Other

Thursday, April 5, 2018 6:00pm Marshall D. Shulman Seminar Room (1219 International Affairs Building, 420 W 118th St) Please join us for a book launch and discussion of Cultural Life of Capitalism in Yugoslavia: (Post)Socialism and Its Other (Palgrave, 2017), edited by Dijana Jelača, Maša Kolanović and Danijela Lugarić. The book offers a thought-provoking rethinking of the standard binary division between socialist…

The Transatlantic Partnership: Europe and the US in a New Era

Rosenthal Pavilion, Kimmel Center for University Life 60 Washington Square South

Are Europe and the United States destined to grow apart after over 70 years of partnership? Join academics, policy-makers, and other members of the international community in an examination of the transatlantic ties that have generally united Europe and the US; the current status of that relationship, including the issues that divide us; and areas in which a strengthened partnership…

Revolution Every Day: Early Soviet Posters and the Propagandizing of Women

Harriman Institute 420 West 118th St., New York City, NY, United States

Thursday, April 5, 2018 6:00pm - 8:00pm Ella Weed Room, 223 Milbank Hall, Barnard College Please join us for a talk with Christina Kiaer (Art History, Northwestern University). Most of us are sure that Russian revolutionary posters are propaganda, even those made by renowned artists of the Russian avant-garde in their attempt to bring “art into life.” At this retrospective moment of…

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After the Elections: The Rise of Italy’s Third Republic?

Columbia Graduate School of Journalism 2950 Broadway, New York City, NY, United States

Location: World Room, 3rd Fl Pulitzer Hall, Columbia Graduate School of Journalism. Panelists: Carlo Invernizzi-Accetti, City College, CUNY Anthony Silberfeld, Bertelsmann Foundation Alexander Stille, Columbia University Nadia Urbinati, Columbia University Moderator Adam Tooze, Columbia University Presented by The European Institute & The Bertelsmann Foundation. Co-sponsored by The Department of Italian, The Columbia European Society, and The Columbia European Union Student Association.

Leslie Adelson (Cornell): “The Future as Contested Ground: A Comparative Approach to Narrative Future-Making in Minority Literature in Contemporary Germany”

Deutsches Haus Columbia 420 West 116th Street, New York City, NY, United States

What does it mean to speak, as Hannah Arendt once did, of the broken “heart of time”? This lecture analyzes innovative forms of radical futurity in little known 21st-century fiction by Emine Sevgi Özdamar, who holds emblematic status on Germany’s path from Turkish migration to transcultural Europe, and Michael Götting, who has authored the first sustained novel about Black German…

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