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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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KINO!2018 Festival of German Films New York

Landmark at 57 West 657 West 57 St., New York, NY

Once again, KINO! delivers fresh German films 
to New York City, this year at a new uptown location, from April 6-12. Now in its fifth year as an independent festival, the program was curated by New York film professionals—distributor Meghan Wurtz, journalist Karl Rozemeyer, and festival consultant Marian Masone—who have selected a wide cross-section of high-quality, remarkable films that will challenge your views of the…

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Symposium: CONVIVIO. Dante’s Philosophical Treatise

Casa Italiana (24 W 12th), Italian Academy at Columbia (1161 Amsterdam Ave.) present: The Global Dante Project of New York Directors: Maria Luisa Ardizzone (NYU) and Teodolinda Barolini (Columbia University) A one-day international symposium by The Global Dante Project of New York on Dante's Convivio. Presented by NYU's Department of Italian Studies, Casa Italiana Zerilli-Marimò and the Medieval and Renaissance Center. In collaboration with Columbia University's Department of Italian and Italian Academy for Advanced Studies…

Book Talk with Susan Smith-Peter on “Imagining Russian Regions: Subnational Identity and Civil Society in Nineteenth-Century Russia”

Jordan Center for the Advanced Study of Russia 19 University Place, 2nd Floor, New York City, NY, United States

On Friday, April 6th please join us for “Imagining Russian Regions: Subnational Identity and Civil Society in Nineteenth-Century Russia”, a book talk with Susan Smith-Peter (CUNY Staten Island). This talk is part of the Occasional Series, sponsored by the Jordan Center for the Advanced Study of Russia. In Imagining Russian Regions: Subnational Identity and Civil Society in Nineteenth-Century Russia, Susan Smith-Peter…

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Book Launch. The Power of Language and Rhetoric in Russian Political History by Richard S. Wortman

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

Friday, April 6, 2018 4:30pm 1201 International Affairs Building (12th Floor, 420 W 118th St) Please join us to celebrate the publication of Richard S. Wortman's The Power of Language and Rhetoric in Russian Political History (Bloomsbury Academic, 2018). In this book Wortman examines the rhetorical force of certain key words in the discourses of Russian state, political thought, and literature. He shows…

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Le Festival des cinq continents: littérature, francophonie, diversité

La Maison Française (NYU) 16 Washington Mews, New York City, NY, United States

A Francophone literary festival, co-sponsored by the Permanent Mission of the Organisation Internationale de la Francophonie to the United Nations and by the NYU Center for French Civilization and Culture, takes place at various NYC locations. Visiting authors include Yamen Manai, the 2017 recipient of the Prix des 5 continents. For full festival schedule, see nyu.is/5continents Events at La Maison Française of NYU…

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