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The Second Exchange: The Treaty of Lausanne and the Deportation of Greek Americans

Hagop Kevorkian Center 255 Sullivan Street, New York City, NY, United States

During the 1920s and 30s, the US deported thousands of Greeks, and the Convention Concerning the Exchange of Greek and Turkish Populations at Lausanne (1923) inadvertently aided in the process. But was the role of the postwar international system in this "second exchange" mere coincidence? This paper explores how the Treaty of Lausanne enabled the US to deport Ottoman Greek…

“Flowers for Otello”: A Performance and Conversation with Esther Dischereit

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

Deutsches Haus at NYU and NYU's Department of German present a spoken word performance of Esther Dischereit's "Flowers for Otello" with the author and current DAAD Chair of Contemporary Poetics, and Katharina Menschick. The performance will be followed by a conversation between Esther Dischereit and Ela Gezen, Associate Professor and Undergraduate Program Director at UMass Amherst. About "Flowers for Otello:" "Flowers for…

Film: Speak Up (Ouvrir la voix) – Screening & Discussion with Amandine Gay

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

With director Amandine Gay in conversation with art historian Sandrine Colard (African Art History, Rutgers), and poet/scholar Sylvie Kandé as respondent. African and African Diaspora writers and artists have met the 21st century with unprecedented new images and visions of Africa and the world. From Lagos, Johannesburg and Dakar to Paris, New York, London, or Berlin, writers and artists of African descent are mobilizing the resources…

LGBTQ in Italian Theater

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

50 Years from the Stonewall Uprising and of LGBTQ Liberation Rainbow Jubilee is a series of three events that Casa Italiana put together with its theater company in residence KIT to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall uprising. The events will feature LGBTQ theater respectively from Italy (February 25th), the US (March 25th) and from the rest of the world…

Mikhail Kozyrev: Brat 2 and Defining a Generation of Russian Rock

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

Join us on February 26th, for a talk by Mikhail Kozyrev about the film “Brat 2”, especially with regards to his work making the score for the film. This event is sponsored by the Jordan Center for the Advanced Study of Russia. Alexey Balabanov, famous Russian director, shot this movie in 2000. It was the sequel to “Brat” (1997), the story of…

Why is it so Difficult to Talk about Islamophobia in France?

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

Discussion in French with Abdellali Hajjat and Marwan Mohammed, moderated by Emmanuelle Saada To RSVP, please click here. Why is it so difficult to recognize Islamophobia as a racist phenomenon in France? The talk will explore the reasons for that denial and analyze the way the "Muslim problem" has been forged in the public space and the lack of scientific debate…

Why is it so Difficult to Talk about Islamophobia in France?

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

Discussion in French with Abdellali Hajjat and Marwan Mohammed, moderated by Emmanuelle Saada To RSVP, please click here. Why is it so difficult to recognize Islamophobia as a racist phenomenon in France? The talk will explore the reasons for that denial and analyze the way the "Muslim problem" has been forged in the public space and the lack of scientific debate…

Claire Messud Discusses Camus, Proust and Flaubert

Albertine 972 5th Avenue, New York, NY, United States

Author Claire Messud will discuss her work, including her most recent novel, The Burning Girl, as well as how French authors such as Albert Camus, Marcel Proust, and Gustave Flaubert have impacted her writings, with Cultural Counselor of the French Embassy in the United States, Bénédicte de Montlaur. Follow the event on Facebook. Watch on Livestream on Tuesday, February 26, 2019 at 6:30PM EST.…

Dante as Political Theorist

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

Reading "Monarchia" Presented with the NYU Department of Italian Studies and The Global Dante Project of New York Dante as Political Theorist: Reading Monarchia (2018, Cambridge Scholars Publishing) Edited and with an introduction by Maria Luisa Ardizzone (NYU) Moderator: Alessandro Vettori, Rutgers University Introduction: Teodolinda Barolini, Columbia University Presentation: Maria Luisa Ardizzone, NYU Conclusion: Alison Cornish, NYU Dante’s Latin treatise Monarchia…

LOST in AMERICA – Avant-garde writer Milada Souckova (1899-1983)

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

A talk by Zuzana Rihova. With reading by Alex Zucker, translator The talk will present the unique Czech avant-garde writer Milada Souckova and her journey from a natural sciences scholar, to a young writer married to modernist painter Zdenek Rykr, participating actively in the vibrant literary scene in 1930s Prague, to her émigré life in the USA. ?íhová will focus…