How do Latino Jews identify? Can they choose their identity or is it assigned to them? What is it like to be both Latino and Jewish in the United States? Join author Laura Limonic in conversation with Eric Lach of The New Yorker about her fascinating book. Laura Limonic analyzes the changing construction of race and ethnicity in the United…
To RSVP, please click here. This interdisciplinary symposium explores a crucial but little-studied issue with growing importance today: what is the value of harm suffered by victims, whether of terrorism, crime or natural disasters. In law, politics, economics and public opinion, answers differ widely, and unequal treatment is the norm. Across the globe, victims evoke a range of feelings, from compassion verging…
Contemporaries of Dostoevsky and Tolstoy and predecessors of Diaghilev’s World of Art and the Russian avant-garde, the group of artists known as the Peredvizhniki was no less significant for Russian art and culture of the time. Including virtually every leading painter, notably key representatives of realism and nationalism such as Repin and Shishkin, the group was celebrated for its innovative…
Alexander Goerlach (Carnegie Council for Ethics and International Affairs): Homo Empathicus—How to Save Liberal Democarcy Located at the 3rd Floor East, Room 324. From the Center for European and Mediterranean Studies at NYU.
Carlo Levi's 'Disegni della Cecità' Blind Visions Carlo Levi's Disegni della Cecità Curated by Nino Sottile Zumbo With the participation of Antonino Milicia On view through December 13 Mon-Fri 10-6 An exhibit of drawings by author and artist Carlo Levi (1902-1975), made during a period of temporary blindness caused by diabetes. In 1973, while bedridden, he had a special wooden…
The Frankfurt Book Fair celebrates Norway as the Guest of Honor at this program at Scandinavia House, presented by Margit Walsø and Oliver Møystad/NORLA. The event will include a panel on the “Success Criteria for Books in Translation,” followed by a reception. Panelists include Håkon Harket, Editor at Forlaget Press (Norway); Richard Stoiber, Editor at Matthes & Seitz (Germany); Peter Blackstock,…
Aufbau—a German-language weekly published in New York and circulated worldwide—was an essential platform for the generation of refugees from Hitler and the displaced people and concentration camp survivors who arrived in the United States after the war. The publication served to link thousands of readers looking for friends and loved ones in every part of the world. In its pages…
Talks with TGM (2018). Director: Jakub Červenka, runtime: 80 min, In Czech with English subtitles. A special screening as a tribute to Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk. The film will be followed by a discussion with Masaryk's great-granddaughter Charlotta Kotik and Dagmar Hájková, a researcher from the Masaryk Institute and Archives of the Czech Academy of Sciences. Synopsis: On 26 September 1928,…
The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum has published a comprehensive study of its core holdings of late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century art. Thannhauser Collection:French Modernism at the Guggenheim brings to light revelatory new scholarship on the history of the German-Jewish Thannhauser family and galleries and, more broadly, the cultural milieu of Europe in the first decades of the twentieth century. Featuring…
Centro Primo Levi Readings Presented in collaboration with Centro Primo Levi. The Heart of a Stranger An Anthology of Exile Literature (2020, Pushkin Press) Edited by André Naffis-Sahely The editor in conversation with: Jenny Xie (NYU, Graywolf poet) Aaron Robertson (Lit Hub Editor and translator of Ethiopian memoirist Martha Nasibù) Jonathan Galassi (poet and translator, Farrar, Straus and Giroux) The Heart of a Stranger charts…