Book Club: En compagnie des hommes by Véronique Tadjo
OnlineBook Club: En compagnie des hommes by Véronique Tadjo. Moderated by Thomas W. Dodman, Columbia University.
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A Live Virtual Transatlantic Event: Lecture á domicile: Gaël Faye
OnlineGaël Faye is an author, songwriter and hip-hop artist. He released his first solo album in 2013, with his first novel Petit Pays which won the Prix Goncourt des Lycéens in 2016. Born in 1982 in Burundi to a French father and Rwandan mother, Faye moved with his family to France in 1995 after the outbreak of the civil war and Rwandan genocide.…
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20/21 Philosophers: Frédéric Worms
OnlinePhilosophy, in the 21st century, has changed: its practices and languages are no longer those of the previous century. A turning point has been taken by new generations and thinkers from diverse origins who, more than commenting on the old masters, are taking philosophy into new fields: health, ecology, neurosciences, security warfare, non-Western thought, trans-identities, the rights of non-human living…
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Masculinity & Culture – The Making of a Man
OnlineAmerican-Scandinavian Foundation invites you to a virtual conversation between filmmaker Lo Dagerman and author Mark Greene on “Masculinity and Culture”, moderated by Benjamin Mier-Cruz on March 9. Immediately following WWII, a young Swedish journalist, Stig Dagerman, is sent into war-torn Europe. He writes a path-breaking travelogue from the ruins of Germany, and is in 1947 dispatched to Paris. French manhood…
New Works Wednesdays: The Mediterranean Diaspora in Late Antiquity: What Christianity Cost the Jews with Ross Shepard Kraemer
The Mediterranean Diaspora in Late Antiquity examines the fate of Jews living in the Mediterranean Jewish diaspora after the Roman emperor Constantine threw his patronage to the emerging orthodox (Nicene) Christian churches. About the Author Ross Shepard Kraemer is Professor Emerita of Religious Studies and Judaic Studies at Brown University, where she specialized in early Christianity and other religions of the…
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Françoise Vergès: The Wombs of Women. Race, Capital, Feminism
OnlineFrançoise Vergès is an antiracist feminist activist, a scholar, a public educator, an independent curator, and the cofounder of the collective Decolonize the Arts and of the free and open university Decolonizing the Arts. She is the author of Monsters and Revolutionaries: Colonial Family Romance and Metissage, also published by Duke University Press, and numerous books in French.
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Radical Diversity: San Francisco
OnlineRadical Diversity is a discussion series presented by several Goethe-Institut locations in North America in collaboration with its Goethe Pop Ups, the Thomas Mann House, and the Institute for Social Justice & Radical Diversity under the sponsorship of the Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung North America.
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Speeches from a Life in Diplomacy, Former Irish Ambassador to the U.S. Anne Anderson
OnlineAnne Anderson has had a forty-five year career in Irish diplomacy. She joined the Department of Foreign Affairs in 1972, on the eve of Ireland's entry to the European Economic Community. She retired in 2017 from her final diplomatic posting as Ireland's Ambassador to the United States.
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Legal Sabotage: Ernst Fraenkel in Hitler’s Germany
OnlineJoin LBI for a discussion of Legal Sabotage: Ernst Fraenkel in Nazi Germany with author Douglas G. Morris and commentators David Abraham and Claudia Koonz. “The Jewish leftist lawyer Ernst Fraenkel was one of twentieth-century Germany's great intellectuals. During the Weimar Republic he was a shrewd constitutional theorist for the Social Democrats and in post-World War II Germany a respected political…
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Virtual Screening + Live Q&A: “The Making of a Man.” Stig Dagerman in Paris, 1947
OnlineThe Making of a Man (48 min, 2019) explores courage, cowardice and toxic masculinity across time and place (postwar France, Sweden and contemporary USA). Its point of departure is a play by Swedish writer Stig Dagerman, set in Paris reeling in the aftermath of Nazi occupation.
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