Post-Socialist Rehabilitations: Disability, Race, Gender and Sexuality and the Limits of National Belonging by Kateřina Kolářová

This event will be held virtually as a Zoom webinar and streamed via YouTube Live. There will be no in-person event. Register here for the Zoom webinar, or tune in on YouTube Live. Please join us for an event in the Minority Inclusion and Exclusion in Soviet and Post-Communist Societies Speaker Series, a discussion with Kateřina Kolářová, Assistant Professor of Cultural Studies…

La Convivencia: Exploring Sephardic Music’s Traditions of Peace and Coexistence

This event will be held virtually as a Zoom webinar. There will be no in-person event. Register here for the Zoom webinar. The Kupferberg Holocaust Center, the Department of Music at Queensborough Community College, the Queensborough Performing Arts Center (QPAC), and the Harriman Institute at Columbia University present a performance by Merima Ključo, accordion, and Jelena Milušić, voice, with guest artist Mirna Lekić,…

The Tenor of Irish-Jewish Relations in 19th-20th Century New York

Online

Join us on March 17th at 7pm for a discussion with Dr. Hasia Diner and Dr. Jeffrey Gurock as they question the long-accepted visions of Hibernians and Hebrews at constant loggerheads and look to complicate the historical narrative with examples of common ground and cooperation.  Dr. Diner will speak to the histories of American Jews and Irish American’s entwined with each other starting in 19th century.

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The Future of the UK-EU Relationship Post Brexit

Following the withdrawal of the United Kingdom from the European Union, the UK and the EU signed at the end of December 2020 a Trade and Cooperation Agreement which applies provisionally pending its ratification by the EU. Consul General Phillips on will discuss the main components of the agreement and the opportunities and challenges which lie ahead. Speaker: Antony Phillipson,…

“A Farther Shore”: American Reflections on the Advent of Irish Independence (1921-22)

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This third seminar of our series – Independent Ireland and Transatlantic Diplomacy is hosted by New York University's Glucksman Ireland House, in association with the ACIS & the Consulate General of Ireland in New York. The panel will feature - Francis M. Carroll (University of Manitoba);  Marion R. Casey (NYU); Miriam Nyhan Grey (NYU); Bernadette Whelan (University of Limerick) – as well as Ireland’s Ambassador Daniel Mulhall.

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Virtual Cinema: “Faat Kiné”

Online

Like Borom Sarret, Black Girl, The Money Order, and Xala, Ousmane Sembene’s film Faat Kiné is another chapter in the writer-director’s laser-sharp commentary of post-independence in Senegal. Faat Kiné brings the viewer face to face with politically, economically, and morally corrupt social fabric.

Free

Kaffeestunde (Via Zoom)

Online

Email Silja Weber at svw2108@columbia.edu with inquiries.

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Many Masks: The Radical Politics and Performance of Míra Holzbachová

This event will be held virtually as a Zoom webinar and streamed via YouTube Live. There will be no in-person event. Register here for the Zoom webinar, or tune in on YouTube Live. Please join the East Central European Center at the Harriman Institute for a presentation by Meghan Forbes, Leonard A. Lauder Postdoctoral Fellow in Modern Art at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. This…

New Historical Cinema II: Dear Comrades

This event will be held virtually as a Zoom webinar and streamed via YouTube Live. There will be no in-person event. Register here for the Zoom webinar, or tune in on YouTube Live. Please join us for a meeting of the Russian Film Club with speakers Pavel Khazanov (Rutgers), John MacKay (Yale), Peter Rutland (Wesleyan). Moderated by Daria Ezerova (Harriman Institute)…