20/21 Philosophers: Frédéric Gros

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Frédéric Gros, professeur d'humanités politiques à Sciences-po Paris, est un spécialiste de la pensée de Michel Foucault dont il a édité les derniers cours au Collège de France (1980-1984) et dirigé l'édition des oeuvres dans la Bibliothèque de la Pléiade.

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Republication of “Banished Children of Eve”: Peter Quinn with Lenwood Sloan

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Banished Children of Eve: A Novel of Civil War New York, originally published in 1995, traces that event as it gripped New York City. The cast is drawn from every strata: a likable and laconic Irish American hustler, an ambitious and larcenous Yankee stockbroker, an immigrant serving girl, a beautiful and mysterious biracial actress and her white minstrel lover as…

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Watching the Detectives—Strategies and Tactics of Police Oversight in Russia

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 the inaugural event of our Rule of Law in Autocracy: The Legal Dimension of Russian Politics speaker series, a presentation by Lauren A. McCarthy (University…

Kaffeestunde (via Zoom)

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

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Carlo Ginzburg on Montaigne: “The Wave and the Diagram: Depicting Life (and Death)”

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Ginzburg does a close analysis of the context in which the “Apology for Raymond Sebond,” the most famous of Montaigne’s Essays, emerged; this will pave the way to a new reading of the central, half-concealed argument of the “Apology.” The University of Pennsylvania is the joint producer of this series—through the Italian Studies section of the Department of Romance Languages,…

GLOBAL UPRISING: Afterlives of Uprising II: Borders, Mobility, Movements

Global Uprising is a year-long series that revolves around one question: how do we rethink collective action from our present?  Taking the current anti-racist uprising in America and the tenth anniversary of the Arab revolts as launching points for a set of workshops this series delves into the global coordinates of uprising today.  Read more about the series here. ————————————————————————…

Pierre Bayard in Conversation with François Noudelmann

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Pierre Bayard is best known to the general public for his essay "How to speak about books that we have not read?" (2007) where he criticizes the received idea that there is a clear border between reading and non-reading, and invites the reader to build a freer, less complex relationship with the literary text.

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The Zenithist Woman

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 and the Njegoš Endowment for Serbian Language and Culture for a presentation by Žarka Svirčev, Research Associate at the Institute for Literature…

The War Between the Wars: The Turk, the Homosexual, and Temporal Condensation in Postsocialist Armenia

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 Tamar Shirinian, Postdoctoral Teaching Associate in…

Film Screening: 143 Sahara Street

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Loosely based on the journalist and writer Chawki Amari’s travelog Nationale 1, Hassan Ferhani’s film creates such intimacy that we feel we are sitting next to the proprietor. Through Malika's exchanges with her customers, portrait of a woman, a landscape, and even a country emerges. One hundred virtual seats available.

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