Julie Metz and Ariana Neumann in Conversation

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Please join us as Julie Metz engages in conversation with Ariana Neumann, who in similar fashion wrote about her family's past as Jews living in Prague at the time of the Nazi occupation. Both women in their work bring to light answers to questions that they had learned, growing up in their families, were not to be asked.

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20/21 Philosophers: Pierre Vesperini

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Born in 1978, Pierre Vesperini is a Researcher at the CNRS with a HDR (Habilitation à Diriger des Recherches = Accreditation to Supervise Research). An alumnus of the École normale supérieure de la rue d’Ulm and the École française de Rome, he authored four books: La philosophia et ses pratiques d’Ennius à Cicéron (2012) ; Droiture et mélancolie. Sur les écrits de Marc Aurèle (2016) ;…

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Are Populists Changing World Politics? A Workshop on Populism and Foreign Policy

Join us for “Are Populists Changing World Politics? A Workshop on Populism and Foreign Policy”, co-hosted by the NYU Jordan Center for the Advanced Study of Russia and the NYU Center for European and Mediterranean Studies (CEMS), and organized by Jordan Center Visiting Scholar Dr. Emily Holland and CEMS Faculty Fellow Dr. Hadas Aron. Populists mobilize against elites, protest against…

The Original Maidan: Revisiting the Revolution on the Granite in Comparative Perspective

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 Ukrainian Studies Program at the Harriman Institute for a presentation by Olga Onuch (University of Manchester), with a discussion moderated by Mark Andryczyk (Harriman Institute). The “Revolution on…

Political Convicts: Transnational Actors of the Risorgimento

Presenter: Elena Bacchin (Università Ca’ Foscari, Venice & Columbia University, Marie Curie Global Fellow) Discussant: Mark Mazower (Columbia University) Moderator: Konstantina Zanou (Columbia University) Political Convicts: Transnational Actors of the Risorgimento During the Risorgimento, numerous Italian intellectuals, patriots, and political activists spent parts of their lives in prison and built around this experience an identity based on the concepts of sacrifice and martyrdom. Focusing on the…

Silsila: FIRST IMPRESSIONS: PRINT MEDIA IN THE MODERN ISLAMIC WORLD

Part of the Silsila Spring 2021 Lecture Series, Translations Link to Register here.   The first examples of print in the Islamic world, in the form of block print amulets and scrolls, date to the tenth century. From those early productions until the present, various printing technologies and practices have played an important role in Islamic art and visual culture, particularly during the…

A Slavic Celebration: Russian Program

All concerts are first come, first served with limited capacity due to COVID-19 restrictions. Scroll down for more information about the program. The Harriman Institute is pleased to present the first in a series of three concerts by internationally acclaimed organist and recording artist Gail Archer. Part of the series A Slavic Celebration: Trio of Gail Archer Concerts, her performance…

L’Atelier des Enfants with Aurore Petit

Join us for a morning of reading and activities inspired by Aurore Petit’s Une Maman c’est comme une maison (A Mother is like a Nest). The reading will be followed by an interactive collective workshop led by Aurore Petit on Zoom. A mom is like a nest; a mom is like a vehicle; a mom is like a fountain…In the…

A Conversation in French about 143 ‘Rue du Dèsert’

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Director Hassen Ferhani will be in conversation in French about his documentary film 143 rue du désert (2019) with Madeleine Dobie. This event, held in conjunction with the course "Remapping Algeria", is open to the public. The Columbia Maison Française is presenting 143 rue du désert online from April 7 and April 15. There are only 100 virtual seats available. For more information about the film, and…

20/21 Philosophers: Isabelle Queval

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Isabelle Queval is a university professor in education and training at INSHEA-Université Paris Lumières and director of Grhapes (Research group on disability, accessibility and educational and school practices - UR 7287). Former high-level athlete (tennis), associate of philosophy, she devoted her thesis to "a philosophical history of the notion of surpassing oneself".

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