RSVP here. The world is in the midst of a storm that has shaped the history of modernity along a double fracture: on the one hand, an environmental fracture driven by a technocratic and capitalist civilization that led to the ongoing devastation of the Earth’s ecosystems and its human and non-human communities and, on the other, a colonial fracture instilled…

2022 marks the third time in the last twenty years that a candidate of the far right has advanced to the second round of presidential elections. Many expect this contest between Emmanuel Macron and Marine Le Pen to be closer than the last, noting the continued trend toward the extremes in French domestic politics and in Europe more generally. As…

GLOBAL UPRISINGS CONFERENCE NYU’s Kevorkian Center is hosting an in-person two-day conference, from April 21-22, to cap off our Global Uprising series. In Fall 2020, we took the George Floyd Uprising and the ten-year anniversary of the start of the Arab Revolts as our launching points for 14 conversational sessions across the academic year that brought together dozens of thinkers, activists, artists, and…

This event will take place at 42 Washington Mews. This semester, according to NYU guidelines, in-person events will be open to NYU students, staff, and faculty only. Daily Covid-19 Screeners will be checked at the door. Members of NYU should RSVP here. NYU's Department of German and and Deutsches Haus at NYU present "Fantasmical Anatomies: A Performative Lecture in Dialogue" by…

About the event: Drawing on her 2021 James Ford Lectures, Jane Ohlmeyer re-examines Ireland’s role in empire through the lens of early modernity. In this lecture, she explores four interconnected themes. First, as England’s first colony, Ireland formed an integral part of the English imperial system. Second, as well as being colonized the Irish operated as active colonists in the English and…

RSVP here. “A far-reaching meditation on the relationship between individual and society”, Le joli mai is a portrait of Paris and Parisians shot during May 1962. It is a film with several thousand actors including a poet, a student, an owl, a housewife, a stockbroker, a competitive dancer, two lovers, General de Gaulle and several cats. Filmed just after the…