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New Political Economies of the French Empire, 19th and 20th centuries

La Maison Française (Columbia) Buell Hall, 515 West 116th Street, New York City, NY, United States

To RSVP, please click here. While the cultural, political, legal and social aspects of French colonialism have received much attention over the past 30 years, the political economy of the French colonial empire has been largely neglected. This conference will bring together a new generation of historians and economists whose work engages with the nature and workings of French colonial…

The Damned Gift of Living: Vasilii Shukshin and the Dying Peasant

Jordan Center for the Advanced Study of Russia 19 University Place, 2nd Floor, New York City, NY, United States

Join on Friday, February 28 for a colloquium with Joy Neumeyer, PhD Candidate in History at the University of California, Berkeley. This event is a workshop with a pre-circulated paper. Please contact Joy Neumeyer (joy.neumeyer@berkeley.edu) or Anne Lounsbery (al108@nyu.edu) for a copy. Vasilii Shukshin rose from a Siberian village to become one of the late Soviet Union’s most celebrated talents.…

Women Buy Sex Too: Chippendales and the Rise of the Gigolo with Hallie Lieberman

Schermerhorn Irwgs Seminar Room, Columbia University, 1200 Amsterdam Ave, New York, NY, United States

In 1979, near the height of second-wave feminism, a thirty-one-year old Indian immigrant started one of the first male strip clubs for women in Los Angeles. Within a few years The Chippendales spread to New York, and a touring show brought the oiled, muscled studs to fly-over country. During the 1970s and 1980s, the Chippendales were more than mere entertainment:…

Russian Formalism: The Theory of Literary Estrangement and the Estrangement of Social Practices

International Affairs Building Columbia

Join us for a talk with Ilya Kalinin, Associate Professor at Saint Petersburg State University (Department of Liberal Arts and Sciences), and Associate Professor at the National Research University Higher School of Economics. Radical socio-cultural transformation constituted the very material and style, the texture and technique, of Russian Formalism. Estrangement, shift, deformation, struggle between old and new genres, mutual antagonism of successive literary…

“Short of Gefriertrocknung. Diesseits von Lyophilia:” A Dialogue between Ann Cotten and Ulrich Baer

Deutsches Haus NYU 42 Washington Mews, New York City, NY, United States

Deutsches Haus at NYU and the NYU Department of German present an evening with Ann Cotten, DAAD Chair for Contemporary Poetics at the NYU Department of German, and Ulrich Baer, University Professor at NYU. About the event: Ann Cotten will offer a short introduction to her varied works of theory, poetry, and prose in German, as well as the small…

Inspired by Alfred Jarry – Performance at the Morgan

The Morgan Library 225 Madison Avenue, New York, NY, United States

Performances by DJ Spooky, Tony Torn, Julie Atlas Muz, and special guests Celebrate Jarry’s influence on art and ideas in an evening of performances inspired by his work. Tony Torn and Julie Atlas Muz, veteran interpreters of Ubu roi, will perform excerpts from Jarry's play. The evening also features a sound-and-word collaboration between multimedia artist DJ Spooky and special guests, followed by DJ Spooky’s live…

$25

New York International Children’s Film Festival Multiple Screenings

Scandinavia House 58 Park Avenue, New York City, NY, United States

Explore the world without leaving New York! The New York International Children’s Film Festival takes place February 21 through March 15, 2020 throughout New York City, with 10 screenings at Scandinavia House. For complete lineup and tickets visit nyicff.org/tickets. Fill out a ballot at every screening, and your votes will determine the Festival award winners. TOO FAR AWAY SAT—February 29—12:30 PM…

$14

“Born After. Reckoning with the German Past”

Deutsches Haus NYU 42 Washington Mews, New York City, NY, United States

Deutsches Haus at NYU presents a reading and talk by Angelika Bammer, Associate Professor of Comparative Literature at Emory University, on the issues raised in her memoir "Born After: Reckoning with the German Past" (Bloomsbury, 2019). The book grapples with the legacies of German and Nazi history, and reflects on the relationship between history and memory through Angelika Bammer's personal…

Personal Effects

Casa Italiana Zerilli-Marimò (NYU) 24 West 12th Street, New York City, NY, United States

A Celebration of the Life and Work of Louise DeSalvo A Celebration of the Life and Work of Louise DeSalvo (1942-2018) On the occasion of the publication of the paperback edition of Personal Effects Essays on Memoir, Teaching, and Culture in the Work of Louise DeSalvo (2019, Fordham University Press) Panelists: Moderator: Edvige Giunta, New Jersey City University Emily Bernard,…

The Odyssey of an Apple Thief

Center for Jewish History 15 W. 16th Street, New York City, NY, United States

In his autobiography The Odyssey of An Apple Thief, Moishe Rozenbaumas takes us through his fascinating life, starting with his boyhood in pre-war Lithuania, with a focus on the most impoverished part of the Jewish population, rarely accounted for in the books written by survivors after the war. Join us for an event celebrating the release of a new English…