For all their unquestionable importance, the Holocaust and the founding of the State of Israel now loom so large in modern Jewish history that we have mostly lost sight of the fact that they are only part of—and indeed reactions to—the central event of that history: emancipation. In his new book and in this lecture, David Sorkin (Yale) seeks to…
Featuring Özden Mercan, Bilkent Üniversitesi The European History & Politics Workshop is supported by the European Institute at Columbia University. The workshop will meet on select Mondays over the course of the academic year at Columbia University (Philosophy 302) from 12:00pm-1:30pm. Participants will discuss pre-circulated work-in-progress over a light lunch. Please note that these workshops are by invitation only. If you…
Eleanor Foa Dienstag in conversation with Meryl Gordon. In post-World War II America, who ever heard of an Italian Jew? No one. Journalist and author Eleanor Foa, born in Italy, raised in America, daughter of a brilliant father whose Italian-Jewish roots trace back to 16th-century printers, was proud of her exotic roots, yet knew little about her lineage. In 2006,…
Eleanor Foa Dienstag in conversation with Meryl Gordon. In post-World War II America, who ever heard of an Italian Jew? No one. Journalist and author Eleanor Foa, born in Italy, raised in America, daughter of a brilliant father whose Italian-Jewish roots trace back to 16th-century printers, was proud of her exotic roots, yet knew little about her lineage. In 2006, accompanied by…
Deutsches Haus at NYU and the Consulate General of the Federal Republic of Germany in New York present a screening of the DW documentary "Digital Warriors: Women Changing the World" and a conversation among the activists Masih Alinejad and Aissata Camara, and moderated by Radha Hegde, Professor of Media, Culture, and Communication at NYU. The conversation will focus on the evolution…
William Egginton, Johns Hopkins University A lecture by William Egginton, Johns Hopkins University In the early twentieth century Albert Einstein discovered that time could stretch and space bend, and a multi-dimensional mathematics would eventually be needed to describe the cosmos that his physics predicted. In this lecture, Professor Egginton shows how, by confronting some of the greatest metaphysical problems of…
As part of the European Seminar Series, Judith R. Walkowitz will discuss Troubling Terms in the Sex Trade. All sessions will take place at the Center for European and Mediterranean Studies, King Juan Carlos I of Spain Center, 3rd Floor East, Room 324, 53 Washington Square South 3rd Floor East, New York, NY 10012. Light fare will be served.
Judith R. Walkowitz (Johns Hopkins University): Troubling Terms in the Sex Trade: from Prostitution to Sex Work, 1970-2000 From the Center for European and Mediterranean Studies.
December 10—11, 2019 Tuesday, December 10 Silver Center for Arts & Science 32 Waverly Place Room 101A and Silverstein Lounge New York, NY 10003 Wednesday, December 11 Kimmel Center 60 Washington Square South Room 905/907 New York, NY 10012 Sponsored by the Consulate General of the Federal Republic of Germany, New York in collaboration with NYU's Center for European and…
Federico Rampini's "Quando inizia la nostra storia" Quando inizia la nostra storia Le grandi svolte del passato che hanno disegnato il mondo in cui viviamo (2018, Mondadori) by Federico Rampini The author and journalist in conversation with Ruth Ben-Ghiat (NYU) History is a life coach: we urgently need to rediscover it as our guide. In this book, Federico Rampini plays…