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 Marta Dyczok, Andriy Kulykov, and Oksana Semerchuk about the book Ukraine Calling: A Kaleidoscope from…
For the second installment of “Women, Feminists, and Other Poets: A Series of Readings and Conversations,” the Jordan Center will host Oksana Vasyakina, Elena Fanailova, and Stephanie Sandler. This April, the Jordan Center will host 6 contemporary Russian poets for a series of readings and conversations. With a view to the recent anthology F-Letter: New Russian Feminist Poetry (isolarii, 2020), this series probes…
Tristan Garcia est né en 1981 à Toulouse. Auteur de plusieurs romans parus aux éditions Gallimard, il poursuit sa recherche en métaphysique (Forme et objet, PUF, 2011), tout en publiant des essais portant aussi bien sur l'influence de l'électricité sur notre conception de la vie, que la politique des identités (Nous, Grasset, 2016), l'éthique animale (Nous, animaux et humains, F.…
Irish crime fiction, long present on international bestseller lists, has been knocking on the door of the academy for a decade. With a wide range of scholars addressing some of the most essential Irish detective writing, Guilt Rules All confirms that this genre has arrived. The essays collected here connect their immediate subjects—contemporary Irish crime writers—to Irish culture, literature, and history.
A FULL LENGTH PLAY BY LUIS H. FRANCIA April 25-27 (Sunday-Tuesday) Live stream on facebook.com/kjccnyu/live Black Henry explores the profound consequences of a clash of cultures, when in 1521 Ferdinand Magellan and three Spanish ships make landfall in the Philippines. His Malay slave, Enrique, acts as the go-between the conquistadors and the islanders. However, Magellan’s disastrous attempt to colonize the…
The spring 2021 lecture Series on Global '79 explores the global processes which shaped the making of the Iranian revolution. The revolution’s global character cannot be understood except in terms of a circulatory system of flows of people and ideas between Iran, the West, Middle East, Asia, and those in Latin America. The invited speakers and discussants will highlight the multiplicity of…
We launched our new series on contemporary writing in 2018. Led by a prominent figure in French culture, we invite four writers every year in order to reflect and discuss on a chosen theme. These interviews will each take place on a Monday night; the following day, the invited authors will give public lectures, and their works will be integrated…
Please join us for another Kevorkian Center Alumni Professional Development Event. This event is open to current NYU students and recent alumni. We will be joined at this event by alumni from the Kevorkian Center's Masters in Near Eastern Studies program who have gone on to become lawyers, and are practicing in fields such as immigration, labor, and international law.…
Deutsches Haus at NYU präsentiert ein Gespräch über das neue Buch von Alexander Osang, Fast hell (, Aufbau Verlag, 2021), zwischen dem Autor und der Journalistin Jana Hensel. ***Please note that this conversation will be held in German***