The Benin Bronzes were looted in 1897 from the Royal Palace of Benin City during a punitive expedition amid the British colonial expansion into West Africa. Their status is now central to the worldwide discussion about restitution claims and the return of cultural objects to their place of origin. At stake is what will become of these thousands of pieces…
Part of Carnegie Hall’s “Voices of Hope: Artists in Times of Oppression” festival Connor Chee: Navajo Vocable no. 9 (2014) Louis Ballard: Four American Indian Piano Preludes (1968) Margaret Bonds: Troubled Waters (1967) Dawn Avery: Onekha’shòn:a (The Waters; 2009) * Barbara Croall: Mazhenaabikiniganing Aagawong (Inscription Rock; 2008) * Talib Rasul Hakim: A Piano Piece in Six Sections (1965) Hakim: Sound-Gone (1967) Michael Begay: Adéihozhdìlzin (Know who you are; 2021) World Premiere * Brent Michael Davids: Testament of Atom (2008) World Premiere * Arthur Cunningham: selections from Harlem…
A workshop on populism and foreign policy. Apr. 9 Onlinehttps://bit.ly/3r9VXTk 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…
During the First World War, Russia’s government and public organization sent sick and wounded soldiers to various health resorts across the empire. The ideal aim of this project was to heal the combatants with the help of the bountiful nature of the homeland. In this enterprise, the treatment of tuberculous soldiers in the sanatorium occupied a special place. It had…
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 us for a meeting of the Russian Film Club with speakers Tatiana Mikhailova (Columbia), Elena Prokhorova (William & Mary), and Sasha Prokhorov (William & Mary). Moderated by Daria Ezerova (Harriman Institute) and Mark…
This year-long series starts from a simple premise: What does it look like to think, engage, and do research in this digital age? This is not a call for researchers to simply produce digital outputs - but we live in an ever-increasingly digital world. In order to better activate our scholarship, and to grasp the terrain in which our research…
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…
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 East Central European Center at the Harriman Institute for a presentation by Gábor Dobó, literary historian and researcher at the Kassák Museum – Petőfi Literary Museum, Budapest. This…
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 East Central European Center at the Harriman Institute for a presentation by Gábor Dobó, literary historian and researcher at the Kassák Museum – Petőfi Literary Museum, Budapest. This…
What is a national writer? Individual creator and recognized representative of a collective identity, he is the embodiment of an image of the nation through his work and through his person between literature and politics. In The Factory of the National Writer. Between literature and politics, Anne-Marie Thiesse went in search of this eminent figure, obvious, and of definition however uncertain. “Literary nation” among all,…
