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Yellow Star, Red Star: Holocaust Remembrance after Communism

NYU Politics Department 19 West 4th Street, Room 217, New York, New York

Yellow Star, Red Star asks why Holocaust memory continues to be fraught – ignored, appropriated, or obfuscated – throughout Eastern Europe, the principal location of the Holocaust. As part of European Union accession process, Jelena Subotić shows, East European states were required to adopt, participate in and contribute to the already established Western narrative of the Holocaust. This has created…

Symposium Misinformation, Media Manipulation, and Antisemitism

Italian Academy (Columbia) 1161 Amsterdam Avenue, New York City, NY, United States

Annual event marking Holocaust Remembrance Day Welcoming remarks: Barbara Faedda Executive Director, Italian Academy, Columbia Speakers: Ioana Literat Assistant Professor of Communication, Media and Learning Technologies Design, Teachers College, Columbia University “Youth political expression in online spaces” Rachel Deblinger (via Skype) Director of the Modern Endangered Archives Program at the UCLA Library; Co-Director of the Digital Jewish Studies Initiative at UC…

Family History Today: Jewish Students, Medical Globetrotters, and Persevering Women

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

At first, aspiring Jewish men from Galicia, Lithuania, and elsewhere ventured to Padua University to study medicine when other schools across Europe refused their admission. Then, from the end of the eighteenth century onward, Jews from Galicia attended Habsburg universities—from Lemberg/Lwów and Kraków, to Vienna, Pest and Prague. Many nineteenth-century Jewish medics influenced Galician life beyond their profession, advocating educational,…

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African Catholic: Decolonization and the Transformation of the Church – Elizabeth A. Foster

La Maison Française (NYU) 16 Washington Mews, New York City, NY, United States

African Catholic (Harvard University Press, 2019) by Elizabeth A. Foster examines how French imperialists and the Africans they ruled imagined the religious future of French sub-Saharan Africa in the years just before and after decolonization. The story encompasses the political transition to independence, Catholic contributions to black intellectual currents, and efforts to alter the church hierarchy to create an authentically “African” church. Elizabeth…

A Reading by Lev Rubinstein

Barnard College 3009 Broadway, New York, NY, New York City, NY, United States

Join for a reading by Lev Rubinstein, postmodernist Russian poet, prose-writer, and performer. The event will be preceded by a reception at 6:00pm and followed by a Q&A session after the reading. This event is part of the Super-NOS Russian Literary Festival, sponsored by the Harriman Institute, Barnard Slavic Department, Columbia Slavic Department, and the Mikhail Prokhorov Charitable Foundation. This a Russian-language…

Book Talk. Giuseppe Mazzini’s Young Europe and the Birth of Modern Nationalism in the Slavic World by Anna Procyk

Marshall D. Shulman Seminar Room 420 W 118th Street, #1219 International Affairs Building, New York City, NY, United States

Join the Ukrainian Studies Program and the East Central European Center at the Harriman Institute for a presentation by Anna Procyk of her book Giuseppe Mazzini’s Young Europe and the Birth of Modern Nationalism in the Slavic World (University of Toronto Press, 2019). Giuseppe Mazzini’s Young Europe and the Birth of Modern Nationalism in the Slavic World examines the intellectual currents in Eastern…

The Sower (Le Semeur)

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

To RSVP, please click here. Following the coup d’état of December 2, 1851, President Louis Napoleon Bonaparte was crowned Emperor Napoleon III, setting off a bloody campaign of repression to root out his opponents. In some regions, entire villages were cleared of their adult male population. Marine Francen’s ravishing first feature uses this historical context and the true story of…

Modernity, Fascism & Resistance

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

How Four Ethiopians Confronted, Maneuvered and Survived the Italo-Ethiopian War of 1935-1941 In collaboration with Centro Primo Levi NYU Department of History NYU Tisch School of the Arts NYU Department of Italian Studies NYU Center for the Study of African and the African Diaspora (CSAAD) Modernity, Fascism & Resistance How Four Ethiopians Confronted, Maneuvered and Survived the Italo-Ethiopian War of 1935-1941…

C& Projects X Ragga NYC: Planetary Connections

Goethe-Institut New York 30 Irving Place, New York City, NY, United States

Contemporary And (C&) is an art magazine and a dynamic space for issues and information on contemporary art from Africa and its global diaspora. Co-founded in 2013 by Julia Grosse and Yvette Mutumba and co-published by ifa, C& has gained a worldwide reach. In addition to the editorial content published online and in print, C& also runs multiple offline projects…

Lecture: The Aftermath of WWII in Czechoslovakia

Bohemian National Hall 321 E 73rd St., New York, NY, United States

Lecture by historian Vojtech Kyncl from the Institute of History of the Czech Academy of Sciences, with archival footage including unique shots from Pilsen, accompanied by recordings from Czech Radio, and followed by Q&A. The defeat of the Nazi Third Reich was an impatiently awaited result of the European nations’ struggle for freedom. The last weeks of the war at…