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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…

Legacy of Blood: Jews, Pogroms, and Ritual Murder in the Lands of the Soviets

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

The most extreme legacies of tsarist antisemitism were pogroms and blood libels. These events were central to the Jewish experience in late tsarist Russia, the only country with widespread anti-Jewish violence in the early twentieth century. After the Soviets came to power, they claimed that they had eliminated both these phenomena. In her new revelatory book, Legacy of Blood: Jews,…

Music concert by Dylan DelGuidice (guitar) and Joseph Jordan (piano)

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

To RSVP, please click here. This guitar and piano duo will perform pieces by Olivier Messiaen, Tristan Murail, Pierre Boulez, and Maurice Ravel. Presented as part of the Music Performance Program, by the Department of Music and Maison Française. Program : "Set 1" -  Olivier Messiaen - “L’alouette Lulu” from Catalogue d’Oiseaux Tristan Murail - Les Travaux et les Jours III…

“Winterlust:” An Evening with Bernd Brunner and Tess Lewis

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

Deutsches Haus at NYU presents a reading by the author Bernd Brunner from his new book, Winterlust: Finding Beauty in the Fiercest Season, (in a translation by Mary Catherine Lawler) followed by a conversation with the writer and translator, Tess Lewis. In Winterlust, Bernd Brunner draws on literature and art, science and history, modern pastimes and time-honored traditions to explore…