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1990s Prague Through American Eyes

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

Join us on a journey back in time to 1990s Prague with its decaying facades, unexplored commercial opportunities, and the cultural scene that was resurging after forty years of oppression. The neuroscientist and entrepreneur André Fenton, the speechwriter and strategic communications advisor for IBM Rob Lewis, and Maura Griffin, co-founder of The Globe Bookstore & Coffeehouse and a former Prague…

DESIRE, ENVY & THE JEWISH-CHRISTIAN BORDERZONE

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

Are the borders and boundaries between religions any more secure than those between nations? Working with major Jewish modernist writers such as Sholem Asch and Henry Roth, Maeera Shreiber (University of Utah) questions and examines our assumptions about religious differences and explores the high-voltage emotional consequences of trafficking in that volatile space of interfaith encounters she calls the Jewish-Christian Borderzone.…

$5

KUGEL AND FRIJOLES: LATINO JEWS IN THE UNITED STATES

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

How do Latino Jews identify? Can they choose their identity or is it assigned to them? What is it like to be both Latino and Jewish in the United States? Join author Laura Limonic in conversation with Eric Lach of The New Yorker about her fascinating book. Laura Limonic analyzes the changing construction of race and ethnicity in the United…

$10

What is Suffering Worth? Perspectives Across Disciplines on the Treatment of Victims

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

To RSVP, please click here. This interdisciplinary symposium explores a crucial but little-studied issue with growing importance today: what is the value of harm suffered by victims, whether of terrorism, crime or natural disasters. In law, politics, economics and public opinion, answers differ widely, and unequal treatment is the norm. Across the globe, victims evoke a range of feelings, from compassion verging…

BOOK TALK. ART AND COMMERCE IN LATE IMPERIAL RUSSIA: THE PEREDVIZHNIKI, A PARTNERSHIP OF ARTISTS BY ANDREY SHABANOV

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

Contemporaries of Dostoevsky and Tolstoy and predecessors of Diaghilev’s World of Art and the Russian avant-garde, the group of artists known as the Peredvizhniki was no less significant for Russian art and culture of the time. Including virtually every leading painter, notably key representatives of realism and nationalism such as Repin and Shishkin, the group was celebrated for its innovative…

European Seminar Series

Center for European and Mediterranean Studies (NYU) 53 Washington Square South, 3rd Floor East, New York, United States

Alexander Goerlach (Carnegie Council for Ethics and International Affairs): Homo Empathicus—How to Save Liberal Democarcy Located at the 3rd Floor East, Room 324.   From the Center for European and Mediterranean Studies at NYU. 

Blind Visions

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

Carlo Levi's 'Disegni della Cecità' Blind Visions Carlo Levi's Disegni della Cecità Curated by Nino Sottile Zumbo With the participation of Antonino Milicia On view through December 13 Mon-Fri 10-6   An exhibit of drawings by author and artist Carlo Levi (1902-1975), made during a period of temporary blindness caused by diabetes. In 1973, while bedridden, he had a special wooden…

Norway Celebration At the Frankfurt Book Fair

Scandinavia House 58 Park Avenue, New York City, NY, United States

The Frankfurt Book Fair celebrates Norway as the Guest of Honor at this program at Scandinavia House, presented by Margit Walsø and Oliver Møystad/NORLA. The event will include a panel on the “Success Criteria for Books in Translation,” followed by a reception. Panelists include Håkon Harket, Editor at Forlaget Press (Norway); Richard Stoiber, Editor at Matthes & Seitz (Germany); Peter Blackstock,…

THE WORLD OF AUFBAU: HITLER’S REFUGEES IN AMERICA

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

Aufbau—a German-language weekly published in New York and circulated worldwide—was an essential platform for the generation of refugees from Hitler and the displaced people and concentration camp survivors who arrived in the United States after the war. The publication served to link thousands of readers looking for friends and loved ones in every part of the world. In its pages…

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Film: Talks with TGM

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

Talks with TGM (2018). Director: Jakub Červenka, runtime: 80 min, In Czech with English subtitles. A special screening as a tribute to Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk. The film will be followed by a discussion with Masaryk's great-granddaughter Charlotta Kotik and Dagmar Hájková, a researcher from the Masaryk Institute and Archives of the Czech Academy of Sciences. Synopsis: On 26 September 1928,…