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Concert: Spring Musicale, 2020 Edition

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

The delightful tradition of Sunday afternoon musicales continues with the tenth annual Spring Musicale. Featuring young talent as well as seasoned musicians, the program opens with a movement from Antonin Dvorak’s engaging first piano trio, performed by Juilliard pre-college students. The African-American spiritual “Deep River” follows, in an arrangement by Jascha Heifetz, played by violinist Lilit Gampel. Quartet 131 presents…

Misremembering Ivan Petrovich Pavlov: How and Why His Story Is So Fallacious

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

Please join us for a talk by Darryl B. Hill, Professor at the College of Staten Island and The Graduate Center, City University of New York. The historical record of the famous Russian physiologist Ivan P. Pavlov is filled with errors. Controversies center on arguments about his American visit, avoidance of his controversial support of research on children, the inaccurate portrayal…

Jewish Lives Houdini: The Elusive American

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

He was the greatest escape artist who ever lived. Famous for jumping handcuffed off bridges, dangling upside down in a straitjacket, and breaking out of jails all over America and Europe, Harry Houdini was a death-defying, self-liberating, American superhero. Born Erik Weisz, he was also the son of a rabbi and a Jewish immigrant who escaped his impoverished childhood thanks…

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Online Event | KJCC Poetry Series | No Budu Please, a bilingual reading with Wingston González and Urayoán Noel

Venue: https://nyu.zoom.us/j/955448448 In Spanish KJCC POETRY SERIES CURATED BY LILA ZEMBORAIN: No Budu Please, a bilingual reading by Wingston González and his translator Urayoán Noel. Presented by Lila Zemborain. This event will be held in Zoom. Meeting ID: 955 448 448 Link: https://nyu.zoom.us/j/955448448 Wingston González is a text producer and member of the collective / literary show La Retaguardia. In…

Russian Internet Memes: The Short Course (with Eliot Borenstein, Fridays at 2 EST)

We are excited to announce a new weekly series of 15-minute informal virtual Zoom lectures about memes and viral video on the Russian Internet, presented by our very own Eliot Borenstein. Each lecture will be followed by a moderated, on-line discussion, as well as just more general chat for anyone who feels like staying on-line. The lecture portion will subsequently be uploaded to…

Virtual Event – “We Will Carry the Legless and Feed the Armless”: The Ukrainian Community and Disabled Veterans of the Galician Army

This event will be held virtually and streamed on the Harriman Institute's Facebook page via Facebook Live. There will be no in-person event. Please join the Ukrainian Studies Program at the Harriman Institute for a lecture by Oksana Vynnyk (University of Alberta, Edmonton). After World War I, the majority of Western European, Central European and North American countries established social…

Epidemics, Disease, and Plagues in Jewish History and Memory — Live on Zoom

Epidemic diseases usually strike humans indiscriminately. Yet the social and cultural responses to them can often exacerbate the differences that set people apart. The plague first broke out in Europe in 1348, but it recurred every generation, and was a feature of daily, social, and cultural life. For Jews, outbreaks of disease carried a double threat: one biological, the other…

Online — Iceland’s Response to the Coronavirus With Dr. Gudrun Aspelund

Zoom

THU—April 23—3 PM EST American-Scandinavian Foundation invites you to an online discussion with Dr. Gudrun Aspelund, Head Physician at Centre for Health Security and Communicable Disease Control at the Directorate of Health in Iceland, regarding the nation’s response to the coronavirus. With ASF President Edward Gallagher as moderator, Dr. Aspelund will discuss measures that Iceland has taken to prevent the…

Germany, Corona, and the State of Exception

Deutsches Haus at NYU and NYU's Center for European and Mediterranean Studies present "Germany, Corona, and the State of Exception," a conversation among Christiane Lemke, Professor of Political Science at the Leibniz Universität Hannover; Claus Leggewie, Ludwig Boerne Professor at the University of Giessen; and Christian Martin, current Max Weber Chair in German and European Studies at NYU. To comply with social…

VIRTUAL EVENT. Ukraine and the Historically Driven Supply-Side Theory of Participation in Religion

This event will be held virtually as a Zoom webinar as well as on our Facebook page via Facebook Live. There will be no in-person event. Click here at 12pm to join the Zoom webinar, or tune in on the Harriman Institute's Facebook page. Please join the Program on U.S.-Russia Relations at the Harriman Institute for a presentation by Tymofii Brik, Assistant Professor at the Kyiv…