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 and the Njegoš Endowment for Serbian Language and Culture for a presentation by Žarka Svirčev, Research Associate at the Institute for Literature…
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 an event in the Minority Inclusion and Exclusion in Soviet and Post-Communist Societies Speaker Series, a discussion with Tamar Shirinian, Postdoctoral Teaching Associate in…
Loosely based on the journalist and writer Chawki Amari’s travelog Nationale 1, Hassan Ferhani’s film creates such intimacy that we feel we are sitting next to the proprietor. Through Malika's exchanges with her customers, portrait of a woman, a landscape, and even a country emerges. One hundred virtual seats available.
Please join the Kevorkian Center for another Alumni Professional Development Event. We will be joined by two alumni, Adem Carroll, an activist and organizer with Burma Muslims in New York City and Cyrus Roedel, a podcaster and community organizer now based in Tunisia. Our guests will speak about their time at the Kevorkian Center, how it set up their career…
In the fourth program of the series, Bernice Lerner, author of All the Horrors of War: A Jewish Girl, a British Doctor and the Liberation of Bergen-Belsen (Johns Hopkins, 2020) and Susan Jacobowitz, author of the manuscript Far from Childhood: A Holocaust Memoir, discuss with Natalia Aleksiun their parents' interrupted childhoods during the Holocaust in the Carpathian Mountains. The authors will reflect on their work uncovering the life trajectories…
This program will be held virtually on Zoom and YouTube Live. There will be no in-person event. See program below for registration and live stream links. Please join the Harriman Institute at Columbia University and the Kupferberg Holocaust Center at Queensborough Community College, CUNY for a conference on the state of Roma human rights in the Balkans. The aim of this…
Deutsches Haus at NYU and the Consulate General of Germany New York present a moderated panel discussion among Angelika Bammer, Andrew Gross, Susanne Rohr, Cornelius Schwalm, and James Young in the context of the recent publication of Susanne Rohr’s new book, Von Grauen und Glamour: Repräsentationen des Holocaust in den USA und Deutschland .
Please join us as Julie Metz engages in conversation with Ariana Neumann, who in similar fashion wrote about her family's past as Jews living in Prague at the time of the Nazi occupation. Both women in their work bring to light answers to questions that they had learned, growing up in their families, were not to be asked.
Born in 1978, Pierre Vesperini is a Researcher at the CNRS with a HDR (Habilitation à Diriger des Recherches = Accreditation to Supervise Research). An alumnus of the École normale supérieure de la rue d’Ulm and the École française de Rome, he authored four books: La philosophia et ses pratiques d’Ennius à Cicéron (2012) ; Droiture et mélancolie. Sur les écrits de Marc Aurèle (2016) ;…
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 Fellow Dr. Hadas Aron. Populists mobilize against elites, protest against…