At the first edition of Science Café, Dagmar Hájková, a researcher who specializes in Czech history of the first half of the 20th century, will present the current research from the Masaryk Institute and Archives of the Czech Academy of Sciences focused on Tomas Garrigue Masaryk and his presence. Dagmar Hájková is a senior researcher in Masaryk Institute and Archive…
Irish Writers in the Irish American Press (University of Massachusetts Press, 2018) spans the period from Oscar Wilde’s 1882 American lecture tour to the months following JFK’s assassination and covers the century in which Irish American identity was shaped by immigration, religion, politics, and economic advancement. Through a close engagement with Irish American periodicals, Dr. Stephen Butler offers a more nuanced…
This event will recur Every Day until Sep. 14, 2019 French theater director and visual artist Philippe Quesne invites you into a parallel universe where there are no humans and no words. In this mysterious underground world, larger-than-life moles are not solitary creatures, but the architects of something between a utopian community and a punk rock band. “Mr. Quesne specializes in finding…
This workshop is organized by the ScienceCampus “Eastern Europe – Global Area” (EEGA), a collaborative research network spanning over three German states, funded by the Leibniz Association (https://www.leibniz-gemeinschaft.de/en/). EEGA focuses on Eastern Europe’s changing role in current and historical processes of globalization (www.leibniz-eega.de). The event is meant to present recent findings of this network and to engage in a debate…
As part of the CALA Fall 2019 film series "Fragile Earth: Environmental Films Around the World,” the NYU Center for Applied Liberal Arts and Deutsches Haus at NYU present a screening of the documentary film "Erde" ("Earth"), 2019, directed by Nikolaus Geyrhalter. The introduction will be held by Nandini Thiyagarajan. About the film: Several billion tons of earth are moved annually by humans - with…
The extended Walkowitz family arrived in Paterson from Lodz, Poland as early as 1910. It was a Jewish World of Yiddishkeit in which Daniel Walkowitz was raised. As a radical student activist in the late 1950s and 1960s, he imagined himself walking in the footsteps of his Paterson grandparents who fought to improve the living and working conditions in the…
Featuring Andrew Seaton (New York University). The European History & Politics Workshop is supported by the European Institute at Columbia University. The workshop will meet on select Mondays over the course of the academic year at Columbia University (Philosophy 302) from 12:00pm-1:30pm. Participants will discuss pre-circulated work-in-progress over a light lunch. Please note that these workshops are by invitation only.…
Harold L. Poor’s biography of Kurt Tucholsky is the most important and thorough work on the famed German-Jewish author in English: a still unmatched labor of love by the Rutgers history professor. For this book—originally published as Kurt Tucholsky and the Ordeal of Germany 1914–1935 in 1968, Poor spent years of research. He also visited Tucholsky’s widow Mary Gerold in her home…
A panel discussion featuring Steven Kaplan, host of the radio and TV show "Tolkovishche with Seva Kaplan" and Rafael Shimunov, an artist an activist from Queens, moderated by Professor Anna Katsnelson. The majority of Russian-speaking immigrants in the U.S. are Republican-leaning. According to U.S. News and World Report, 70% to 75% of Russian and Ukrainian immigrants voted for Republican candidates in the 2008 and…
Expanding the World of Literature: Tash Aw, in conversation with Mark Mazower To RSVP, please click here. How hard is it to remain within our comfort zones when we read and write? How does the writer’s gaze remain unwittingly locked by long-established conventions? As the world’s economic power bases have begun to shift away from Western nations of the past few decades,…