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SEARCHING FOR PATERSON ROOTS REMEMBERED AND FORGOTTEN IN HERITAGE TOURISM ABROAD

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

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…

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The Gospel of Wealth and the National Health: The Rockefeller Foundation and Social Medicine in Britain’s NHS, 1945-1960

The European Institute at Columbia University 420 W 118th St #1205, New York City, United States

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 POOR, KURT TUCHOLSKY, AND THE ORDEAL OF GERMANY

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

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…

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THE RUSSIAN-SPEAKING COMMUNITY AND THE TRUMP PRESIDENCY

Rennert Hall, Kraft Center 606 West 115th Street, New York, NY, United States

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

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

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,…

WeAreLeonardo

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

Da Vinci as a Young Man A presentation of WeAreLeonardo , a project by Italian mixed-media artist Vittoria Chierici focused on visually portraying Leonardo Da Vinci as a young man, on the occasion of the 500th anniversary of his death. Chierici will take the audience on a journey by virtually leaping into her photojournalistic suitcase, the final work that contains…

Prepositional Existence, or Perhaps Only a Preposition Can Save Us – Irving Goh

La Maison Française (NYU) 16 Washington Mews, New York City, NY, United States

Irving Goh's talk will center around the preposition “to.” "Through conceptual phrases that mobilize that very preposition, namely Levinas’s “face to face,” Derrida’s democracy-, justice-, and hospitality- “to-come,” Irigaray’s I love toyou,” and Nancy’s “being-to,” I will draw out the preposition’s ontological, ethical, and political stakes. That is important today for our contemporary world, which, on the one hand, is so globally connected, and…

Mads Tolling & Jacob Fischer: A Tribute to Svend Asmussen

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

Danish jazz violinist Svend Asmussen, known worldwide as  “The Fiddling Viking,” was greatly loved throughout Scandinavia. From the age of 15 until Asmussen’s death last year, San Francisco-based Danish violinist Mads Tolling kept in frequent contact with the older musician, who counseled him on his early musical training. Asmussen later donated a large chunk of his music collection to Mads, including…

Dante and… Opera

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

Adventures in Italian Opera with Fred Plotkin / Dante and... Casa Italiana's two popular series Adventures in Italian Opera with Fred Plotkin and Dante and... meet up for their first event of the season, focusing on Dante's presence in the world of opera (and classical music in general). Fred Plotkin will be leading a conversation with American conductor Michael Hurshell, Artistic Director…

The Nordic Model: Norway’s Penal Reform

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

In this new series, speakers at Scandinavia House will explore the reasons why Nordic countries lead surveys of societies with high levels of trust, happiness, gender equality, and quality of life. By many measures, these countries are among the most successful societies worldwide. In these lectures, we’ll look at how individual countries have successfully addressed certain issues that confront all societies.…