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Rehearsal for Truth 2019: Hungarian Acacia (Hungary)

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

PRESENTATION OF PERFORMANCE PROJECTS, DISCUSSION. Engaging, behind-the-scenes glimpse at "Hungarian Acacia" and other performance projects conceived to address the public discourse in Hungary in a satirical way. Artists-directors Kristof Kelemen and Bence Gyorgy Palinkas will discuss their creative practice and working methods and show footage of Hungarian Acacia iterated as a live event as well as an onstage re-enactment of…

Studium Teatralne’s „Truth”

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

directed by Piotr Borowski at the REHEARSAL FOR TRUTH Theater Festival Saturday, September 28, 2019 7:30 p.m. Bohemian National Hall 321 East 73rd Street New York, NY 10021 FREE and open to the public. Seats are limited, on first come, first served basis. Reserve your seat online at eventbrite. The production will be performed in Polish with English subtitles. There…

Rehearsal for Truth 2019: Truth (Poland)

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

PLAY, TALKBACK, AND AFTERPARTY. Join us to experience TRUTH, an intriguing play by Piotr Borowski. TRUTH exposes a lack thereof: an existence fraught with the absence of the sacred, devoid of any mystery, purpose or metaphysical worth. While the main character of TRUTH is not present, the scene is preoccupied with striving for knowledge and new creation, as well as…

BOOK TALK. BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA’S FOREIGN POLICY SINCE INDEPENDENCE

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

A book talk with Jasmin Hasićand Dženeta Karabegović, editors of the new volume Bosnia and Herzegovina’s Foreign Policy Since Independence(Palgrave Macmillan, March 2019). This book is the first to provide a comprehensive and systematic analysis of the foreign policy of Bosnia and Herzegovina, a post-conflict country with an active agency in international affairs. Bridging academic and policy debates, the book summarizes and further examines…

Book Talk: The Politics of Armenian Migration to North America 1885-1915 w/ David Gutman

Hagop Kevorkian Center 255 Sullivan Street, New York City, NY, United States

Prof. Gutman's book tells the story of Armenian migration to North America in the late Ottoman period, and Istanbul’s efforts to prevent it. It shows how, just as in the present, migrants in the late 19th and early 20th centuries were forced to travel through clandestine smuggling networks, frustrating the enforcement of the ban on migration. Further, migrants who attempted…

To Join the EU or Not—Europe Must Decide: Drift and Unrest Dominates Western Balkans

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

A roundtable discussion moderated by Professor Tanya Domi (Columbia/SIPA). It is a precipitous moment in Balkan history. The European Union is weighing the accession candidacies of North Macedonia and Albania, with decisions pending before the German Bundestag that are likely to influence outcomes in Brussels. The negotiations for the Serbia-Kosovo agreement have been fraught with tension for months, and are currently at a standstill. Bosnia had yet…

Talk by Roger Frie (author of Not in my Family): “Legacies of Perpetration: Confronting my Family’s Nazi Past.”

Deutsches Haus Columbia 420 West 116th Street, New York City, NY, United States

"What does it mean to discover an unspoken Nazi past in your family? In a moment defined by chance and circumstance, I learned of my German grandfather’s support for the Nazi regime, a fact that had never been openly talked about. Using my family’s struggle with memory as a site of inquiry, I examine the process of remembering, its transmission,…

Proust in Black

Albertine 972 5th Avenue, New York, NY, United States

Join us for a discussion on Proust in Black (Proust au Noir), an essay/fictional work by Fanny Daubigny. Moderated by professor and author Caroline Weber. In Proust in Black, the City of Angels turns into a theater of the Faubourg Saint-Germain and A la recherche du temps perdu becomes a noir novel. Albertine is a Femme Fatale and Marcel a detective down on his…

How Durable Is Russia’s Political System? Examining the Consequences of 2019’S Regional Elections

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

A talk with political scientist Yana Gorokhovskaia. Regional and local elections in Russia are marked by low voter turnout and typically attract little attention at home and abroad. This summer, however, an election for seats in a rubber-stamp regional legislature drew over 50,000 protesters to the streets, resulted in 2,500 detentions, and ended with embarrassing losses for pro-regime United Russia…

The Influence of Rock Music on Social and Political Changes in Russia, 1980s-Present

Jordan Center for the Advanced Study of Russia 19 University Place, 2nd Floor, New York City, NY, United States

“Playing rock music in the USSR was like fighting for freedom. Opposing the hypocrisy and pressure of the Soviet system, musicians tried to build a new Russia without totalitarian ideology, without censorship and the imperialistic pattern of behaviour. Rock was an active cultural and social force. When the USSR collapsed, rock music became part of the mainstream and lost its…