Join us for a conversation with artist Maureen O’Leary, historian Miriam Nyhan Grey, and curator Pamela Jean Tinnen as they discuss the history and impact of Ireland’s Easter Rising through the lens of O’Leary’s series Portraits of Ireland’s Easter Rising Leaders on view in Schwartz Plaza Vitrines through June 17, 2022. Portraits of Ireland’s Easter Rising Leaders is an exhibition in collaboration with Glucksman Ireland House,…
Join us for the closing reception for our exhibit The Untold Stories of Russian History, featuring a dialogue between the artist Mikhail Magaril and his friend Michael Weintraub, a connoisseur of rare books and works on paper. The event will also feature a display of Magaril’s original artist’s books, including Doctors’ Plot, Lullaby, Alphabet and others. The Untold Stories of Russian History consists of twenty-three original works, including painting,…
The genres of the absurd and grotesque are prominent in artistic and literary representations of state socialism. In the paper being discussed at this event, Svetlana Stephenson argues that these genres are also present in the storytelling of (ex)Soviet citizens, through their diaries and oral history accounts. For example, the narratives of extra-judicial shaming rituals (prorabotka meetings) often reveal the…
Please join the East Central European Center at the Harriman Institute for a lecture by Monika Baár, István Deák Visiting Professor at the Harriman Institute. Moderated by ECEC co-directors Aleksandar Bošković and Christopher Caes. The lecture explores a hitherto overlooked episode in the history of human-animal relations: the establishment of professional guide dog training after the First World War, which had its origins in…
Come celebrate the KJCC’s 25th Anniversary! Join us for a conversation about the history of one of NYU’s oldest cultural centers, devoted to Spain and the Spanish-speaking world, with the contributors to the special issue of Esferas, NYU’s undergraduate Spanish and Portuguese journal, dedicated to the KJCC and the broader issues of cultural centers within the academy. To mark the…
RSVP HERE The “Human Mobility Series” was jointly launched in May 2021 by Studio Europa Maastricht and Agora Europe, and co-sponsored by the United Nations Network on Migration, Columbia University Committee on Forced Migration, Alliance Program, and Maison Française, Sciences Po CERI, Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne University, UNIMED-Mediterranean Universities Union, Amref Health Africa – Italia and United Nations University UNU-MERIT. Our…
**This event will take place in English** Open in person to the NYU community ONLY (staff, students, faculty). REGISTER HERE Open online to all, via Zoom. REGISTER HERE La Maison Française is pleased to welcome Mélanie Traversier for a fascinating talk, entitled: "News on the Davies Sisters. Investigations on two forgotten « franklinian » musicians in Enlightenment Europe." This talk is dedicated to…
Register: bit.ly/AlumniPD5-4 Please join the Kevorkian Center for another Alumni Professional Development and Networking Event featuring three outstanding alumni working in publishing and journalism! This event is open to current NYU students and Kevorkian Alumni only, and will feature an informal conversation with Jeff Eamon (Medina Publishing), Anjali Kamat (Reveal), and Jared Malsin (Wall Street Journal). Jeff Eamon, Director of…
**This event will take place in French** Ouvert en personne à la communauté NYU uniquement. INSCRIPTION ICI Ouvert au public en ligne, par Zoom. INSCRIPTION ICI Venez assister à une lecture-performance de Decameron 2022. Le théâtre de la peste par Patrick Boucheron, Mélanie Traversier et Sylvaine Guyot, à La Maison Française. Dans le Decameron, Boccace met en scène des jeunes gens —…
This event will be in SPANISH and open to NYU faculty, students, and staff ONLY. Reception on KJCC Patio to follow. In 2022, NYU’s King Juan Carlos I of Spain Center (KJCC) turns twenty-five. The NYU MFA Program in Creative Writing in Spanish decided to dedicate the May 2022 issue of the student-edited Temporales magazine to the anniversary. This special…
