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…

**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…

**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 is ONLINE and in ENGLISH Register Here Emanuelle Rodrigues dos Santos, Senior Lecturer in Modern Languages at University of Birmingham, presents the talk “Late Postcoloniality: The Postcolonial Condition in the Aftermath of Independence in the Portuguese-speaking Africa” as a part of the lecture series, “Charting the Portuguese Black Atlantic” at New York University. The analysis of cultural forms…