GLOBAL UPRISING: Space & Time I: Crowds, Bodies, Affect

Feb 24, 2021 / 12:30-2PM (NYC/EST Time) / Zoom signup Uprisings we are told move not by contamination but by resonance.  It’s the affective force of the uprising itself that is the current of both movement and change. Bodies acting together in risk is transformative. A change that starts not with consciousness but with the body, from what was once…

Color on My Mind: The History of the First Black Mental Health Clinic in America

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The Lafargue Clinic was founded in 1946 by a group of black intellectuals and German-Jewish doctors. These activists joined together to answer a pressing need in New York -the need for psychiatric care for Black people. Blacks were historically denied access to clinics and hospitals that provided for the mental needs of the city. Further, black intellectuals argued that their communities suffered…

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Color on My Mind: The History of the First Black Mental Health Clinic in America

The Lafargue Clinic was founded in 1946 by a group of black intellectuals and German-Jewish doctors. These activists joined together to answer a pressing need in New York - the need for psychiatric care for Black people. Blacks were historically denied access to clinics and hospitals that provided for the mental needs of the city. Further, black intellectuals argued that their communities…

People of the Book Club: The Losh Shtetl with Author Max Gross

Go behind the stories and peer inside the archives at the CJH book discussion, led by Lauren Gilbert, Senior Manager for Public Services at the Center for Jewish History. This session will feature a discussion of The Lost Shtetl by Max Gross, winner of the 2020 National Jewish Book Award in the "Book Club" category. A work of speculative fiction and magical…

LBI Book Club, Vol. XIII: Fanny Von Arnstein: Daughter of the Enlightenment

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Fanny von Arnstein was an important figure in the history of the Enlightenment.  Born into a wealthy Jewish family in Berlin, she married and moved to Vienna, where she founded a salon attracted politicians, artists, writers, and other prominent figures. Included in this list are Madame de Staël, Arthur Schopenhauer, and Amadeus Mozart. Hilde Spiel's biography provides "a vivid portrait of…

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20/21 Philosophers: Aliocha Wald Lasowski

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Philosophy, in the 21st century, has changed: its practices and languages are no longer those of the previous century. A turning point has been taken by new generations and thinkers from diverse origins who, more than commenting on the old masters, are taking philosophy into new fields: health, ecology, neurosciences, security warfare, non-Western thought, trans-identities, the rights of non-human living…

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The EU Anti-Corruption Policy: A Reflexive Governance Approach by Andi Hoxhaj

This event will be held virtually as a Zoom webinar and streamed via YouTube Live. There will be no in-person event. Register here for the Zoom webinar, or tune in on YouTube Live. Please join us for a presentation by Andi Hoxhaj (Warwick Law School), author of The EU Anti-Corruption Policy: A Reflexive Governance Approach (Routledge, 2020). Discussion moderated by Tanya Domi (SIPA/Harriman Institute).…

Catalan Novel in Translation

download NOVEL Friday, February 26, 2021, 2:00pm EST This event will be ONLINE and in ENGLISH Live stream on ZOOM Roundtable with Mary Ann Newman (Scholar-in-Residence, NYU KJCC) Peter Bush (Literary Translator) Chad W. Post (Open Letter Books/University of Rochester) Helena Buffery (University College Cork, Ireland) Introduced by Michael Gatan (NYU) Moderated by Jordana Mendelson (NYU)

European Seminar: Anson Rabinbach

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Anson Rabinbach (Princeton University) in conversation with Stefanos Geroulanos (History, New York University) on his new book Staging the Third Reich: Essays in Cultural and Intellectual History This event will take place over Zoom. Please follow this link to register.

Space Talks: Tamara Alvarez – The Eighth Continent

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In the context of a Moon race where multiple actors are rushing to get hold of limited resources located in a reduced area, several international fora and working groups have been created to regulate the occupation of these lunar regions and the exploitation of their resources. In this lecture, Tamara Álvarez examines the ways in which these regulatory practices are…