Virtual Nordic Cooking with Morten Sohlberg
YouTubeChef Morten Sohlberg will present an online demo making one of his favorite late summer dishes: roasted zucchini and squash coated with ricotta, parmesan, and various herbs and spices.
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Jochen Hick “Talk Straight: The World of Rural Queers”
This film series is part of Queer as German Folk, a project celebrating the intersectional histories of Germany’s and America’s diverse LGBTIQ+ communities. A digitally modified version of the exhibition Queer as German Folk and a full program of virtual events is presented by the Goethe-Institut in North America in collaboration with its Goethe Pop Ups and the Schwules Museum Berlin (SMU). The film will be available to stream from…
Exilic Inscriptions: Mobility and the Resistance to Theory
This event will be held virtually as a Zoom webinar and streamed via YouTube Live. There will be no in-person event. Click here at the time of the event to join the Zoom webinar, or tune in on YouTube Live. Please join us for a presentation by Galin Tihanov, George Steiner Professor of Comparative Literature at Queen Mary University of London, as part of…
Music on the Steps | MATI’s 2020/2021 Season Preview
On Saturday, September 12, 2020, the Ukrainian Institute of America’s Music at the Institute (MATI) Concert Series will stream a Preview of the 2020/2021 Season outdoors from the steps of the Ukrainian Institute of America, featuring alumni & students of the Yale School of Music and the University of Connecticut; Deputy Dean of the Yale School of Music, violinist Melvin…
GLOBAL UPRISING: Racism, Racialization, Anti-Blackness
Zoom signup How might we think uprising in light of the resurgence and relegitimization of racial/racist thought? How do we think historically about the return of certain colonial grammar and rhetoric in right-wing reactionary thought—"reverse colonization,” “white genocide,” “replacement theory”? In the now total collapse of the multicultural normative consensus and imagery of the global village, how does this period…
Equity, Inclusion, and Immigration in Nordic Countries
OnlineIn this virtual panel, four distinguished guests join us for a discussion on inequality both in the Nordic countries and the U.S. Featuring: Swedish hip-hop artist Jason "Timbuktu" Diakite, Swedish author Jonas Hassen Khemiri, Danish author Simon Pasternak, Swedish-Ethiopian chef and restaurateur Marcus Samuelsson.
Cambridge University Press Irish Literature in Transition (2020) American Launch
Join this online event to celebrate the American launch of the Cambridge University Press six-volume essay series Irish Literature in Transition (2020), a new and dynamic account of Ireland’s literary history over 300 years. Speakers will include Prof. Claire Connolly (NUI Cork/UCC), editor of Vol. 2, 1780 – 1830 and Prof. Marjorie Howes (Boston College), editor of Vol. 4, 1880 -…
Radical Diversity: Houston
A discussion series with Max Czollek and Mohamed Amjahid Radical Diversity is presented by several Goethe-Institut locations in North America in collaboration with its pop-up branches, the Thomas Mann House, and the Institute for Social Justice & Radical Diversity under the sponsorship of the Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung North America. This event takes place September 16, at 2.00 PM CDT via Zoom. ZOOM…
Stolen Song: How the Troubadours Became French
To sign up for this virtual conversation, RSVP here. Stolen Song (Cornell University Press, 2020) documents the act of cultural appropriation that created a founding moment for French literary history: the rescripting and domestication of troubadour song, a prestige corpus in the European sphere, as French. This book also documents the simultaneous creation of an alternative point of origin for French…
Etienne Balibar’s Complete Works – A discussion with Etienne Balibar, Emmanuelle Saada, and Bernard Harcourt, moderated by Souleymane Bachir Diagne
To sign up for this virtual transatlantic event, RSVP here. The first two volumes of Oeuvres complètes by French philosopher Etienne Balibar were recently published by La Découverte as Histoire interminable. D’un siècle l’autre. Ecrits I and Passions du concepts. Epistémologie, théologie et politique. Ecrits II. Etienne Balibar’s friends and colleagues at Columbia University, Souleymane Bachir Diagne, Emmanuelle Saada, and…