The Politics of History in Politics: On the Eve of the French Presidential Elections

La Maison Française (Columbia) Buell Hall, 515 West 116th Street, New York City, NY, United States

The Politics of History in Politics: On the Eve of the French Presidential Elections A panel discussion with Jérémie Foa, Mame-Fatou Niang, Nicolas Delalande, and Nadia Urbanati, introduced and moderated by Thomas Dodman RSVP HERE History has long been a very French passion. Like elsewhere, it has also become a political battleground, flaring up at each election cycle. In 2022,…

Niall Whelehan, Changing Land: Diaspora Activism and the Irish Land War

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The Irish Land War represented a turning point in modern Irish history, a social revolution that was part of a broader ideological moment when established ideas of property and land ownership were fundamentally challenged. The Land War was striking in its internationalism, and was spurred by links between different emigrant locations and an awareness of how the Land League’s demands…

Irregular Readings: Marion Poschmann’s “The Pine Islands”

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About The Pine Islands: Gilbert Silvester, eminent scholar of beard fashions in film, wakes up one day from a dream that his wife has cheated on him. Certain the dream is a message, and unable to even look at her, he flees - immediately, irrationally, inexplicably - for Japan. In Tokyo he discovers the travel writings of the great Japanese…

The Republic and her others: Race and Nation in France in the years 2000

La Maison Française (Columbia) Buell Hall, 515 West 116th Street, New York City, NY, United States

RSVP HERE Drawing from ethnographic research on the naturalization process, Sarah Mazouz examines the non-recognition of racial questions and discriminations in contemporary France.  Sarah Mazouz is tenured researcher at the CNRS (CERAPS). Her main research topics are race, intersectionality and antidiscrimination policies in France, and citizenship politics in France and in Germany. Her work draws on ethnography. It also leans…

Understanding Moscow’s Foreign Policy: Historical Perspectives and Contemporary Dilemmas

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In this talk, Sergey Radchenko will explore the underlying motivations of Soviet and Russian foreign policies. Drawing on recently declassified documents, he will explain the relationship between Soviet foreign policy and domestic legitimacy, and trace continuities in Moscow’s policymaking between the Cold War and the present day Sergey Radchenko is the Wilson E. Schmidt Distinguished Professor at the Johns Hopkins School…

Hope is Stronger than Life: The Vilna Ghetto Diary of Zelig Kalmanovich

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Zelig Kalmanovich (1885-1944) was a Yiddish linguist, translator, and a central member of YIVO's pre-war Vilna staff. Kalmanovich kept a vivid diary during his time in the Vilna Ghetto describing daily life, the hopes and efforts of the people to retain humanity, and his thoughts about the future of the Jewish people and Jewish culture. A new publication by the…

The New Historia premiere x Elaine Black Yoneda book launch

The New School 6 East 16th Street, New York, United States

We are pleased to invite you to celebrate the premiere of The New Historia, featuring the book launch of Elaine Black Yoneda: Jewish Immigration, Labor Activism, and Japanese American Exclusion and Incarceration (Temple University Press, December 2021) by Rachel Schreiber, PhD, Executive Dean, Parsons School of Design. Book launch co-hosted by The Center for Jewish History and The New School's Historical Studies…

“No Body is Closed”: Cornelia Thomsen and Siri Hustvedt in Conversation

1014 - space for ideas 1014 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY, United States

1014 space for ideas, in collaboration with the German Consulate General New York and Deutsches Haus at NYU, presents "No Body Is Closed: Discussing the Collective Self" a conversation between visual artist Cornelia Thomsen and renowned novelist and essayist Siri Hustvedt, which will be moderated by Eric Banks, the Director of New York Institute for the Humanities. In this exchange,…

“Going Back in Time, Rub Your Eyes”: What Can Literature Do in the time of War?

Panel I: Uses and Misuses of Historical Memory in Post-Soviet Culture and Politics 11:00am–12:30pm Excavation and reconstruction of traumatic historical memory have been at the center of cultural debates in post-Soviet space since the 1990s. This process has resulted in a number of powerful literary and cinematic works based on their authors’ deep engagement with tragic history of the Soviet…

Representing Ruins and the Imperial Imaginary

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Representations of archeological artefacts are themselves a unique source of information, independent of the excavations they portray. Visuals that circulate to a broad audience through a variety of media, they inspire emotions among viewers through their aesthetic allure. Ruins, the remnants of past civilizations still standing as testaments to their endurance, held special appeal as the detritus of great empires.…