Tuesday, November 5, 2019 at 7 pm Bohemian National Hall, cinema 321 E 73 St, New York City FILM + DISCUSSION Screening of a 2019 documentary film about a Czech journalist and a hero of Bulgaria, Vladimír Sís (1889-1958) Vladimír Sís was a Czech patriot, journalist, and writer. At age 23, he sent his reports from the frontline of the…
Join the Program on U.S.-Russia Relations for a discussion with Alexey Trepykhalin, a former legal and political specialist at the U.S. Embassy in Moscow. Mr. Trepykhalin will discuss U.S.-Russian cooperation in law enforcement projects in transnational organized crime and rule of law, and the changing work environment for Foreign Service Nationals accompanying the recent deterioration in bilateral relations. Alexey Trepykhalin is…
Drawing on the Arab heritage of oral tradition and mosaic patterns, Leila and the Wolvesis an exploration of the collective historical memory of Arab women. Shot over seven years, and in often treacherous conditions, Srour’s film is a masterpiece of filmmaking, mixing together archival footage, fairy-tale storytelling, aesthetically bold imagery, and dramatizations of situations faced by women in Lebanon and…
To RSVP, please click here. The Eagle & The Condor is an ancient prophecy, shared by many Indigenous people. The prophecy says when the Eagle of North America and the Condor of South America unite, the spirit of peace will awaken. After 500 years of colonization, some Indigenous elders believe that this union has begun. The Condor & The Eagle documentary by French…
Un nonologo Una Donna Fantasiusa - Un nonologo Idea by/starring Eleonora Micali Written and directed by Stefano Maria Palmitessa A true story, where fiction is just background to scenes from real life narrated in this monologue or - better - a "nonologo" , as author Stefano Maria Palmitessa likes to call the memories, sensations, and jokes that the protagonist lived during…
Lecture and discussion with a renowned nuclear physicists, Vojtech Petracek, rector of the Czech Technical University in Prague. Mr Petracek will present the current directions of his field - the physics of ultra-relativistic nuclear collisions and particle physics. He will also discuss cooperation with American scientific and academic institutions. VOJTECH PETRACEK received his degree from the Department of Electronics and…
When the Bolsheviks came to power in 1917, they announced the overthrow of a world scarred by exploitation and domination. In the very moment of revolution, these sentiments were put to the test as antisemitic pogroms swept the former Pale of Settlement. The pogroms posed fundamental questions of the Bolshevik project, revealing the depth of antisemitism within sections of the…
Join the Harriman Institute and the Centre for the Study of Corruption at the University of Sussex for a two-day workshop exploring the latest academic and practitioner trends in researching and addressing corruption in the Western Balkans. This event will bring together academics working on corruption, think-tankers and activists from the region, and investigative journalists, who play an increasingly important…
Deutsches Haus at NYU and NYU’s Center for European and Mediterranean Studies present "Memories Are Made of This: 30 Years after the Fall of the Berlin Wall," a conference commemorating the 30th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall. This conference will take place on Thursday, November 7, and Friday, November 8, consisting of a keynote address by DAAD Visiting Scholar at…
Join us for a talk with Daria Ezerova, Postdoctoral Research Scholar at the Harriman Institute. It has become clear that chernukha was neither a one-time Soviet phenomenon, nor limited exclusively to the Russian context. And yet, the reemergence of chernukha aesthetics in the Russian cinema of the mid-2000s was unexpected, to say the least. Neither a response to a degenerated political…