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Film Screening and Discussion: Leila and the Wolves (1984)

Hagop Kevorkian Center 255 Sullivan Street, New York City, NY, United States

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…

The Condor & the Eagle

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

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…

Una Donna Fantasiusa

Casa Italiana Zerilli-Marimò (NYU) 24 West 12th Street, New York City, NY, United States

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…

Czech Science Cafe: Vojtech Petracek, Nuclear Physicist

Bohemian National Hall 321 E 73rd St., New York, NY, United States

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…

Antisemitism and the Russian Revolution

Center for Jewish History 15 W. 16th Street, New York City, NY, United States

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…

Conference. New Actors and Strategies for Fighting and Investigating Corruption in the Western Balkans

Deutsches Haus Columbia 420 West 116th Street, New York City, NY, United States

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…

Memories Are Made of This: 30 Years after the Fall of the Berlin Wall

Deutsches Haus NYU 42 Washington Mews, New York City, NY, United States

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…

Vile Bodies: Reassessing Chernukha in Recent RussianCinema

Marshall D. Shulman Seminar Room 420 W 118th Street, #1219 International Affairs Building, New York City, NY, United States

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…

From Gruyère to Gatchina: The Meanings of Cheese in Modern Russia

Jordan Center for the Advanced Study of Russia 19 University Place, 2nd Floor, New York City, NY, United States

Although Russia has an extensive tradition of dairy products including fresh cheese, ripened and aged cheeses were introduced from abroad at least by the seventeenth century, and they immediately took on all sorts of new meanings. Cheese was a commodity, an object of international trade. Cheese was the product of technology that Russians came to hope to master. And cheese…

Should We Tolerate the Intolerant?

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

To RSVP, please click here. In the increasingly divided political and social landscape that surrounds us today, the idea of tolerance seems to be more relevant than ever. Beyond the acrimonious debates on migration, hate speech, impeachment, or religious symbols in public places, the ideal of tolerance offers the vision of a social order that accommodates diversity while preserving common principles…