We launched our new series on contemporary writing in 2018. Led by a prominent figure in French culture, we invite four writers every year in order to reflect and discuss on a chosen theme. These interviews will each take place on a Monday night; the following day, the invited authors will give public lectures, and their works will be integrated…
Moderated by Zachary Desjardins-Mooney, Columbia University
Feb 9, 2021 / 12:30-2PM (NYC/EST Time) / Zoom signup We tend to think of uprising as the purview of the Left—what ‘we’ do as opposed to what ‘they’ do. And yet the last decade has seen an insurrectionist Right appropriate much of the Left’s style. Uprising today can often start with an ideological indeterminacy, around a populist refusal of…
Florence Mendheim went undercover at a moment in which American Nazism was flourishing. Local Nazi groups in the New York area were distributing propaganda, setting up summer camps, and hosting large rallies. Mendheim, an employee of the New York Public Library, was inspired to document and resist these groups.
On February 9, we’ll be discussing the book The Women I Think About at Night by Mia Kankimäki, who joined us last month for a book talk on the novel with moderator Heli Sirviö, available to stream here. Bored with her life and feeling stuck in her mid-40s, Mia Kankimäki decided to leave her job, sell her apartment, and travel the world to follow…
Dramatists, scholars, and disability activists have started taking an interest in a deaf Irishwoman who was once considered the premiere national playwright of her day: Teresa Deevy. Interest in her life and works has taken different shapes, from those drawn to her representations of women living circumscribed lives in 1930s Ireland to those who want to recover a neglected history…
In collaboration with NYU's Center for Neural Science, Dr. Sindy Joyce will be interviewed as part of the Growing Up In Science Life Stories series. This is a series of talks, founded by NYU's Prof. Weiji Ma, in which scientists tell their life story, including struggles that they have had to overcome and with a special interest in scientists from underrepresented groups.…
Join us as a panel of experts discuss Emile Chabal's new short introduction to postwar France. The book explores the contradictions that have shaped French history over the last eighty years, from the calamitous defeat by Hitler's armies in 1940 through decolonisation, the gilets jaunes and the response to COVID-19. Structured around the idea of paradox, Chabal paints a picture…
The Algerian uprising known as the hirak is about to reach its second anniversary. Stalled by the COVID pandemic and confronting powerful entrenched interests, the protestors face crucial political choices. The current state of the movement and its possible future are discussed by three leading observers.
