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Talk: The Investigator, Demons of the Balkan War

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

Vladimir Dzuro, author of the book “The Investigator: Demons of the Balkan War,” will share the riveting true story of finding justice for the people of Croatia and Bosnia and Herzegovina. With special guests Ivana Hrdlickova, President of the Special Tribunal for Lebanon, and Larry D. Johnson, former UN Assistant-Secretary-General for Legal Affairs. Moderated by Christopher Harwood. Readings: Maxwell Zener.…

The Price of Love for Old Men – Andrew Counter

La Maison Française (NYU) 16 Washington Mews, New York City, NY, United States

“My dear, this gentleman is reasonable,” said Asie, “he knows he is past sixty-six. He will be most indulgent. Really, my angel, I have found you more of a father!” "The second section of Balzac’s Splendeurs et misères des courtisanes, in which the baron de Nucingen’s obsession with the courtesan Esther begins to take its ruinous toll, bears the title…

Guadeloupe, Martinique & Puerto Rico. Comparing Post-Colonial, Non-Sovereign Trajectories

La Maison Française (NYU) 16 Washington Mews, New York City, NY, United States

Yarimar Bonilla is Associate Professor of anthropology at Hunter College, CUNY. Her work focuses on questions of sovereignty, citizenship, and race across the Americas. She has tracked these issues across a broad range of sites: anti-colonial labor activism in the French Caribbean, the role of digital protest in the Black Lives Matter movement, the politics of the Trump presidency, and…

Exhibition opening: The Velvet Revolution 1989

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

Opening of an exhibition focusing on historical context of the Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia as well as explaining the circumstances under which the Czechoslovak Communist Party initially took power. Curated by the National Museum of the Czech Republic to celebrate the 30th anniversary of the Velvet Revolution. The exhibition is on view until January 12, 2020. A set of illustrations…

The Places of Israel-In Song

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

Elad Kabilio and the MusicTalks ensemble embark on a musical journey across Israel’s diverse sites with a concert of music inspired by the landscapes of Israel. Ticket Info: $15 general; $10 YUM members & YU students, faculty, staff at musictalksplaces.bpt.me or 800-838-3006

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Roving Revolutionaries: Armenians & Connected Revolutions in the Russian, Iranian, & Ottoman Worlds

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

Three of the formative revolutions that shook the early 20th century world occurred almost simultaneously in regions bordering one another. Though the Russian, Iranian, and Young Turk Revolutions all exploded between 1904 and 1911, they have never been studied through their linkages until now. Roving Revolutionaries probes the interconnected aspects of these three revolutions through the involvement of the Armenian…

Poetryfest

Irish Arts Center 553 West 51st Street, New York City, NY, United States

Curated by Nick Laird Presented in association with Glucksman Ireland House NYU Journey into an orbit of ideas and thoughts with some of the world’s most eminent poets from Ireland and North America. This year’s festival features a special tribute to Seamus Heaney in celebration of the US publication of 100 Poems, a seminal anthology of his work, and an exhibition of Heaney…

Conference. Five Years of War in the Donbas: Cultural Responses and Reverberations

#1512 International Affairs Building 420 West 118th Street, New York City, NY, United States

Join the Ukrainian Studies Program at the Harriman Institute, Columbia University for the conference Five Years of War in the Donbas: Cultural Responses and Reverberations. The conference will gather an international array of scholars to discuss the diverse ways that Ukrainian culture has been stirred by the recent war between Ukraine and Russia in the Donbas. At the bottom of…

Nov. 1 The Last Knight: The Art, Armor, & Ambition of Maximilian I, a Conversation with Pierre Terjanian

Remarque Institute 60 Fifth Avenue, 8th Floor, New York, NY, United States

A lunchtime conversation on the current Habsburg armor exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art with Curator Pierre Terjanian and Brigitte Bedos-Rezak, New York University Thomas DaCosta Kaufmann, Princeton University Elizabeth Pilliod, Rutgers University Pamela Smith, Columbia University Larry Wolff, New York University