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:Me the People—How Populism Transforms Democracy

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

To RSVP, please click here. What distinguishes populism from run-of-the-mill democratic politics? And why should we be concerned by its rise? In Me the People, Nadia Urbinati argues that populism should be regarded as a new form of representative government, one based on a direct relationship between the leader and those the leader defines as the “good” or “right” people. Urbinati shows that, while populist…

Film: Survival in New York

Goethe-Institut New York 30 Irving Place, New York City, NY, United States

Anna Steegmann and Claudia Steinberg in person! Three German women establish new lives for themselves in the Big Apple. In what became one of his commercially most successful features, director Rosa von Praunheim follows Anna, Claudia, and Ulli with the camera as they look for love in 1980s New York. A must-see for all who came to New York seeking…

Czech Science Cafe: Physics for Our Future

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

Lecture and discussion with Ivo Svejkovský, the Head of International Cooperation at the Institute of Physics of the Czech Academy of Sciences. How can our society benefit from the results of the scientific research Ivo Svejkovsky will introduce the Institute of Physics of the Czech Academy of Sciences (FZU). Emphasis will be put on actual examples of how society can…

Book Talk. The Russia Trap: How our Shadow War with Russia Could Spiral into Nuclear Catastrophe byGeorge Beebe

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

Join the Harriman Institute and the Saltzman Institute of War and Peace Studies for a book talk with George Beebe, author of The Russia Trap: How Our Shadow War with Russia Could Spiral into Nuclear Catastrophe (St. Martin's Publishing Group, September 2019), moderated by Peter Clement (Harriman Insitutte, Saltzman Institute, SIPA). Registration is required via the Columbia/SIPA events calendar, and is currently limited…

Vivaldi’s “Gloria”

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

Women Sing Bass What Makes It Italian? Discovering National Character in Music is a music listening and discussion group that meets at Casa Italiana and is open to everyone. Participation is free. The group is led by Gina Crusco, who guides listening at Bard LLI and Riverdale Y, and who has been music instructor at The New School and director of…

Lethal Provocation: The Constantine Murders and the Politics of French Algeria

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

To RSVP, please click here. Joshua Cole talks about his new book, Lethal Provocation: The Constantine Murders and the Politics of French Algeria (Cornell UP, 2019), that explores an episode of anti-Jewish violence in the Algerian city of Constantine on August 3-5, 1934.  The Constantine riots were an important event in Algerian, French, and Jewish history but their origins have been the subject…

Dante and Italian Unification

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

Mahnaz Yousefzadeh, NYU A lecture by Mahnaz Yousefzadeh, NYU This lecture will address the particular role the figure of Dante played in the process of national unification of Italy by discussing the relevance of this history for the contemporary moment, as neighborhoods, cities and nations are pondering how to enter a global economy and society without losing cultural genes and artistic heritage.…

The Ice at the End of the World Book Talk With Jon Gertner

Scandinavia House 58 Park Avenue, New York City, NY, United States

Tonight, Jon Gertner discusses his new book The Ice at the End of the World, which examines how for the last 150 years explorers and scientists have sought to understand Greenland, first in hopes that it would serve as a gateway to the North Pole, and later in discovery of essential information about our climate. In addition to what Greenland’s ice…

Remaining a Ukrainian Woman: Normative Femininity as “Armor” in the Gulag

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

Join the Ukrainian Studies Program at the Harriman Institute, Columbia University for a presentation by Oksana Kis(National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine). In the 1940-50s, tens of thousands of Ukrainian women were sentenced to long-term imprisonment in the Gulag for political charges. Their experiences of living in the most brutal conditions of the Soviet camps have not yet been the subject of…

The Politics of Religion in Israel

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

A panel discussion with Yinon Cohen, Katherine Franke and Alain Dieckhoff. Moderated by Chiara Superti To RSVP, please click here. The Israeli elections of April and September 2019 highlighted, yet again, the profound rifts that divide Israeli society. But the now familiar political haggling that ensued did not only reveal traditional left-right divides. More significantly, it put into sharp focus the religious-secular…