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Lecture: 1968 in 2018: Geographies and Temporalities of Mai 68

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

To RSVP, please click here. Revolts, revolutions and calls to resistance have shaped the 2010s globally. In this context, the 50th anniversary of Mai 68 calls less for a commemoration than for a reflection on the spatial and temporal parameters of the events of Mai 68 and their relevance today. Traditional narratives locate the events of 1968 on a line running from Paris to New…

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Film: Stopped on Track

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

Frank and Simone have fulfilled their dream and live with their two children in a townhouse in the suburbs. They are a happy couple until the day Frank is diagnosed with an inoperable brain tumor. The family is suddenly confronted with death. The time to say goodbye is short, which makes the situation all the more difficult for Frank. Andreas…

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The Duplicity of Philosophy’s Shadow: Heidegger, Nazism, and the Jewish Others

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

Join us as Elliot R. Wolfson, Marsha and Jay Glazer Endowed Chair in Jewish Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara, speaks about his highly anticipated new book, The Duplicity of Philosophy’s Shadow: Heidegger, Nazism, and the Jewish Other. In The Duplicity of Philosophy’s Shadow, Elliot Wolfson intervenes in debates about the notorious philosopher as a scholar of Jewish mysticism who…

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Moving The Palace

Albertine 972 5th Avenue, New York, NY, United States

Join Lebanese author Charif Majdalani as he discusses Moving The Palace, his latest novel published in the US, with author and literary critic Nathaniel Popkin. Moving The Palace is a captivating modern-day Odyssey in the tradition of Bruce Chatwin and Paul Theroux. It won the 2008 François Mauriac Prize from the Académie Française as well as the Prix Tropiques. In English. Free and…

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Post-Conflict Masculinities and Vulnerability: Researching Male Survivors of Conflict-Related Sexual Violence in the Former Yugoslavia

1201 International Affairs Building 420 W 118th St, New York City, NY, United States

While the conflict in Bosnia Herzegovina was widely known for the strategic rape of thousands of women, men were also victims of sexual violence, mainly in the various detention camps across the country. Thomas Osorio will provide an overview of how the judiciary has treated conflict-related sexual violence against women and men, based his wide expertise in the field. Heleen…

“Till Eulenspiegel:” An Illustrated Lecture by Millicent Hodson

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

Deutsches Haus at NYU presents an illustrated lecture about "Till Eulenspiegel" by choreographer/dance historian Millicent Hodson. Her talk will feature stills from the original 1916 Ballets Russes production as well as stills and video from the reconstruction of "Till Eulenspiegel" that Millicent Hodson and Kenneth Archer created at the Paris Opera in the mid-1990s and again at the Rome Opera in 2001.…

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On Disobedience

Albertine 972 5th Avenue, New York, NY, United States

In his timely essay on disobedience, Frédéric Gros questions the roots of political obedience. Examining its different expressions: social conformism, economical submission, respect for authority, and republican consent, the essay urges us to question our acquired certainties, social conventions, economical injustices, and moral conventions alike. It is by analyzing the different types of obedience that we give ourselves the means…

Exhibition Opening: MARANGO, Works by Alessandro Piangiamore

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

The first New York exhibition of Sicilian artist Alessandro Piangiamore, in collaboration with Magazzino Italian Art and Magazzino Arte Moderna (Rome). Curated by Vittorio Calabrese. On view through June 14 Mon-Fri 10-5 The exhibition features pieces from Piangiamore's 'Ieri Ikebana,' 'La cera di Roma,' 'Belvedere,' and 'Primavera Piangiamore' series, as well as a new site-specific work from the artist's 'Tutto il vento che c'è' (All The…

Film: Raoul Peck: The Young Karl Marx

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

Co-presented with the Brooklyn Institute for Social Research and the Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung 1844. Karl Marx is 26 years old and exiled in Paris with his wife Jenny. He is in debt and plagued by existential anxieties. When he first meets the slightly younger factory owner’s son Friedrich Engels, he dismisses him as a dandy. But Engels, who has just…

Nathalie Sarraute discovering America

Albertine 972 5th Avenue, New York, NY, United States

On February 1, 1964, Nathalie Sarraute, a major contemporary author known for her works of intimate interiority, landed in New York to start a conference tour of the most prestigious universities and cultural centers in the United States–a visit sponsored by the Cultural Services of the French Embassy. In a series of twenty-four letters written in an elliptical style to…