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“Herr Gröttrup setzt sich hin” and other stories: A Conversation with Sharon Dodua Otoo

Deutsches Haus at NYU and STILL Magazine present “’Herr Gröttrup setzt sich hin,’ and other stories: A Conversation with Sharon Dodua Otoo” with Sharon Dodua Otoo, Tina Campt (moderator), and the translators Katy Derbyshire, and Patrick Ploschnitzki. The conversation will focus on Dodua Otoo’s award-winning short story "Herr Gröttrup setzt sich hin," the translation process into British- and American English,…

LBI Book Club, Vol V, Part 1: Berlin Alexanderplatz by Alfred Döblin

The Jewish author Bruno Alfred Döblin is best-known as the author of Berlin Alexanderplatz (1929). The book became a best seller in the Weimar Republic, selling over 50,000 copies in just two years. The meandering story of Franz Biberkopf, ex-con, pimp, small-time criminal, and ordinary Joe trying to stay on the straight and narrow, captured life in 1920s Berlin like no other…

VIRTUAL EVENT. Roundtable on Literary Translation

Register here for the Zoom webinar, or tune in on YouTube Live. Please join the East Central European Center at the Harriman Institute for a round table discussion in celebration of National Translation Month. This round table on the art of literary translation and the business of publishing translated literature from East Central Europe will include a program of literary readings…

Queer Literature: Olivia Wenzel and Sarah Schulman

The Goethe Pop Up Kansas City and the Goethe-Institut Boston present Queer Literature from Germany and the US. Join us for our second event as we welcome Berlin-based debut novelist Olivia Wenzel and veteran author Sarah Schulman from New York for a reading followed by a conversation. The virtual conversation will be moderated by Dr. Robert D. Tobin. This event is part…

Preparing for the High Holidays – Sukkot

Understanding our Sephardic Laws and Traditions with Hakham Rabbi Elie Abadie, MD Rabbi Elie Abadie, M.D., comes from a long and distinguished rabbinical lineage dating back to fifteenth century Spain and Provence. Born in Beirut, Lebanon, he grew-up in Mexico City before settling in the United States. Following in the footsteps of the great Jewish scholar and philosopher Moses Maimonides (the…

COVID-19 in Iran: A Conversation on the Coronavirus Pandemic and Public Health in Iran

A panel of interdesplinary scholars will discuss the medical and sociopolitical aspects of the current crisis of COVID-19 in Iran. They will explore similar public health instances in the modern history of Iran. The conversation will situate COVID-19 in the sociohistorical, political, medical, and cultural contexts in which the discipline of public health has emerged and has been interpreted and…

Black Women, Citizenship, and France’s Universalist Myths

REGISTER HERE TO RECEIVE A LINK TO THE EVENT. In this talk drawn from her book, Reimagining Liberation: How Black Women Transformed Citizenship in the French Empire, Annette Joseph-Gabriel mines published writings and untapped archives to reveal Black French women’s anticolonialist endeavors. She shows how their activism and thought challenged French imperialism by shaping forms of citizenship that encouraged multiple…

Human-Non-Human Entanglements of Prediction in Permafrost-Bound Land

The intensification of ecological fragility and rapidity of environmental change in the Siberian Arctic questions adaptability and human capacity to predict and avert ecological disasters while pointing at potential limitations of available models for forecasting and mitigating environmental calamities. Given the bounded human capacity for predicting unpredictable, the challenge is to craft a tentative strategy that takes into detailed and…

VIRTUAL EVENT. The Phenomenon of New Russian Drama: What’s New About It?

Register here for the Zoom webinar, or tune in on YouTube Live. The Harriman Institute's Contemporary Culture Series presents a conversation with Maksim Hanukai (University of Wisconsin-Madison) and Susanna Weygandt (Sewanne: The University of the South), editors of the volume New Russian Drama: An Anthology (Columbia University Press, 2019) with translator Ania Aizman (University of Michigan), as well as Julie Curtis (University of Oxford), editor of New…

“Ustedes,” A New Public Art Project and Digital Campaign By Krzysztof Wodiczko

Governors Island, New York

Polish Cultural Institue New York is proud to support a new site-specific and community-engaged project by acclaimed artist Krzysztof Wodiczko in collaboration with More Art and its founder/director Micaela Martegani. The grand opening will place on Governors Island, New York, Saturday, October 3, 2020 at 5:00pm. This live performance uses drones and innovative new technologies to amplify the eprspectives of migrants, political refugees, and…