Lecture with Hüseyin Yılmaz: “Early Ottoman Translation and Transmission of Knowledge”

Lecture with Hüseyin Yılmaz: "Early Ottoman Translation and Transmission of Knowledge" April 16, 2021 / 12:30 - 2:00PM (NYC/EST Time) / Zoon Signup This event is part of the 2nd Mid-Atlantic Ottoman Studies Workshop hosted by the Ottoman and Turkish Studies Initative at NYU (OTS-NYU). The Workshop comprises a series of panels and lectures held on Fridays throughout the Spring…

The Mews Book Club: Les Adieux á la Reine by Chantal Thomas

Online

The Mews Book Club, hosted by Catherine Cusset, explores new tendencies in French and Francophone literature in a relaxed setting. Discussion is in French. The book to be discussed is Les Adieux à la reine by Chantal Thomas.

Free

Joan Miró, Modern Art, and the Legacies of (Art) Historical Archives

This event will be in Spanish and English with captioned translations. The curators of the exhibition “Miró-ADLAN: An Archive of Modernity” will be joined by Anne Umland (MoMA) and Marko Daniel (Fundació Joan Miró) for an hour-long conversation about the position of Joan Miró within the history of modern art, his role in promoting new art in Barcelona and New…

The Power of Passion Series

This event will be held virtually via Zoom and we hope that you’ll be able to join us! UIA conversations with Leaders who share their vision and social purpose. Register John Hewko is the general secretary and CEO of Rotary International, one of the world’s largest service and humanitarian organizations with 36,000 clubs and 1.2 million members throughout the world,…

Weak Strongman: The Limits of Power in Putin’s Russia by Timothy Frye

This event will be held virtually as a Zoom webinar and streamed via YouTube Live. There will be no in-person event. Register here for the Zoom webinar, or tune in on YouTube Live. Please join us for a discussion with Timothy Frye, author of Weak Strongman: The Limits of Power in Putin's Russia (Princeton University Press, April 6, 2021), in conversation with Alexander Cooley (director,…

Kaffeestunde (via Zoom)

Online

Email Silja Weber at svw2108@columbia.edu with inquiries.

Free

Book Club: Pars vite et reviens tard by Fred Vargas

Online

Moderated by Laetitia Marie Ndiaye, Columbia University. Book synopsis: Strange signs in black paint on doors all over Paris. At first glance, one might believe the work of a tagger. Commissioner Adamsberg detects a dull threat, a hint of evil. For his part, Joss Le Guern, the Town Crier of the Place Edgar-Quinet, wonders who slips into his message box of incomprehensible announcements.

Free

Ponzi Economics in Postcommunist Europe

This event will be held virtually as a Zoom webinar and streamed via YouTube Live. There will be no in-person event. Register here for the Zoom webinar, or tune in on YouTube Live. Please join East Central European Center at the Harriman Institute for a talk with Smoki Musaraj (Ohio University), author of Tales of Albarado: Ponzi Logics of Accumulation in Postsocialist Albania (Cornell University Press, 2020). Tales…

A Conversation on Charlotte Salomon

Online

Join LBI and The Gross Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies of Ramapo College of New Jersey for a conversation with Griselda Pollock and Kerry Wallach about the work and life of the Berlin-born Jewish artist, Charlotte Salomon (1917-1943). Michael Riff, Director of The Gross Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies at Ramapo College of New Jersey, will moderate the event.

Free

Katarzyna Kobro and Debora Vogel as “Composers of Space”

This event will be held virtually as a Zoom webinar and streamed via YouTube Live. There will be no in-person event. 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 presentation by Michalina Kmiecik (Jagiellonian University in Kraków). This event is part of the event series East Central Vanguard: New…