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Exquisite Elegies

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

Genoa's Staglieno Cemetery In partnership with the Bogliasco Foundation. Once deemed “the most beautiful cemetery in the world” (Le Figaro), Genoa’s monumental cemetery is a museum unique in the world, with some of the 19th century’s most stunning and elaborate statuary. Against a historical background that evokes the period’s crucial sociopolitical shifts, poet Grace Schulman (BF ‘18), visual artist Susan…

The Future of Immortality: A Book Talk with Anya Bernstein

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

Join the Harriman Institute and the Columbia Institute for Religion, Culture and Public Life (IRCPL) for a book talk with Anya Bernstein, author of The Future of Immortality: Remaking Life and Death in Contemporary Russia (Princeton University Press, 2019), in conversation with Anton Vidokle (e-flux) and Adam Leeds (Slavic Languages). As long as we have known death, we have dreamed…

Film Screening & Discussion. Beshoot

Deutsches Haus Columbia 420 West 116th Street, New York City, NY, United States

Join the Ukrainian Film Club at Columbia University for the unofficial US premier of the 2019 military drama Beshoot, followed by a discussion with director Ivan Tymchenko and producer Svitlana Soloviova, moderated by Professor Yuri Shevchuk. The soldiers of the Donbas Volunteer Battalion are at the center of this war drama inspired by real-life events. Two Ukrainian fighters who volunteered to repel the…

The Great Chernobyl Acceleration

Jordan Center for the Advanced Study of Russia 19 University Place, 2nd Floor, New York City, NY, United States

In April 1986, the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant exploded and sent upwards of 50 million curies into the surrounding environment. Working through archives, Brown encountered many contradictory accounts of the disaster and its effects. Realizing that though people and archives lie, trees probably don’t, she turned to scientists—biologists, foresters, physicians and physicists—to help her understand the ecology of the greater…

Extraparliamentary Opposition in West Germany, 1962-1983: European Seminar Series

Center for European and Mediterranean Studies (NYU) 53 Washington Square South, 3rd Floor East, New York, United States

Oct. 24 European Seminar Series | Belinda Davis: Extraparliamentary Opposition in West Germany, 1962-1983 As part of the European Seminar Series, Belinda Davis will discuss extraparliamentary opposition in West Germany in the years 1962-1983. All sessions will take place at the Center for European and Mediterranean Studies, King Juan Carlos I of Spain Center, 3rd Floor East, Room 324, 53 Washington Square South…

European Seminar Series | Belinda Davis:

Center for European and Mediterranean Studies (NYU) 53 Washington Square South, 3rd Floor East, New York, United States

Professor Belinda Davis of Rutgers University speaks about extraparliamentary opposition in West Germany, from1962 to 1983. From the Center for European and Mediterranean Studies. 

Affection and Survival

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

Primo Levi at 100 Presented in collaboration with Centro Primo Levi Affection and Survival Primo Levi and Friendship in the Camp A lecture by Uri Cohen, Tel Aviv University Affection is a lesser known aspect of the human and Jewish experience in the camps. Mostly it is related to the fractured past of which the camp is the present. Having…

Jan W. Drnek: The Slav Epic of Alphonse Mucha

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

Presentation of a limited edition book offering a glimpse at the smallest details of Mucha's artworks, unveiling the magnificent Slav Epic in an unseen form. Q&A with the author. The time has come for the spectacular cycle of paintings created by the Czech artist Alphonse Mucha, the Slav Epic, to be followed by a procession of prodigious books intended to…

Gender and Transformation Workshop | Oksana Kis

Center for European and Mediterranean Studies (NYU) 53 Washington Square South, 3rd Floor East, New York, United States

Feminism in Independent Ukraine: From an Allergen to the Last Hope Oksana Kis Ph.D.  History/Ethnology Senior Research Associate, Senior Scholar Department of Social Anthropology Institute of Ethnology national Academy of Sciences of Ukraine http://social-anthropology.org.ua/ From the Center for European and Mediterranean Studies.