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“Clairvoyant of the Small”: A Conversation with Susan Bernofsky & Eileen Myles

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Deutsches Haus at NYU and the Consulate General of Switzerland in New York present a conversation between writer and translator Susan Bernofsky and poet and writer Eileen Myles about Bernofsky's “Clairvoyant of the Small: The Life of Robert Walser,“ the first English-language biography of Swiss author Robert Walser. In their conversation, Myles and Bernofsky will reflect on Walser's intriguing work and life, problems of…

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Russia’s Worlds: The Second World War and the Postwar Settlement

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 an event in the Russia's Worlds Lecture Series, a discussion with Michael David-Fox (Georgetown University) and Francine Hirsch (University of Wisconsin-Madison). BIOGRAPHIES Michael David-Fox is a…

Chantal Thomas in Conversation with François Noudelmann

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Chantal Thomas is a novelist, screenwriter and essayist. Farewell to the Queen was her first great success for which she won the Femina Prize in 2002. She is an 18th century specialist, notably Sade and Casanova. She has just been elected to the French Academy. She will talk about her last three books: East Village Blues (Seuil 2019), Café Vivre (Seuil 2020) and De Sable et de neige (Mercure de France…

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Film Screening: Country Noise

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The German Film Office is pleased to present Lisa Miller’s award-winning film Country Noise as part of its monthly German Movie Nights series. Country Noise tells the story of two women searching for identity in a rural setting that is facing increasing challenges from an ever more complex world. A mix of documentary footage and amateur actors speaking in their own vernacular…

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Black, Brown and Green Voices: Dr. Danielle T. Phillips-Cunningham

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For this Black, Brown and Green Voices event, Dr. Miriam Nyhan Grey will be in conversation with Dr. Danielle T. Phillips-Cunningham about her new book Putting Their Hands on Race: Irish Immigrant and Southern Black Domestic Workers, which offers an important labor history of 19th and early 20th century Irish immigrant and US southern Black migrant domestic workers.

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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

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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.

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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,…