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The Collective Body: Legacies of Monastic Discipline in the post-Soviet Prison

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

On Thursday, November 8th please join us for a talk with Lyuba Azbel (London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine) and Evan Morse (St. Francis College) on “The Collective Body: Legacies of Monastic Discipline in the post-Soviet Prison”. Despite an expanding HIV epidemic, methadone treatment—the most effective way to prevent infection—remains difficult to implement among prisoners in post-Soviet countries where…

Ways of Re-Thinking Literature

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

Join artists, writers, scholars Rita Ackermann, Tom Bishop, Laurent Dubreuil, Donatien Grau, Boris Groys, Shelley Jackson, and Vanessa Place for readings and conversations towards the many Ways of Re-Thinking Literature, on the occasion of the publication of this book (Routledge, edited by Tom Bishop and Donatien Grau), a polyphonic platform for literary thinking. In  English. Free and open to the public. No RSVP…

Mamma Roma

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

In conjunction with the exhibition NeoRealismo: The New Image in Italy, 1932-1960 Mamma Roma (Italy, 1962, 110 min.) In ITALIAN with ENGLISH subtitles Directed by Pier Paolo Pasolini Starring Anna Magnani, Ettore Garofolo Introduced by Rebecca Falkoff, NYU. Anna Magnani is Mamma Roma, a middle-aged prostitute who attempts to extricate herself from her sordid past for her son’s sake. An unflinching…

1938 Projekt: 80 Years since Kristallnacht

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

As the LBI documents the German-Jewish experience of 1938 in the online “1938Projekt” it will commemorate the events of November 9, 1938, when state-sponsored gangs destroyed Jewish homes, synagogues, and businesses. Featuring remarks by historian Marion Kaplan (NYU), the premiere of a short documentary featuring individuals sharing their memories of 1938, reflections by radio personality and author Martin Goldsmith, and…

Józef Czapski: Soldier, Critic, Eyewitness, Painter

McNally Jackson Books 52 Prince Street, New York City, NY, United States

National book tour with scholar and translator Eric Karpeles Thursday, November 8, 2018 - Thursday, November 29, 2018 Events in New York, Washington DC, Chicago, and the San Francisco Bay area Józef Czapski was a beautiful human being, courageous, noble but also hard-working; occasionally a soldier, journalist, diarist, always writing, drawing, always with a sketchbook in hand, always ready to…

Film: Summer in the City

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

With an introduction by Damion Searls, whose translation into English of Uwe Johnson's Anniversaries recently was published by New York Review Books -- German writer Uwe Johnson (1934-1984) lived on Manhattan’s Upper West Side for several years in the 1960s. The publisher Harcourt Brace had hired him as a textbook editor for their German-language school book editions, which allowed him to stay in…

Czech and American Youth’s Take on Dvorak

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

All Dvorak program performed by students from the Prague Conservatoire and NYU Steinhardt School of Music. Free and open to the public. For more information and to reserve your seat, please visit czechcenter.com. Organized by: Czech Center NY, Consulate General of the Czech Republic in New York From the Bohemian National Hall. 

Janusz Korczak: Legacy, Pedagogy, Children’s Rights

Columbia International Affairs Building 420 W. 118th St., New York, NY, United States

Children are not the people of tomorrow, but people today. – Janusz Korcak, How to Love a Child Please join us for a one-day conference devoted to the life and work of Polish-Jewish children’s educator, pediatrician, and writer Janusz Korczak. Coinciding with the publication of a two-volume selection of his writings, newly translated into English, the conference seeks to open…

The Decline and Fall of Empires: Habsburg and Ottoman

Remarque Institute 60 Fifth Avenue, 8th Floor, New York, NY, United States

RSVP is required—please follow this link. Conference Program Friday, November 9 10:00–11:15: Opening Keynote Lecture: Herzl on the Acropolis: Greece and Israel as Post-Ottoman Projects Katherine E. Fleming Alexander S. Onassis Professor of Hellenic Culture and Civilization   11:30–1:30: War and the End of Empire Mustafa Aksakal, Georgetown University, The Ottoman Empire at War Mark Cornwall, University of Southampton, Treason…

Community as Treatment: The Opioid Epidemic and the Therapeutic Community Model

Italian Academy (Columbia) 1161 Amsterdam Avenue, New York City, NY, United States

The opioid epidemic is devastating individuals, families, and communities around the world. Medication-assisted treatment and short-term rehabilitation are common treatment options for individuals with opioid use disorder, especially in the United States, but do not meet the needs of all individuals. The therapeutic community (TC) model offers a unique treatment frame to address individuals with opioid use disorder, and may…