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CALA Spring 2020 Film Series: “Your Voices, Your Votes: Activism around the World”

Deutsches Haus NYU 42 Washington Mews, New York City

As part of the CALA Spring 2020 film series "Your Voices, Your Votes: Activism around the World,” the NYU Center for Applied Liberal Arts and Deutsches Haus at NYU present a screening of the film The Edukators (2005), directed by Hans Weingartner. The introduction will be held by Marie-Luise Goldmann. About the film: The Edukators. Germany. 2005. Directed by Hans Weingartner. Written by Armin Ortmann. With…

How to Make Precarious Russia Habitable – or, What Russians Want in Putin’s Fourth Term

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

This talk is about ethnographic research Professor Morris carried out in ‘small town’ Russia and beyond since 2009. In this talk, Professor Morris will review the main ideas of his book Everyday Postsocialism: that even in contexts characterised by deindustrialisation, loss, and precarity, ordinary people do more than just ‘get by’ – they actively make their social environment habitable in numerous…

Music concert by the Fluffy Bao Trio: Heather Chang, Annett Ho, and Zoe Lin

La Maison Française (Columbia) Buell Hall, 515 West 116th Street, New York City

To RSVP, please click here. The Fluffy Bao Trio performs music by Camille Saint-Saëns, Claude Debussy, Ludwig van Beethoven, and Paul Schoenfield. Presented as part of the Music Performance Program by the Department of Music and Maison Française. Program: Piano Quartet in B-flat Major Op. 41 Camille Saint-Saëns (1835-1921) I. Allegretto Piano Trio in B-flat major, Op. 97, "Archduke" Ludwig…