Join this online event to celebrate the American launch of the Cambridge University Press six-volume essay series Irish Literature in Transition (2020), a new and dynamic account of Ireland’s literary history over 300 years. Speakers will include Prof. Claire Connolly (NUI Cork/UCC), editor of Vol. 2, 1780 – 1830 and Prof. Marjorie Howes (Boston College), editor of Vol. 4, 1880 -…
A discussion series with Max Czollek and Mohamed Amjahid Radical Diversity is presented by several Goethe-Institut locations in North America in collaboration with its pop-up branches, the Thomas Mann House, and the Institute for Social Justice & Radical Diversity under the sponsorship of the Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung North America. This event takes place September 16, at 2.00 PM CDT via Zoom. ZOOM…
To sign up for this virtual conversation, RSVP here. Stolen Song (Cornell University Press, 2020) documents the act of cultural appropriation that created a founding moment for French literary history: the rescripting and domestication of troubadour song, a prestige corpus in the European sphere, as French. This book also documents the simultaneous creation of an alternative point of origin for French…
To sign up for this virtual transatlantic event, RSVP here. The first two volumes of Oeuvres complètes by French philosopher Etienne Balibar were recently published by La Découverte as Histoire interminable. D’un siècle l’autre. Ecrits I and Passions du concepts. Epistémologie, théologie et politique. Ecrits II. Etienne Balibar’s friends and colleagues at Columbia University, Souleymane Bachir Diagne, Emmanuelle Saada, and…
To sign up for this virtual transatlantic event, RSVP here. The first two volumes of Oeuvres complètes by French philosopher Etienne Balibar were recently published by La Découverte as Histoire interminable. D’un siècle l’autre. Ecrits I and Passions du concepts. Epistémologie, théologie et politique. Ecrits II. Etienne Balibar’s friends and colleagues at Columbia University, Souleymane Bachir Diagne, Emmanuelle Saada, and…
REGISTER HERE TO RECEIVE THE LINK TO THE EVENT. This roundtable discussion will examine how responses to the pandemic have differed between countries and from the USA; how the pandemic rearranged political fault lines within or between countries; and what impact the pandemic might have had on existing discussions about populism and the European Union. With Hadas Aron (Center for…
This event will recur Every Day until Sep. 17, 2020 Please note: Registration is required to receive the Zoom Meeting ID. Please follow this link to register. Please also note that you will need to have a Zoom account and be signed in to join the meeting. After China, Europe became one of the first major epicenters of the COVID-19…
This film is part of Queer as German Folk, a project celebrating the intersectional histories of Germany’s and America’s diverse LGBTIQ+ communities. A digitally modified version of the exhibition Queer as German Folk and a full program of virtual events is presented by the Goethe-Institut in North America in collaboration with its Goethe Pop Ups and the Schwules Museum Berlin (SMU). The film will be available to stream from September…
REGISTRATION INFORMATION TO COME. Organized by Emily Apter and Peter Szendy With Katie Chenowith, Claire Colebrook, Martin Crowley, Divya Dwivedi, Michel Deguy, Devin Fore, Daniel Hoffman-Schwartz, Achille Mbembe, Shaj Mohan, Jean-Luc Nancy, and Daniel Ross Interventions in English and French.
Deutsches Haus at NYU presents a conversation on "Memories, Myths, and Monuments: Confronting National Narratives" among Peniel Joseph (University of Texas in Austin), Susan Neiman (Einstein Forum), Jürgen Zimmerer (University of Hamburg), and Atina Grossmann (The Cooper Union). About the panel: This virtual conversation will bring together historians, philosophers, and public intellectuals from both the United States and Germany to…