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In 1882 the brutal murders of the Joyce family in Maamtrasna, western Ireland, were succeeded by a series of legal trials and executions, made especially infamous by the wrongful conviction and execution of Irish-speaker Myles Joyce. These events are the subject of a recent book by Professor Margaret Kelleher, Fulbright Visiting Scholar at New York University: The Maamtrasna Murders: Language,…
Please join the Program on U.S.-Russia Relations at the Harriman Institute for a talk with Brigadier General Peter B. Zwack U.S. Army (Retired), a Global Fellow at the Kennan Institute for Advanced Russian Studies. This event will be live streamed on our Facebook page via Facebook Live. Follow us and enable Facebook Live notifications to watch the event. From 2012…
Would there have been a Third World without the Second? Perhaps, but it would have looked very different. Although most histories of these geopolitical blocs and their constituent societies and cultures are written in reference to the West, the interdependence of the Second and Third Worlds is evident not only from a common nomenclature but also from their near-simultaneous disappearance…
Based on the bestselling novel by author Fredrik Backman (A Man Called Ove), this comedic drama follows the journey of 63-year-old Britt-Marie as she works to find a new purpose in life after discovering her husband’s infidelity. For most of her life, Britt-Marie has been fastidious about order, compulsively making sure that her life and home are routine and organized.…
In honor of International Women’s Day, the AJHS and YIVO are delighted to host a panel discussion of Nancy Sinkoff’s new book, From Left to Right: Lucy S. Dawidowicz, the New York Intellectuals, and the Politics of Jewish History, the first comprehensive biography of a pioneer historian in the field of Holocaust Studies. Dawidowicz emerged from an interwar immigrant Yiddishist…
Please join us for a talk with Péter Érdi, author of Ranking: The Unwritten Rules of the Social Game We All Play (Oxford University Press, October 2019). This event will be live streamed on our Facebook page via Facebook Live. Follow us and enable Facebook Live notifications to watch the event. Human beings are competitive. We like to see who is stronger, richer, better,…
Deutsches Haus at NYU presents a reading by the author and current Max Kade writer-in-residence at Deutsches Haus at NYU, Daniela Emminger, from her recent novel Kafka with Wings, followed by a conversation with writer Liesl Schillinger. Daniela Emminger's novel follows a woman's search for her long-lost Kyrgyz friend, exploring the history and culture of Kyrgyzstan while delving into themes…
Hannah Arendt advocates a concept of political freedom that is intimately linked to the appearance of the person on the public stage. However, Arendt's theory of public appearance is wrested from the problems of disappearance and invisibility - under totalitarian regimes, under conditions of slavery and poverty. To better understand the intuition behind Arendt's persistent adherence to a notion of…
Please join us for a talk with Ilya Kukulin (National Research University Higher School of Economics, Moscow). In the 1990s, political and economic reforms in post-Soviet Russia neither absolutely failed nor turned out to be obviously successful. It is better to say that their results became unpredictable for their initiators, as well as for participants and witnesses. Among these unforeseen consequences are…