Turning Points: Joseph Stiglitz and Thomas Piketty in Dialogue

A live virtual transatlantic event September, 10th 2020 | 1:00-2:15 pm EST (New York) | 19:00-20:15 GMT+2 (Paris) REGISTER HERE *This is a simulcast event to be broadcast live on Zoom and also on YouTube and Facebook. A simultaneous French translation will be available on Le Monde.fr and on Zoom. Are widening inequalities and the wealth gap at a tipping point? Join…

Turning Points: Joseph Stiglitz and Thomas Piketty in Dialogue

REGISTER HERE Thursday, September 10, 1:00-2:15 P.M. EST (New York) / 19h00-20h15 GMT+2 (Paris) *This is a simulcast event to be broadcast live on Zoom and also on YouTube and Facebook. A simultaneous French translation will be available on Le Monde and on Zoom.  Are widening inequalities and the wealth gap at a turning point? Join Joseph Stiglitz and Thomas Piketty in a transatlantic dialogue on the COVID-19 pandemic and global economic insecurities, racial disparities and…

Musician, Midwives, Soldiers, Rabbis: Whose Story Will Become Jewish History?

Join Elisheva Carlebach, Deborah Dash Moore, Dara Horn, and Itamar Borochov in a discussion about Confronting Modernity, 1750–1880, Vol. 6 of The Posen Library of Jewish Culture and Civilization, edited by Elisheva Carlebach. Hear voices rarely included in Jewish culture, such as that of Roza, a multilingual Jewish midwife and that of a Jewish soldier during the American Civil War. Learn about the powerful religious music inspiring artists…

Midwives, Musicians, Soldiers, Rabbis: Whose Stories Will Become Jewish History?

A discussion to explore The Posen Library of Jewish Culture and Civilization, Vol. 6: Confronting Modernity, 1750-1880, edited by Elisheva Carlebach. Join Elisheva Carlebach, Deborah Dash Moore, Dara Horn, and Itamar Borochov, in a discussion of Confronting Modernity, 1750-1880, vol. 6 of The Posen Library of Jewish Culture and Civilization, edited by Elisheva Carlebach. Hear voices rarely included in Jewish…

Virtual Nordic Cooking with Morten Sohlberg

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Chef Morten Sohlberg will present an online demo making one of his favorite late summer dishes: roasted zucchini and squash coated with ricotta, parmesan, and various herbs and spices.

Jochen Hick “Talk Straight: The World of Rural Queers”

This film series 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…

Exilic Inscriptions: Mobility and the Resistance to Theory

This event will be held virtually as a Zoom webinar and streamed via YouTube Live. There will be no in-person event. Click here at the time of the event to join the Zoom webinar, or tune in on YouTube Live. Please join us for a presentation by Galin Tihanov, George Steiner Professor of Comparative Literature at Queen Mary University of London, as part of…

Music on the Steps | MATI’s 2020/2021 Season Preview

On Saturday, September 12, 2020, the Ukrainian Institute of America’s Music at the Institute (MATI) Concert Series will stream a Preview of the 2020/2021 Season outdoors from the steps of the Ukrainian Institute of America, featuring alumni & students of the Yale School of Music and the University of Connecticut; Deputy Dean of the Yale School of Music, violinist Melvin…

GLOBAL UPRISING: Racism, Racialization, Anti-Blackness

Zoom signup How might we think uprising in light of the resurgence and relegitimization of racial/racist thought? How do we think historically about the return of certain colonial grammar and rhetoric in right-wing reactionary thought—"reverse colonization,” “white genocide,” “replacement theory”?  In the now total collapse of the multicultural normative consensus and imagery of the global village, how does this period…

Equity, Inclusion, and Immigration in Nordic Countries

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In this virtual panel, four distinguished guests join us for a discussion on inequality both in the Nordic countries and the U.S. Featuring: Swedish hip-hop artist Jason "Timbuktu" Diakite, Swedish author Jonas Hassen Khemiri, Danish author Simon Pasternak, Swedish-Ethiopian chef and restaurateur Marcus Samuelsson.