American-Scandinavia Foundation invites you to a virtual book talk with ASF Fellow Beth Peterson on her new book Dispatches from the End of Ice. The book features science wrought with mystery. The discussion is moderated by Sally Yerkovich. Oct 7 @ 7pm.
Conference on Innovative Forms of Memory Culture On October 8 and 9, we kick off our project Shaping the Past with the Monument Lab Town Hall. This digital conference explores new models and practices for how we might shape the past in ways that continue to confront legacies of racist, sexist, and colonial systems of knowledge and to strengthen democracy through public…
This event will be held virtually as a Zoom webinar and streamed via YouTube Live. There will be no in-person event. Register here for the Zoom webinar, or tune in on YouTube Live. Please join the Harriman Institute for a panel discussion about the 2020 parliamentary election in Georgia. On October 31, 2020, Georgia will go to the polls to elect a new parliament.…
Jordan Carey, contributor to our collection. Photo Credit: Kim Haughton October 8, 12.30pm EST/5.30 GMT: NYU's Dr. Kimberly McClain DaCosta, author of Making Multiracials: State, Family, and Market in the Redrawing of the Color Line (Stanford University Press, 2007) will discuss racial boundaries in the context of her work as a sociologist with a special interest in how Irishness has interacted with blackness. Click to…
Digital Forays in Middle Eastern Studies // A year-long series 2020-2021: This year-long series starts from a simple premise: What does it look like to think, engage, and do research in this digital age? This is not a call for researchers to simply produce digital outputs - but we live in an ever-increasingly digital world. In order to better activate our scholarship, and to grasp…
Judith Surkis, in conversation with Stephanie McCurry, Karuna Mantena, and Emmanuelle Saada, moderated by Camille Robcis To RSVP, please click here. During more than a century of colonial rule over Algeria, the French state shaped and reshaped the meaning and practice of Muslim law by regulating it and circumscribing it to the domain of family law, while applying the French…
Registration information to come. At 90, with nearly 90 books, poet-philosopher and intellectual impresario extraordinaire Michel Deguy will be celebrated live for all he’s brought to thought for three-quarters of a century. Three roundtables will round out the three hours. In Deguy’s presence and with his comments, an international array of speakers will congregate around three prompts: Introduction by…
moderated by Anya Schiffrin To sign up for this virtual conversation, RSVP here. One person, one vote. In theory, everyone in a democracy has equal power to decide elections. But it’s hardly news that, in reality, political outcomes are heavily determined by the logic of one dollar, one vote. We take the political power of money for granted. But does…
Join us for a lively Zoom conversation on Sentimental Education by Gustave Flaubert, translated from the French by Robert Baldick (Penguin). Based on Flaubert’s own youthful passion for an older woman, Sentimental Education was described by its author as “the moral history of the men of my generation.” It follows the amorous adventures of Frederic Moreau, a law student who, returning…
Though most scholarship on Pushkin’s reception in the United States focuses on twentieth-century African American literature, the origins of this encounter remain poorly understood. In fact, nineteenth-century commentators on both sides of the Atlantic were obsessed with Pushkin’s racial heritage—as both a Russian, and as a canonical European writer of African descent. This collaborative talk (prepared by a transatlantic historian…
