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13th Annual Irish Institute Lecture Series: Professor Louise Richardson on Seamus Heaney

November 11, 12.30pm EST/5.30 GMT Airs and Graces Professor Richardson worked alongside Seamus Heaney while both were at Harvard University, a period during which he served as Oxford Professor of Poetry. She was Seamus Heaney’s personal contact when he was conferred with an Honorary Degree by the University of St Andrews during her tenure as St Andrew’s Vice-Chancellor. Professor Richardson will be introduced by the President of…

Family Affairs: Ashkenazi and Sephardi Personal Histories

In a series of discussions with leading scholars of modern Jewish history and the Holocaust, our new "Family Affairs" series explores researching and writing about Jewish experience from a distinctively personal perspective. We will also discuss projects in the making, with scholars who are currently working on their books that either trace their family history or take this connection as…

Conversatorios Online 2020-2021: Arte, Activismo y Lo Común Organized by Sara Nadal-Melsió | Public Trust: A Conversation with Paul Ramirez-Jonas

Wednesday, November 11, 2020 | 5:00pm EST Live stream on facebook.com/kjccnyu/live This event will be held in Spanish Over the past 25 years Paul Ramirez-Jonas has sought to challenge the definitions of art and the public and to engineer active au­dience participation and exchange. He has been made public in galleries, institutions and urban spaces around the world. He has…

The Fiume Crisis: Life in the Wake of the Habsburg Empire

Featuring Dominique Reill, University of Miami & respondent Malgorzata Mazurek, Columbia University. If you are interested in attending, please email Jamie Nadel at jbn2117@columbia.edu and you will be sent a Zoom link and password. This event is part of the European History & Politics Workshop series, which is supported by the European Institute and the Department of History at Columbia University.

20/20 Philosophers: Pierre Cassou-Noguès

REGISTER HERE TO RECEIVE A ZOOM LINK TO THE EVENT Philosophy, in the 21st century, has changed: its practices and languages are no longer those of the previous century. A turning point has been taken by new generations and thinkers from diverse origins who, more than commenting on the old masters, are taking philosophy into new fields: health, ecology, neurosciences,…

VIRTUAL EVENT. Prigov at 80

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 us for a panel discussion on the legacy of writer and artist Dmitri Prigov (1940-2007). This event is part of our Contemporary Culture Series. SPEAKERS Keti Chukhrov Ilya Kukulin…

Special Virtual Book Discussion by Serhii Plokhy

The Ukrainian Institute of America, in collaboration with the Shevchenko Scientific Society and the Ukrainian Academy of Arts and Sciences, is delighted to invite you to a special virtual book discussion by Serhii Plokhy, Mykhailo Hrushevsky Professor of History and Director of the Ukrainian Research Institute at Harvard University. Forgotten Bastards of the Eastern Front: American Airmen Behind the Soviet Lines and the…

L’Atelier des enfants: Où va le chat ? with Léa Décan

Join us for a morning of reading and fun activities with author and illustrator Léa Decan who will read from Où va le chat ?  her latest book published by L’Agrume. You will receive a signed copy of Où va le chat ? if you register for this event and purchase your copy from Albertine before October 14. The reading…

“And the Story Goes on…: A Conversation with Cornelia Funke”

The Consulate General of Germany New York and Deutsches Haus at NYU, in collaboration with the German Language School Conference (GLSC), present a reading from Reckless 4, the most recently published novel by Cornelia Funke, followed by a conversation between the acclaimed German storyteller and illustrator and Juliane Camfield, Director of Deutsches Haus at NYU. This reading and conversation, which…

LIVE FROM THE ARCHIVES: A Pinch of Tradition and a Dash of Imagination- Stories from the AJHS Cookbook Archives

On this episode we explore how Ashkenazi and Sephardi immigrants adapted a New World food and quintessential Thanksgiving dish: pumpkin. Inspired by the AJHS cookbook collection, specifically an award-winning Sabra Liqueur pumpkin pie dreamed up in a kitchen in Milwaukee and sweet pumpkin burekas perfected by a kosher food columnist right here in New York City, culinary historian Sarah Lohman demonstrates how Ashkenazi…