Writer-director Mia Hansen-Løve is recognized as one of the brightest talents in contemporary French film for the way she has renewed the tradition of the intimate cinema of ideas and emotions epitomized by auteurs such as Eric Rohmer. While her later films such as Things to Come were widely praised in the United States, her first feature All is Forgiven is only receiving its…
Paul Atkin, CEO and founder of the Teatro San Cassiano Group, will talk with Dame Jane Glover, Conductor and Music Director of “Music of the Baroque.” The event will be moderated by Giuseppe Gerbino, Professor of Historical Musicology at Columbia University.
Deutsches Haus at NYU, NYU's Center for European and Mediterranean Studies and the American Council on Germany present “What’s Behind Germany’s Querdenker Movement?” The intensity and scope of protests against the government measures to reduce the spread of Covid-19 in Germany has surprised many observers. Self-stylized "lateral thinkers" have forged a coalition that encompasses far-right extremists but also anti-vaxxers who historically have aligned with the left.…
Casa Italiana hosts this book club online on the Zoom platform to discuss contemporary Italian books in Italian. The Club is open to anyone and its purpose is to offer the possibility to practice the Italian language. Everybody is encouraged to speak. The group suggests the books, usually by contemporary Italian authors, that reflect the changes that have taken place with time in…
This session will explore whether the EU integration process has forged a sense of common identity (culturally and politically) among Europeans. Participants will also discuss how minorities and migrants relate to such an identity.
This session will explore whether the EU integration process has forged a sense of common identity (culturally and politically) among Europeans. Participants will also discuss how minorities and migrants relate to such an identity. February 2, 2021: Thierry Grillet interviews writer Kamel Daoud (pre-recorded in French). The video will be posted on Columbia Global Centers | Paris YouTube Channel. February 9, 2021 | 1pm (New York) | 7pm (Paris): Join Mark…
Join us for another installment of the 19v Seminar Series! This event will be held virtually as a Zoom meeting: https://nyu.zoom.us/j/99102207490. In this talk, Professor Ilya Vinitsky, with discussant Maxim Hanukai, will focus on aesthetic and ideological implications of the first translation of the “Gabrieliad” (Гавриилиада, 1821) into English (and, for that matter, into any foreign language) by Max Eastman…
Édouard Glissant (1928-2011) est mort il y a dix ans, laissant une œuvre immense et une pensée révolutionnaire. Poète, philosophe, romancier, dramaturge, activiste, ethnologue, pédagogue, il s’est investi dans tous les langages avec l’ambition de transformer les imaginaires. Né en Martinique, il a développé une philosophie du Tout-Monde en rupture avec les universalismes européens, leur opposant une histoire multiple et…
"AFRICAN MUSLIMS IN BRAZIL AND LATIN AMERICA: AN ANTERIOR HISTORY" Wednesday, February 3rd 12:30pm-2:30pm Part of the Silsila Spring 2021 Lecture Series, Translations Link to Register here. 12.30-12.45 Introduction, Finbarr Barry Flood, Silsila/NYU 12.45-1.15 Michael Gomez, NYU, "African Muslims in the New World: A Context" 1.15-1.45 Margarita Rosa, Princeton University, "African Muslims and the Du’as of the 1835 Slave Revolt" 1.45-2.30 Questions and Discussion Michael Gomez Title: African…
Frédéric Viguier traces the history of La Cause des pauvres en France - the defense of the poor people's rights in France since 1945. He describes efforts by organizations such as ATD Quart Monde and the Federation working on behalf of inhabitants living in temporary camps and cites de transit (Fédération des acteurs de la solidarité dans les campements et les cités de…
From the author of the wildly acclaimed Night Boat to Tangier, one of the New York Times’ 10 Best Books of 2019, stories of rural Ireland in the classic mode: full of love, melancholy and magic, bedecked in some of the most gorgeous prose being written today.
After so long under lockdown, what better lunch companion than the “happiest man in the world”? Matthieu Ricard, a biologist-turned-Buddhist, French interpreter to the Dalai Lama, will join us to talk about his personal journey from France to the Himalaya Mountains, his encounter with Buddhism, the practice of meditation and its link to photography, and finally the climate crisis.
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, security warfare, non-Western thought, trans-identities, the rights of non-human living…
This event will be held as a Zoom meeting: https://nyu.zoom.us/j/92920017194. In October 1962, as the Cuban Missile Crisis raged, New York City Ballet (NYCB) toured the Soviet Union, performing seventeen ballets by George Balanchine. The tour was part of the Soviet-American cultural exchange, arranged by the governments of the US and USSR as part of their Cold War strategies. The…
In the framework of our Shaping the Past event series and with the joint screening of two performance films by Elana Katz, we are presenting Memory Laps: A Conversation with Artist Elana Katz. Social trauma, collective memory, and the historical erasure of oppressed bodies have driven art creation for decades. This discussion will deepen the analysis of Elana Katz’s performance films Aiming for Hopelessness (2021) and Running on…
This year's free, annual workshop for teachers of French, co-presented by the Columbia French Department and the Metropolitan Chapter of the American Association of Teachers of French, will feature presentations on the theme of "Les pépites au fond du tamis : ce qu'on retiendra de notre expérience de l'enseignement du français au temps de la Covid-19."
On Saturday, February 6 at 11AM ET, join us for a virtual visit and workshop with award-winning author and artist Marika Maijala. Marika will invite us into her studio on Harakka Island to introduce us to her art-marking and drawing process, which uses a distinctive oil-pastel technique. She will also discuss how the technique was used for one of her…
Join us on Saturday, February 6 at 2 PM ET for a Virtual Studio Visit with the artist Shoplifter in Reykjavik, Iceland, to hear about her latest projects! One of Iceland’s leading contemporary artists Shoplifter (Hrafnhildur Arnardóttir) represented the country at the Venice Biennale in 2019, and her installation Chromo Sapiens opened at the Icelandic Pavilion in May 2019 in Venice, Italy, before…
Ten years after she published her last novel, Sibyl decides to quit her successful practice as a psychoanalyst and begin writing again, surprising her partner and children with this apparently rash decision. As she is about to leave her practice, she accepts an emergency appointment with Margot, a young actress pregnant with the costar of her next film, who is…
This event will be held as a Zoom meeting: https://nyu.zoom.us/j/99102207490. Russian painters of the mid-nineteenth century faced a difficult art market. Even the most talented of them—trained as history painters to produce large-scale canvases of biblical and historical subjects—found little demand for such works from the church or the state after finishing their training. Meanwhile, the number of artists…
We launched our new series on contemporary writing in 2018. Led by a prominent figure in French culture, we invite four writers every year in order to reflect and discuss on a chosen theme. These interviews will each take place on a Monday night; the following day, the invited authors will give public lectures, and their works will be integrated…
Moderated by Zachary Desjardins-Mooney, Columbia University
Feb 9, 2021 / 12:30-2PM (NYC/EST Time) / Zoom signup We tend to think of uprising as the purview of the Left—what ‘we’ do as opposed to what ‘they’ do. And yet the last decade has seen an insurrectionist Right appropriate much of the Left’s style. Uprising today can often start with an ideological indeterminacy, around a populist refusal of…
Florence Mendheim went undercover at a moment in which American Nazism was flourishing. Local Nazi groups in the New York area were distributing propaganda, setting up summer camps, and hosting large rallies. Mendheim, an employee of the New York Public Library, was inspired to document and resist these groups.
On February 9, we’ll be discussing the book The Women I Think About at Night by Mia Kankimäki, who joined us last month for a book talk on the novel with moderator Heli Sirviö, available to stream here. Bored with her life and feeling stuck in her mid-40s, Mia Kankimäki decided to leave her job, sell her apartment, and travel the world to follow…
Dramatists, scholars, and disability activists have started taking an interest in a deaf Irishwoman who was once considered the premiere national playwright of her day: Teresa Deevy. Interest in her life and works has taken different shapes, from those drawn to her representations of women living circumscribed lives in 1930s Ireland to those who want to recover a neglected history…
In collaboration with NYU's Center for Neural Science, Dr. Sindy Joyce will be interviewed as part of the Growing Up In Science Life Stories series. This is a series of talks, founded by NYU's Prof. Weiji Ma, in which scientists tell their life story, including struggles that they have had to overcome and with a special interest in scientists from underrepresented groups.…
Join us as a panel of experts discuss Emile Chabal's new short introduction to postwar France. The book explores the contradictions that have shaped French history over the last eighty years, from the calamitous defeat by Hitler's armies in 1940 through decolonisation, the gilets jaunes and the response to COVID-19. Structured around the idea of paradox, Chabal paints a picture…
The Algerian uprising known as the hirak is about to reach its second anniversary. Stalled by the COVID pandemic and confronting powerful entrenched interests, the protestors face crucial political choices. The current state of the movement and its possible future are discussed by three leading observers.
This event will be held virtually as a Zoom meeting: https://nyu.zoom.us/j/98726318935. Whether it be of Robert E. Lee, Tsar Nicholas II, Huey Long or the head of the NKVD Feliks Dzerzhinsky, political statuary evokes a range of impassioned responses from groups as varied as the Proud Boys and Identity Evropa in the United States, and the Double-Headed Eagle and…
In the aftermath of the 2015 terror attacks in Paris, people paid tribute to the victims by bringing to the sites flowers, notes, candles, paintings – all sorts of offerings forming spontaneous memorials. Sarah Gensburger was one of the sociologists who documented their evolution, while the Paris Archives collected their contents. Similarly, Nora Philippe filmed the Women’s March on Washington…
This event will be ONLINE and in SPANISH Live stream on facebook.com/kjccnyu/live This discussion seeks to address the all-too prescient topic of how both sociopolitical and socioeconomic crises have tended to intersect with epidemics historically, and how they tend to be read and remembered (or no) over time. Our goal is to analyze and discuss representations and discourses of contagion…
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, security warfare, non-Western thought, trans-identities, the rights of non-human living…
Another Modernity is a rich study of the life and thought of Elia Benamozegh, a nineteenth-century rabbi and philosopher whose work profoundly influenced Christian-Jewish dialogue in twentieth-century Europe. Benamozegh, a Livornese rabbi of Moroccan descent, was a prolific writer and transnational thinker who corresponded widely with religious and intellectual figures in France, the Maghreb, and the Middle East. This idiosyncratic figure,…
This event will be held virtually as a Zoom meeting: https://nyu.zoom.us/j/96312687337. In this talk, Dr. Anton Sobolev will unpack the technology of the Russian government propaganda and manipulation of online discussions, and establishes the causal effect of government interventions on the online behavior of social media users. Using a novel database on the activity of the state-sponsored online propagandists masquerading…
Five years after her international triumph Girlhood, writer-director Céline Sciamma returns with a poignant feminist revision of the historical romance. In the late eighteenth-century, Marianne, a free-spirited painter, travels to a remote island off the coast of Brittany to paint a portrait of Héloïse, a young woman whose mother has recently taken her out of a convent to marry her to…
This event will be held virtually as a Zoom meeting: https://nyu.zoom.us/j/97534375287. Professor Norihiro Naganawa will present on his ongoing book project, which explores early Soviet Russia’s engagement with Central Asia, Iran and the Red Sea through a biography of one Tatar revolutionary and Soviet diplomat, Karim Abdraufovich Khakimov (1890-1938). With Putin’s Russia returning to the Middle East against a backdrop…
Presentation of the book by Valentina Pisanty (University of Bergamo), The Guardians of Memory, published by CPL Editions 2021. Participants: Valentina Pisanty (University of Bergamo), Michael Rothberg (UCLA), Omer Bartov (Brown University), Manuela Consonni (The Hebrew University) In collaboration with the Italian Cultural Institute, NYU Casa Italiana Zerilli Marimò and The Vidal Sasson International Center for the Study of Antisemitism.
Thanks to the order of a Roman Emperor from 321 CE that allowed the municipal council of the Roman colony at the site of modern-day Cologne to compel Jews to service, we know that Jews were part of late Roman society in the northern European provinces at least 17 centuries ago. A tiny ring of similar age bearing a menorah…
The Institute of Fine Arts invites you to celebrate the publication of Jonathan Brown’s new collection of essays, No solo Velázquez (Madrid: Cátedra, 2020). The event is co-sponsored by the Institute of Fine Arts and the King Juan Carlos I Center of NYU. Moderated by Jordana Mendelson, Director of the King Juan Carlos I Center of NYU, with brief introductions…
Join us for a lively Zoom conversation on A King Alone by Jean Giono, translated from the French by Alyson Waters (NYRB). A King Alone is set in a remote Alpine village that is cut off from the world by rugged mountains and by long months when the ground is covered with snow and the heavens with clouds. One such winter,…
Join us for another installment of the 19v seminar. This event will be held virtually as a Zoom meeting: https://nyu.zoom.us/j/99102207490. This talk will explore how the pastoralism of Notes from a Hunter neither ignores history nor gives up on the nostalgic dream of frozen time as it moves between poles of dynamism and repose and struggles with the relentless expectations of…
On February 18, please join ASF for a virtual round-table discussion on “Radical Nationalism and the Politics of Nostalgia,” which will touch upon topics such as Nordic and U.S. right-wing extremism, populism, white melancholy, and the normalcy of whiteness. Panelists will include Benjamin R. Teitelbaum, Assistant Professor of Ethnomusicology and International Affairs at the University of Colorado, Boulder; Catrin Lundström, Associate…
Self-taught Outsider artists ("Art Brut") develop personal systems of expression to produce paintings, sculptures, drawings or textile works outside of official artistic circles. Sometimes unaware of social conventions, often resistant to cultural rules, they transgress (sometimes involuntarily) established codes and invent highly personal symbolic universes. In their works, Outsider artists invent subjects, modes of representation, systems of perspective, and technical…
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, security warfare, non-Western thought, trans-identities, the rights of non-human living…
Thursday, February 18, 2021, 6:00pm EST This event will be ONLINE and in ENGLISH Live stream on facebook.com/kjccnyu/live Feeling Sick: The Early Years of AIDS in Spain by Dean Allbritton. This book examines the cultural history of the early years of AIDS in Spain (1981-1987) as it has been told through television and print media, ephemeral products of visual culture,…
Catherine Cusset is the award-winning, best-selling author of thirteen novels published by Gallimard. She taught literature at Yale between 1991 and 2002 and lives in New York City. Her novel Un brillant avenir received the Goncourt des Lycéens Prize in 2008 and her novel L’autre qu’on adorait was a finalist for the Goncourt Prize in 2016. The Story of Jane was published by Simon & Schuster in 2001 and Life of…
Man muss Hannes Stein glauben, wenn er im Prolog seines neuen Buches den Wunsch formuliert, er hätte rasch den Roman zur Pandemie geschrieben und nicht schon viele Jahre daran gearbeitet. Und doch mutet es unter heutiger Perspektive geradezu unheimlich an, wie sich die beiden Hauptfiguren, Julia Bacharach und Bodo von Unruh, in einer menschenleeren Hotelbar kennenlernen und miteinander zu flirten…
Part of the Silsila Spring 2021 Lecture Series, Translations Link to Register here The past decade has seen a proliferation of scholarship on material dimensions of Islamic belief and practice. From amulets to devotional paintings, shrine visitation and relics, a range of subjects once marginal to the historical study of Islam is now attracting attention in disciplines ranging from art history and anthropology…
Join us for a morning of readings and fun activities based on Le Collier Magique by Souleymane MBodj and Magali Attiogbé in French. The reading will be followed by an interactive collective workshop lead by Magali Attiogbé on Zoom. Children will be invited to create a lion and imagine his various emotion, chat with the author, and share their work…
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 an event in the Russia's Worlds Lecture Series, a discussion with Bathsheba Demuth (Brown University) and Ilya Vinkovetsky (Simon Fraser University). BIOGRAPHIES Bathsheba Demuth is Assistant…
This event will be held virtually as a Zoom meeting: https://nyu.zoom.us/j/97955477217. In the brief civil war that followed the collapse of the USSR, Boris Yeltsin’s pro-Western government was opposed by a strange coalition that the neoliberal media called “the communofascists” or “the red- and-browns.” These clichés were part of a campaign to discredit and de-humanize the resistance to the radical…
The Hagop Kevorkian Center and the Department of Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies at NYU kindly invite you to join us on February 22 at 12:30pm NYC / 7:30pm Beirut for the first Arabic lecture of the semester: “The Economic Crisis in Lebanon” by renowned economist Kamal Hamdan, featuring discussant Jad Ghosn. Dr. Hamdan will offer insight on the current…
The early twentieth century was a period of assimilation and acculturation for large segments of the Jewish population living in the United States and Central and Eastern Europe. It was also a time of development and flowering for cinema – a new, democratic art form. Focusing on documentaries as well as feature silent films, 2019 Jan Karski & Pola Nirenska Award…
February 23: Reproduction/Reproduction: Approaching Dante from Afar March 16: Forging the People: Machiavelli, Michelangelo April 6: Montaigne, the Wave, the Diagram: Depicting Life (and Death) The University of Pennsylvania is the joint producer of this series—through the Italian Studies section of the Department of Romance Languages, and the Center for Italian Studies. Carlo Ginzburg (born 1939) has taught at the University of Bologna,…
Join us for an experiential workshop with poet Esther Shkalim where she will share about her life as a Persian Jew in Israel, accompanied by readings from her well-received works "Sharkiya" and "What a Woman Must Know," published by Kinneret-Zemura-Bitan. Part of "The Persian Experience," East and West: Can the Two Walk Together? (Amos 3:3) is a discussion with poet Esther Shkalim…
Join us as we honor Bank of America's Anne Finucane and New York Times Pulitzer-winning journalist Dan Barry at the 9th Annual Gala, which will be held online on February 23 at 7pm EST. Past honorees have included luminaries such as Loretta Brennan Glucksman, Pete Hamill, Buzzy O'Keeffe, Ted Smyth, Sir James Galway, Paul Muldoon, Alice McDermott, Colum McCann, Danny McDonald, Carl Shanahan, Niall O'Dowd, Peter Quinn, Jim Rooney, Dómhnall Slattery…
Feb 24, 2021 / 12:30-2PM (NYC/EST Time) / Zoom signup Uprisings we are told move not by contamination but by resonance. It’s the affective force of the uprising itself that is the current of both movement and change. Bodies acting together in risk is transformative. A change that starts not with consciousness but with the body, from what was once…
Online event open to all. Please join us at this link. *Please note that you will need to have a Zoom account and be signed in to join the meeting. With Sissoko Anzoumane (Coalition International des Sans Papiers et Migrants), Solène Brun (Institut Convergences Migrations), and Fadil Njoya. Moderated by Fred Salin (IFS/NYU and IRIS/EHESS).
The Lafargue Clinic was founded in 1946 by a group of black intellectuals and German-Jewish doctors. These activists joined together to answer a pressing need in New York -the need for psychiatric care for Black people. Blacks were historically denied access to clinics and hospitals that provided for the mental needs of the city. Further, black intellectuals argued that their communities suffered…
The Lafargue Clinic was founded in 1946 by a group of black intellectuals and German-Jewish doctors. These activists joined together to answer a pressing need in New York - the need for psychiatric care for Black people. Blacks were historically denied access to clinics and hospitals that provided for the mental needs of the city. Further, black intellectuals argued that their communities…
Go behind the stories and peer inside the archives at the CJH book discussion, led by Lauren Gilbert, Senior Manager for Public Services at the Center for Jewish History. This session will feature a discussion of The Lost Shtetl by Max Gross, winner of the 2020 National Jewish Book Award in the "Book Club" category. A work of speculative fiction and magical…
Fanny von Arnstein was an important figure in the history of the Enlightenment. Born into a wealthy Jewish family in Berlin, she married and moved to Vienna, where she founded a salon attracted politicians, artists, writers, and other prominent figures. Included in this list are Madame de Staël, Arthur Schopenhauer, and Amadeus Mozart. Hilde Spiel's biography provides "a vivid portrait of…
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, security warfare, non-Western thought, trans-identities, the rights of non-human living…
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 presentation by Andi Hoxhaj (Warwick Law School), author of The EU Anti-Corruption Policy: A Reflexive Governance Approach (Routledge, 2020). Discussion moderated by Tanya Domi (SIPA/Harriman Institute).…
download NOVEL Friday, February 26, 2021, 2:00pm EST This event will be ONLINE and in ENGLISH Live stream on ZOOM Roundtable with Mary Ann Newman (Scholar-in-Residence, NYU KJCC) Peter Bush (Literary Translator) Chad W. Post (Open Letter Books/University of Rochester) Helena Buffery (University College Cork, Ireland) Introduced by Michael Gatan (NYU) Moderated by Jordana Mendelson (NYU)
Anson Rabinbach (Princeton University) in conversation with Stefanos Geroulanos (History, New York University) on his new book Staging the Third Reich: Essays in Cultural and Intellectual History This event will take place over Zoom. Please follow this link to register.
In the context of a Moon race where multiple actors are rushing to get hold of limited resources located in a reduced area, several international fora and working groups have been created to regulate the occupation of these lunar regions and the exploitation of their resources. In this lecture, Tamara Álvarez examines the ways in which these regulatory practices are…
Presented by Polish Cultural Institute New York in collaboration with Residency Unlimited. In the midst of the cultural reckoning spurred by the #metoo movement and in the turmoil of infringement on women’s civil rights both in Poland and the US resulting in new political and civil movements on the rise, women activists in the arts haved been continuing their mission while facing new…