Recent alumni of the MA in Irish and Irish-American Studies share insights on their publications that have emerged from their research at NYU. At 6.15pm, we will move into the MA Open House portion of the event. Hosted by the Director of Graduate Studies, Dr. Miriam Nyhan Grey, one will be able to learn about the M.A. in Irish and Irish-American…
Three years ago, President Macron called for "a sovereign, democratic, and united Europe". For her part, Chancellor Merkel emphasized that "Europeans must take their fate into their own hands.” Participants in this session will discuss whether Europeans have made progress towards these goals.
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…
Fifty years after she published her first book, If they Come in the Morning: Voice of Resistance, Angela Davis remains one of the most influential writers on culture, gender, capitalism, race, and justice. With such a rich history of activism and writing, it can be difficult to get a full picture of her work. This reading group, facilitated by Marian Jones and Natalie Adler, focuses…
Join the NYU's Center for European and Mediterranean Studies (CEMS) for a discussion of transatlantic relations under the Biden administration. Participants: Anu Bradford (Columbia University Law School); Andreas Nick (Member of Parliament, Christian Democratic Union of Germany); Damian Leader (Department of International Relations, NYU) This event will take place over Zoom. Please follow this link to register.
Deutsches Haus at NYU and the University of Cologne New York Office present “Identity, Belonging, and the Role of the Artist in the Contemporary Graphic Novel,” a conversation between the illustrators and artists Nora Krug and Büke Schwarz, moderated by Professor Stefan Börnchen. Both Nora Krug’s graphic memoir “Belonging: A German Reckons with History and Home” and Büke Schwarz’s debut graphic novel “Jein” draw inspiration from…
Paris and the Cliché of History explores how the history of photography and the history of Paris in the popular imagination became deeply intertwined. Photography shaped the way people came to see their city, even as the continuous compulsion to photograph Paris shaped how photography as an art form and documentary method evolved. Roundtable in honor of the 2018-19 laureate of…
In collaboration with Albertinum (Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden) and the Goethe-Institut New York, Slavs and Tatars’ Pickle Bar is happy to invite you to a lecture by Zavier Wingham, the first in a series of events devoted to exploring black identity in Central Asia, the Middle East, and Eastern Europe. Held within the framework of the Goethe-Institut's extended program for the exhibition 1 Million Roses…
For centuries, writing has been one of the few avenues available for women to make their voices heard in the public sphere. Joanna Lisek will present an overview of the strategies women used to break their way into the sphere of the printed Yiddish word: from annotations in the margins of books, to poems smuggled into the press in the guise of…
Book Club: En compagnie des hommes by Véronique Tadjo. Moderated by Thomas W. Dodman, Columbia University.
Gaël Faye is an author, songwriter and hip-hop artist. He released his first solo album in 2013, with his first novel Petit Pays which won the Prix Goncourt des Lycéens in 2016. Born in 1982 in Burundi to a French father and Rwandan mother, Faye moved with his family to France in 1995 after the outbreak of the civil war and Rwandan genocide.…
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…
American-Scandinavian Foundation invites you to a virtual conversation between filmmaker Lo Dagerman and author Mark Greene on “Masculinity and Culture”, moderated by Benjamin Mier-Cruz on March 9. Immediately following WWII, a young Swedish journalist, Stig Dagerman, is sent into war-torn Europe. He writes a path-breaking travelogue from the ruins of Germany, and is in 1947 dispatched to Paris. French manhood…
The Mediterranean Diaspora in Late Antiquity examines the fate of Jews living in the Mediterranean Jewish diaspora after the Roman emperor Constantine threw his patronage to the emerging orthodox (Nicene) Christian churches. About the Author Ross Shepard Kraemer is Professor Emerita of Religious Studies and Judaic Studies at Brown University, where she specialized in early Christianity and other religions of the…
Françoise Vergès is an antiracist feminist activist, a scholar, a public educator, an independent curator, and the cofounder of the collective Decolonize the Arts and of the free and open university Decolonizing the Arts. She is the author of Monsters and Revolutionaries: Colonial Family Romance and Metissage, also published by Duke University Press, and numerous books in French.
Radical Diversity is a discussion series presented by several Goethe-Institut locations in North America in collaboration with its Goethe Pop Ups, the Thomas Mann House, and the Institute for Social Justice & Radical Diversity under the sponsorship of the Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung North America.
Anne Anderson has had a forty-five year career in Irish diplomacy. She joined the Department of Foreign Affairs in 1972, on the eve of Ireland's entry to the European Economic Community. She retired in 2017 from her final diplomatic posting as Ireland's Ambassador to the United States.
Join LBI for a discussion of Legal Sabotage: Ernst Fraenkel in Nazi Germany with author Douglas G. Morris and commentators David Abraham and Claudia Koonz. “The Jewish leftist lawyer Ernst Fraenkel was one of twentieth-century Germany's great intellectuals. During the Weimar Republic he was a shrewd constitutional theorist for the Social Democrats and in post-World War II Germany a respected political…
The Making of a Man (48 min, 2019) explores courage, cowardice and toxic masculinity across time and place (postwar France, Sweden and contemporary USA). Its point of departure is a play by Swedish writer Stig Dagerman, set in Paris reeling in the aftermath of Nazi occupation.
José Alaniz (University of Washington) and Martha Kuhlman (Bryant University) and Biz Nijdam (University of British Columbia) will discuss the recently published edited collection Comics of the New Europe. This edited collection offers insights into the comics cultures of a number of post-socialist countries including the former East Germany, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Poland, the former Yugoslavia, Hungary, Romania, and…
The German Film Office is pleased to present Western by Valeska Grisebach as part of its monthly German Movie Nights series. An intense, slow-burning thriller, Western follows a group of German construction workers installing a hydroelectric plant in remote rural Bulgaria. The foreign land awakens the men’s sense of adventure, but tensions mount when Meinhard, the strong, silent newcomer to the group,…
See a Virtual Studio Visit with the Norwegian – American artist Ida Lorentzen in Oslo, Norway during the week of March 12 through 20! Ida Lorentzen is known for her paintings of rooms, spaces and light, with works reflecting both Nordic mystical detachment and stark American realism and filled with a deep reverence to history of places and lived life.…
Konstantina Zanou (Columbia University) in conversation with Claudio Fogu (UC Santa Barbara) on the occasion of the publication of his book: The Fishing Net and the Spider Web. Mediterranean Imaginaries and the Making of Italians (Palgrave, 2020) The book explores the role of Mediterranean imaginaries in one of the preeminent tropes of Italian history: the formation or ‘making of’ Italians. While previous scholarship on…
Johannes von Moltke is professor of German Studies and Film, TV and Media, at the University of Michigan. His most recent books include "The Curious Humanist: Siegfried Kracauer in America" and "Last Letters: The Prison Correspondence between Helmuth James and Freya von Moltke 1944-45." For registration, please email germanic@columbia.edu.
This program of documentary shorts is both a stirring introduction to the Beninese/Senegalese filmmaker Paulin Soumanou Vieyra, considered the first sub-Saharan African film director and a rich overview of the period of African independence and nation-building. Vieyra’s 1955 essay film Africa on the Seine (co-directed with Mamadou Sarr) begins on the banks of the Niger but moves quickly to Paris, “the capital…
Music at the Institute (MATI) Concert Series presents “Dream in Spring” Juliette Kang, violin Solomiya Ivakhiv, violin Thomas Kraines, cello Che-Hung Chen, viola Amy Yang, piano PROGRAM: Serhiy Prokofiev (1891-1953) Sonata for Two Violins, Op. 56 Virko Baley (b. 1938) Three Songs Without Words for Violin and Piano, based on settings of poems by Emily Dickinson (2001); Partita No. 3…
In his Discourses on Livy, Machiavelli compared the act of imposing new political orders on an uncivilized population to the carving of a statue from a piece of rough marble: an allusion, according to many scholars, to Michelangelo’s David. Did Michelangelo respond in some way to Machiavelli’s allusion? The University of Pennsylvania is the joint producer of this series—through the Italian Studies section…
Sex, Love, and Letters is the first study of a virtually unexplored cache of letters to Simone de Beauvoir, the brilliant, magnetic, and polarizing French feminist and philosopher from ordinary women and men around the world. This author-reader bond was fraught with misunderstanding, thwarted desire, and illusions, but also, Judith Coffin argues, emphatically reciprocal.
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 East Central European Center at the Harriman Institute for a presentation by Michalina Kmiecik (Jagiellonian University in Kraków). This event is part of the event series East Central Vanguard: New…
Read and discuss Scandinavian literature in translation as part of our Nordic Book Club, now online! Each month we select a novel from some of the best Nordic literary voices. Discussions have typically taken place the last Tuesday of the month at Scandinavia House but will now be taking place bi-weekly as an online meeting. Book club participants will all…
All concerts are first come, first served with limited capacity due to COVID-19 restrictions. Scroll down for more information about the program. The Harriman Institute is pleased to present the second in a series of three concerts by internationally acclaimed organist and recording artist Gail Archer. Part of the series A Slavic Celebration: Trio of Gail Archer Concerts, her performance…
Join us in discussing Gráinne de Búrca’s upcoming book, Reframing Human Rights in a Turbulent Era. In recent years, human rights have come under fire, with the rise of political illiberalism and the coming to power of populist authoritarian leaders in many parts of the world who contest and dismiss the idea of human rights.
On the occasion of the publication of The Philosophy of Julia Kristeva, ed. Sara G. Beardsworth, in The Library of Living Philosophers, Open Court Publishing Company, 2020 and of At the Risk of Thinking: An Intellectual Biography of Julia Kristeva, by Alice Jardine, Bloomsbury Publishing, 2020.
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 Minority Inclusion and Exclusion in Soviet and Post-Communist Societies Speaker Series, a discussion with Kateřina Kolářová, Assistant Professor of Cultural Studies…
This event will be held virtually as a Zoom webinar. There will be no in-person event. Register here for the Zoom webinar. The Kupferberg Holocaust Center, the Department of Music at Queensborough Community College, the Queensborough Performing Arts Center (QPAC), and the Harriman Institute at Columbia University present a performance by Merima Ključo, accordion, and Jelena Milušić, voice, with guest artist Mirna Lekić,…
Join us on March 17th at 7pm for a discussion with Dr. Hasia Diner and Dr. Jeffrey Gurock as they question the long-accepted visions of Hibernians and Hebrews at constant loggerheads and look to complicate the historical narrative with examples of common ground and cooperation. Dr. Diner will speak to the histories of American Jews and Irish American’s entwined with each other starting in 19th century.
Four short films by Paulin Vieyra are being presented by the Columbia Maison Française online from March 14 through March 21: Africa on the Seine, L'Envers du décor, A Nation is Born, and Lamb. This conversation and is presented as part of the Columbia Maison Française Tournées Film Festival.
Following the withdrawal of the United Kingdom from the European Union, the UK and the EU signed at the end of December 2020 a Trade and Cooperation Agreement which applies provisionally pending its ratification by the EU. Consul General Phillips on will discuss the main components of the agreement and the opportunities and challenges which lie ahead. Speaker: Antony Phillipson,…
This third seminar of our series – Independent Ireland and Transatlantic Diplomacy is hosted by New York University's Glucksman Ireland House, in association with the ACIS & the Consulate General of Ireland in New York. The panel will feature - Francis M. Carroll (University of Manitoba); Marion R. Casey (NYU); Miriam Nyhan Grey (NYU); Bernadette Whelan (University of Limerick) – as well as Ireland’s Ambassador Daniel Mulhall.
Like Borom Sarret, Black Girl, The Money Order, and Xala, Ousmane Sembene’s film Faat Kiné is another chapter in the writer-director’s laser-sharp commentary of post-independence in Senegal. Faat Kiné brings the viewer face to face with politically, economically, and morally corrupt social fabric.
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 East Central European Center at the Harriman Institute for a presentation by Meghan Forbes, Leonard A. Lauder Postdoctoral Fellow in Modern Art at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. This…
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 meeting of the Russian Film Club with speakers Pavel Khazanov (Rutgers), John MacKay (Yale), Peter Rutland (Wesleyan). Moderated by Daria Ezerova (Harriman Institute)…
Since the scandal surrounding Dominique Strauss-Kahn’s arrest in New York City in 2011, several momentous affairs have shaken longstanding French taboos around sexual harassment: Vanessa Springora’s memoir about her damaging relationship as a 14-year-old with writer Gabriel Matzneff, Adèle Haenel’s accusation against film-director Christophe Ruggia of sexually harassing her when she was in her early teens, and very recently, Camille…
In this conversation about Faat Kiné, a 2001 film directed by Senegalese filmmaker Ousmane Sembene, we will be joined by Mariama Baldé, a Senegalese actress who plays a role in this film, and who previously studied the films of Ousmane Sembene, and by Columbia Professors Souleymane Bachir Diagne and Mamadou Diouf.
NYU Center for the Humanities, Stanford University’s Division of Literatures, Cultures and Languages, and Deutsches Haus at NYU present the inaugural event of "Irregular Readings," a conversation with novelist and poet Anja Kampmann who will read from her highly acclaimed debut novel, High as the Waters Rise (Catapult, 2020), and from her poetry. She will then discuss her writing with literary translator Anne Posten who…
More than six hundred years ago, a conspiracy theory about the murder of children went viral in a brand new medium, and it has circulated in ever-changing forms to the present day, inspiring vigilantism, mob violence, and state persecution.
Laurent de Sutter (born in 1977 in Brussels, Belgium) is Professor of Legal Theory at Vrije Universiteit Brussel. He is the author of more than twenty award-winning books, translated into a dozen languages. He has been visiting researcher at Waseda University, Bonn University and Yeshiva University, as well as invited professor at New York University, Université Catholique de Louvain and Facultés…
Explore these interwoven trails which create a map of Irishness, yesterday, today and tomorrow. A virtual excursion, traversing land and lore, with Manchán Magan, filmmaker, travel writer and author of Thirty-Two Words for Field, (Gill Books, 2020).
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 and the Njegoš Endowment for Serbian Language and Culture at the East Central European Center for a talk with Tihomir Brajović (University of Belgrade/Hankuk University). Moderated…
This event will recur Every Day until Apr. 21, 2021 Space Talks | Militant Astroculture and the Cold War: A Roundtable Alexander Geppert (NYU), Daniel Brandau (FU Berlin) and Tilmann Siebeneichner (HU Berlin) in conversation with Martin Collins (Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum); Amanda Rees (York) and Guillaume de Syon (Albright College). This roundtable takes the recent publication of Militarizing Outer…
Participants: George Pagoulatos (Athens University of Economics and Business); Christian Martin (CEMS, NYU). Moderated by: Stephen Gross (CEMS, NYU) This event will take place on Zoom. To register please follow this link.
On April 10, join us for a book talk with Laura Linstedt and translator David Hackston on My Friend Natalia, the author’s U.S. debut, available from Liveright Publishing on March 23, 2021. My Friend Natalia is a linguistic sexual thriller centered on one woman’s potent affliction: Natalia cannot stop thinking about sex. The unnamed, ungendered therapist who narrates the novel has leapt at the chance to…
On April 17, American-Scandinavian Foundation invites you to a virtual talk with photographer Anne Helene Gjelstad on her documentary book Big Heart, Strong Hands, out now from Dewi Lewis Publishing. She will be joined by moderator & photographer Erika Larsen (Sàmi: Walking with Reindeer). Big Heart, Strong Hands is the story of the women on the Estonian islands Kihnu and Manija in the…
The Benin Bronzes were looted in 1897 from the Royal Palace of Benin City during a punitive expedition amid the British colonial expansion into West Africa. Their status is now central to the worldwide discussion about restitution claims and the return of cultural objects to their place of origin. At stake is what will become of these thousands of pieces…
Part of Carnegie Hall’s “Voices of Hope: Artists in Times of Oppression” festival Connor Chee: Navajo Vocable no. 9 (2014) Louis Ballard: Four American Indian Piano Preludes (1968) Margaret Bonds: Troubled Waters (1967) Dawn Avery: Onekha’shòn:a (The Waters; 2009) * Barbara Croall: Mazhenaabikiniganing Aagawong (Inscription Rock; 2008) * Talib Rasul Hakim: A Piano Piece in Six Sections (1965) Hakim: Sound-Gone (1967) Michael Begay: Adéihozhdìlzin (Know who you are; 2021) World Premiere * Brent Michael Davids: Testament of Atom (2008) World Premiere * Arthur Cunningham: selections from Harlem…
During the First World War, Russia’s government and public organization sent sick and wounded soldiers to various health resorts across the empire. The ideal aim of this project was to heal the combatants with the help of the bountiful nature of the homeland. In this enterprise, the treatment of tuberculous soldiers in the sanatorium occupied a special place. It had…
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 the terrain in which our research…
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 meeting of the Russian Film Club with speakers Tatiana Mikhailova (Columbia), Elena Prokhorova (William & Mary), and Sasha Prokhorov (William & Mary). Moderated by Daria Ezerova (Harriman Institute) and Mark…
The spring 2021 lecture series on Global '79 explores the global processes which shaped the making of the Iranian revolution. The revolution’s global character cannot be understood except in terms of a circulatory system of flows of people and ideas between Iran, the West, Middle East, Asia, and those in Latin America. The invited speakers and discussants will highlight the…
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 East Central European Center at the Harriman Institute for a presentation by Gábor Dobó, literary historian and researcher at the Kassák Museum – Petőfi Literary Museum, Budapest. This…
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 East Central European Center at the Harriman Institute for a presentation by Gábor Dobó, literary historian and researcher at the Kassák Museum – Petőfi Literary Museum, Budapest. This…
What is a national writer? Individual creator and recognized representative of a collective identity, he is the embodiment of an image of the nation through his work and through his person between literature and politics. In The Factory of the National Writer. Between literature and politics, Anne-Marie Thiesse went in search of this eminent figure, obvious, and of definition however uncertain. “Literary nation” among all,…
The Spirit Returneth tells the story of a Jewish family living in Jewish communities along the Rhine in the fateful years of 1348 and 1349. Through following the children of one family, who leave home to marry and start families of their own or to study, we follow the progression of the Black Death as it spreads across Germany, bringing with…
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 the terrain in which…
This event will be in English and Spanish. Live stream on facebook.com/kjccnyu/live The book we are celebrating, Spanish Culture from Romanticism to the Present: Structures of Feeling, brings together in one place 24 essays published over Jo Labanyi’s career, which she was invited to contribute to the “Selected Essays” series of Legenda, the imprint of the British Modern Humanities Research…
Frédéric Gros, professeur d'humanités politiques à Sciences-po Paris, est un spécialiste de la pensée de Michel Foucault dont il a édité les derniers cours au Collège de France (1980-1984) et dirigé l'édition des oeuvres dans la Bibliothèque de la Pléiade.
Banished Children of Eve: A Novel of Civil War New York, originally published in 1995, traces that event as it gripped New York City. The cast is drawn from every strata: a likable and laconic Irish American hustler, an ambitious and larcenous Yankee stockbroker, an immigrant serving girl, a beautiful and mysterious biracial actress and her white minstrel lover as…