Mikhail Magaril’s exhibition Untold Stories of Russian History will be held at the Harriman Institute, Columbia University, from March 21 to May 6, 2022. The exhibition is part of a long-term collaboration between the Harriman Institute and the Russian-American Cultural Center (RACC) for the presentation of Russian immigrant artists in New York. Mikhail Magaril specializes in the artist’s handmade book. He firmly believes that every…
Dr. Frank Shovlin will be in conversation with Dr. Kelly Sullivan about the recently published Letters of John McGahern available from Faber and Faber. About Letters of John McGahern: "I AM NO GOOD AT LETTERS." - JOHN MCGAHERN, 1963 John McGahern is consistently hailed as one of the finest Irish writers since James Joyce and Samuel Beckett. This volume collects some of the witty,…
Does preventive repression bolster, or does that dissent despite obstruction? While a large literature recognizes the importance of preventive repression for authoritarian stability, we know very little about its effects on public opinion. To gain traction on this question Professor Katerina Tertychnaya draws on evidence from unusually detailed data on unauthorized and authorized protest from Russia and an original survey…
Uzbek-British writer and journalist Hamid Ismailov’s work spans the end of the Soviet period and the entry of the former Soviet republics into a globalized, post-Cold War world. In this talk, Ismailov will speak about these themes in his own work, which tracks Central Asia’s role in a changing global political and literary scene. The talk will also touch on…
Please join the Ukrainian Film Club at Columbia University and the Harriman Institute for a screening of director Ivan Tymchenko’s 2019 film Beshoot. Introduction and discussion led by Yuri I. Shevchuk. The soldiers of the Donbas Volunteer Battalion are at the center of this war drama inspired by real-life events. Two Ukrainian fighters volunteered with thousands of others to repel the Russian aggression against their…
Join us March 31 with Icelandic author Bergur Ebbi as he reads passages from Screenshot, an exploration of the human condition in a digital world, now in new translation by Larissa Kyzer! Tonight’s event will also showcase a clip from a TV-series built around the book’s themes and a talk about Screenshot‘s subjects, based on a lecture on the book which ran in The Reykjavík…
The Harriman Institute, together with the North American Dostoevsky Society and Academic Studies Press, will host a roundtable discussion to celebrate the publication of Deborah Martinsen’s Dostoevsky’s Crime and Punishment: A Reader’s Guide (2022). With speakers Katherine Bowers (University of British Columbia), Erica Drennan (Barnard College), Kate Holland (University of Toronto), Greta Matzner-Gore (University of Southern California), Ronald Meyer (Harriman Institute), and Marcia Morris (Georgetown University).
Please join us for a discussion with genocide scholar Hikmet Karčić, author of Torture, Humiliate, Kill: Inside the Bosnian Serb Camp System (University of Michigan Press, 2022) with discussant Iva Vukušić (Utrecht University). Moderated by Tanya Domi (SIPA/Harriman Institute). Half a century after the Holocaust, on European soil, Bosnian Serbs orchestrated a system of concentration camps where they subjected their Bosniak Muslim and Bosnian Croat neighbors to torture,…
"What Makes It Italian?" is a music listening and discussion group that meets online on the Zoom platform and is open to everyone. Participation is free. The group is led by Gina Crusco, who guides listening at Bard LLI and Riverdale Y, and who has been music instructor at The New School and director of Underworld Productions. Please email ginacrusco@gmail.com to confirm your attendance and receive…
The Society of Fellows and Heyman Center for the Humanities presents a virtual panel discussion celebrating the recent work of Professor Jeremy Dauber, American Comics: A History. This event is co-sponsored by the following: Office of the Divisional Deans in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences Institute for Israel and Jewish Studies Department of Germanic Languages
The Politics of History in Politics: On the Eve of the French Presidential Elections A panel discussion with Jérémie Foa, Mame-Fatou Niang, Nicolas Delalande, and Nadia Urbanati, introduced and moderated by Thomas Dodman RSVP HERE History has long been a very French passion. Like elsewhere, it has also become a political battleground, flaring up at each election cycle. In 2022,…
The Irish Land War represented a turning point in modern Irish history, a social revolution that was part of a broader ideological moment when established ideas of property and land ownership were fundamentally challenged. The Land War was striking in its internationalism, and was spurred by links between different emigrant locations and an awareness of how the Land League’s demands…
About The Pine Islands: Gilbert Silvester, eminent scholar of beard fashions in film, wakes up one day from a dream that his wife has cheated on him. Certain the dream is a message, and unable to even look at her, he flees - immediately, irrationally, inexplicably - for Japan. In Tokyo he discovers the travel writings of the great Japanese…
RSVP HERE Drawing from ethnographic research on the naturalization process, Sarah Mazouz examines the non-recognition of racial questions and discriminations in contemporary France. Sarah Mazouz is tenured researcher at the CNRS (CERAPS). Her main research topics are race, intersectionality and antidiscrimination policies in France, and citizenship politics in France and in Germany. Her work draws on ethnography. It also leans…
In this talk, Sergey Radchenko will explore the underlying motivations of Soviet and Russian foreign policies. Drawing on recently declassified documents, he will explain the relationship between Soviet foreign policy and domestic legitimacy, and trace continuities in Moscow’s policymaking between the Cold War and the present day Sergey Radchenko is the Wilson E. Schmidt Distinguished Professor at the Johns Hopkins School…
Zelig Kalmanovich (1885-1944) was a Yiddish linguist, translator, and a central member of YIVO's pre-war Vilna staff. Kalmanovich kept a vivid diary during his time in the Vilna Ghetto describing daily life, the hopes and efforts of the people to retain humanity, and his thoughts about the future of the Jewish people and Jewish culture. A new publication by the…
We are pleased to invite you to celebrate the premiere of The New Historia, featuring the book launch of Elaine Black Yoneda: Jewish Immigration, Labor Activism, and Japanese American Exclusion and Incarceration (Temple University Press, December 2021) by Rachel Schreiber, PhD, Executive Dean, Parsons School of Design. Book launch co-hosted by The Center for Jewish History and The New School's Historical Studies…
1014 space for ideas, in collaboration with the German Consulate General New York and Deutsches Haus at NYU, presents "No Body Is Closed: Discussing the Collective Self" a conversation between visual artist Cornelia Thomsen and renowned novelist and essayist Siri Hustvedt, which will be moderated by Eric Banks, the Director of New York Institute for the Humanities. In this exchange,…
Panel I: Uses and Misuses of Historical Memory in Post-Soviet Culture and Politics 11:00am–12:30pm Excavation and reconstruction of traumatic historical memory have been at the center of cultural debates in post-Soviet space since the 1990s. This process has resulted in a number of powerful literary and cinematic works based on their authors’ deep engagement with tragic history of the Soviet…
Representations of archeological artefacts are themselves a unique source of information, independent of the excavations they portray. Visuals that circulate to a broad audience through a variety of media, they inspire emotions among viewers through their aesthetic allure. Ruins, the remnants of past civilizations still standing as testaments to their endurance, held special appeal as the detritus of great empires.…
**This event will take place in French** Hybrid event: open in person to the NYU community, open online to the public RSVP In-person HERE (NYU Community ONLY) RSVP Zoom HERE (General Public) La Maison Française de NYU accueillera Yann Coatanlem et Thomas Philippon, professeur à NYU Stern School of Business, pour une conversation autour du dernier livre de Yann Coatanlem et Antonio de Lecea:…
Please join us for a conversation about how to preserve and transmit the histories and legacies of dance, with Gabriele Brandstetter and Nanako Nakajima. Drawing on the research and performative processes of the cross cultural project “Dance Archive Box Berlin,” the conversation will address questions of archiving and re-creating dance through the traces and fragments of its archived remains: how…
Deutsches Haus at NYU and the DEFA Film Library at UMass Amherst present a conversation between Sara Blaylock(University of Minnesota Duluth) and Seth Howes (University of Missouri) to celebrate the publication of Sara Blaylocks’s new book, "Parallel Public: Experimental Art in Late East Germany" (MIT Press, March 2022).
RSVP here. The world is in the midst of a storm that has shaped the history of modernity along a double fracture: on the one hand, an environmental fracture driven by a technocratic and capitalist civilization that led to the ongoing devastation of the Earth’s ecosystems and its human and non-human communities and, on the other, a colonial fracture instilled…
Book launch for: “Nazi Billionaires – The Dark History of Germany’s Wealthiest Dynasties” by David de Jong (Harper Collins, 2022) Presenter: David de Jong, financial journalist and historian Moderator: Adam Tooze, Columbia University The event is free and open to the public. Proof of vaccination is required, and masks are to be worn over the mouth and nose at all times. Seating is limited…
2022 marks the third time in the last twenty years that a candidate of the far right has advanced to the second round of presidential elections. Many expect this contest between Emmanuel Macron and Marine Le Pen to be closer than the last, noting the continued trend toward the extremes in French domestic politics and in Europe more generally. As…
GLOBAL UPRISINGS CONFERENCE NYU’s Kevorkian Center is hosting an in-person two-day conference, from April 21-22, to cap off our Global Uprising series. In Fall 2020, we took the George Floyd Uprising and the ten-year anniversary of the start of the Arab Revolts as our launching points for 14 conversational sessions across the academic year that brought together dozens of thinkers, activists, artists, and…
Presenter: Peter Kitlas (Emory University) Discussant: Tunç Şen (Columbia University) Moderator: Pier Mattia Tommasino (Columbia University) Throughout his career as a Viennese ‘language boy,’ Franz von Dombay (d. 1810) collected hundreds of personal letters, which he collated in several scrapbooks. While past scholars have done much work to demonstrate the ways in which Dombay excelled in his service across Morocco…
**The event will take place in French** Hybrid event: open in person to the NYU community, open online to the public RSVP In-person HERE (NYU Community ONLY) RSVP Zoom HERE (General Public) Lauréate du Prix Médicis, et finaliste du Prix Goncourt pour son dernier roman Le Voyage dans l’Est (2021), la romancière Christine Angot sera en conversation avec Laure Adler à la Maison Française…
This event will take place at 42 Washington Mews. This semester, according to NYU guidelines, in-person events will be open to NYU students, staff, and faculty only. Daily Covid-19 Screeners will be checked at the door. Members of NYU should RSVP here. NYU's Department of German and and Deutsches Haus at NYU present "Fantasmical Anatomies: A Performative Lecture in Dialogue" by…
About the event: Drawing on her 2021 James Ford Lectures, Jane Ohlmeyer re-examines Ireland’s role in empire through the lens of early modernity. In this lecture, she explores four interconnected themes. First, as England’s first colony, Ireland formed an integral part of the English imperial system. Second, as well as being colonized the Irish operated as active colonists in the English and…
GLOBAL UPRISINGS CONFERENCE NYU’s Kevorkian Center is hosting an in-person two-day conference, from April 21-22, to cap off our Global Uprising series. In Fall 2020, we took the George Floyd Uprising and the ten-year anniversary of the start of the Arab Revolts as our launching points for 14 conversational sessions across the academic year that brought together dozens of thinkers, activists, artists, and…
Filmmaker Friedl Kubelka vom Gröller and Dietmar Schwärzler (sixpackfilm) will be at the event in person! The Friedl Kubelka vom Gröller film series is presented by and at Anthology Film Archives, in collaboration with Erste Bank, Deutsches Haus at NYU, the Austrian Cultural Forum New York, and sixpackfilm. Tickets can be bought online here or at Anthology's box office (32 2nd Ave, New York, NY 10003) on the…
Please join us for the launch of the new volume Rethinking the Gulag: Identities, Sources, Legacies (Indiana University Press, March 2022). Editors Alan Barenberg and Emily Johnson will be joined by contributors Gavin Slade (Nazarbayev University), Mikhail Nakonechnyi (University of Helsinki), and Sarah Young (University College London), discussant Dan Healey (University of Oxford), and moderator Mark Lipovetsky (Columbia University). The Soviet Gulag was one of the largest, most complex, and deadliest systems of incarceration in the…
Join us for a conversation with artist Maureen O’Leary, historian Miriam Nyhan Grey, and curator Pamela Jean Tinnen as they discuss the history and impact of Ireland’s Easter Rising through the lens of O’Leary’s series Portraits of Ireland’s Easter Rising Leaders on view in Schwartz Plaza Vitrines through June 17, 2022. Portraits of Ireland’s Easter Rising Leaders is an exhibition in collaboration with Glucksman Ireland House,…
Join us for the closing reception for our exhibit The Untold Stories of Russian History, featuring a dialogue between the artist Mikhail Magaril and his friend Michael Weintraub, a connoisseur of rare books and works on paper. The event will also feature a display of Magaril’s original artist’s books, including Doctors’ Plot, Lullaby, Alphabet and others. The Untold Stories of Russian History consists of twenty-three original works, including painting,…
The genres of the absurd and grotesque are prominent in artistic and literary representations of state socialism. In the paper being discussed at this event, Svetlana Stephenson argues that these genres are also present in the storytelling of (ex)Soviet citizens, through their diaries and oral history accounts. For example, the narratives of extra-judicial shaming rituals (prorabotka meetings) often reveal the…
Please join the East Central European Center at the Harriman Institute for a lecture by Monika Baár, István Deák Visiting Professor at the Harriman Institute. Moderated by ECEC co-directors Aleksandar Bošković and Christopher Caes. The lecture explores a hitherto overlooked episode in the history of human-animal relations: the establishment of professional guide dog training after the First World War, which had its origins in…
Come celebrate the KJCC’s 25th Anniversary! Join us for a conversation about the history of one of NYU’s oldest cultural centers, devoted to Spain and the Spanish-speaking world, with the contributors to the special issue of Esferas, NYU’s undergraduate Spanish and Portuguese journal, dedicated to the KJCC and the broader issues of cultural centers within the academy. To mark the…
