One of the most frequently performed and widely read comedies of the eighteenth century, Gotthold Ephraim Lessing's Nathan the Wise (1779) combines rich characterization with an engaging plot. Set in Muslim-ruled Jerusalem at the time of the Crusades, it deals with universal themes -- including the nature of God, antisemitism, wealth and poverty, and the conflict between love and duty. Today…
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 East Central European Center at the Harriman Institute for a talk with Smoki Musaraj (Ohio University), author of Tales of Albarado: Ponzi Logics of Accumulation in Postsocialist Albania (Cornell University Press, 2020). Tales…
For this Black, Brown and Green Voices event, Dr. Miriam Nyhan Grey will be in conversation with Dr. Danielle T. Phillips-Cunningham about her new book Putting Their Hands on Race: Irish Immigrant and Southern Black Domestic Workers, which offers an important labor history of 19th and early 20th century Irish immigrant and US southern Black migrant domestic workers.