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CALA Spring 2019 Film Series: “Crime and Punishment Around the World: Incarceration on Film”

Deutsches Haus NYU 42 Washington Mews, New York City

As part of the CALA Spring 2019 Film Series “Crime and Punishment Around the World: Incarceration on Film,” the NYU Center for Applied Liberal Arts and Deutsches Haus at NYU present a screening of the German film "Sophie Scholl – Die letzten Tage" (2005), directed by Marc Rothemund and starring Julia Jentsch. The film is a dramatization of the final days of Sophie Scholl, one of…

Vice, Crime, and Poverty: How the Western Imagination Invented the Underworld

La Maison Française (Columbia) Buell Hall, 515 West 116th Street, New York City

To RSVP, please click here. Winner of the 2013 Prix Mauvais genres, Les Bas Fonds examines the underworld of 19th and 20th century France. The underworld, a zone outside of the law, populated by beggars, prostitutes, criminals and convicts and where every form of social ill seems to coexist, regularly haunts our imagination. From Batman’s Gotham to Eugène Sue’s Paris, Kalifa explores how journalism, literature,…

We’re All Thieves Here: The Soviet War on Crime and the End of Criminal Justice Reform, 1959-1991

Marshall D. Shulman Seminar Room 420 W 118th Street, #1219 International Affairs Building, New York City

Join for a talk with Rhiannon Dowling, Postdoctoral Research Scholar at the Harriman Institute. Rhiannon Dowling will present on her book project, a cultural and intellectual history of crime in the Soviet Union, which argues that, of all of the promises that the Soviet state failed to fulfill, the most crucial, and most devastating, was the promise to eliminate crime with its…