Latest Past Events

Arabic Lecture Series: The Economic Crisis in Lebanon // الأزمة الاقتصادية في لبنان

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…

Plagues and Pharmacology in Historical and Literary Perspective: A Conversation with Santiago Alba Rico

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…

The Fiume Crisis: Life in the Wake of the Habsburg Empire

Featuring Dominique Reill, University of Miami & respondent Malgorzata Mazurek, Columbia University. If you are interested in attending, please email Jamie Nadel at jbn2117@columbia.edu and you will be sent a Zoom link and password. This event is part of the European History & Politics Workshop series, which is supported by the European Institute and the Department of History at Columbia University.