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Book Talk. Surviving the Peace: The Struggle for Postwar Recovery in Bosnia-Herzegovina by Peter Lippman

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

Join us for a talk with author Peter Lippman about his book Surviving the Peace: The Struggle for Postwar Recovery in Bosnia-Herzegovina(Vanderbilt University Press, November 2019). Surviving the Peace is a monumental feat of ground-level reporting describing two decades of postwar life in Bosnia, specifically among those fighting for refugee rights of return. Unique in its breadth and profoundly humanitarian in its focus, Surviving the…

Curating Fascism

Casa Italiana Zerilli-Marimò (NYU) 24 West 12th Street, New York City

Exhibiting Art in Collapsing Democracies A lecture by Raffaele Bedarida, Cooper Union The recent exhibition, Post Zang Tumb Tuum, organized in 2018 by Germano Celant at Fondazione Prada in Milan, elicited admiring reviews.  Only a handful of critics noted, however, that the exhibition performed a kind of cultural seduction reminiscent of the Fascist regime itself.  Post Zang Tumb Tuum is the third major…

Book Launch: Uwe Johnson’s Anniversaries

Goethe-Institut New York 30 Irving Place, New York City

To celebrate the first complete English translation of Uwe Johnson’s magnum opus Anniversaries (New York Review Books, 2018) translator Damion Searlsjoins critics Renata Adler and Liesl Schillinger for a reading and discussion of this German postwar classic, examining both its significance a unique literary document of New York in the 1960s, and its continued resonance 50 years later in a world of increasing inequality, authoritarianism, and violence.…