The Hagop Kevorkian Center and the Department of Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies at NYU kindly invite you to join us on April 14 at 12:30pm NYC / 6:30pm Sudan for the final event in this semester’s Arabic Lecture Series: “The Voice of Women is Revolution: Ongoing Activism in Sudan.” This event brings together activist and journalist Sohair Abdelrahim Ahmed,…
Presented by Polish Cultural Institute New York in collaboration with Residency Unlimited. In the midst of the cultural reckoning spurred by the #metoo movement and in the turmoil of infringement on women’s civil rights both in Poland and the US resulting in new political and civil movements on the rise, women activists in the arts haved been continuing their mission while facing new…
On February 9, we’ll be discussing the book The Women I Think About at Night by Mia Kankimäki, who joined us last month for a book talk on the novel with moderator Heli Sirviö, available to stream here. Bored with her life and feeling stuck in her mid-40s, Mia Kankimäki decided to leave her job, sell her apartment, and travel the world to follow…
