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Ponzi Economics in Postcommunist Europe

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…

Black, Brown and Green Voices: Dr. Danielle T. Phillips-Cunningham

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.

Republication of “Banished Children of Eve”: Peter Quinn with Lenwood Sloan

Banished Children of Eve: A Novel of Civil War New York, originally published in 1995, traces that event as it gripped New York City. The cast is drawn from every strata: a likable and laconic Irish American hustler, an ambitious and larcenous Yankee stockbroker, an immigrant serving girl, a beautiful and mysterious biracial actress and her white minstrel lover as…

LBI Book Club, Vol. X: Nathan the Wise

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…