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Constructions of Contagion: Sickness and Health in Two Pandemics

Thursday, February 18, 2021, 6:00pm EST This event will be ONLINE and in ENGLISH Live stream on facebook.com/kjccnyu/live Feeling Sick: The Early Years of AIDS in Spain by Dean Allbritton. This book examines the cultural history of the early years of AIDS in Spain (1981-1987) as it has been told through television and print media, ephemeral products of visual culture,…

Ballet in the Cold War: The New York City Ballet’s 1962 Tour of the Soviet Union

This event will be held as a Zoom meeting: https://nyu.zoom.us/j/92920017194.  In October 1962, as the Cuban Missile Crisis raged, New York City Ballet (NYCB) toured the Soviet Union, performing seventeen ballets by George Balanchine. The tour was part of the Soviet-American cultural exchange, arranged by the governments of the US and USSR as part of their Cold War strategies. The…

Is there a European Identity?

This session will explore whether the EU integration process has forged a sense of common identity (culturally and politically) among Europeans. Participants will also discuss how minorities and migrants relate to such an identity. February 2, 2021: Thierry Grillet interviews writer Kamel Daoud (pre-recorded in French). The video will be posted on Columbia Global Centers | Paris YouTube Channel. February 9, 2021 | 1pm (New York) | 7pm (Paris): Join Mark…

VIRTUAL EVENT. The Phenomenon of New Russian Drama: What’s New About It?

Register here for the Zoom webinar, or tune in on YouTube Live. The Harriman Institute’s Contemporary Culture Series presents a conversation with Maksim Hanukai (University of Wisconsin-Madison) and Susanna Weygandt (Sewanne: The University of the South), editors of the volume New Russian Drama: An Anthology (Columbia University Press, 2019) with translator Ania Aizman (University of Michigan), as well as Julie Curtis (University of Oxford), editor of New…