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Posts tagged as “Trump”

Sovereignty, Inc:. Three Inquiries in Politics and Enjoyment

Deutsches Haus at NYU and the Department of German NYU present “Sovereignty, Inc.: Three Inquiries in Politics and Enjoyment,” a conversation among William Mazzarella, Eric Santner, Aaron Schuster, and Elisabeth Bronfen on the book’s main theories. About the book: What does the name Trump stand for? If branding now rules over the production of value, as the coauthors of Sovereignty,…

THE RUSSIAN-SPEAKING COMMUNITY AND THE TRUMP PRESIDENCY

A panel discussion featuring Steven Kaplan, host of the radio and TV show “Tolkovishche with Seva Kaplan” and Rafael Shimunov, an artist an activist from Queens, moderated by Professor Anna Katsnelson. The majority of Russian-speaking immigrants in the U.S. are Republican-leaning. According to U.S. News and World Report, 70% to 75% of Russian and Ukrainian immigrants voted for Republican candidates in the 2008 and…

The Rise of Populism: Trump versus Putin

Please join us for a lecture by Victoria Zhuravleva, Head of the Center for North American Studies, Primakov National Research Institute of World Economy and International Relations (IMEMO) Moscow, Russia. In the last few years the notion of “populism” has become one of the most frequently mentioned global trends. An army of populist politicians, brought to power by angry people disappointed by…

Thugocracy: A Way to Think about Trump and Russia

Please join us on Friday, February 1st  for “Thugocracy: A Way to Think about Trump and Russia”, a talk with Nancy Ries, Colgate University . This event is part of the Occasional Series, sponsored by the NYU Jordan Center for the Advanced Study of Russia. U.S. Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s indictments and other prosecutorial filings point to unprecedented and unusual interactions…