Susan Isaacs Best Selling Author Book Talk
Join us in our special event hosting Susan Isaacs, author of Bad, Bad Seymour Brown. “Jane Austen with a schmear” - Susan Isaacs, best selling author, screen writer, and previous […]
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Narine Abgaryan. "To Go on Living." A book talk and bilingual reading, followed by a conversation with the author and translator Margarit Ordukhanyan.
Set in an Armenian mountain village immediately after the conflict between Armenia and Azerbaijan in the early 1990s, Abgaryan's To Go On Living traces the interconnected lives of villagers tending to their everyday tasks, engaging in quotidian squabbles, and celebrating small joys against a breathtaking landscape. Yet the setting, suspended in time and space, belies […]
Seminar: Sharon Traiberman (New York University)
Sharon Traiberman is an assistant professor in the Department of Economics at NYU. He completed his Ph.D. in Economics from Princeton University. His research interests are international trade and labor […]
Semyon Khanin. Poetry reading.
Semyon Khanin is a Riga-based poet, translator, and editor. He is the author of several books, including Tol'ko chto (2003), Opushchennye podrobnosti (2008), Vplav' (2013), A vam ne kazhetsa, chto eti vashi p'at' minut kak-to slishkom sil'no zat'anulis' (2015), No ne tem (selected poems, 2017), Posignal' (2019), and Dve vtoryh (2023). Khanin’s collections of poetry […]
Martin Nekola. "Cold War Czechoslovakia and Exiles in the U.S." Lecture
Czechoslovakia was liberated from the Nazis in May 1945, and was soon subjected to sovietization and the rising dominance of the Communist regime, which lasted for more than four decades, after the complete takeover in February, 1948. Thousands of Czechs and Slovaks (up to 300 000 in 1948-1989), who sought the return of freedom and […]
Victoria Lomasko. "The Last Soviet Artist." A book talk and a screening of Tree of Violence (2024 | 81 min), a documentary by Anna Moiseenko
Join us for a conversation with Victoria Lomasko, author of The Last Soviet Artist, and a screening of the documentary Tree of Violence, which features her work and career! "The Last Soviet Artist" is a collection of graphic reportages by Victoria Lomasko, published by N+1 (New York, 2025). The book was created during trips across […]
Seminar: Eric Verhoogen (Columbia University)
Eric is a Professor of Economics and of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University. His main research area is industrial development -- firms, innovation, productivity, trade, industrial policy, labor […]
Running a Non-Profit Research Organization: Administrators from the New York Stem Cell Foundation Research Institute
Running a Non-Profit Research Organization: Administrators from the New York Stem Cell Foundation Research Institute. Guests will discuss their partnering initiatives, as well as the various dimensions of leading a […]
Discussion: Black Apocalypse: Afrofuturism at the End of the World
The departments of Women and Gender Studies and Africana, Puerto Rican and Latino Studies at Hunter College invite you to join author Tavia Nyong’o for a special discussion on his book, Black Apocalypse: Afrofuturism at the End of the World. About the Author A 2024 Guggenheim Fellow, Tavia Nyong’o is the William Lampson Professor of […]
Seminar: Benjamin Yang (University of Washington)
Benjamin Yang is an accounting doctoral student at the University of Washington. Prior to starting his PhD, he studied accounting and public health at the University of Texas, and worked […]
