Hasia R. Diner, Paul S. and Sylvia Steinberg Professor of American Jewish History and Director, Goldstein-Goren Center for American Jewish History, NYU, will explore how and why American Jews in the decade or so after the end of World War II engaged with the memory of the Holocaust. She is the author of We Remember with Reverence and Love: […]
In this slide lecture, Barbara Moore — independent scholar, a close associate of Moorman’s, and director of the Peter Moore archive — mines the archive for never-before-seen and rarely-seen photographs chronicling the avant-garde festivals Moorman organized between 1963 and 1980. Co-sponsored by NYU’s Departments of Art History (CAS) and Photography & Imaging (TSOA), and Grey […]
A pivotal voice of punk, Richard Hell will introduce his new autobiography, I Dreamed I Was a Very Clean Tramp.
NYU Silver Center, Room 300 (enter at 32 Waverly Place)
In this illustrated lecture/conversation, Michael Duncan, editor of O! Tricky Cad & Other Jessoterica and co-curator of An Opening of the Field, will delve into the nooks of Jess’s works and shed light on the California avant-garde literary and art scene of the 1950s and ’60s. Organized by Siglio Press.
Lecture The “Dress Rehearsal for McCarthyism”: The Struggle for Free Speech at City College of New York, 1931–42 Thursday, April 16, 6:30–8:00 pm Martin E. Segal Theater, CUNY Graduate Center, 365 Fifth Avenue (at 34th St.) Carol Smith, Associate Professor, retired, CCNY, will highlight CCNY student and faculty activism, which was spawned by the […]
Lecture Picturing Chicago’s Jewish Ghetto: Todros Geller and the Imagined Past Monday, March 2, 6:30 pm King Juan Carlos I of Spain Center, 53 Washington Square South Lecture by Daniel Greene, Adjunct Professor of History, Northwestern University. Co-sponsored by NYU’s Goldstein-Goren Center for American Jewish History, Skirball Department of Hebrew & Judaic Studies; […]
Lecture Birobidzhan: A Sweet-Turned-Empty Dream about a Socialist Jewish Homeland Monday, February 23, 6:30 pm King Juan Carlos I of Spain Center, 53 Washington Square South Lecture by Gennady Estraikh, Clinical Associate Professor of Hebrew & Judaic Studies and Rauch Associate Professor of Yiddish Studies, NYU. Accompanied by a screening of L’Chayim, Comrade Stalin!, […]
Lecture Indian Modernism and the Postcolonial Predicament Tuesday, February 17, 6:30 pm Silver Center, 100 Washington Square East, Room 300 (enter at 32 Waverly Place) Lecture by Pepe Karmel, Associate Professor of Art History, NYU. Co-sponsored by NYU’s Department of Art History and Grey Art Gallery.
Lecture The instability of truth: aspects of developing a specific Indigenous methodology on experimental practice-led research Wednesday, December 10, 5:30 pm Department of Anthropology, 25 Waverly Place, Kriser Room Lecture by Brenda Croft, lecturer at the David Unaipon College of Indigenous Education and Research, and the School of Art, Architecture and Design, Division of […]