Join NYU Professors Marion Kaplan and Robert Chazan as they discuss the flight and plight of Jewish migrants from the middle ages and beyondJoin Marion Kaplan (Author, Hitler’s Jewish Refugees: Hope and Anxiety in Portugal) and Robert Chazan (Author, Refugues or Migrants: Pre-Modern Jewish Population Movement) as they discuss how Jewish communities faced forced expulsion and fled persecution in medieval and Nazi Europe, respectively. They will describe the causes of these forced migrations as well as how communities, families and individuals dealt with their plight.Pictured: Hitler’s Jewish Refugees:Hope and Anxiety in Portugal by Marion Kaplan (Left) and Refugees or Migrants:Pre-Modern…

Installment three of the spring 2021 Writing Matter's series explores scrutiny through storytelling with Kate Brown and Hazel V. CarbyIn the spring of 2021, Writing Matters will bring into conversation scholars who lead multiple writerly lives, blending voices and genres. How does such experimentation invigorate our scholarship, serve our intellectual and critical designs, and reach different readerships?For the third installement, our panel explores the art of investigative storytelling with: Kate Brown, Professor of Science, Technology, and Society, MIT, author of Dispatches From Dystopia: History of Places Not Yet Forgotten (2015) Hazel V. Carby, Charles C. and Dorothea S. Dilley Professor…

Join Dara Rossman Regaignon, Dylan B. Dryer, Perri Klass,Talia Schaffer, & Joseph Mclaughlin as they explore the origins of maternal anxietyWhen did mothers start worrying so much? Why do they keep worrying so? Writing Maternity answers these questions by identifying the nineteenth-century rhetorical origins of maternal anxiety, inviting readers to think about worrying not as something individual mothers do but as an affect that since Victorian times has defined middle-class motherhood itself. In this book, Rossman Regaignon offers the first comprehensive study of child-rearing advice literature from early-nineteenth century Britain and argues that the historical emergence of that genre catalyzed…

Kent Monkman in conversation with Professors Una Chaudhuri and Simón Trujillo, introduced and moderated by Yanoula Athanassakis.Perhaps best known in NYC for his Great Hall Commission at the MET, Kent Monkman is a trailblazing multi-media artist with a wide-ranging and provocative set of interventions into Western European and American art history. Monkman’s oeuvre explores themes of colonization, extinction, sexuality, loss, and resilience, all through a prism of the complexities of historic and contemporary Indigenous experiences. Kent Monkman will be in conversation with Professors Una Chaudhuri and Simón Trujillo, introduced and moderated by Yanoula Athanassakis.Les Castors du Roi (2011) | Acrylic…