Dissecting Society II: Social Movement, Literature, Social Science
Remarque Institute, NYU
53 Washington Square South, 324
April 15-16, 2016
Co-sponsored by NYU's Department of French and Department of Comparative Literature.
Armenians a Century after the Genocide: What Next?
Global Center for Academic and Spiritual Life
238 Thompson Street, New York, NY 10012
Friday, April 17, 2015
Co-sponsored by NYU’s Global Institute for Advanced Study and the Remarque Institute.
Armenians a Century after the Genocide Program
What's Wrong with the Economy—and with Economics?
The New York Review of Books Foundation
Scandinavia House, 58 Park Ave., New York, NY
Saturday, March 14, 2015 at 10:45 AM - Sunday, March 15, 2015 at 4:00 PM
The FRITT ORD ~ FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION ~ FOUNDATION is a private Norwegian foundation whose paramount objective is to promote this freedom in Norway and throughout the world. Its remit encompasses not only freedom of the written and spoken word, but of art, film, theater, and all the performing arts.To this end the Foundation awards an annual Freedom of Expression Prize and a Freedom of Expression Tribute.
Rethinking Transatlantic Relations: Europe and the United States after the Cold War
Co-sponsored by Center for European and Mediterranean Studies | NYU Provost’s Faculty Research Initiatives | NYU Berlin | Department of History, NYU | The Remarque Institute, NYU
March 13-14, 2015
Ian Buruma on "Theater of Cruelty"
Co-sponsored by the Remarque Institute and the Center for Mediterranean Studies at NYU
October 30, 2014
Remarque Institute, 53 Washington Square South, Room 324
A discussion with Ian Buruma about his new book of essays: "Theater of Cruelty: Art, Film and the Shadows of War."
The Meaning of 1914: A Free Conference
Co-sponsored by the New York Review of Books; The Bill Graham Center for Contemporary International History, Toronto; Europeaum, Oxford; Maison Française d’Oxford; Mission Centenaire 14-18; Remarque Institute, New York University; and Zeit Siftung Ebelin und Gerd Bucerius
September 27, 2014 — September 28, 2014
Nissan Lecture Theatre, St. Antony’s College, Oxford
A Conference to Mark the Centenary of the Outbreak of The Great War
With Vernon Bogdanor, Christopher Clark, Elitza Dulguerova, Max Egremont, Christa Ehrmann-Hämmerle, Robert Evans, Robert Gerwarth, Simon Head, Michael Howard, Jörn Leonhard, Neil MacGregor, Margaret MacMillan, Avner Offer, Peter Pulzer, Iris Rachamimov, Adam Ridley, Eugene Rogan, Hew Strachan, and Marc Trachtenberg.
Martin Buber and Israeli Sociology: German, American and Post-Colonial Entanglements"
Co-sponsored by the Remarque Institute and the Taub Center for Israel Studies (NYU).
Thursday, May 8, 2014 - 7pm
53 Washington Square South, Room 324
Lecture by Professor Uri Ram (Taub Center, NYU / Sociology, Ben Gurion Univ)
World renowned philosopher Martin Buber was one of the first sociologists in Israel, and chaired the department of Sociology at the Hebrew University. Why, then, was he ousted for three decades from the Israeli sociological canon? And what accounts for his "comeback" since the 1990s?
Discussion chaired by Professor Zvi Ben-Dor (History, NYU)
Visions of European Unity Across the Twentieth Century
Co-sponsored by The Remarque Institute and The Center for European and Mediterranean Studies (CEMS) at NYU.
Remarque Institute, NYU
53 Washington Square South, 324
Friday, February 28 - Saturday, March 1, 2014
After the destruction of the Second World War and the crimes of National Socialism, European leaders faced the daunting challenges of reconstructing their continent and presenting it anew to the world as a center of civilization. These challenges led to a decade-long process of building a European Economic Community to prevent the outbreak of another conflict, and to sustain Europe’s prestige, power, and welfare in an increasingly globalized world. Yet the visions for a unified Europe did not spring preformed from the rubble of 1945, but instead built on ideas, institutions, and people that had been working to integrate Europe since the 1920s, if not earlier.
This conference examined visions of European integration from the 1920s, when European statesmen such as Aristide Briand began drafting plans for a Federation of Europe, through the early 1970s, which saw the first expansion of the European Community. It aimed to explore continuities and ruptures in the ideas, institutions, and people driving European unification forward across the threshold of 1945. What did Europe mean before 1945, and how did that meaning change in the decades after the Second World War? How was Europe’s relationship with the rest of the world envisioned before 1945—economically, politically, and culturally—and how did this evolve during the 1950s and 1960s? What did political leaders, economic elites, and others before 1945 see as the major hurdles to a unified continent, and how did they propose to overcome them? How did these hurdles change during the 1950s and 1960s, and to what extent did postwar elites draw on, or react against, previous experiments in integration? In addressing these questions, the conference explored ways of rethinking the first decades of European integration by situating them more firmly in the context of pre-war and wartime visions for a unified Europe.
History and Psychoanalysis during the Postwar Period
Co-sponsored with by the Heyman Center for the Humanities, Columbia University, and the Remarque Institute.
Heyman Center for the Humanities
Second Floor Common Room
Organized by Michal Shapira, Tel Aviv University
Friday-Saturday, April 4-5, 2014
Confirmed speakers for the 2014 conference include: Lewis Aron (NYU), John Forrester (University of Cambridge), Matt Ffytche (University of Essex), Dagmar Herzog (Graduate Center, CUNY), Ben Kafka (New York University), Robert Jay Lifton (Columbia University), Erik Linstrum (University of Michigan), Elizabeth Lunbeck (Vanderbilt University), George Makari (Director of The Institute for the History of Psychiatry, Weill Cornell Medical College), Peter Mandler (University of Cambridge), Daniel Pick (University of London), Camille Robcis (Cornell University), Elisabeth Roudinesco (University of Paris VII – Denis Diderot), David Russell (King's College London), Ingrid Scholz-Strasser (former director of the Freud Museum, Vienna) and Carol Seigel (director of the Freud Museum, London), Michal Shapira (Tel Aviv University), Simon Taylor (Columbia University), Nellie L. Thompson (New York Psychoanalytical Society), and others.
For full details, please see the conference website.
Roundtable discussion marking the 50th anniversary of E. P. Thompson's The Making of the English Working Class
Co-sponsored by NYU's History Department and the Remarque Institute.
English Working Class event flyer
Thursday, September 19, 2013
4:00–6:00 pm
Remarque Institute, NYU
53 Washington Square South, Room 324
The session featured a panel of historians considering the book's impact upon South Asian historiography (Andrew Sartori), East Asian historiography (Rebecca Karl), Latin American historiography (Barbara Weinstein), and the historiography of women and gender (Linda Gordon).
Doctoral Research Colloquium - Works in Progress
War and Memories of War in Modern French and Italian History
Remarque Institute, NYU
53 Washington Square South, 324
May 10, 2013
Closing session of the 2012-2013 Atelier Italie-Méditerranée
ENS - IHMC- Remarque Institute at ENS
Katherine Fleming (NYU) - Gilles Pécout (ENS)
Sovereignty: Stages and Frontiers a two-day interdisciplinary conference
Co-sponsored by the Global Research Initiative, the Remarque Institute, and the Jordan Center for the Advanced Study of Russia at New York University for:
Friday May 3rd and Saturday May 4th, 2013
401 Silver Center
New York University
Eastern Mediterranean History, Present Conditions and Future Perspectives
Co-sponsored by the A.S. Onassis Program in Hellenic Studies, Center for European and Mediterranean Studies and the Remarque Institute, NYU
April 29, 2013
Occupation, Collaboration, Résistance, 1940-1944: Short Propaganda Films Made in France
Eric Le Roy (Chef de Service, Archives françaises du film (CNC); vice-président, Fédération internationale des archives du film)
(Co-sponsored by Cinema Studies, La Maison Française, Remarque Institute, NYU/CNRS Center for International Research in the Humanities and Social Science)
New York
February 16, 2011
Occupation, Collaboration, Résistance Program
January 26, 1911, Dresden, Der Rosenkavalier "Die Zeit, die ist ein sonderbar Ding"
January 26, 2011, NYU: A Centennial Symposium
with Evelyn Lear, soprano; Robin Guarino, director; Bryan Gilliam, musicologist; Michael Steinberg, historian; chaired by Michael Beckerman & Larry Wolff
(Co-sponsored with NYU Center for European & Mediterranean Studies, with the Music Department & the Remarque Institute)
New York
January 26, 2011
Dresden, Der Rosenkavalier flyer
European Conceptions of ‘Life’: Biology, Psychology, Philosophy 1850-1950
(Co-sponsored with the Consortium for Intellectual and Cultural History)
New York
December 10, 2010
Conceptions of Life program
La Légitimité démocratique en question
Yves Charles Zarka (Professor of Philosophy, Université Paris V)
(Co-sponsored by the Consortium for European Intellectual and Cultural History at NYU and Columbia University, the Department of French, Institute of French Studies, and the Center for French Civilization and Culture at New York University)
New York
November 2, 2009
La Légitimité flyer
NOUR in Concert: Songs from Irene to Ishtar
Ex Oriente Luxe
Nourishing itself from Middle Eastern polyglot folk traditions, NOUR—Pomegranate in Armenian, Divine Light in Arabic—sings in Armenian, Kurdish, Turkish, Ladino, Arabic, Hebrew, Assyrian and Greek. Ex Oriente Luxe concert series strives to illuminate the New World with the divine light that NOUR brought from the Old one.
(Co-sponsored by the Remarque Institute)
New York
March 8, 2009
Nour flyer
Liberalisms in East and West
(Co-sponsored by the Remarque Institute)
University of Oxford
January 9-11, 2009
Liberalisms Program
The Missing Italian Nuremberg. Cultural Amnesia and Postwar Politics
A book presentation with the author, Michele Battini, and Marta Petrusewicz (CUNY Graduate Center) & Nadia Urbinti (Columbia Univeristy), moderated by Ruth Ben-Ghiat (NYU) and introduced by Tony Judt (Remarque Institute, NYU). Michele Battini, a Professor of Modern European History and Political Thought at the University of Pisa has narrated in this book the failure to bring to trial the military command of the Nazi power structure in Italy. This lack of an "Italian Nuremberg" resulted in an enormous historical misrepresentation of the Nazi occupation of Italy and what that means for our collective memory of the past.
(Co-sponsored by the Remarque Institute)
February 5, 2008
Nuremberg Flyer
Regime Change: The Social and Cultural Origins of Political Transformation in France
The Institute of French Studies presents the inaugural interdisciplinary graduate symposium with a keynote address by Laurent Dubois, Professor of History, Duke University.
(Co-sponsored by the Remarque Institute)
November 2-3, 2007
Regime Change flyer
La Question et ses réceptions depuis la guerre d'indépendance en Algérie
A colloquium by Henri Alleg, journalist and writer, author of La Question (1958), Mémoire algérienne : Souvenirs de luttes et d'espérances (2005) with a response by Steven M. Lukes, sociologist (New York University); author of Emile Durkheim: His Life and Work. A Historical and Critical Study (1973), Moral Conflict and Politics (1991), "Liberal Democratic Torture" (British Journal of Political Science, 2005).
(Organized by the Institute of French Studies and the Remarque Institute)
New York
April 18, 2007
Turkey – or is it Europe – at the Crossroads?
A panel discussion with: Steven Cook, Douglas Dillon Fellow, Council on Foreign Relations; Baki Ilkin, Ambassador and Permanent Representative of Turkey to the United Nations; Tony Judt, Director of the Remarque Institute; Bahadir Kaleagasi, Permanent Representative of the Turkish Industrialists’ and Businessmen’s Association (TUSIAD) to the EU in Brussels; and Fernando M. Valenzuela, Ambassador and Permanent Observer of the European Commission to the United Nations. Moderated by Mustapha Tlili,Founder and Director, Dialogues: Islamic World-U.S.-The West, NYU. New York
April 4, 2007
Participants
Ayaan Hirsi Ali, Dutch political activitist and Parliamentarian
Frits Bolkestein, former President of the Liberal Party in the Dutch Parliament and European Commissioner
Bas Heijne, Dutch journalist and author of Hollandse toestanden (The State of the Netherlands)
Tony Judt, New York University
Disturbing the Peace: Intellectuals and Universities in an Illiberal Age
Tony Judt (Director, Remarque Institute) delivers his University Professorship Lecture. The University Professorship Lecture series was established to recognize faculty who have recently been appointed as University Professors at NYU. University Professorships are conferred upon outstanding scholars in recognition of the interdisciplinary dimension and breadth of their work.
(Organized by the Remarque Institute and the Office of the Provost)
New York
December 4, 2006
Religion and the Limits of Tolerance, Dutch multiculturalism in question
A discussion, October 12, 2006
Participants:
Ayaan Hirsi Ali, Dutch political activitist and Parliamentarian
Frits Bolkestein, former President of the Liberal Party in the Dutch Parliament and European Commissioner
Bas Heijne, Dutch journalist and author of Hollandse toestanden (The State of the Netherlands)
Tony Judt, Director, Remarque Institute, NYU
Israel Lobby: Does it Have Too Much Influence on U.S. Foreign Policy?
A panel discussion at The Cooper Union examining the Israeli lobby and its effect on U.S. foreign policy. The event will be presented by The London Review of Books and chaired by Anne-Marie Slaughter (Princeton University). Panelists include Shlomo Ben-Ami, former Foreign Minister of Israel, John Mearsheimer (University of Chicago), Martin Indyk (Saban Center for Middle East Policy, DC), Rashid Khalidi (Columbia University) and Tony Judt (Remarque Institute, NYU)
New York
September 28, 2006
"What happens now? Israel and the Palestinians After Gaza, Sharon, and Hamas"
A discussion, March 9, 2006
(co-sponsored with the Israel Forum)
Participants
Christopher Hitchens, independent author and journalist
Tony Judt, Director, Remarque Institute, NYU
Elias Khouri, Middle Eastern Studies, NYU
Gidon Levy, editorialist and commentator for Ha'aretz, Israel
The Gap Between West and West: Transatlantic Relations in the 21st Century
(Organized by the Remarque Institute and the University of Amsterdam)
Amsterdam, The Netherlands
October 1, 2004
The Gap Between the East and West Program
An Inevitable Tragedy? Jews, Palestinians, and the Fate of Jerusalem
Conversation with Meron Benvenisti, columnist for Ha'aretz, Rashid Khalidi, Edward Said Professor of Arab Studies and Director of the Middle East Institute at Columbia University, and Peter Marcuse, Professor of Urban Planning and Theory at Columbia University's Graduate School of Architecture.
(Organized by the Israel Forum and co-sponsored with the Remarque Institute)
New York
November 10, 2004
What Is To Be Done? A Conversation About America, Europe & The West Today
(Organized by the Remarque Institute and the University of Amsterdam)
Conversation with Michael Mandelbaum, Christian A. Herter Professor of American Foreign Policy, Director of the American Foreign Policy Program, The Johns Hopkins University, School of Advanced International Studies; Andrew Moravcsik, Professor of Politics, Director, European Union Program, Princeton University; Ambassador Peter Van Walsum, Former Permanent Representative of the Netherlands to the United Nations, and Tony Judt, Moderator.
New York
November 29, 2004
Participants
Professor Michael Mandelbaum, Christian A. Herter Professor of American Foreign Policy, Director of the American Foreign Policy Program, The Johns Hopkins University, School of Advanced International Studies
Professor Andrew Moravcsik, Professor of Politics, Director, European Union Program,Princeton University
Ambassador Peter van Walsum, Former Permanent Representative of the Netherlands to the United Nations
Moderator:
Professor Tony Judt, Director, Remarque Institute, New York University
What is to be Done? flyer and event coverage
"Does The Jewish State Have a Future? Debating Israel in America"
A discussion, April 20, 2004
Co-sponsored by Columbia University, the Israel Forum and the Remarque Institute, NYU
Participants:
Alan Brinkley, professor of American history and Provost of Columbia University
Amos Elon, noted Israeli author and historian
Tony Judt, Director, Remarque Institute, NYU
Raef Zreik, a Palestinian-Israeli civil rights lawyer and political activist
Israel Forum
Conversation with Amos Elon (independent journalist and writer, Israel and Italy), Alan Brinkley (Pofessor of American history and Provost of Columbia University; Raef Zreik, (a Palestinian- Israeli civil rights lawyer and political activist); and Tony Judt.
New York
April 20, 2004
"What now? A debate on America in the world"
Date: Saturday, May 10, 2003
America and the world since 9/11
Moderator: Tony Judt, Director, Remarque Institute, NYU
Speakers:
Azyumardi Azra, Rector, Syarif Hidayatullah State Institute for Islamic Studies Jakarta, Indonesia
Christoph Bertram, Director, German Institute for International and Security Affairs, Berlin
Anne-Marie Slaughter, Dean, The Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University
Nikolai Zlobin, Senior Fellow,The Center for Defense Information, Washington D.C.
America and the Middle East
Moderator: Michael Gilsenan, Chair, Middle Eastern Studies, NYU
Speakers:
Shlomo Ben-Ami, Former Foreign Minister of Israel, Elias Sourasky Professor, Tel Aviv University
Anatol Lieven, Senior Associate, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, Washington D.C.
Robert Malley, Middle East Program Director,The International Crisis Group, The Council on Foreign Relations, Washington D.C.
Salim Tamari, Professor, Sociology and Anthropology, Institute of Jerusalem Studies, Birzeit University
What is to be done?
Moderator: Paul Boghossian, Chair, Philosophy Department, NYU
Speakers:
Joshua Cohen, Professor and Chair, Political Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Dominique Moïsi, Deputy Director, Institut français des relations internationales (IFRI), Paris
Samantha Power, Carr Center for Human Rights Policy, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University
Edward W. Saïd, University Professor of English and Comparative Literature Columbia University
Israelis and Palestinians: Tragic dilemmas and Mortal dangers
by Amos D. Elon
November 22, 2002
Remarque Senior Visiting Fellow, independent writer and journalist. Author: The Pity of It All: A History of Jews in Germany, 1743-1933; A blood-dimmed tide: Dispatches from the Middle East; Jerusalem, Battleground of Memory; Theodor Herzl: A biography and The Israelis: Founders and Sons.
"America and the Age of Genocide"
A conversation, April 2,2002
Samantha Power, (Executive Director, Carr Center for Human Rights Policy, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University), Tony Judt - given upon the occasion of the publication of her book (Basic Books), A Problem from Hell: America and the Age of Genocide
The Popes Against the Jews: The Vatican's Role in the Rise of Modern Anti-Semitism
Co-sponsored with Alfred A. Knopf, Inc.
Chair: Leon Wieseltier, The New Republic
Discussants:
Paul Baumann, Commonweal
Istvan Deak, Columbia University
Jack Miles, God: A Biography
David Kertzer, author of The Popes Against the Jews: The Vatican's Role in the Rise of Modem Anti-Semitism
Introduction by Tony Judt, Director, Remarque Institute
Remarque Institute Faculty-Graduate Open Seminar
The nature of European and American influences on Japan
Ian Buruma, Fall semester 2000
"The Spectre of Haider: Austria's Past or Europe's Future?"
Panel discussion, February 29, 2000
Participants:
Tony Judt, Director, Remarque Institute
Anson Rabinbach, Department of History, Princeton University
Andrei S. Markovits, Professor of Politics, The University of Michigan
Richard Mitten, Professor of History, Central European University, Budapest