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SUMMARY:KINO! Pic of the Week ''The Amazing Maurice''
DESCRIPTION:Get a weekly “must see” recommendation via Telescope’s “Pic of the Week.” \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPic of the Week: The Amazing Maurice \nEvery town in Discworld knows the stories about rats and pipers\, and Maurice — a streetwise tomcat — leads a band of educated ratty friends (and one human kid) on a lucrative tour. Piper plus rats equals lots and lots of money. Until they run across someone playing a different tune. Now Maurice and his rats must learn a new concept: evil… \nGerman Films\, KINO! Germany NOW!\, and Telescope Film are proud to present a new resource for finding German films online: . The German Films microsite showcases the best in German film content\, including narrative features\, documentaries\, animation\, shorts\, and series. It also provides access to a database of more than 30\,000 German films and co-productions\, with information about where to watch them in the US.Find out more on:  https://telescopefilm.com/germanfilms
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SUMMARY:Curriculum Wars and the Struggle for the Future of Judaism
DESCRIPTION:Tue\, Apr 25\, 2023\, 7:00 PM EDT (adjusted to your local time)\nVenue\nCenter for Jewish History (map)\n15 W. 16th St.\nNew York\, NY 10011\nAdmissions\nLBI/CJH/Partner Members\, Students\, Seniors: $5\nGeneral: $10\nTickets\nGET TICKETS\n\n\n\n\n\nNews reports about curricular standards in Hasidic schools have set off a polarizing public debate. With the rapid growth of Hasidic Judaism\, many observers recognize that the future of American Judaism is being contested. Arguments over the Jewish curriculum are not new. In his new book\, The Jewish Reformation\, Michah Gottlieb (NYU) explores how in the 18th and 19th centuries these disputes reflected competing spiritual visions of Judaism. Join us for an illuminating program about the contemporary relevance of these centuries-old debates. David Ellenson (Hebrew Union College) will moderate a conversation between Gottlieb\, Yitzhak Melamed\, (Johns Hopkins University) and Naomi Seidman (University of Toronto). \nIf you would like to attend this program virtually\, please select the “Virtual Admission” option when reserving tickets on Eventbrite.
URL:https://uaruhrfellowships.org/event/curriculum-wars-and-the-struggle-for-the-future-of-judaism/
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SUMMARY:Discussion: Urban Activism – Working for Change on a Local Scale
DESCRIPTION:Climate activists\, gluing themselves to paintings or blocking roads\, know their tactics make people angry – yet they believe that it’s a price worth paying. In the streets of Baltimore\, activists’ demand for social justice is not a tactic\, but rather a “fundamental aspect of life”. For others\, activism is an understanding of human agency translated into acts of courage and bold solutions in their local communities. \nMuseums and Archives on both sides of the Atlantic\, like The Museum of the City of New York\, have dedicated exhibitions to urban activism\, using the topic to foster awareness\, encourage critical thinking\, and stimulate dialogue. Even museums are moving into more activist activities themselves\, so how is activism developing from the past into the future? \nIn many ways\, activists are facing very similar issues as those in the past: Like climate protesters\, the suffragettes were not loved a hundred years ago. The same pressures are re-emerging today. And there is the same need – if not a greater need — for self-organization of ordinary people. However\, at a time when we seem to frame everything in moral terms\, activism may have gone a step further and become as much a part of our civic responsibility as paying council tax or jury duty. From local volunteering in soup kitchens to making one’s voice heard on the streets. \n\n\n\n\nREGISTER\n\n\n\n\nJoin us for a timely conversation co-hosted with The Urban Activist to discuss what activism means to people\, its power to create positive change\, and how it has been evolving over the past decades. \nWith Co-Founder and Executive Director of Street Lab New York Leslie Davol\, award-winning policy advocate\, liberation and food activist Eloísa Trinidad\, Baltimore based photographer and educator Devin Allen and academic-activist and advocate for fair digital labor practices Trebor Scholz. Moderated by Sarah Seidman\, Puffin Foundation Gallery Curator of Social Activism at the Museum of the City of New York and the curator for the ongoing exhibition “Activist New York”. \n\n\n \n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLeslie Davol is Co-Founder and Executive Director of Street Lab\, a ten-year old nonprofit that creates and shares programs for public space across NYC. Leslie founded the organization along with her husband\, Sam Davol\, in Boston\, where the organization’s early projects led Boston Globe columnist Yvonne Abraham to call Leslie and Sam “visionaries when it comes to breathing life into neglected public spaces.” Prior to starting Street Lab\, Leslie had a career in museums and the cultural sector in NYC\, including serving as Assistant Vice President for Memorial\, Cultural\, and Civic Programs for the Lower Manhattan Development Corporation following September 11. \n\n\n\n\n \n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nR. Trebor Scholz\, a researcher\, author\, and advocate for fair digital labor practices\, serves as a professor at The New School in NYC and founding director of the Platform Cooperativism Consortium\, as well as a Faculty Affiliate at Harvard University’s Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society. Scholz\, known for developing the concept of platform cooperativism\, is a global keynote speaker championing worker-owned online platforms\, with his impact widely acknowledged by news outlets such as The New York Times and The Financial Times. \n\n\n\n\n \n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nEloísa Trinidad is an award-winning policy advocate\, liberation activist\, educator\, and artist. She is Executive Director at Chilis on Wheels\, where she works to make Veganism accessible to communities in need through direct food relief\, policy\, education\, and mentorship\, and the founder of Vegan Activist Alliance\, a systems-change focused\, community-driven\, anti-speciesist\, anti-colonial organization founded on the belief that all Beings have a natural right to their autonomy and to live free from oppression regardless of species. As an AfroIndigeous Latina\, Eloísa approaches liberation praxis and Veganism with an anti-colonial framework to raise awareness of how Western colonization has affected and continues to impact the plight of humans and beyond-human persons (animals)\, our relationship to each other\, and the natural world. Through this lens\, she works with national and international coalitions and organizations as an advisor to develop community-informed strategies and policies to transcend poverty\, mitigate climate breakdown\, and transform our food system. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVENUE ACCESSIBILITY\nUnfortunately\, 1014 Fifth Avenue is in the process of being refurbished\, and is not fully accessible in its current state. We apologize to our guests and kindly ask you to contact j.stubbs@1014.nyc if you need further information or assistance. We will do our best to enable everyone to join us.
URL:https://uaruhrfellowships.org/event/discussion-urban-activism-working-for-change-on-a-local-scale/
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SUMMARY:The Population History of German Jewry: 1815 - 1939
DESCRIPTION:Date/Time\nSun\, Apr 23\, 2023\, 1:00 PM EDT (adjusted to your local time)\nVenue\nCenter for Jewish History (map)\n15 W. 16th St.\nNew York\, NY 10011\nAdmissions\nLBI/CJH/Partner Members\, Students\, Seniors: $5\nGeneral: $10\nTickets\nGET TICKETS\n\n\n\n\n\nThe late Steven Mark Lowenstein was a brilliant social historian who\, after retiring from his academic position at the University of Judaism\, labored until his final days to complete a monumental demographic history of German Jewry. Lowenstein took the research of Hebrew University demographer Professor Usiel Oscar Schmelz and brought it to life with insights into the daily experiences of German-speaking Jews. David N. Myers (UCLA)\, who co-edited the book for its posthumous publication\, will join Marsha Rozenblit (Maryland)\, David Ellenson (HUC)\, and Lowenstein’s daughter\, Dr. Ruth Lowenstein Glasser\, for a celebration of Lowenstein’s legacy and his final opus. \nIf you would like to attend this program virtually\, please select the “Virtual Admission” option when reserving tickets on Eventbrite. \nReviews\n“The pioneering research of Usiel Schmelz and Steven Lowenstein provides a new dimension for German-Jewish History. Instead of relying on a few personal accounts and anecdotal evidence\, this book constitutes a tool to decipher the complete picture of the German-Jewish community. It is an indispensable source for everyone interested in the modern Jewish experience.” \n— Michael Brenner\, President of the International Leo Baeck Institute for the Research of German-Jewish History and Culture \n“Steven Lowenstein’s landmark volume presents the history of German Jewry from the early 19th century into the Nazi era through the prism of shifting population patterns. Replete with an incomparable array of data\, the book’s meticulous narrative also serves as a memorial to a diverse Jewish community whose history reflected the triumphs and tragedies of the modern Jewish experience.” \n— Jack Wertheimer\, The Jewish Theological Seminary \n“Steven Lowenstein’s demographic history of Jews in Germany is a state-of-the-art study that will certainly become a classic. He has absorbed and presented in highly readable prose the chronological\, regional\, and topical demographic interpretations of the years 1815-1939 while also engaging in historiographical debates. This new and all-embracing picture of German Jewry offers readers careful analyses of such topics as urbanization\, marriage and intermarriage\, births and deaths\, in and out migration and internal migration\, and addresses age\, region\, and gender while also comparing to non-Jewish populations in Germany. The book is breathtaking in its research and scope and a must for every scholar of German-Jewish history.” \n— Marion Kaplan\, Skirball Professor Emerita of Modern Jewish History \n“ “Steven Lowenstein has published the definitive demographic history of German Jewry.  This is a monumental curated archive\, actually a twice posthumous book. Lowenstein’s initial statistics were compiled by the Israeli demographer Oscar Schmelz\, and Lowenstein himself died before finishing this tome.  Family historians\, genealogy buffs and population historians will rely on Lowenstein’s volume and appreciate its comparative reach and meticulous detail.” .” \n— Deborah Hertz\, Wouk Chair in Modern Jewish Studies\, Department of History\, University of California at San Diego
URL:https://uaruhrfellowships.org/event/the-population-history-of-german-jewry-1815-1939/
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SUMMARY:The Clinical Complex: Reflections on Sick Buildings and the Architectures of Illness in Ten Images 1880/2020
DESCRIPTION:The Advanced Certificate Program in Poetics & Theory\, the Department of German at NYU\, and Deutsches Haus at NYU present “The Clinical Complex: Reflections on Sick Buildings and the Architectures of Illness in Ten Images 1880/2020\,” a talk by Yale Professor Fatima Naqvi. \nRSVP here. \nAbout the talk:\nWe are what Walter Benjamin calls “newcomers to eternity\,” with new spatial coordinates: “when the end approaches\, [people] are stowed away in sanatoriums or hospitals by their heirs.” The architectonic development that Benjamin outlines holds true not only for the late 19th \, but also for the 20th and 21st centuries. This talk looks back at the explosion of hospital construction in Austria-Hungary during its waning years and explores this moment as it is refracted in works by Arthur Schnitzler and Rainer Maria Rilke; it also suggests a connection to the present via works by Ulrich Seidl and Nikolaus Geyrhalter. The architecture of medicine and the medicalization of architecture have important implications for how we think about sickness and health today—and how we experience our clinical spaces. \nAbout the speaker:\nFatima Naqvi is Elias W. Leavenworth Professor of Germanic Languages and Literatures and of Film and Media Studies at Yale University. She has written books on victimhood in European culture after 1968; the films of Michael Haneke; the degradation of the landscape; and the interrelationship between architecture and Bildung in Austrian author Thomas Bernhard. She is currently working on the hospital experience in fin-de-siècle Vienna.
URL:https://uaruhrfellowships.org/event/the-clinical-complex-reflections-on-sick-buildings-and-the-architectures-of-illness-in-ten-images-1880-2020/
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SUMMARY:Reading and Conversation: Philipp Weiss
DESCRIPTION:INVITATION  \nJoin us for a literary event and an Austrian wine reception \nTHURSDAY\, April 20th\, 7 pm \nReading and Conversation\nPHILIPP WEISS \n“At the Edge of the World Man Sits and Laughs” \nAUSTRIAN CULTURAL FORUM NEW YORK\n11 EAST 52nd STREET\, 10022 NEW YORK\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nImage Credits: Jean-Luc Bertini\n\nREADING AND CONVERSATION \n“Am Weltenrand sitzen die Menschen und lachen”\nAt the Edge of the World Man Sits and Laughs \nWITH AUSTRIAN AUTHOR PHILIPP WEISS AND\nPROFESSOR BARBARA KOSTA (UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA) \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWe warmly invite you to join the Austrian Cultural Forum New York and Austrian author Philipp Weiss for a reading of his critically acclaimed book “Am Weltenrand sitzen die Menschen und lachen” | At the Edge of the World Man Sits and Laughs. The reading by the author is followed by a conversation with Barbara Kosta\, professor and head of the Department of German Studies at University of Arizona. The conversation can be continued with a glass of Austrian wine at the reception afterwards.\nAbout the book\n1000 pages\, five volumes – one novel. In At the Edge of the World Man Sits and Laughs\, Philipp Weiss recounts the world’s transformation during the Anthropocene – that time in earth’s history in which the human being became the central power. Between France and Japan\, from the 19th to the 21st century\, this bold novel depicts a panopticon of our fleeting reality. Each one of the five volumes has its own form: encyclopaedia\, manga\, novella\, audio-transcription and notebook. \nFor more information about the event\, visit our website.
URL:https://uaruhrfellowships.org/event/reading-and-conversation-philipp-weiss/
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SUMMARY:DAAD Sound Understanding Concert 2023
DESCRIPTION:Please join University Alliance Ruhr at DAAD’s 20th Sound Understanding Concert. \nThis year’s concert will mark the twentieth anniversary of the DAAD Sound Understanding concert series. Like every spring\, the concert will showcase the young\, talented DAAD music fellows from Germany who have spent the past year studying at music schools in the US and Canada. The music fellows are selected in a national competition from the best students at Germany’s renowned music colleges. \nIf you are interested in joining us on \nThursday\, April 20\, 2023 \nat \nCarnegie Hall \n7.00pm \n881 7th Ave\, New York\, NY 10019 \nplease RSVP as soon as possible but latest by April 17\, 2023\, by emailing intern@uaruhr.de. Due to limited availability\, one concert ticket per confirmed RSVP.
URL:https://uaruhrfellowships.org/event/daad-sound-understanding-concert-2023/
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SUMMARY:Trustworthy AI and Quantum ML – Collaborating with Germany
DESCRIPTION:Europe’s research network of almost 70 universities and dozens of other research institutes provide the best conditions for innovation and technology transfer. This also applies to the field of AI where Germany has six centers of excellence for AI research along with a multitude of other outstanding research centers. Early on NRW pushed ahead with the development of human-centered AI and driving the debate on the trustworthy use of AI. Looking even further ahead\, Quantum Machine Learning has the opportunity to again revolutionize the capabilities of AI\, especially for applications that need to process enormous amounts of data in near-realtime while using way less energy. In this webinar the AI ecosystem in the German State of North Rhine-Westphalia will be presented\, with a focus on two cutting-edge research topics in close collaboration with transatlantic partnerships. Internationally renowned AI researchers and professionals will provide insight into the current status and discussions on trustworthy AI and give a glimpse on the future of Quantum ML.
URL:https://uaruhrfellowships.org/event/trustworthy-ai-and-quantum-ml-collaborating-with-germany/
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SUMMARY:Cornelia Thomsen: The Golden Ratio Series
DESCRIPTION:Deutsches Haus at NYU presents “Cornelia Thomsen: The Golden Ratio Series\,” an exhibition of a new body of work\, The Golden Ratio Series\, by the accomplished visual artist Cornelia Thomsen. Her latest series and the exhibition consists of 8 aquatints in the primary colors red\, blue\, yellow\, as well as black and white. These splendid prints reflect beautifully on the mathematical principles of the golden ratio and are a continuation of Cornelia Thomsen’s focus on the linear depiction of the golden ratio in her celebrated Stripes paintings. Please join us for the exhibition opening on April 18 (6-8pm). The exhibition opening will include a conversation between Cornelia Thomsen and Juliane Camfield (director of Deutsches Haus at NYU). \nTo attend\, please RSVP here. \nAbout the artist:\nCornelia Thomsen was born in former East Germany. Recognized for her artistic skills from an early age\, she was selected to be a student at the prestigious school of the Meissen Porcelain Factory. When the wall between East and West came down in 1989\, she weathered the time of ideological and economic collapse through personal reinvention. She enjoyed the freedom of travel for the first time\, and her world was liberated by the discovery of abstract art\, which was completely suppressed in East Germany. Cornelia Thomsen received BA and MFA degrees from the University of Art and Design in Offenbach\, Germany\, where her thesis marked the beginning of her abstract Stripes series. In 2006\, she moved with her husband and three children from the Frankfurt area to New York\, but being born into and living within the confines of East German socialism for her first twenty years has had a huge influence on her artistic practice. Cornelia Thomsen has had solo and group exhibitions in Tokyo\, New York\, and Düsseldorf\, Germany\, and is an active public speaker focusing on the recent history of Germany and the role of women in society. Her wide-ranging work in many media is represented in numerous public collections\, including that of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA); Ackland Museum\, Chapel Hill\, North Carolina; Minneapolis Institute of Art; and Friedrich Fröbel Museum\, Bad Blankenburg\, Germany.
URL:https://uaruhrfellowships.org/event/cornelia-thomsen-the-golden-ratio-series/
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