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 […]
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 […]
Please join University Alliance Ruhr at DAAD’s 20th Sound Understanding Concert. This 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. […]
INVITATION Join us for a literary event and an Austrian wine reception THURSDAY, April 20th, 7 pm Reading and Conversation PHILIPP WEISS “At the Edge of the World Man Sits and Laughs” AUSTRIAN CULTURAL FORUM NEW YORK 11 EAST 52nd STREET, 10022 NEW YORK Image Credits: Jean-Luc Bertini READING AND CONVERSATION “Am Weltenrand sitzen die Menschen und […]
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. RSVP here. About the talk: We are what Walter Benjamin calls “newcomers to eternity,” with new spatial coordinates: “when the […]
Date/Time Sun, Apr 23, 2023, 1:00 PM EDT (adjusted to your local time) Venue Center for Jewish History (map) 15 W. 16th St. New York, NY 10011 Admissions LBI/CJH/Partner Members, Students, Seniors: $5 General: $10 Tickets GET TICKETS The late Steven Mark Lowenstein was a brilliant social historian who, after retiring from his academic position at the […]
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 […]
Tue, Apr 25, 2023, 7:00 PM EDT (adjusted to your local time) Venue Center for Jewish History (map) 15 W. 16th St. New York, NY 10011 Admissions LBI/CJH/Partner Members, Students, Seniors: $5 General: $10 Tickets GET TICKETS News reports about curricular standards in Hasidic schools have set off a polarizing public debate. With the rapid growth of […]
Get a weekly “must see” recommendation via Telescope’s “Pic of the Week.” Pic of the Week: The Amazing Maurice Every 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 […]
