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Hemmerdinger Screening Room

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The Hemmerdinger Screening Room is located in the East Building, room 706.
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  • Vishal Jugdeo’s “Deo’s Moon” and “Does Your House Have Lions”: A Film Screening and Conversation with the filmmaker and NYU Professor Gayatri Gopinath

    A film screening of Vishal Jugdeo's "Deo's Moon" and "Does Your House Have Lions" followed by a conversation with the filmmaker and Prof. Gayatri Gopinath. Vishal Jugdeo (b. 1979 Regina, Canada) is a multidisciplinary artist. His work across video, installation, performance, sculpture and text experiments with narrative, blurring fiction and truth. His recent films emerge […]

  • Annual Adelaide Hahn Lecture in Classical Studies

    DISCOVERING DAILY LIFE IN ROMAN EGYPT A lecture by Dr. Anna Lucille Boozer, Professor of Archaeology and Ancient History, Baruch College Egypt has served as a critical source of evidence for social history in the Roman world. Studies of everyday life within Roman Egypt, however, have been riven by disciplinary, methodological, and theoretical ruptures. In this […]

  • Susan Isaacs Best Selling Author Book Talk

    Join us in our special event hosting Susan Isaacs, author of Bad, Bad Seymour Brown. “Jane Austen with a schmear” - Susan Isaacs, best selling author, screen writer, and previous editor at Seventeen magazine and freelace political speechwriter. An alumna of Queens College, Isaacs chaired the board of directors of Poets & Writers, the literary […]

  • Narine Abgaryan. "To Go on Living." A book talk and bilingual reading, followed by a conversation with the author and translator Margarit Ordukhanyan.

    Set in an Armenian mountain village immediately after the conflict between Armenia and Azerbaijan in the early 1990s, Abgaryan's To Go On Living traces the interconnected lives of villagers tending to their everyday tasks, engaging in quotidian squabbles, and celebrating small joys against a breathtaking landscape. Yet the setting, suspended in time and space, belies […]

  • Economics Seminars

    Seminar: Sharon Traiberman (New York University)

    Sharon Traiberman is an assistant professor in the Department of Economics at NYU. He completed his Ph.D. in Economics from Princeton University. His research interests are international trade and labor economics. Specifically, he studies the adjustment process for workers in response to changes in import costs: Which workers are able to successfully reallocate and on […]

  • Semyon Khanin. Poetry reading.

    Semyon Khanin is a Riga-based poet, translator, and editor. He is the author of several books, including Tol'ko chto (2003), Opushchennye podrobnosti (2008), Vplav' (2013), A vam ne kazhetsa, chto eti vashi p'at' minut kak-to slishkom sil'no zat'anulis' (2015), No ne tem (selected poems, 2017), Posignal' (2019), and Dve vtoryh (2023). Khanin’s collections of poetry […]

  • Martin Nekola. "Cold War Czechoslovakia and Exiles in the U.S." Lecture

    Czechoslovakia was liberated from the Nazis in May 1945, and was soon subjected to sovietization and the rising dominance of the Communist regime, which lasted for more than four decades, after the complete takeover in February, 1948. Thousands of Czechs and Slovaks (up to 300 000 in 1948-1989), who sought the return of freedom and […]

  • Victoria Lomasko. "The Last Soviet Artist." A book talk and a screening of Tree of Violence (2024 | 81 min), a documentary by Anna Moiseenko

    Join us for a conversation with Victoria Lomasko, author of The Last Soviet Artist, and a screening of the documentary Tree of Violence, which features her work and career! ​"The Last Soviet Artist" is a collection of graphic reportages by Victoria Lomasko, published by N+1 (New York, 2025). The book was created during trips across […]

  • Economics Seminars

    Seminar: Eric Verhoogen (Columbia University)

    Eric is a Professor of Economics and of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University. His main research area is industrial development -- firms, innovation, productivity, trade, industrial policy, labor markets in developing countries. Several of his papers have been concerned with the process of quality upgrading -- why and how firms raise quality when […]

  • Running a Non-Profit Research Organization: Administrators from the New York Stem Cell Foundation Research Institute

    Running a Non-Profit Research Organization: Administrators from the New York Stem Cell Foundation Research Institute. Guests will discuss their partnering initiatives, as well as the various dimensions of leading a science foundation including: Communications & Outreach; Program Management; Legal / Intellectual Property; Business Development; Information Technology; Fundraising and Human Resources. Our guests will also discuss […]

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