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CANCELED: This is (not) Sparta: Fascistic Fascination with Ancient Sparta

4:30 PM ET

Sponsored by:: Rohatyn Center for Global Affairs, Classics & Classical Studies, and History

Open to the Public

Academic Freedom in Higher Education - Prof. Asli Ü. Bâli, Yale Law School

4:30 PM ET

Sponsored by:: History, Axinn Center for the Humanities, Education Studies, Center for Comparative Study of Race & Ethnicity, Middle East Studies and North Africa Studies, Gender, Sexuality, & Fem Studies, and Anthropology

Asli Ü. Bâli is the Howard M. Holtzmann Professor of Law at Yale Law School. She is an expert in international human rights law and comparative constitutional law focused on the Middle East. Dr. Bâli received her doctorate in Politics from Princeton University in 2010 and her law degree from Yale. Before her academic career, she worked for the UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights and as an associate at Cleary Gottlieb. Shen then went on to UCLA where she was a founding faculty director of the Promise Institute for Human Rights. Dr.

Axinn Center 229

Open to the Public

"Being Jewish after the Destruction of Gaza," A conversation with Prof. Peter Beinart

4:30 PM ET

Sponsored by:: President of the College, Provost's Office, History, Philosophy, Religion, Writing and Rhetoric Program, Axinn Center for the Humanities, Department of English, Middle East Studies and North Africa Studies, International & Global Studies, and Jewish Studies

Peter Beinart is Professor of Journalism and Political Science at CUNY. He is also a Contributing Opinion Writer for The New York Times, a political commentator on MSNBC, and Editor-at-Large of Jewish Currents. Over the years he served as Editor of The New Republic and wrote for publications like The Wall Street Journal, The Atlantic, Die Zeit, and the Financial Times. He is the author of four books including The Icarus Syndrome: A History of American Hubris (Harper, 2010) and The Crisis of Zionism (Times Books, 2012).

Wilson Hall, McCullough Student Center

Open to the Public

HSMT Guest Lecture – Prof. Magnús T. Bernhardsson, Ph.D.: HISTORY BE DAMMED

4:30 PM ET

Sponsored by:: Arabic, History, Middle East Studies and North Africa Studies, and International & Global Studies

The Promise and Peril of Big Dams in Africa and the Middle East, 1955-1970

Axinn Center 229

Open to the Public

Japan, 1972: Consumer Nation

4:30 PM ET

Sponsored by:: Rohatyn Center for Global Affairs, History, Int'l Politics & Economics, Japanese, and International & Global Studies

HYBRID EVENT: Robert A. Jones ‘59 Conference Room and Zoom
The Rohatyn Center for Global Affairs program on Global and International History presents “Japan, 1972: Consumer Nation” by Yoshikuni Igarashi.

Robert A. Jones '59 Conference Room

Open to the Public

A Multi-Disciplinary Conversation with Henk Handloetgen, Co-Writer and Co-Director of the hit TV Series Babylon Berlin

4:30 PM ET

Sponsored by:: Rohatyn Center for Global Affairs, Film & Media Culture, German, History, and European Studies

German film director Henk Handloetgen, co-writer and and co-director of the hit TV-series “Babylon Berlin”, faculty, and student panelists will discuss the series’ lasting success, its aesthetic and historical contexts in Weimar German culture and modern film technology, and its relevance for the 21st century. Free and open to the public.

Robert A. Jones '59 Conference Room

Open to the Public

Film Poster for season 4 of TV series "Babylon Berlin"

Babylon Berlin, Season 4

8:00 PM ET

Sponsored by:: Rohatyn Center for Global Affairs, Film & Media Culture, German, History, and European Studies

Season 4 of the German hit series “Babylon Berlin” has finally arrived in the United States. Set in the early 1930s in Germany and the period of the National Socialists’ rapid rise to absolute power, season 4 once again follows police inspector Gereon Rath (Volker Bruch) and police assistant Charlotte Ritter (Liv Lisa Fries) as they try to solve a murder-mystery set in the streets of Berlin. However, it is Gereon’s slow surrender to the power of Fascism that really drives this season and the relationship between the two protagonists who were once on the same page …

Axinn Center 232

Open to the Public