🎙️ Stefanos Geroulanos (Remarque Institute at NYU) sketches the major ways the story of humanity’s emergence conceived over the past centuries, and reflects on what our fashionable prehistories may reveal about the world we currently live in.

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In the newest conversation at RevDem, Stefanos Geroulanos Remarque Institute at NYU discusses how prehistories - which he calls a most generative and ruinous intellectual tradition - reflect the modern world

revdem.ceu.edu/2024/04/12/how…

Governing Transitions: Energy and Economic Knowledge in Postwar Europe – Stephen Gross& Daniela Russ

I am absolutely thrilled to share the conversation I had with the brilliant Stefanos Geroulanos. We talk about studying the history of #history , #darwin , #freud , #marx , and many other important figures and elements of history. Hope everyone enjoys!

In stores today: THE INVENTION OF PREHISTORY! Eminent historian Stefanos Geroulanos identifies how we came to obsess over the origins of humanity—and how, for centuries, ideas of prehistory have been used to justify devastating violence against others: wwnorton.com/books/97813240…

this friday!

“Harari’s “Sapiens”….imagines humanity as simply conceiving a picture and acting to make it true — like a developer designing and releasing an app.” Great piece by Stefanos Geroulanos. latimes.com/opinion/story/…

Join us tomorrow!

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From last month, hear Adam Shatz on his book The Rebel's Clinic: The Revolutionary Lives of Frantz Fanon, in conversation with Fred Moten and Azadeh Moaveni.

youtu.be/0tmF8FUyABE?si…

It exists! Congrats to Stef on reducing a lot of feigned “prehistory” to the status of a prehistory to his remorseless analysis of it.

Join us on March 27 at 5pm with Gini Alhadeff to celebrate her translation of Natalia Ginzburg's The Road to the City, in conversation with Ara Merjian and Negar Azimi.

Write [email protected] to attend in person
or register to attend via Zoom: nyu.zoom.us/webinar/regist…

Watch Alessandro Capone on 'French Military Occupation in Papal Rome, 1849-1870: Divided Sovereignty in 19th-Century Italy,' from November 2022.

youtu.be/d6TIGGQ4fvg?si…

Tomorrow at Remarque Institute at NYU, join Liliana Doganova for a discussion of her new book DISCOUNTING THE FUTURE: THE ASCENDANCY OF A POLITICAL TECHNOLOGY.

More info below!
as.nyu.edu/research-cente…

From last spring:

Hent de Vries in conversation with Tomoko Masuzawa and Philippe Büttgen on the occasion of the publication of Religion in Reason: Metaphysics, Ethics, and Politics in Hent de Vries

youtu.be/HVlWK-1MXXg?si…

The European Seminar Series presents a talk on 03/14: 'Criminalization of Solidarity in Europe.' European countries continue to target and criminalize activists, NGOs, and private citizens helping migrants.
For more information and to RSVP: as.nyu.edu/research-cente…

April 2nd.

From December:

Sandrine Kott speaks on her book A World More Equal: An Internationalist Perspective on the Cold War.

She is joined in conversation by Molly Nolan and Kristen Ghodsee.

youtu.be/JdR67nWqSyM?si…