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Myanmar and the Politics of Humanitarianism: Diaspora, Identity, and Advocacy

This panel discussion will explore the transnational nature of humanitarian aid in Myanmar two years after a coup ushered in military rule there, including challenges, dilemmas, and everyday politics of aid and advocacy in Myanmar, including among a growing diaspora of Burmese activists abroad.

Concert: A Spectrum of Viennese Song, 1900-1938

Performed by Stephanie Weiss (mezzo-soprano) and Christina Wright-Ivanova (piano), as part of the Vienna, 1890-1938: Capital of Tradition, Innovation, Promise, and Peril symposium.

The City Without Jews: Film Screening with Live Music

Set in the Vienna-like city of Utopia, H. K. Breslauer’s 1924 silent film “The City Without Jews (Die Stadt ohne Juden),” based on Hugo Bettauer’s 1922 satirical novel, follows the political and personal consequences […]