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MUR and the Revival of Ukrainian Literary Life in the DP Camps in Germany

Harriman Institute 420 West 118th St., New York City

Tuesday, April 3, 2018 12:00pm Marshall D. Shulman Seminar Room (1219 International Affairs Building, 420 W 118th St) Please join the Ukrainian Studies Program at the Harriman Institute, Columbia University for a presentation by Professor Lidia Stefanowska (University of Warsaw). Within the American-occupied zone in Germany in 1945-1948, Ukrainian Displaced Persons (DPs) managed to create a substitute for cultural and social structures in…

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Film Screening & Discussion. “Art is a Weapon.”

Harriman Institute 420 West 118th St., New York City

Tuesday, April 3, 2018 6:00pm Harriman Institute Atrium, 12th Floor International Affairs Building (420 W 118th St) Please join the Harriman Institute for a screening of the documentary film Art Is a Weapon (2017), followed by a discussion with director Andrea Simon. The event will be introduced and moderated by Martin Marinos, Postdoctoral Research Scholar at the Harriman Institute. Run time: 85 minutes Language: English,…

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Turkey and Europe: Contested Identities in History

Speaker: Senem Aydın-Düzgit, Associate Professor of International Relations, Sabancı University Moderator: Tsveta Petrova, Adjunct Assistant Professor of Political Science, Columbia University Turkey’s and Europe’s perceptions of each other play a key role in shaping their relations at present. Recent public discourses in Europe often characterize Turkish and European identities as dichotomous and in opposition. However, this assessment is based on a fixed and static understanding…

Andrés Bello Chair Professor Keila Grinberg Second Public Lecture | Passados Presentes: Slavery and Memory Tourism in Rio de Janeiro

King Juan Carlos I of Spain Center 53 Washington Square South, New York

Venue: KJCC Auditorium // 53 Washington Square South, New York Reception to Follow Recently, slavery has become an important theme in memory tourism. Just last year, in Rio de Janeiro, the Valongo wharf, which was the arrival place of the highest number of enslaved Africans in the Atlantic, was recognized as a UNESCO site, and is now being visited by…

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Lecture: Italian Colonialism and Resistances to Empire, 1930-1970

Casa Italiana Zerilli-Marimò (NYU) 24 West 12th Street, New York City

A lecture by Neelam Srivastava, Newcastle University: In this book, I provide a cultural history of Italian colonialism and its impact on twentieth-century ideas of empire and anti-colonialism. I explore the widespread political and literary responses to Italy’s invasion of Ethiopia in 1935, highlighting how Pan-Africanism grew from opposition to Italy’s late empire-building, and reading the work of George Padmore, Claude McKay,…

Talk: Deception, Myth, and Reality in Czech History

Bohemian National Hall 321 E 73rd St., New York

"Deception, Myth, and Reality in Czech History (1918-1948): A Perspective from the Archives" presented by Igor Lukes, a Professor of History and International Relations at Boston University, who writes primarily about Central Europe. His books include On the Edge of the Cold War: American Diplomats and Spies in Postwar Prague (New York: Oxford, 2012), Rudolf Slansky: His Trials and Trial…