Ukraine at the Epicenter of the World Storm: The First Results

1219 International Affairs Building 420 West 118th Street, New York City

Please join the Ukrainian Studies Program at the Harriman Institute, Columbia University for a presentation by Ambassador Yuriy Scherbak. Yuriy M. Scherbak (Shcherbak) is a Ukrainian writer, screenwriter, publicist, epidemiologist, politician, diplomat, and environmental activist. He is a Doctor of Medicine (1983) and Laureate of the Y. Yanovsky Literary Prize (1984) and the O. Dovzhenko State Prize (1984). Yuriy Scherbak graduated from…

When US Press Flirted with Fascism

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

Co-presented by NYU Department of History and Centro Primo Levi. Ruth Ben Ghiat and Alexander Stille in conversation with Mauro Canali on his new research and book La scoperta dell’Italia on American correspondents in Fascist Italy. Respondent to be announced. Mauro Canali’s new research, published as La scoperta dell’Italia, examines the activity, impact, and perspectives of American correspondents in Italy from 1900 to 1945 and the beginnings of the modern tradition of international political…

Re-Thinking Populism on the Left

Albertine 972 5th Avenue, New York

What if populism was more than the image of demagoguery seen across our media? Join Chantal Mouffe and Jonathan Smucker as they discuss the “populist moment” that Western democracies face today and what it means for the left, themes from Mouffe’s latest book, For a Left Populism, just out in the US with Verso Books. In English. Free and open to the public. No RSVP necessary. Chantal…

Film Screening & Discussion. Frost

Deutsches Haus Columbia 420 West 116th Street, New York City

Please join the Ukrainian Film Club of Columbia University for a screening of the film Frost (2017) as part of the Fall 2018 Olena Yershova Retrospective Film Series at Columbia. Producer Olena Yershovawill participate in the discussion. Frost, directed by Sharunas Bartas of Lithuania, is an unheroic road story of discovery when a selfless Lithuanian couple drives a truck loaded with humanitarian aid for Ukrainians…