At Lunch with Gemma Birnbaum

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Author and journalist Julie Salamon (Wall Street Journal and NY Times) sits down with Gemma Birnbaum, the new Executive Director of AJHS.  To kick off season 2 of our popular interview series, we thought it would be the perfect opportunity for our community to get to know Gemma!  Join us to hear from her about growing up in Queens, her work at the The National WWII…

On Soviet Occidentalism, Empire, and Modernity (with Volodymyr Ryzhkovskyi)

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Since the collapse of the Soviet Union, “empire” and “modernity” have been proposed as particularly useful frameworks for the comparatively oriented and globally relevant research on Russia and the Soviet Union. Surprisingly enough, there was little exchange and cross-traffic between these two major clusters of innovation in the field of Russian and Soviet studies. By introducing the concept of Soviet…

Third Annual ECEC Translation Month Event: Focus on Contemporary East-Central European Women Writers

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Please join the East Central European Center at the Harriman Institute for a roundtable discussion in celebration of National Translation Month. This year’s roundtable features four translators presenting current projects, all texts by exciting, contemporary, and up-and-coming East-Central European women writers. Topics will include issues of migration, exile, gender and sexuality, ethnicity, and feminism. The program will include literary readings from recently translated works, including Ivana…