Ongoing

The Untold Stories of Russian History

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

Mikhail Magaril’s exhibition Untold Stories of Russian History will be held at the Harriman Institute, Columbia University, from March 21 to May 6, 2022. The exhibition is part of a long-term collaboration between the Harriman Institute and the Russian-American Cultural Center (RACC) for the presentation of Russian immigrant artists in New York. Mikhail Magaril specializes in the artist’s handmade book. He firmly believes that every…

Book Panel. Rethinking the Gulag: Identities, Sources, Legacies

Online

Please join us for the launch of the new volume Rethinking the Gulag: Identities, Sources, Legacies (Indiana University Press, March 2022). Editors Alan Barenberg and Emily Johnson will be joined by contributors Gavin Slade (Nazarbayev University), Mikhail Nakonechnyi (University of Helsinki), and Sarah Young (University College London), discussant Dan Healey (University of Oxford), and moderator Mark Lipovetsky (Columbia University). The Soviet Gulag was one of the largest, most complex, and deadliest systems of incarceration in the…

Depicting Irish History: Virtual Artist Talk

Zoom

Join us for a conversation with artist Maureen O’Leary, historian Miriam Nyhan Grey, and curator Pamela Jean Tinnen as they discuss the history and impact of Ireland’s Easter Rising through the lens of O’Leary’s series Portraits of Ireland’s Easter Rising Leaders on view in Schwartz Plaza Vitrines through June 17, 2022. Portraits of Ireland’s Easter Rising Leaders is an exhibition in collaboration with Glucksman Ireland House,…