Special Virtual Book Discussion by Serhii Plokhy

The Ukrainian Institute of America, in collaboration with the Shevchenko Scientific Society and the Ukrainian Academy of Arts and Sciences, is delighted to invite you to a special virtual book discussion by Serhii Plokhy, Mykhailo Hrushevsky Professor of History and Director of the Ukrainian Research Institute at Harvard University. Forgotten Bastards of the Eastern Front: American Airmen Behind the Soviet Lines and the…

LIVE FROM THE ARCHIVES: A Pinch of Tradition and a Dash of Imagination- Stories from the AJHS Cookbook Archives

On this episode we explore how Ashkenazi and Sephardi immigrants adapted a New World food and quintessential Thanksgiving dish: pumpkin. Inspired by the AJHS cookbook collection, specifically an award-winning Sabra Liqueur pumpkin pie dreamed up in a kitchen in Milwaukee and sweet pumpkin burekas perfected by a kosher food columnist right here in New York City, culinary historian Sarah Lohman demonstrates how Ashkenazi…

New Russian TV

This event will be held virtually as a Zoom webinar and streamed via YouTube Live. There will be no in-person event. Register here for the Zoom webinar, or tune in on YouTube Live. Please join the Harriman Institute and the Russian Film Club at Columbia University for a discussion with Tatiana Efremova, Tatiana Mikhailova, Elena Prokhorova, and Alexander Prokhorov about the changing world of new Russian…

Marcel Proust, Zionist – A conversation with Antoine Compagnon and Elisabeth Ladenson

To sign up for this virtual conversation, click here. Antoine Compagnon talks with Elisabeth Ladenson about his new research on the reception of Marcel Proust's novel, In Search of Lost Time, by the French Jewish community in the 1920s. Proust has sometimes been characterized as anti-semitic, and his treatment of characters such as Swann, Nissim Bernard or Rachel shock today's…

Book Club on Submission by Michel Houellebecq

Join us for a lively Zoom conversation on Submission by Michel Houellebecq translated from the French by Lorin Stein (FSG). The conversation will be moderated by Albertine’s own Miriam Bridenne and Adam Hocker, with special guest author and Barnard professor Caroline Weber. It’s 2022. François is bored. He’s a middle-aged lecturer at the New Sorbonne University and an expert on J.…

Chavirer: A Conversation with Lola Lafon and Laure Murat

Join novelist Lola Lafon and author and UCLA professor Laure Murat on November 22 at 2pm as they discuss Lafon’s bestselling and widely acclaimed novel, Chavirer, just published in France (Actes Sud). If we had to name a secret thread that connect the novels of Lola Lafon, it would have to be: they all form an invitation to listen to…

Dealing With a Contested Past: “Monument Wars” in Ukraine and the USA

This event will be held virtually as a Zoom webinar and streamed via YouTube Live. There will be no in-person event. Register here for the Zoom webinar, or tune in on YouTube Live. Please join the Ukrainian Studies Program at the Harriman Institute, Columbia University for a presentation by Valentyna Kharkhun (Nizhyn Mykola Gogol State University), moderated by Professor Mark Andryczyk. When the dismantling…

Election in Divided America 2020: A View from Russia

This event will be held virtually as a Zoom webinar and streamed via YouTube Live. There will be no in-person event. Register here for the Zoom webinar, or tune in on YouTube Live. Please join the Program on U.S.-Russia Relations at the Harriman Institute for a lecture by Victoria Zhuravleva (IMEMO). Zhuravleva will discuss Russian perceptions of the U.S. presidential campaigns and the 2020 election,…

Soviet and Post-Soviet Histories of Race

Though “race” was never a category the Soviet authorities used much, their nationalities policy in the 1920s and support for interwar anti-colonial movements made the USSR probably the one country in the world that made anti-racism not only a domestic but an international priority and invested in it accordingly. Late Stalinism, with the collective punishment of whole peoples (and their…

Creativity in Times of COVID

Deutsches Haus at NYU presents a panel discussion among Marion Brasch, Jörg Häntzschel, Annekatrin Hendel, Florian Reischauer, and Noah Isenberg (moderator) about creativity amidst a pandemic. Opening remarks will be provided by Yasemin Pamuk, Head of Cultural Affairs and Science at the Consulate General of the Federal Republic of Germany in New York. The COVID-19 pandemic has had an enormously…