To RSVP, please click here. This event is part of a series of talks organized by the Institute for Ideas and Imagination at Reid Hall in Paris and the Maison Française. It is also co-sponsored by the Heyman Center for the Humanities and Society of Fellows. A meeting of minds? A missed encounter? In 1836, as the abolition of slavery came into…
Please join us for Super-NOS, an evening of exciting literary debate dedicated to the 10th anniversary of the Russian literary prize NOS (Новая словесность/New Prose). This event is part of the Super-NOS Russian Literary Festival, sponsored by the Harriman Institute, Barnard Slavic Department, Columbia Slavic Department, and the Mikhail Prokhorov Charitable Foundation. Please click here to register. The NOS Annual Literature Prize was…
Join the Harriman Institute and Open Society Foundations for a screening of the film And Then We Danced (2020) followed by a panel discussion with the director Levan Akin, Julie George, Visiting Associate Professor of International and Public Affairs, Columbia University, and Tanya Domi, Adjunct Professor of International and Public Affairs, Columbia University. Film runtime: 1 hour 53 minutes. English subtitles. Click here to purchase tickets…
Join the East Central European Center at the Harriman Institute for a screening of the film The Goat Horn (Козият рог, 1972, dir. Metodi Andonov). Film runtime: 103 min. The Goat Horn is a 1972 Bulgarian dramatic feature film, starring Anton Gorchev and Katya Paskaleva. The film is set in 17th-century Bulgaria, where Kara Ivan’s wife is raped and killed by four local Ottoman…
Join us for a screening of Yury Shchekochikhin: His Life in Words and Deeds (2017), followed by a panel discussion. Golden Film Studio’s 40-minute documentary examines the life and work of investigative journalist and Duma representative Yury Shchekochikhin. An outspoken champion of democracy, free expression, and the rule of law during perestroika and in post-Soviet Russia, Shchekochikhin was famous for his…
Go behind the stories and peer inside the archives at this new bi-monthly book discussion, led by Lauren Gilbert, Senior Manager for Public Services at the Center for Jewish History. The first session will feature a discussion of The Promised Land by Mary Antin, a celebrated 1912 memoir by a Russian-Jewish immigrant to Boston, followed by a show and tell…
Professor Garry Leonard (University of Toronto) leads this month’s James Joyce Society meeting. Talk followed by group discussion of Finnegan’s Wake. Further info on www.joycesociety.org Please note that this event may be filmed, captured on audio and/or photographed. All events are supported by members of Glucksman Ireland House. Become a member.
Join for a panel discussion dedicated to the late journalist and publisher Viktor Perelman (1929-2003), the creator and sole editor of the Russian-language literary and political magazine Vremya i my (Time and We). Beginning in 1975, 152 issues of Vremya I my were published over a span of twenty-five years in several countries: first in Israel, and then in France, the United States, and…
Join on Friday, February 28 for a colloquium with Joy Neumeyer, PhD Candidate in History at the University of California, Berkeley. This event is a workshop with a pre-circulated paper. Please contact Joy Neumeyer (joy.neumeyer@berkeley.edu) or Anne Lounsbery (al108@nyu.edu) for a copy. Vasilii Shukshin rose from a Siberian village to become one of the late Soviet Union’s most celebrated talents.…
Please join the Museum of the Moving Image and the Harriman Institute for the U.S. premiere of the 2019 film Bird Talk(Mowa ptaków), with director Xawery Żuławski and DP Andrzej J. Jaroszewicz in person. This event is part of the First Look 2020 festival. Tickets available on the Museum of the Moving Image website. Film runtime: 138 minutes. In Polish with English subtitles. Dir. Xawery Żuławski. DCP. With Sebastian Fabijański,…