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Lecture:(Re)Thinking Ottoman Provincial History Taxation and Politics at the Margins of an Empire

Hagop Kevorkian Center 255 Sullivan Street, New York City, NY, United States

Ottoman economic historians often subscribed to a narrative which pictures the nineteenth century history as unfolding through a conflict over taxable resources between central political elite and provincial power-holders. In this paper I aim to provide a critique of this approach and find alternative ways of interpreting post-Tanzimat fiscal history. As an alternative to this dichotomous conception of center vs…

Lecture: Forgotten Geographies of Artistic Diplomacy w/ Sarah-Neel Smith

Hagop Kevorkian Center 255 Sullivan Street, New York City, NY, United States

Dr. Sarah-Neel Smith will discuss Turkey’s art world of the 1960s and ’70s through the lens of Abby Grey’s collecting activities, focusing on the intersection of art and international discourses about democracy in the wake of World War II.

Russian Formalism: The Theory of Literary Estrangement and the Estrangement of Social Practices

Marshall D. Shulman Seminar Room 420 W 118th Street, #1219 International Affairs Building, New York City, NY, United States

Please join us for a talk with Ilya Kalinin, Associate Professor at Saint Petersburg State University (Department of Liberal Arts and Sciences), and Associate Professor at the National Research University Higher School of Economics. Radical socio-cultural transformation constituted the very material and style, the texture and technique, of Russian Formalism. Estrangement, shift, deformation, struggle between old and new genres, mutual antagonism of…

Emancipation, Then and Now

Center for Jewish History 15 W. 16th Street, New York City, NY, United States

For all their unquestionable importance, the Holocaust and the founding of the State of Israel now loom so large in modern Jewish history that we have mostly lost sight of the fact that they are only part of—and indeed reactions to—the central event of that history: emancipation. In his new book and in this lecture, David Sorkin (Yale) seeks to…

The Global Rush to Foreign Direct Investment Screenings

International Affairs Building Columbia

Join for a lecture with: Giulio Napolitano, Professor, Roma Tre University Moderated by: Karl P. Sauvant Columbia University Law School The 20th century ended with a proliferation of global and regional free trade and investment agreements aimed at breaking down obstacles and barriers to the movement of goods and capital. Since the beginning of the 21st century and even more after the…

What Literature Is Not Talking About: Present-day Russian Society, Social Life, and Cultural Memory

Barnard College 3009 Broadway, New York, NY, New York City, NY, United States

Join for a lecture by Irina Prokhorova, cultural historian, literary critic, editor and political activist and Editor-in-chief, New Literary Observer Publishing House; Co-Founder, Mikhail Prokhorov Fund. 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. Irina Prokhorova is…

Italy and China’s MoU on the Belt and Road

International Affairs Building Columbia

Please join for a lecture with: Michele Geraci, Former Undersecretary of State, Italian Ministry of Economic Development Moderated by: Maria Adele Carrai, Associate Research Scholar, Weatherhead East Asian Institute;  Marie Curie Fellow,  KU Leuven School of Law Italy was the first G7 country to sign the MoU with China on the One Belt One Road. It has attracted lots of criticism both…

What is the Cantorial “Golden Age”?

Center for Jewish History 15 W. 16th Street, New York City, NY, United States

Among aficionados and practitioners, the term cantorial "Golden Age" draws to mind a discrete body of work recorded by a well-known cadre of Eastern European cantors working in Europe and America in the 1900s-30s. This narrative of a Golden Age was shaped by cantors working in tandem with commercial distribution networks, advertisements in print media, and the efforts of intellectuals…

Political Protest and Culture in Today’s Russia

Barnard College 3009 Broadway, New York, NY, New York City, NY, United States

Join for a lecture by journalist, literary critic, curator, and political activist Anna Narinskaya. 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. Anna Narinskaya is a journalist, literary critic, curator, and political activist. Since 2018, she has served as chair of the jury for…

Family History Today: Jewish Students, Medical Globetrotters, and Persevering Women

Center for Jewish History 15 W. 16th Street, New York City, NY, United States

At first, aspiring Jewish men from Galicia, Lithuania, and elsewhere ventured to Padua University to study medicine when other schools across Europe refused their admission. Then, from the end of the eighteenth century onward, Jews from Galicia attended Habsburg universities—from Lemberg/Lwów and Kraków, to Vienna, Pest and Prague. Many nineteenth-century Jewish medics influenced Galician life beyond their profession, advocating educational,…

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