Sheri Berman of Barnard College presents on Democracy and Dictatorship in Europe. From the Center for European and Mediterranean Studies.
Join us for the first meeting of the 2019-2020 New York Russia Public Policy Seminar, a forum co-hosted by the Harriman Institute and New York University's Jordan Center for the Advanced Study of Russia, as we examine how U.S. foreign policy towards Russia is likely to be approached by a future Democratic administration. The Trump administration has pursued a number of…
Judith R. Walkowitz (Johns Hopkins University): Troubling Terms in the Sex Trade: from Prostitution to Sex Work, 1970-2000 From the Center for European and Mediterranean Studies.
Please join us for a seminar on contemporary political poetry in Russian with leading European, Russian, and US experts. Presentations will be in English and Russian. The seminar is organized by the Harriman Institute in collaboration with the DFG-Centre for Advanced Studies Russian-Language Poetry in Transition project. Russian political poetry is back, and the spectrum of political subjects nowadays is broader than ever, including questions…
Every summer, aficionados of William Butler Yeats come from all over the world to enjoy two weeks of lectures, readings, and theater in Sligo, and to tour nearby ”Yeats Country.” Here is your opportunity to sample the Yeats International Summer School in New York. Further info on www.yeatssociety.org Please note that this event may be filmed, captured on audio and/or…
Join us for another installment of the 19v Seminar Series! Vasilii Polenov and Ilia Repin’s three-year sojourn in Paris from 1873 to 1876 as pensioners of the St. Petersburg Imperial Academy of Arts has long been the subject of considerable interest among Russian and Western scholars alike. To date, most investigations into this topic have centered on their formative encounter…
This event will be held virtually as a Zoom webinar and streamed via YouTube Live. There will be no in-person event. Click here at the time of the event to join the Zoom webinar, or tune in on YouTube Live. Please join us for a presentation by Galin Tihanov, George Steiner Professor of Comparative Literature at Queen Mary University of London, as part of…
Utility (pol’za) was a watchword of Empress Elizabeth’s reign (1741-61). The 1745 Atlas of the Russian Empire, published in nineteen regional maps and a general map of the empire, was presented in this spirit. The atlas united “geographical rules” and “new observations” to create a complete picture of the All-Russian Empire and contiguous lands. The visual and the imperial intersect…
Join us for another 19v seminar! In this lecture, Professor Ani Kokobobo traces a new minority masculinity in Tolstoy’s late narratives after the author denounces sexuality in works like The Kreutzer Sonata. If typical Tolstoyan “seeker” characters, like Andrei Bolkonsky, Pierre Bezukhov, and Konstantin Levin were always social misfits who did not fit within societal roles and sought a sphere…
Though most scholarship on Pushkin’s reception in the United States focuses on twentieth-century African American literature, the origins of this encounter remain poorly understood. In fact, nineteenth-century commentators on both sides of the Atlantic were obsessed with Pushkin’s racial heritage—as both a Russian, and as a canonical European writer of African descent. This collaborative talk (prepared by a transatlantic historian…