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2019 Jordan Center Distinguished Lecture: Boris Groys

Jordan Center for the Advanced Study of Russia 19 University Place, 2nd Floor, New York City, NY, United States

We will hear from NYU Global and Distinguished Professor of Russian and Slavic Studies Boris Groys, who will speak about “The Cold War Between the Medium and the Message: Western Abstract Art vs. Socialist Realism.” It is well known that the Cold War was represented in the context of art by the conflict between Modernist, or, more precisely, abstract and figurative, realist…

Leon Feraru and the Invention of Romanian Cultural Diplomacy in the United States

Romanian Cultural Institute 200 East 38th Street, New York, United States

Join the Romanian Cultural Institute and the East Central European Center at the Harriman Institute for an event in the Leon Feraru Conference Series, featuring professors Mona Momescu and Christopher J. Caes. Click here to RSVP. To honor the memory of the writer, academic, and diplomat who did more than anybody else at the beginning of the 20th century to…

Book Talk. The Compatriots: The Brutal and Chaotic History of Russia’s Exiles, Émigrés, and Agents Abroad by Andrei Soldatov and Irina Borogan

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

Join for a book launch of The Compatriots: The Brutal and Chaotic History of Russia's Exiles, Émigrés, and Agents Abroad (PublicAffairs, October 2019) with authors Andrei Soldatov and Irina Borogan. The authors of The Red Web examine the shifting role of Russian expatriates throughout history, and their complicated, unbreakable relationship with the mother country–be it antagonistic or far too chummy.…

The Survival of the Jews in France, 1940-1944

Albertine 972 5th Avenue, New York, NY, United States

Join us for a discussion with French Historian and mass violence expert Jacques Sémelin and historian Robert O. Paxton on Semlin’s new book, The Survival of the Jews in France, 1940-1944. Between the French defeat in 1940 and liberation in 1944, the Nazis killed almost 80,000 of France’s Jews, both French and foreign. Compared to other nations, however, this death toll…

Czech Science Cafe: Physics for Our Future

Bohemian National Hall 321 E 73rd St., New York, NY, United States

Lecture and discussion with Ivo Svejkovský, the Head of International Cooperation at the Institute of Physics of the Czech Academy of Sciences. How can our society benefit from the results of the scientific research Ivo Svejkovsky will introduce the Institute of Physics of the Czech Academy of Sciences (FZU). Emphasis will be put on actual examples of how society can…

Book Talk. The Russia Trap: How our Shadow War with Russia Could Spiral into Nuclear Catastrophe byGeorge Beebe

#1512 International Affairs Building 420 West 118th Street, New York City, NY, United States

Join the Harriman Institute and the Saltzman Institute of War and Peace Studies for a book talk with George Beebe, author of The Russia Trap: How Our Shadow War with Russia Could Spiral into Nuclear Catastrophe (St. Martin's Publishing Group, September 2019), moderated by Peter Clement (Harriman Insitutte, Saltzman Institute, SIPA). Registration is required via the Columbia/SIPA events calendar, and is currently limited…

Lethal Provocation: The Constantine Murders and the Politics of French Algeria

La Maison Française (Columbia) Buell Hall, 515 West 116th Street, New York City, NY, United States

To RSVP, please click here. Joshua Cole talks about his new book, Lethal Provocation: The Constantine Murders and the Politics of French Algeria (Cornell UP, 2019), that explores an episode of anti-Jewish violence in the Algerian city of Constantine on August 3-5, 1934.  The Constantine riots were an important event in Algerian, French, and Jewish history but their origins have been the subject…

Dante and Italian Unification

Casa Italiana Zerilli-Marimò (NYU) 24 West 12th Street, New York City, NY, United States

Mahnaz Yousefzadeh, NYU A lecture by Mahnaz Yousefzadeh, NYU This lecture will address the particular role the figure of Dante played in the process of national unification of Italy by discussing the relevance of this history for the contemporary moment, as neighborhoods, cities and nations are pondering how to enter a global economy and society without losing cultural genes and artistic heritage.…

Remaining a Ukrainian Woman: Normative Femininity as “Armor” in the Gulag

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

Join the Ukrainian Studies Program at the Harriman Institute, Columbia University for a presentation by Oksana Kis(National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine). In the 1940-50s, tens of thousands of Ukrainian women were sentenced to long-term imprisonment in the Gulag for political charges. Their experiences of living in the most brutal conditions of the Soviet camps have not yet been the subject of…

The Politics of Religion in Israel

La Maison Française (Columbia) Buell Hall, 515 West 116th Street, New York City, NY, United States

A panel discussion with Yinon Cohen, Katherine Franke and Alain Dieckhoff. Moderated by Chiara Superti To RSVP, please click here. The Israeli elections of April and September 2019 highlighted, yet again, the profound rifts that divide Israeli society. But the now familiar political haggling that ensued did not only reveal traditional left-right divides. More significantly, it put into sharp focus the religious-secular…