The National Bolshevik Party, founded in the mid-1990s by Eduard Limonov and Aleksandr Dugin, began as an attempt to combine radically different ideologies. In the years that followed, Limonov, Dugin, and the movements they led underwent dramatic shifts. The two leaders eventually became political adversaries, with Dugin and his organizations strongly supporting Putin’s regime while Limonov and his groups became…
REGISTRATION INFORMATION TO COME. Organized by François Noudelmann. Sponsored by the Cultural Services of the French Embassy. Philosophy, in the 21st century, has changed: its practices and languages are no longer those of the previous century. A turning point has been taken by new generations and thinkers from diverse origins who, more than commenting on the old masters, are taking philosophy…
Karen Franklin, Director of Family Research at the Leo Baeck Institute, is donating her voluminous family papers to LBI, providing her a unique dual perspective on the donation process as both a donor and a recipient. This session will address what you can do to organize and prepare your collection for donation to ensure that the material will be accessible…
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 for a panel discussion about the 2020 parliamentary election in Georgia. On October 31, 2020, Georgia will go to the polls to elect a new parliament.…
Jordan Carey, contributor to our collection. Photo Credit: Kim Haughton October 8, 12.30pm EST/5.30 GMT: NYU's Dr. Kimberly McClain DaCosta, author of Making Multiracials: State, Family, and Market in the Redrawing of the Color Line (Stanford University Press, 2007) will discuss racial boundaries in the context of her work as a sociologist with a special interest in how Irishness has interacted with blackness. Click to…
Oct, 14th, 12.30pm EST/5.30pm GMT Presented in collaboration with The Society of Fellows and Heyman Center for the Humanities. Join us for an online conversion with Professor Roy Foster about his new book, On Seamus Heaney (Princeton University Press, 2020). Published this fall, On Seamus Heaney is a vivid and original account of one of Ireland’s greatest poets by an acclaimed Irish historian and literary biographer. Professor Foster will…
With Sarah Gensburger (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Paris), Lydie Moudiléno (USC), and others to be announced. Moderated by Anne Hollmuller (NYU). Sponsored by the Institute of French Studies
Derek Penslar will discuss his book Theodor Herzl: The Charismatic Leader with Jonathan Gribetz. About the Book The life of Theodor Herzl (1860-1904) was as puzzling as it was brief. How did this cosmopolitan and assimilated European Jew become the leader of the Zionist movement? How could he be both an artist and a statesman, a rationalist and an aesthete,…
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 discussion with Andrejs Berdņikovs, editor at the European Journalism Observatory and Technology Scout at the Investment and Development Agency of Latvia (LIAA). Andrejs Berdņikovs is a data analyst, activist, and social entrepreneur with experience in research, technology scouting,…
REGISTRATION INFORMATION TO COME. Organized by François Noudelmann. Sponsored by the Cultural Services of the French Embassy. Philosophy, in the 21st century, has changed: its practices and languages are no longer those of the previous century. A turning point has been taken by new generations and thinkers from diverse origins who, more than commenting on the old masters, are taking philosophy…