When our neighbors peek into our windows, we close the blinds. But on the World Wide Web, we divulge our secrets without hesitation. ‘Big Data’ is more than just name, date of birth, and address. In the digital realm, we become transparent. With every click, every phone call, every payment made, every book ordered, every video downloaded, we leave our…
Final Ball Just in Time is deufert&plischke's most radical approach to audience involvement yet. Over a period of three years (2016-18), they have been collecting personal memories, experiences, opinions, clichés, and anecdotes in "letters to dance" written by people in Berlin, New York, and Tel Aviv. Participants hand-write a personal letter, address it to dance, and sketch or describe a favorite movement. After each…
JACQUES ATTALI Economic and social theorist, writer, political adviser, and senior civil servant; author of Noise: The Political Economy of Music; Labyrinth in Culture and Society: Pathways to Wisdom; A Brief History of the Future in conversation with OLIVIER BARROT Writer, journalist, television producer and host, Un Livre un jour (France 3 and TV5); author of L’Ami posthume; Le Fils perdu; La Revue Blanche; Un Livre un jour, un…
Please join the Ukrainian Studies Program at the Harriman Institute, Columbia University for a presentation by Marci Shore of her book The Ukrainian Night: An Intimate History of Revolution (Yale University Press, 2017). NOTE ROOM CHANGE: Event will be in 1512 International Affairs Building. What is worth dying for? While the world watched the uprising on the Maidan as an episode in geopolitics, those in…
A new website and exhibition explore the dramatic events of 1938 from the perspectives of ordinary people. This event focuses on the annexation of Austria (March 12), when nearly 200,000 Jews suddenly became subject to restrictions that had developed over 5 years in Nazi Germany. With Marsha L. Rozenblit, Harvey M. Meyerhoff Professor of Modern Jewish History at the University of Maryland. About…
Please join the Harriman Institute and the East Central European Center for a talk with Natalia Aleksiun, Associate Professor of Modern Jewish History at Touro College, Graudate School of Jewish Studies. Seeking to explain the survival of her children and grandchildren, Esther Stermer of Borszczów declared in her memoir: “Our family in particular would not let the Germans have their way…
A. Ross Johnson History and Public Policy Fellow, Woodrow Wilson Center Former Director, Radio Free Europe Guest lecture for Prof. Victoria Phillips’ course “Cold War Power: Culture as a Weapon”. Free and open to the public, please RSVP here. Co-sponsored by The European Institute, The Harriman Institute, and The History Department
MIGRATION An exhibition of photographs by Carlo Rocchi Bilancini Curated by Carol Borelli On view through March 23 Mon-Fri 10-5 The photographer Carlo Rocchi Bilancini has always had an affinity for the mysterious, transformative qualities of water. Yet, where his earlier focus was on individual character, here the photographer is concerned with memory and loss, two things that migrants always…
Is it a coincidence that the first city in Europe to publicly illuminate its streets was also a capital of the Enlightenment? Is there, in fact, a relationship between actual illumination and enlightenment as a cultural and intellectual phenomenon? This talk will explore those questions through an examination of public lighting in Paris in the siècle des lumières, seeking to show…
Czech singer Lenka Lichtenberg performs an evocative collection of reimagined Czech, Moravian and Slovak folk songs, based on Jan Masaryk’s seminal 1948 songbook Národní písně. In the year 2018 we remember the 100th anniversary of creation of Czechoslovakia that the Masaryk family helped to form for more than 20 years. Join us for celebration of musical side of Jan Masaryk that might…