Join us for a book talk on the new novel Awake with Danish author Harald Voetmann & translator Johanne Sorgenfri Ottosen, out in translation September 21 from New Directions! In a shuttered bedroom in ancient Italy, the sleepless Pliny the Elder lies in bed obsessively dictating new chapters of his Natural History to his slave Diocles. Fat, wheezing, imperious, and prone…
A conversation with Salvatore Pappalardo (Towson University) and David Do Paço (Sciences Po, Paris & Columbia University). Respondents: Franco Baldasso (Bard College), Konstantina Zanou (Columbia University). Coordinator: Konstantina Zanou This event puts together the story of a Muslim boy’s disappearance in late 18th century Trieste (David Do Paço) with that of the ideas of some 19th-century Triestine archeologists, antiquarians and…
Join us for a meeting of the New York-Russia Public Policy Series, co-hosted by the Harriman Institute at Columbia University and the New York University Jordan Center for the Advanced Study of Russia. In this first event of the academic year, our panelists will discuss the results and importance of Russia’s Duma elections for parliament held on September 19, 2021. The ruling United Russia party is widely…
Casa Italiana hosts this book club online on the Zoom platform to discuss contemporary Italian books in Italian. The Club is open to anyone and its purpose is to offer the possibility to practice the Italian language. Everybody is encouraged to speak. The group suggests the books, usually by contemporary Italian authors, that reflect the changes that have taken place with time in…
Join us for another 19v seminar! Please note that this talk will be in Russian. Возникновение и работу «Общества для пособия нуждающимся литераторам и ученым» (Литературного фонда) традиционно рассматривают в аспекте благотворительности, как проявление и доказательства присущих русской литературе и отдельным ее представителям гуманности и милосердия. Полезным представляется, однако, и другой угол зрения на эту организацию: как на институт, возникший…
Please join the Ukrainian Film Club at Columbia University and the Ukrainian Studies Program at the Harriman Institute for discussion with Olena Solodovnikova, director of the feature documentary The War Syndrome. I’m Used to Killing (2020). Professor Yuri Shevchuk will moderate a discussion and Q&A. Attendees can watch the film on YouTube prior to the discussion. The event on September 29 will not include a screening of…
Author and journalist Julie Salamon (Wall Street Journal and NY Times) sits down with Gemma Birnbaum, the new Executive Director of AJHS. To kick off season 2 of our popular interview series, we thought it would be the perfect opportunity for our community to get to know Gemma! Join us to hear from her about growing up in Queens, her work at the The National WWII…
Since the collapse of the Soviet Union, “empire” and “modernity” have been proposed as particularly useful frameworks for the comparatively oriented and globally relevant research on Russia and the Soviet Union. Surprisingly enough, there was little exchange and cross-traffic between these two major clusters of innovation in the field of Russian and Soviet studies. By introducing the concept of Soviet…
Please join the East Central European Center at the Harriman Institute for a roundtable discussion in celebration of National Translation Month. This year’s roundtable features four translators presenting current projects, all texts by exciting, contemporary, and up-and-coming East-Central European women writers. Topics will include issues of migration, exile, gender and sexuality, ethnicity, and feminism. The program will include literary readings from recently translated works, including Ivana…
Organized in the wake of World War Two by the victorious Allies, the Nuremberg Trials were intended to hold the Nazis to account for their crimes and to restore a sense of justice to a world devastated by violence. As Francine Hirsch reveals in her groundbreaking new book, a major piece of the Nuremberg story has routinely been left out:…
