Holodomor: A Remembrance | A Virtual Visual Art Presentation

The virtual exhibition Holodomor: A Remembrance commemorates the 87-year anniversary of the Holodomor Famine-Genocide, which occurred in Ukraine in 1932-33. It is a visual arts presentation featuring the works of Ukrainian-American artist Lydia Bodnar-Balahutrak. In 1991, the artist traveled to Ukraine for the first time. She states: “My eyes and soul were opened to a land that was beautiful but…

EU Response to the Covid Crisis: Preventing the Great Fragmentation

Featuring: Marco Buti, Head of Cabinet of the European Commissioner for the Economy Adam Tooze, Kathryn and Shelby Cullom Davis Professor of History & Director of the European Institute Nicolas Véron, Senior Fellow at Bruegel and at the Peterson Institute for International Economics Marco Buti, Adam Tooze, and Nicolas Véron will examine the EU's response to the economic impact of the Covid crisis.…

Denaturalized. How Thousands Lost Their Citizenship and Lives in Vichy France – Claire Zalc in Conversation with Rebecca Kobrin and Emmanuelle Saada

To sign up for this event, click here. Thousands of naturalized French men and women had their citizenship revoked by the Vichy government during the Second World War. Once denaturalized, these men and women, mostly Jews who were later sent to concentration camps, ceased being French on official records and walked off the pages of history. As a result, we…

VIRTUAL EVENT. Book Launch. Post-Socialist Political Graffiti in the Balkans and Central Europe

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 East Central European Center at the Harriman Institute for a book launch of Post-Socialist Political Graffiti in the Balkans and Central Europe (2020) and discussion with its…

20/20 Philosophers: Souleymane Bachir Diagne

REGISTER HERE TO RECEIVE A ZOOM LINK TO THE EVENT 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 into new fields: health, ecology, neurosciences,…

Russia’s Worlds Series: Soviet Union and East Asia

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 us for an event in the Russia's Worlds Lecture Series, featuring presentations by Tatiana Linkhoeva (NYU) and Elizabeth McGuire (California State University, East Bay). Russia's Worlds Lecture Series: In the…

Film Screening: Paris Stalingrad

Please join the Institute for the Study of Human Rights, Barnard’s Forum on Migration, the Committee on Forced Migration and the European Institute for a screening of the film: "Paris Stalingrad" A film by Hind Meddeb Co-directed by Thim Naccache Summer 2016. Paris. Refugees arriving from Sudan, Ethiopia, Eritrea, Somalia and Afghanistan have no other choice than to sleep in…

Chavirer: A Conversation with Lola Lafon and Laure Murat

Join novelist Lola Lafon and author and UCLA professor Laure Murat on November 22 at 2pm as they discuss Lafon’s bestselling and widely acclaimed novel, Chavirer, just published in France (Actes Sud). If we had to name a secret thread that connect the novels of Lola Lafon, it would have to be: they all form an invitation to listen to…

VIRTUAL EVENT. Book Launch. They Will Understand Us in 100 Years. Lazar Khidekel

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 us for the launch of the bilingual book They Will Understand Us in 100 Years. Lazar Khidekel, published alongside the first solo exhibition of brilliant artist and visionary architect Lazar…

Dealing With a Contested Past: “Monument Wars” in Ukraine and the USA

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 Ukrainian Studies Program at the Harriman Institute, Columbia University for a presentation by Valentyna Kharkhun (Nizhyn Mykola Gogol State University), moderated by Professor Mark Andryczyk. When the dismantling…