Mikhail Magaril’s exhibition Untold Stories of Russian History will be held at the Harriman Institute, Columbia University, from March 21 to May 6, 2022. The exhibition is part of a long-term collaboration between the Harriman Institute and the Russian-American Cultural Center (RACC) for the presentation of Russian immigrant artists in New York. Mikhail Magaril specializes in the artist’s handmade book. He firmly believes that every…

Uzbek-British writer and journalist Hamid Ismailov’s work spans the end of the Soviet period and the entry of the former Soviet republics into a globalized, post-Cold War world. In this talk, Ismailov will speak about these themes in his own work, which tracks Central Asia’s role in a changing global political and literary scene. The talk will also touch on…

Please join the Ukrainian Film Club at Columbia University and the Harriman Institute for a screening of director Ivan Tymchenko’s 2019 film Beshoot. Introduction and discussion led by Yuri I. Shevchuk. The soldiers of the Donbas Volunteer Battalion are at the center of this war drama inspired by real-life events. Two Ukrainian fighters volunteered with thousands of others to repel the Russian aggression against their…

Join us March 31 with Icelandic author Bergur Ebbi as he reads passages from Screenshot, an exploration of the human condition in a digital world, now in new translation by Larissa Kyzer! Tonight’s event will also showcase a clip from a TV-series built around the book’s themes and a talk about Screenshot‘s subjects, based on a lecture on the book which ran in The Reykjavík…

The Harriman Institute, together with the North American Dostoevsky Society and Academic Studies Press, will host a roundtable discussion to celebrate the publication of Deborah Martinsen’s Dostoevsky’s Crime and Punishment: A Reader’s Guide (2022). With speakers Katherine Bowers (University of British Columbia), Erica Drennan (Barnard College), Kate Holland (University of Toronto), Greta Matzner-Gore (University of Southern California), Ronald Meyer (Harriman Institute), and Marcia Morris (Georgetown University).

Please join us for a discussion with genocide scholar Hikmet Karčić, author of Torture, Humiliate, Kill: Inside the Bosnian Serb Camp System (University of Michigan Press, 2022) with discussant Iva Vukušić (Utrecht University). Moderated by Tanya Domi (SIPA/Harriman Institute). Half a century after the Holocaust, on European soil, Bosnian Serbs orchestrated a system of concentration camps where they subjected their Bosniak Muslim and Bosnian Croat neighbors to torture,…

"What Makes It Italian?" is a music listening and discussion group that meets online on the Zoom platform and is open to everyone. Participation is free. The group is led by Gina Crusco, who guides listening at Bard LLI and Riverdale Y, and who has been music instructor at The New School and director of Underworld Productions. Please email ginacrusco@gmail.com to confirm your attendance and receive…

The Society of Fellows and Heyman Center for the Humanities presents a virtual panel discussion celebrating the recent work of Professor Jeremy Dauber, American Comics: A History. This event is co-sponsored by the following: Office of the Divisional Deans in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences Institute for Israel and Jewish Studies Department of Germanic Languages