Participants in this session will discuss the European Green Deal: What has been achieved since the launch of the EU Green Deal in December 2019? What is the impact of the Covid crisis on efforts to address climate change? How is the EU partnering with other international actors to fight climate change? December 8, 2020: Thierry Grillet interviews climatologist Jean…
Read and discuss Scandinavian literature in translation as part of our Nordic Book Club, now online! Join us to discuss The Brahmadells by Joanes Nielsen, translated to English by Kerri A. Pierce. The Brahmadells, one of the first Faroese books to be translated into English, is an epic novel chronicling the lives of a particular family against the larger history of the…
Register here for the Zoom webinar, or tune in on YouTube Live. Please join the Harriman Institute and the Russian Film Club at Columbia University for a discussion with Nancy Condee, Stephen Norris, and Dusty Wilmes about the 2019 Russian thriller Text. This event is part of our Contemporary Culture Series. Klim Shipenko’s Text (2019) is a rare case of Russian thriller that has managed…
Radical Diversity is a discussion series presented by several Goethe-Institut locations in North America in collaboration with its Goethe Pop Ups, the Thomas Mann House, and the Institute for Social Justice & Radical Diversity under the sponsorship of the Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung North America. Right-wing extremism, everyday racism and racialized microaggressions, and pressure to “assimilate” – all of these constructs affecting racialized…
In this talk, Professor Zhuravskaya will discuss her forthcoming paper “Diffusion of Gender Norms: Evidence from Stalin’s Ethnic Deportations”, co-authored with Antonela Miho and Alexandra Jarotschkin. In this paper the scholars study horizontal between-group cultural transmission using a unique historical setting, which combines exogenous group exposure with no control over how and whether the representatives of different groups interact. Stalin’s…
Find our which book won this year’s Albertine Prize live during our annual Albertine Prize Award Ceremony! Join Honorary Co-Chairs, American author Rachel Kushner and French literary critic François Busnel, as they announce the winners live at 1pm EST on December 9th, followed by a discussion with the winning author and translator, moderated by Literary Hub’s Executive Editor, John Freeman. Register to…
This event will be held virtually as a Zoom webinar and streamed via YouTube Live. There will be no in-person event. Click here to purchase Quiet Spiders of the Hidden Soul from Book Culture NYC. Register here for the Zoom webinar, or tune in on YouTube Live. Please join the Ukrainian Studies Program at the Harriman Institute for a presentation of the new…
By 1929 Helene and Samuel Gronner reach economic success and social prominence in the German town of Ilmenau. But when Nazi ideology grips the community, neighbors begin to shun Jewish-owned businesses like theirs. After near daily antisemitic encounters in school, they resolve to send Jochen, their teen-aged younger son, to Palestine. It's not until the war ends that he discovers that his parents…
The talk will investigate links between narrative modes and visions of economy that defined Russian sentimentalism. While in English-language Russianist scholarship social aspects of sentimental fiction have been largely ignored, they occupy a central place both in Soviet-era studies and in contemporary interpretations of English and French sentimentalism. Through a close reading of Karamzin’s classic Poor Liza I will illuminate…
Register here for the Zoom webinar or tune in on YouTube Live. Please join us for an event with poet, essayist, and journalist Maria Stepanova. Moderated by Professor Mark Lipovetsky. This event is part of our Contemporary Culture Series. Maria Stepanova is a poet, essayist, journalist and the author of ten poetry collections and three books of essays. She has received several Russian and international…
