For most of the last three decades, the US has sought to promote democracy in most of the countries that once constituted the Soviet Union. The results can charitably be described as mixed. The “other than the Baltic States” mantra notwithstanding, in the rest of the region these efforts have led to a handful of democratic breakthroughs, no meaningful democratic…

**This event will take place in English** In-person event: NYU community ONLY, current ID and daily screener required to enter RSVP HERE  Winner of the Audience Award for Best Short at the Camden International Film Festival, the 2021 documentary film, The Intersection (Le Carrefour), co-directed by Daniel Quintanilla and Jessamine Irwin, focuses on past and present Maine immigrant communities who…

Join us for a special 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. Following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, the West rapidly adopted unprecedented sanctions on Russia. These included a series of export controls and the sanctioning of the Russian Central Bank, major institutions in the financial…

Please join the East Central European Center at the Harriman Institute for a discussion with Lasse Skytt, author of Orbanland: Why Viktor Orbán’s Hungary Matters (New Europe Books, 2022). Moderated by Aleksandar Bošković and Christopher Caes, co-directors of the East Central European Center. From Europe to America, political landscapes have shifted in recent years in a way summed up in microcosm no better than by the…

Despite growing concern about disinformation, lack of knowledge about how the term originated, or how uses of that term change over time and across different languages and cultures, is seriously hampering our ability to counter it. This presentation, based on a new collaborative project initiated by Vera Tolz and Stephen Hutchings at the University of Manchester, will tell part of…

**The event will take place in French** Open to all on Zoom, registration HERE Bruno Clément présentera son livre Henri Bergson, prix Nobel de littérature, à l’occasion d’une conversation sur le rôle du langage en philosophie, et en particulier chez Bergson. Dans son livre, Bruno Clément se penche sur les relations entre fond et forme dans l'écriture philosophique: Bergson, Camus,…

Dr. Frank Shovlin will be in conversation with Dr. Kelly Sullivan about the recently published Letters of John McGahern available from Faber and Faber. About Letters of John McGahern: "I AM NO GOOD AT LETTERS." - JOHN MCGAHERN, 1963 John McGahern is consistently hailed as one of the finest Irish writers since James Joyce and Samuel Beckett. This volume collects some of the witty,…

Does preventive repression bolster, or does that dissent despite obstruction? While a large literature recognizes the importance of preventive repression for authoritarian stability, we know very little about its effects on public opinion. To gain traction on this question Professor Katerina Tertychnaya draws on evidence from unusually detailed data on unauthorized and authorized protest from Russia and an original survey…

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…