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What Literature Is Not Talking About: Present-day Russian Society, Social Life, and Cultural Memory

Barnard College 3009 Broadway, New York, NY, New York City

Join for a lecture by Irina Prokhorova, cultural historian, literary critic, editor and political activist and Editor-in-chief, New Literary Observer Publishing House; Co-Founder, Mikhail Prokhorov Fund. This event is part of the Super-NOS Russian Literary Festival, sponsored by the Harriman Institute, Barnard Slavic Department, Columbia Slavic Department, and the Mikhail Prokhorov Charitable Foundation. Please click here to register. Irina Prokhorova is…

Italy and China’s MoU on the Belt and Road

International Affairs Building Columbia

Please join for a lecture with: Michele Geraci, Former Undersecretary of State, Italian Ministry of Economic Development Moderated by: Maria Adele Carrai, Associate Research Scholar, Weatherhead East Asian Institute;  Marie Curie Fellow,  KU Leuven School of Law Italy was the first G7 country to sign the MoU with China on the One Belt One Road. It has attracted lots of criticism both…

Mussolini’s Camps

Casa Italiana Zerilli-Marimò (NYU) 24 West 12th Street, New York City

Civilian Internment in Fascist Italy Co-presented with Centro Primo Levi On the occasion of the English language publication of Mussolini's Camps Civilian Internment in Fascist Italy (1940-1943) (2019, Routledge) by Carlo Spartaco Capogreco Panelists: Silvana Patriarca, Fordham University Carlo Spartaco Capogreco, Università della Calabria Rudolf Mrazek, University of Michigan Discussant: Mary Gibson, CUNY Graduate Center | John Jay College of Criminal Justice…