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Lecture: Archives and Archivalities: Record-Keeping and Sovereignty in Early Modern Eurasia

Hagop Kevorkian Center 255 Sullivan Street, New York City, NY, United States

The ascendency of historical archival studies has re-focused attention on the relationship between record-keeping practices, the extension of authority across composite domains, and the redefinition of sovereignty between the fifteenth and the eighteenth centuries. Yet when positing the “archive” as an object of research, scholars dedicated to the history and evolution of documentary repositories also risk returning to culturalist modes…

Exhibit Opening. Sergei Volokhov: Theory of Reflection. Selections From The Kolodzei Art Foundation

Harriman Institute 420 West 118th St., New York City, NY, United States

Join the Harriman Institute and the Kolodzei Art Foundation for the opening reception of the exhibit Sergei Volokhov: Theory of Reflection. Selections from the Kolodzei Art Foundation. This exhibition features selected drawings from the 1980s by prominent Russian artist Sergei Volokhov. These imaginative drawings on specially prepared paper are contemplations by the artist on Russian history and his personal memories. Exhibit runs October 22…

Red Regatta

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

Presented by Save Venice This event is organized and presented by Save Venice. A lecture by Melissa McGill, artist Artist Melissa McGill will speak about her most recent public artwork, Red Regatta, an unprecedented series of large-scale choreographed regattas of traditional vela al terzo sailboats, hoisted with hand-painted red sails, that activated Venice’s lagoon and waterways last May through October 2019. This…

And Nobody Gets Everything Right With The Rhythm Method

Scandinavia House 58 Park Avenue, New York City, NY, United States

Praised as “fierce, fearless, and virtuosic… unapologetically stylistically omnivorous and versatile” (New Music Box) and “trailblazing…skillful composer-performers” (The New Yorker), The Rhythm Method string quartet strives to re-imagine the string quartet in a contemporary, feminist context. In this performance, the quartet will present a program of music by contemporary Scandinavian composers Kristin Bolstad and Ole-Henrik Moe (Norway); 19th-century Swedish composer…

We’re All Thieves Here: The Soviet War on Crime and the End of Criminal Justice Reform, 1959-1991

Marshall D. Shulman Seminar Room 420 W 118th Street, #1219 International Affairs Building, New York City, NY, United States

Join for a talk with Rhiannon Dowling, Postdoctoral Research Scholar at the Harriman Institute. Rhiannon Dowling will present on her book project, a cultural and intellectual history of crime in the Soviet Union, which argues that, of all of the promises that the Soviet state failed to fulfill, the most crucial, and most devastating, was the promise to eliminate crime with its…

Transparency and the Rule of Law: Preliminary Results From a Field Experiment in Ukraine

Jordan Center for the Advanced Study of Russia 19 University Place, 2nd Floor, New York City, NY, United States

Professor Gans-Morse will report preliminary results from a field experiment examining a novel, bottom-up approach to improving judicial transparency: the videotaping of court hearings. Random assignment of pre-trial detention hearings in Kyiv city courts to videotaping by an Ukrainian non-governmental organization offers insights into whether increased transparency can improve key aspects of the rule of law, such as judges’ adherence…

Exquisite Elegies

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

Genoa's Staglieno Cemetery In partnership with the Bogliasco Foundation. Once deemed “the most beautiful cemetery in the world” (Le Figaro), Genoa’s monumental cemetery is a museum unique in the world, with some of the 19th century’s most stunning and elaborate statuary. Against a historical background that evokes the period’s crucial sociopolitical shifts, poet Grace Schulman (BF ‘18), visual artist Susan…

The Future of Immortality: A Book Talk with Anya Bernstein

Marshall D. Shulman Seminar Room 420 W 118th Street, #1219 International Affairs Building, New York City, NY, United States

Join the Harriman Institute and the Columbia Institute for Religion, Culture and Public Life (IRCPL) for a book talk with Anya Bernstein, author of The Future of Immortality: Remaking Life and Death in Contemporary Russia (Princeton University Press, 2019), in conversation with Anton Vidokle (e-flux) and Adam Leeds (Slavic Languages). As long as we have known death, we have dreamed…

Film Screening & Discussion. Beshoot

Deutsches Haus Columbia 420 West 116th Street, New York City, NY, United States

Join the Ukrainian Film Club at Columbia University for the unofficial US premier of the 2019 military drama Beshoot, followed by a discussion with director Ivan Tymchenko and producer Svitlana Soloviova, moderated by Professor Yuri Shevchuk. The soldiers of the Donbas Volunteer Battalion are at the center of this war drama inspired by real-life events. Two Ukrainian fighters who volunteered to repel the…

The Great Chernobyl Acceleration

Jordan Center for the Advanced Study of Russia 19 University Place, 2nd Floor, New York City, NY, United States

In April 1986, the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant exploded and sent upwards of 50 million curies into the surrounding environment. Working through archives, Brown encountered many contradictory accounts of the disaster and its effects. Realizing that though people and archives lie, trees probably don’t, she turned to scientists—biologists, foresters, physicians and physicists—to help her understand the ecology of the greater…