Latest Past Events

“Text”: New Genre Cinema and New Media

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…

VIRTUAL EVENT. Prigov at 80

This event will be held virtually as a Zoom webinar and streamed via YouTube Live. There will be no in-person event. Register here for the Zoom webinar or tune in on YouTube Live. Please join us for a panel discussion on the legacy of writer and artist Dmitri Prigov (1940-2007). This event is part of our Contemporary Culture Series. SPEAKERS Keti Chukhrov Ilya Kukulin…

VIRTUAL EVENT. Burning Books: Akram Aylisli, Literature, and Human Rights in Today’s Azerbaijan

Register here for the Zoom webinar or tune in on YouTube Live. Please join the Harriman Institute and PEN America for a discussion with Akram Aylisli, author of Farewell Aylis: A Non-Traditional Novel in Three Works (Academic Studies Press, 2018), translator Katherine E. Young, and journalist Alex Raufoglu. Moderated by Professor Mark Lipovetsky. This event is part of our Contemporary Culture Series. The three novellas…