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Book Talk. Laboratory of Socialist Development: Cold War Politics and Decolonization in Soviet Tajikistan by Artemy M. Kalinovsky

1201 International Affairs Building 420 W 118th St, New York City

Please join us for a talk with Artemy Kalinovsky(University of Amsterdam) about his recent book Laboratory of Socialist Development: Cold War Politics and Decolonization in Soviet Tajikistan (Cornell University Press, 2018). RSVP required to Elidor Mehilli at em705@hunter.cuny.edu Kalinovsky’s book investigates the Soviet effort to make promises of decolonization a reality by looking at the politics and practices of economic development in central Asia between World…

Italy’s Decolonization: Multidirectional Memories of Empire’s End

Heyman Center for the Humanities 74 Morningside Dr, New York

Presenter: Pamela Ballinger (University of Michigan) Respondent: Victoria de Grazia (Columbia University) Moderator: Konstantina Zanou (Columbia University) Scholars have typically characterized Italy’s decolonization as abrupt and having little resonance in the peninsula at the time or subsequently. In this paper, I challenge this interpretation by demonstrating the visible and deeply felt impacts of repatriation by Italian settlers to the metropole at the time of events and…

French Decolonization in Global Perspective – Conference

New York University New York

Institute of French Studies Conference Organized by Jessica Pearson (Macalester College) and Herrick Chapman (NYU) Located at 5 Washington Place, Room 101, New York, NY 10003 (Department of Philosophy) This conference will explore the process of French decolonization in the twentieth century in the context of broad global developments, movements, ideas, and policies. It aims to evaluate recent trends in the fields of French…