Latest Past Events

Weak Strongman: The Limits of Power in Putin’s Russia by Timothy Frye

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 discussion with Timothy Frye, author of Weak Strongman: The Limits of Power in Putin's Russia (Princeton University Press, April 6, 2021), in conversation with Alexander Cooley (director,…

US-Russia Relations After the US Elections: What Can We Expect?

Join us for another virtual meeting of the New York-Russia Public Policy Seminar. This panel is being co-hosted by Columbia University’s Harriman Institute, the New York University Jordan Center for the Advanced Study of Russia, and the Program on New Approaches to Research and Security in Eurasia (PONARS Eurasia). In the wake of the US presidential election, please join us for a discussion involving academic…

The Divided Society

Italian Academy (Columbia) 1161 Amsterdam Avenue, New York City

Revised program: 11:00AM Welcome: Barbara Faedda, Italian Academy A brief introduction to Reset Dialogues: Jonathan Laurence 11:15AM     Opening talk: Mark Lilla Jelani Cobb, Respondent Discussion moderated by Marina Calloni 12:45PM Break 1:45PM-3:30PM   Roundtable with Sheri Berman, Ian Buruma, Jedediah Purdy Discussion moderated by Lisa Anderson The new decade has revealed deepening fault lines and unrelieved polarization. In contemporary…