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Denaturalized. How Thousands Lost Their Citizenship and Lives in Vichy France – Claire Zalc in Conversation with Rebecca Kobrin and Emmanuelle Saada

To sign up for this event, click here. Thousands of naturalized French men and women had their citizenship revoked by the Vichy government during the Second World War. Once denaturalized, these men and women, mostly Jews who were later sent to concentration camps, ceased being French on official records and walked off the pages of history. As a result, we…

Special Virtual Book Discussion by Serhii Plokhy

The Ukrainian Institute of America, in collaboration with the Shevchenko Scientific Society and the Ukrainian Academy of Arts and Sciences, is delighted to invite you to a special virtual book discussion by Serhii Plokhy, Mykhailo Hrushevsky Professor of History and Director of the Ukrainian Research Institute at Harvard University. Forgotten Bastards of the Eastern Front: American Airmen Behind the Soviet Lines and the…

VIRTUAL EVENT. “Beanpole”: New Historical Cinema and the Limits of the Watchable

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 Lilya Kaganovsky, Polina Barskova, and Tony Anemone about the 2019 film Beanpole. This event is part of our Contemporary Culture Series. Beanpole, Kantemir Balagov’s sophomore effort, turned a new leaf in the representations of…