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Posts tagged as “Religion”

Russia Hajj: Empire and the Pilgrimage to Mecca

Please join us for a talk with Eileen Kane, Associate Professor of History and Director of the Program in Global Islamic Studies at Connecticut College, about her book, Russian Hajj: Empire and the Pilgrimage to Mecca (Cornell, 2015). This event is part of our Harriman at 70 Lecture Series. In the late nineteenth century, as a consequence of imperial conquest and a mobility…

The Russian-Ukrainian Conflict: A Clash of Civilizations?

Please join the Ukrainian Studies Program at the Harriman Institute, Columbia University for a presentation by Professor Frank E. Sysyn (University of Alberta, CIUS). The current Russian-Ukrainian conflict has brought to the fore a number of unresolved issues that have simmered throughout the twentieth century. On the one side is the Russian question that includes elements of imperial traditions, Eurasianism, Orthodoxy, and…