Please join us for a three-day symposium sponsored by the Harriman Institute and the Barnard College Department of Dance. The Cold War was fought on many fronts, with dance as a powerful weapon in its arsenal. The ballet wars of the 1950s and 1960s, including high-profile defections, captured international headlines, but numerous forms of dance from folk dance and modern dance to…
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Please join the Harriman Institute and the European Institute for a talk with David Robarge, Chief Historian, Central Intelligence Agency, as a guest speaker in Professor Victoria Phillips’s class. For more information, and to RSVP, please visit http://europe.columbia.edu/events From Columbia’s Harriman Institute.
Please join us for a screening of the documentary film Finding Babel (2016), followed by a Q&A with its director, David Novack. Run time: 89 minutes 75 years after subversive Soviet writer Isaac Babel’s execution for supposed criticism of the Communist Party, his grandson works to piece together the story of the grandfather he never knew and understand the author’s unique artistic style. David…
Please join us for a talk with Chris Miller, Associate Director of the Brady-Johnson Program in Grand Strategy at Yale University, about his book The Struggle to Save the Soviet Economy: Mikhail Gorbachev and the Collapse of the USSR (The University of North Carolina Press, 2016). For half a century the Soviet economy was inefficient but stable. In the late 1980s, to the surprise of…