Please join the Ukrainian Studies Program at the Harriman Institute, Columbia University for a screening of An Aquarium in the Sea. The Story of the New York Group of Poets. The film’s director Oleksandr Fraze-Frazenko will be present at the event. Organized together with the Ukrainian Film Club at Columbia University. An Aquarium in the Sea. The Story of the New York Group of Poets…
Posts tagged as “Soviet Union”
On April 21st, 2017, please join us for a talk featuring Constantin Katsakioris from the Bayreuth Academy of Advanced African Studies on “The Patrice Lumumba University in Moscow: Higher Education for a Soviet-Third World Alliance.” This event is part of the Occasional series, sponsored by the Jordan Center for the Advanced Study of Russia. Constantin Katsakioris is postdoctoral researcher at the Bayreuth…
The Jordan Center’s Colloquium Series serves to introduce the most recent work of scholars within the Slavic field. Participants come from universities across the country and abroad, and work in disciplines ranging from history, political science and anthropology to literature and film. The colloquium discussion is based on a working paper which will be circulated prior to the event. On…
On February 24th, please join us for “To Dziga Vertov, Artist of the Revolution” featuring John MacKay of Yale University. The event is part of the Occasional series, sponsored by the Jordan Center for the Advanced Study of Russia. Dziga Vertov unquestionably saw his own approach to cinema—very roughly, non-fictional experimental filmmaking—as a revolutionary response to the October Revolution. How were his films…