Translation and Tradition in Slavia Orthodoxa
Saturday, 27 September 2008, 9:00am–Sunday, 28 September 2008, 5:00pm
Room 1512 International Affairs Building
Details TBA
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Georgia's Intellectual Heritage: Georgian Language and Literature throughout the Centuries
Monday, 28 April 2008, 10:00am–6:00pm
Room 1501 International Affairs Building
The Georgian language remains an enigma for many linguists. Some debate whether it belongs to the Iberian-Caucasian family of languages; others suggest that Georgian together with its relative languages Svan, Mengrelian, and Laz creates South Caucasian family of languages; and a few still adhere to the idea of its linguistic ties with the equally enigmatic Basque language. Through the centuries the Georgian language has remained a steadfast symbol of national identity, beauty and hope for the people who consider it their native tongue.
Georgian literature boasts a history of well over a thousand years. From the oldest written texts of the early 5th century to the works of contemporary writers, the Georgian literary heritage presents an impressive body of religious and secular writings. Its masterpieces are equal to the most admired creations of world literature. Although the study of the Georgian language has been expanding, Georgian literature is still relatively little explored outside the land of its origin.
The conference will present the papers that explore various aspects of Georgian language and literature in their historical development and wide cultural context, such as the following:
• The origins of the Georgian language, its connection with other Kartvelian (Svan, Mengrelian and Laz), North Caucasian or Indo-European languages
• Medieval Georgian Hagiographic and Historical texts
(Chronicles) Georgian folklore
• The development of secular genres in Georgian literature
• Georgian prose and poetry - past and present
• Attitudes of Georgians to Georgian Language
• The methodology of teaching Georgian as a second language
This event is co-sponsored by the Georgian Studies Center at Harriman Institute at Columbia University in collaboration with Georgian Ministry of Education and Sciences.
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EMPIRE, CONQUEST AND FAITH: THE RUSSIAN AND OTTOMAN INTERACTION, 1650-1920
Thursday, 24 April 2008, 6:00pm–Saturday, 26 April 2008, 3:30pm
Kellogg Center, Room 1501 IAB
Please address all inquiries to Mark Mazower at mm2669@columbia.edu
Conference Program
Thursday 24 April, 6pm
Exotic Peoples at Imperial Russian Coronations A Lecture by Richard Wortman (Columbia University)
Location: 523 Butler Library
Friday 25 April
10am-12.00
Location: 1501 International Affairs Building
Session 1: the Danubian Principalities and the Crimea
Commentator: Robert Crews (Stanford Univ.)
A View from the Edge: Observing Istanbul's Nizam-i Cedid from Bucharest
Christine Philliou (Columbia U)
Bearing Arms for the Empire: Crimean Tatars as Soldiers and Subjects
Kelly O’Neill (Harvard Univ.)
1.30-3.30pm
Session 2: the Caucasus and Central Asia
Commentator: Stephen Kotkin (Princeton U.)
The Empire in Practice: Islam and Russian Colonists in Tsarist Azerbaijan
Nicholas Breyfogle (Ohio State Univ.)
The Ottomans and Russians in the North Caucasus: Why the Latter Succeeded Where the Former Did Not
Michael Khodarkovsky (Loyola University Chicago)
Religion and Subjecthood in the North Caucasus in the Age of Catherine II
Sean Pollock (Columbia U.)
Alchemy as a Mode of Colonial Governance in the Russian Caucasus, 1840-1865
Dana Sherry (Stanford)
4-6pm
Session 3: Russo-Ottoman Geopolitics
Commentator: Rashid Khalidi (Columbia U)
An Unorthodox Protectorate: British Policy towards the Ecumenical Patriarchate during the Crimean War
Jack Fairey (National University of Singapore)
The Impact of the Crimean War on Ottoman non-Muslim Religious Communities
Candan Badem (Okan University, Istanbul)
How Russia Became a Muslim Power: Imperial Russia, the Hajj, and Great Power Rivalries
Eileen Kane (Columbia U)
Saturday 26 April
10.00am-12.00
Location: 1501 International Affairs Building
Session 4: Imperial Reform of Religious Institutions
Commentator: Jane Burbank (NYU)
Toleration Through Establishment: The Domestication of the 'Foreign
Confessions' in Imperial Russia, 1810-1857
Paul Werth (University of Nevada)
Learning from Confrontation: the Struggle of Muslim Peasants and Russian Bureaucrats over Muslim Education in the Late Russian Empire
Mustafa Tuna (Princeton University)
The state, the spiritual assemblies, and Muslim community leadership in late imperial Russia
James Meyer (Columbia U)
1.30-3.30pm
Session 5: War and Religious Identities
Commentator: Gulnar Kendirbai (Columbia University)
Disputes between the Ottoman and Romanov Empires over Naturalization and Loss of Subjecthood
Eric Lohr (American University)
A Nation of Generals and Assassins: Rethinking the North Caucasian Diaspora in the Late Ottoman Empire
Ryan Gingeras (Long Island Univ.)
Obligation or Opportunity: the Ottomans and Russia's "Muslim Question"
Michael Reynolds (Princeton University)
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Odd Bedfellows: Sierra Leonean Diamonds, Ukrainian Arms
Friday, 18 April 2008, 8:45am–Saturday, 19 April 2008, 4:00pm
International Affiars Building, Room 1501
The Odd Bedfellows: Sierra Leonean Diamonds and Ukrainian Arms conference seeks to explore topics such as the journey of arms, particularly simplified lightweight arms from Eastern Europe, to the hands of child soldiers and rebel warriors in Sierra Leone during the 1990s civil conflict. This conference seeks to understand the lessons learned from NGO workers, scholars, governments and the global community, as they struggled to confront the violence associated with the illicit trade of arms and how students of international relations can explore new approaches to peace and security in conflict zones.
Panelists include:
**Ambassador Bockari Stevens, Ambassador of Sierra Leone to the United States
**Taras Kuzio, University of Toronto, Expert on Illicit Arms in Eastern Europe, Kuchma Era
**Prosecutor Stephen Rapp, Prosecutor for President Charles Taylor Trial
For more information, please contact Keisha Toms via email at oddbedfellows@harrimaninstitute.org, or via telephone at 347-285-1271
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Graduate Student Workshop: Russia and the Ottoman Empire: Transregional and Comparative Approaches
Saturday, 05 April 2008, 10:00am–6:00pm
Graduate Student Lounge, Philosophy Hall, Room #301
Presented by the Harriman Institute, Project on Russia and Islam
See attachment for full program schedule.
Papers for this conference will be pre-circulated. Presenters will discuss their work for 10-12 minutes, but will not be reading their papers. Persons interested in attending this workshop who would like to receive copies of papers in advance should contact James Meyer at jhm2133@columbia.edu.
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Frontiers of Humanitarianism: Concepts and Cases
Thursday, 03 April 2008, 9:00am–6:00pm
Room 1501, International Affairs Building
The Consortium on Security and Humanitarian Action is a joint endeavor of research centers at four New York area universities: the Humanitarian Affairs Program at Columbia University’s The School of International and Public Affairs; the Ralph Bunche Institute for International Studies at The Graduate Center of The City University of New York, the Institute for International Humanitarian Affairs at Fordham University, and both the Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service and the Center for Global Affairs at the School of Continuing and Professional Studies at New York University.
The Conference is meant to examine the limits of humanitarian action, and in particular how political paralysis after conflict perpetuates human suffering. Many violent crises of the past have left a legacy of humanitarian needs that no longer make the headlines, and that defy a solution. Is humanitarianism no more than a fig leaf for political cowardice? Or has the time come for a political approach to humanitarian action, exploring new frontiers?
Panels include:
“Knowledge is Power: Social Science and Humanitarian Action”
Organized by the Ralph Bunche Institute, CUNY Graduate Center, with Michael Barnett, Craig Calhoun, Peter J. Hoffman, and H. Roy Williams
“Left Behind in the Caucasus"
Organized by SIPA, Columbia University, with Dirk Salomons, Dr. Arif Yunusov, David L. Phillips, Jennifer Sime, and Alexander Coole
“Politization of Humanitarian Aid in Colombia”
Organized by Institute of International Humanitarian Affairs, Fordham University, with Arancha Garcia del Soto, Monsignor Hector Fabio Henao, Renata Segura, and Ana Maria Gomez
“Lessons Learned About Post-Conflict Reconstruction: Iraq”
Organized by the Center for Global Affairs at the School of Continuing and Professional Studies, New York University, with Michael Oppenheimer, Major General William Nash, Paul Hughes, and Thomas Hill
Concluding Remarks: John Coatsworth, Acting Dean, SIPA.
Reception to follow
RSVP is requested by April 2, 2008. Please respond via: the conference invite
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Russia under a New President: Domestic Change and the International Environment
Friday, 28 March 2008, 10:00am–4:00pm
Randolph Room, Faculty House, Columbia University
The Harriman Institute of Columbia University and Russia Profile.ORG (RIA Novosti) present
RUSSIA UNDER A NEW PRESIDENT: DOMESTIC CHANGE AND THE INTERNATIONAL ENVIRONMENT
10am - 12Noon PANEL 1
Rossiyane or Russkie? The Clash of Civic, Ethnic and Imperial Nationalisms in the Formation of the Russian Nation-State
Emil Pain, General Director of the Center for Ethno-Political and Regional Studies and professor of Higher School of Economic (Moscow)
Jack L. Snyder, Robert and Renée Belfer Professor of International Relations, Columbia University
Alexander J. Motyl, Professor of Political Science and Deputy Director of the Division of Global Affairs, Rutgers University
Chair: Andrei Zolotov, Editor, Russia Profile magazine (Moscow)
2pm - 4pm PANEL 2
Russia's Foreign Policy Outlook After the Presidential Elections - Change in Style, Change in Substance or No Change At All?
Fedor Lukyanov, Editor-in-Chief, Russia in Global Affairs Journal (Moscow)
Nina Khrushcheva, Associate Professor, Graduate Program of International Affairs, New School and Senior Fellow, World Policy Institute
Andrei Zolotov, Editor, Russia Profile magazine (Moscow)
Chair: Catharine Nepomnyashchy, Director, Harriman Institute, Columbia University
To register for this event, please contact Alla Rachkov at ar2052@columbia.edu.
For more information, please visit Russia Profile.
Link to website
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THE CULTURE OF RUSSIAN ORTHODOXY: Conference in Honor of Richard F. Gustafson
Friday, 14 March 2008, 1:00pm–Saturday, 15 March 2008, 1:00pm
Room 1512 International Affairs Building
420 West 118th Street
New York, NY
This Conference in Honor of Richard F. Gustafson is co-sponsored by the Barnard and Columbia Slavic Departments
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The First Annual Columbia-Harvard Russia/Eurasia Forum: Does Leadership in Russia Matter?
Thursday, 21 February 2008–Friday, 22 February 2008
The Century Association
7 West 43rd Street
New York, NY
To what extent does leadership, as opposed to underlying factors and forces, drive events in Russia and the surrounding region? Do leaders—not only in the realm of politics, but also in business, culture, and grassroots organizations—make a difference? Do they make more or less of a difference than they would in other places, including the United States?
On the eve of the 2008 Russian presidential elections, the Harriman Institute and the Davis Center—the country’s leading centers for the study of Russia and the surrounding area—are launching a joint project to foster in-depth comparative discussion of the region and of the big intellectual issues surrounding it. We aim to consider and debate how best to understand trends in this strategically important region of the world by going beyond conventional wisdom and tired stereotypes that often pass for analysis. We invite you to join with professionals, scholars, and other interested citizens for the Columbia-Harvard Russia/Eurasia Forum on February 21–22.
Thursday, February 21, 6–9 PM
OPENING DEBATE Does Leadership in Russia Matter?
Timothy Colton Director, Davis Center, Harvard University
Stephen Kotkin Professor of Modern and Contemporary History, Princeton University
Friday, February 22, 8 AM–7:30 PM
PANELS Politics * Culture & the Arts * Grassroots Organizations & NGOs * Economics
KEYNOTE SPEAKER
Zbigniew Brzezinski U.S. National Security Advisor to President Carter (1977-1981)
FEATURED PANELISTS
Rawi Abdelal Professor of Business Administration, Harvard Business School * Timothy Colton author of forthcoming biography Yeltsin: A Life * Anna Gincherman Relationship Manager, Women’s World Banking * Marshall Goldman author of forthcoming Petrostate: Putin, Power, and the New Russia; Professor Emeritus, Wellesley College * Sergei Guriev Executive Director, Center for Economic and Financial Research, New Economic School * Sarah Lindemann-Komarova Cofounder, Siberian Civic Initiatives Support Center * Rory MacFarquhar Managing Director, Economic Research, Goldman Sachs, Russia * Catharine Nepomnyashchy Director, Harriman Institute, Columbia University; Professor, Barnard College * Gleb Pavlovsky President, Foundation for Effective Politics * Thomas Remington Professor of Political Science, Emory University * Stephen Sestanovich Ambassador-at-Large and Special Advisor to the Secretary of State (1997–2001); Senior Fellow, Council on Foreign Relations * Ole Solvang Executive Director, Stichting Russian Justice Initiative * William Taubman author of Pulitzer Prize–winning biography Khrushchev: The Man and His Era (2003); Professor, Amherst College
VENUE
All events will take place at the Century Association, 7 West 43rd Street, New York, NY 10036.
REGISTRATION
The conference fee is $600 ($250 academic rate) for registrations postmarked by January 31. Includes reception and dinner on Thursday, and continental breakfast, lunch, and cocktail reception on Friday. Late registration: $750 ($300 academic rate). To register for the conference, please download the registration form.
LODGING
A special conference rate is available at the Club Quarters Hotel, Midtown. Booking details provided upon registration.
FURTHER INFORMATION
Please contact Irene Coffman at 212-854-5431 or ibc3@columbia.edu.
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Russo-Arab Ties in Historical Perspective: A Workshop on Imperial Russia, Islam, and the Ottoman Arab Lands
Friday, 15 February 2008, 9:00am–5:00pm
Lehman Suite, 406 International Affairs, 420 W. 118th Street
PROGRAM
9:00-9:30 Coffee and Welcome Remarks by Mark Mazower, Director of the Project on Russia and Islam at the Harriman Institute
Morning Session: Russian Interest in the Arab World in the Nineteenth Century
9:30 – 12:00
Moderator: Christine Philliou (Columbia University)
Alexander Knysh (University of Michigan)
“Arabic and Islamic Studies in Nineteenth-Century Russian Academia”
Efim Rezvan (Peter the Great Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography, Russian Academy of Sciences, St. Petersburg)
“Abdel Aziz Davletshin and His Secret Mission in Arabia (1898)”
Svetlana Kirillina (Moscow State University)
“Islam and its Adherents in the Eyes of a Russian Monk: The Pilgrim-Writer Meletii in the Ottoman Arab Lands of the Late Eighteenth Century”
Afternoon Session: Using “Muslim Sources” to Write Russian and Soviet History
2:00-4:30
Moderator: Robert Crews (Stanford University)
Allen Frank (Independent Scholar)
"Islamic Sources of Imperial Russian and Soviet History: Some Typological and Methodological Issues"
Alexandre Papas (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS,
Paris) - Ohio State University)
"Islamic Literary Sources for the Modern History of Central Asia: The
Case of Poetry"
Shovosil Ziyodov (Beruni Institute for Oriental Studies, Academy of Sciences of Uzbekistan, Tashkent)
"Muslim Sources on the History of Central Asia from the Period of the Russian Conquest"
This Workshop is part of the Harriman Institute Research 2007-2008 Theme, Russia and Islam: Religion, the State and Modernity during and after the Age of Empire.
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Russia and Islam in the Archives of Eurasia
Saturday, 01 December 2007, 9:30am
Bakhmeteff Archive, Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Butler Library, Rm. 523, Columbia University
Session One
9:30am-12:00pm
Russian-Muslim Relations in the Archives of the Russia and Georgia
Moderator: Richard Wortman, Columbia University
Vladimir Olegovich Bobrovnikov, Institute of Oriental Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences
“Islamic Responses to Imperial/Soviet Modernization of Local Muslim Communities in Private and State Archives from the Caucasus”
George Sanikidze, Institute of Oriental Studies, Georgian Academy of Sciences
“Orthodoxy versus Islam: Russian Imperial Policy towards Georgia's Muslims during the 19th Century”
Dr. Dmitry Yurievich Arapov. Moscow State University
“Islam in the Archives of Russia” (in Russian with interpreter)
Lunch,
12-1:30
Session Two
1:45-4:30
Islam and Orthodoxy in the Archives and Libraries of Turkey and Central Asia
Moderator: Christine Philliou, Columbia University
Michael Khodarkovsky, Loyola University Chicago
“How Useful Are the Ottoman Archives to a Historian of Russia?”
Virginia Aksan, McMaster University
“Looking for a Russian Needle in an Ottoman Haystack”
Adeeb Khalid, Carleton College
“Searching for Muslim Voices in Post-Soviet Archives”
Reception
4:30-5:30pm
Enquiries may be addressed to Sean Pollock at smp2146@columbia.edu
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The Rose Revolution: Four Years Later
Friday, 30 November 2007, 9:30am–6:00pm
Room 1501 International Affairs Building
The Arnold A. Saltzman Institute of War and Peace Studies and The Center for Georgian Studies at The Harriman Institute
present:
The Rose Revolution: Four Years Later
November 23rd, 2007 marks the fourth anniversary of the day Mikheil Saakashvili led a group of Georgians into the parliament to disrupt attempts by then President Eduard Shevardnadze to seat a parliament which had been elected in a broadly understood to be fraudulent election. That event was the central moment in what has come to be known as the Rose Revolution.
Since the Rose Revolution, a great deal has happened in Georgia. The country has found itself in an ongoing conflict with Russia, its huge northern neighbor. This conflict has its roots in the issues of Abkhazia, South Ossetia and the presence of Russian bases in Georgia, but has taken on additional complexity during the last few years. The completion of the BTC pipeline has made energy issues also very critical in post-Rose Revolution Georgia. Additionally, the development of democracy in Georgia, a country hailed as a major success story for democratization after the Rose Revolution, has proven to be a difficult challenge for Georgia?s new government, particularly in recent weeks as the government forcefully broke up demonstrations on the streets of Tbilisi, declared a state of emergency suspending freedoms of speech and assembly and scheduled a snap presidential election for January of 2008.
PROGRAM
9:30-Welcome and Introduction
9:45-11:15 Panel One
Energy and Economic Development
-Jonathan Elkind-EastLink Consulting, LLC and The Brookings Institution
-Vasil Rukhadze-Visiting Scholar, Harriman Institute
-Andrew Sidamon-Eristoff- Consultant, Business Climate Reform in Georgia
11:20-12:20PM
Keynote Address by Ambassador Richard Miles
12:20PM-1:45 Lunch
1:45-3:15 Panel Two
Georgia, Russia and Frozen Conflicts
-Ambassador Irakli Alasania-Georgian Ambassador to the United Nations
-Robert Legvold,-Marshall D. Shulman Professor of Soviet Foreign Policy, Columbia University
-Ambassador Ken Yalowitz-Director, John Sloan Dickey Center for International Understanding, Dartmouth College
3:30-5PM Panel Three
Democratic Development Since the Rose Revolution
-Christopher Walker-Freedom House
-Nicholas Gvosdev-Editor, The National Interest
-Stephen Jones-Professor of Russian and Eurasian Studies, Mount Holyoke College
-Lincoln A. Mitchell-Arnold A. Saltzman Professor in the Practice of International Affairs, Columbia University
-Alex Sokolowski-Senior Political Process Advisor Bureau for Europe and Eurasia, USAID
5PM-6PM Reception
Advance registration is necessary. Please email SIWPS PA Molly D'Ambra mmd2137@columbia.edu with you full name and affiliation.
The conference will also include an exhibition of photographs of the Rose Revolution by Steve Weinberg and campaign posters from that period from the collection of Lincoln Mitchell. The exhibit can be viewed on the 4th Floor of the International Affairs Building.
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Eurasian Pipelines – Road to Peace, Development and Interdependencies
Monday, 12 November 2007, 2:00pm–Tuesday, 13 November 2007, 6:00pm
Kellogg Center, 15th floor International Affairs Building
Third Colloquium
The Pipeline Race to India and Pakistan - Is the so-called Peace Pipeline from Iran Prospective Reality or Wishful Thinking? Is the Turkmenistan Route Still an Option?
The 2006/2008 series of colloquia titled “Eurasian Pipelines – Road to Peace, Development and Interdependencies” hosted by Harriman Institute examines five (5) transnational gas and oil pipeline systems in or linked to the Eurasian space. After two colloquia in spring and fall 2006, the third colloquium entitled “Eurasia versus Iran in supplying energy to Pakistan and India via gas pipelines” will take place at Columbia on November 12 and 13, 2007.
India’s growing population clearly needs increased energy to maintain the country’s rapid economic growth. With Iran and Turkmenistan as possible energy suppliers a host of questions arise. Can Iran, a country with which India has historical cultural ties starting with the immigration of the Parsi over a thousand years ago,, be a peaceful and reliable supplier of gas at a time when it continues to challenge and defy the world with its questionable nuclear program and also remains an obstacle in and to the Middle East peace process? Can Turkmenistan, with its turbulent post-Soviet history, be a creditable supplier of gas? And how would such a pipeline reach Pakistan and India? Through Iran? Through Afghanistan, which has yet to find peace and may yet find itself in a new civil war? Can Pakistan and India trust and rely on each other, as well as Iran and/or Turkmenistan, to share a common energy pipeline? In short, can a gas pipeline, which requires parties to work together, create inevitable dependencies and deep ties, be a bridge to peace in a part of the world that has been struggling to find peace for well over 50 years.
Specifically, two pipeline projects are the centre of discussion, both politically delicate, economically promising , and associated with enormous security concerns.
The Iran-Pakistan-India pipeline (IPIP), first proposed in 1994 and today even called the “peace pipeline”, would hold tremendous economic and political advantages for all three countries and ideally, hopefully stabilize the region. But this pipeline is strongly opposed by the United States. The US sees Iran, a country identified by President Bush as a member of the Axis of Evil, not part of the solution to a Middle East peace, let alone a durable peace, but as part of the problem. In fact the US has for many years (indirectly) imposed world-wide restrictions on investment in the Iranian energy sector.
The US supports the Turkmenistan-Afghanistan-Pakistan pipeline (TAP) despite Turkmenistan’s repressive non-democratic regime and notwithstanding that the gas has to be pumped through Afghanistan, the home of a resurgent warring Taliban. Russia, which has locked up Turkmen gas through profitable contracts, obviously has no interest in Turkmenistan having an outlet for its gas that bypasses Russian territory.
India and Pakistan continue to consider their options as they pursue their own and common interests in both projects. The advantages to India are obvious - a rapidly growing economy needs to lock up energy supplies. Pakistan would also lock up energy supplies and benefit from transit fees. Both countries would enhance and strengthen their energy security through these pipelines. But as noted, at what cost.
The aspirations and actions of all the players involved in or concerned about these projects are of pivotal importance to the geopolitical development in the Eurasian and South Asian space, as well as in the world, for years to come. The political, economic and strategic requirements and impact of these pipeline projects will be the subject of this major colloquium. What are the possible routes, the costs? How will these projects impact the Central/South Asian region? What does the international community have to expect from pipeline based alliances? Can the US see these pipelines as opportunities and a way to peace?
American, European and Asian experts and public figures will present and discuss the multiple impact of these energy routes from Turkmenistan and Iran to Pakistan and India, their challenges and implications and will give their views on whether pipelines, which require nations to work together, can be a hidden road to peace.
Date: November 12-13, 2007
Location: Kellogg Center, Columbia University, School for International and Public Affairs, Room 1501, 420 West 118th St., New York, 10027 NY
For more information please contact Professor Jenik Radon at jr2218@columbia.edu or Jasmine Henz at jh2698@columbia.edu .
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"Lost Worlds of Imperial Cities: From Sarajevo to Jaffa"
Wednesday, 31 October 2007, 10:30am–1:00pm
1501 International Affairs Building
Participants:
Robert Donia, Research Associate, Center for Russian and East European Studies, University of Michigan; author of "Sarajevo, A Biography"
Adam LeBor, correspondent for The Times of London and the Economist; author of "Jaffa: City of Oranges"
Robert Geraci, Associate Professor of History, University of Virginia, author of "Window on the East: National and Imperial Identities in Late Tsarist Russia."
Moderated by Mark Mazower, Professor of History, Columbia University; author of "Salonica, City of Ghosts"
Welcoming Remarks by Catharine Theimer Nepomnyashchy, Director, Harriman Institute
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AGENTS AND AGENCIES: THE (RE)MAKING OF IDENTITY IN RUSSIA TODAY
Thursday, 18 October 2007, 9:00am–Saturday, 20 October 2007, 6:00pm
Thursday- Room 1501 International Affairs Building
Friday and Saturday - Davis Auditorium, Schapiro Center
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 18, 2007
LOCATION: ROOM 1501 INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS BUILDING
10:00 – 12:00 Group Identity: From Oppositions to Diversity
12:00 – 1:30 Lunch Break
1:30 – 3:30 Identity and Mass Culture
3:00 – 4:00 Coffee Break
4:00 – 6:00 Nonverbal Communication and Visual Representations of Identities
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 19, 2007
LOCATION: DAVIS AUDITORIUM, SCHAPIRO CENTER
10:00 – 12:00 Identity as Process
12:00 – 1:30 Lunch Break
1:30 – 3:30 Identity and Ethnicity
4:00 – 6:00 Ideology of Discourses and Discourses of Ideology
6:30 – 7:30 Keynote Address
Yoshiko Herrera, University of Wisconsin
“Identity as a Variable: Defining and Measuring Social Identities in Russia”
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 20, 2007
LOCATION: DAVIS AUDITORIUM, SCHAPIRO CENTER
10:00 – 12:00 Facets of Civic Identities
12:00 – 2:00 Lunch Break
2:00 – 4:00 Identity: Past, Present, and Future
4:00 – 6:00 Global Discussion
Link to website
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Between Languages - Translators: Symposium on Translating Poetry
Wednesday, 17 October 2007, 10:00am–1:00pm
Maison Française, Buell Hall
STEPHANIE SANDLER (Harvard University)
"Poetry Without Borders: Alexandra Petrova"
GAYATRI CHAKRAVORTY SPIVAK (Columbia University)
"Ramproshad"
PAOLO VALESIO (Columbia University)
"A Poetry Journal Between New York and Florence:
'Italian Poetry Review (IPR)' "
DANIEL WEISSBORT (Warwick University)
"Ted Hughes Translates Pushkin"
Sponsored by the Institute for Comparative Literature and Society, the Slavic Department, and the Harriman Institute
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International Symposium of Russian Ballet
Friday, 12 October 2007, 5:00pm–Saturday, 13 October 2007, 7:45pm
October 12th - Julius Held Auditorium (304 Barnard Hall)/Barnard College
October 13th - 1501 International Affairs Building/Columbia University
Scholars from Russia, England, the Netherlands, and Austria will join colleagues from the United States for the International Symposium of Russian Ballet taking place at Barnard College and Columbia University on October 12-13, 2007. Sponsored by the Harriman Institute, Columbia University, and the Slavic and Dance Departments of Barnard College, the Symposium will bring together senior and junior scholars working in the area of Russian ballet, broadly defined to include both ballet in Russia and Russian ballet elsewhere. Lynn Garafola, Professor of Dance at Barnard College, and Catharine Nepomnyashchy, the Chair of the Slavic Department at Barnard College and Director of the Harriman Institute, are the organizers.
Among the Symposium highlights are the keynote lecture by Elizabeth Souritz, Russia's most distinguished living dance historian, analyzing the differences between ballet in late nineteenth-century Moscow and St. Petersburg through the career of the choreographer Alexei Bogdanov, a paper by Sjeng Scheijen of Leiden University that draws on major new research for his forthcoming biography of Serge Diaghilev, Tim Scholl's discussion of Soviet ballet debates of the 1920s, and a presentation by Robert Greskovic featuring images from his well-known postcard collection of Russian dancers. Papers on Balanchine's correspondence with the Russian émigré community, his muse Lydia Ivanova, Akim Volynsky, the designers Sonia Delaunay and Natalia Goncharova, the ideologies of the Soviet ballerina, Russian dancers in Hollywood, the "thaw" of the late 1950s and its impact on "symphonic" ballet, Petipa performance traditions in Russia and the West, and the original happy ending of Prokofiev's Romeo and Juliet will round out the program. See the attached program for the full schedule of events.
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Georgian Culture -- Past and Present
Tuesday, 24 April 2007, 10:00am–8:30pm
1501 International Affairs Building
Thursday, April 26, 2007, 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm
Grant Gallery
7 Mercer Street (between Grand and Canal Streets)
New York City
www.grantgallery.com
"For thousands of years, tiny Georgia… has served as a stopping place for travelers and a prize for conquerors."
– Ori Z. Soltes, National Treasures of Georgia
"Hidden behind the veil of the Soviet era for most of the 20th century, this enchanting land is now open for all to experience."
– www.oneworldjourneys.com/georgia
Despite Georgia’s frequent mention in the historical record, the country’s rich cultural heritage is less familiar to international audiences. Recent political and economic ventures undertaken by this Soviet successor state have piqued the curiosity of Westerners about the unique character of this tiny Eurasian nation. Accordingly, the one-day symposium "Georgian Culture – Past and Present" aims to acquaint an American audience with a broad spectrum of topics related to the cultural heritage of Georgia, as well as the importance of this heritage in contemporary Georgian life.
PROGRAM
10:00 am – 11:00 am: Morning Session A
-Opening Remarks
Catharine Nepomnyashchy, Director, Harriman Institute, Columbia University
-Welcome
Irakli Alasania, Ambassador, Permanent Representative of Georgia to the United Nations
-Georgian Antiquity
Ana Kldiashvili, Professor of Art History, Tbilisi State Academy of Arts
-A Highlight of Georgia's Prehistoric Past
Karen S. Rubinson, Research Scholar, Barnard College
11:00 am – 11:20 am: Coffee Break
11:20 am – 1:00 pm: Morning Session B
-The Glory of Byzantium: Recognizing the Importance of Georgian Art
Helen C. Evans, Curator of Byzantine Art, The Metropolitan Museum of Art
-Medieval Georgian Architecture: Key Moments in its Development
Tamara Tvildiani, Lecturer Art History and Theory, Tbilisi State Academy of Arts
(The co-author of this article is Anna Shanshiashvili, Art Historian,Georgian Arts and Culture Center)
-Medieval Georgian Illuminated Manuscripts, Painted Icons and Cloisonné Enamel
Nino Gaganidze, Professor of Art History, Tbilisi State Academy of Arts
1:00 pm - 3:00 pm: Mid-day Break
3:00 pm - 5:00 pm: Afternoon Session
-Genius of Medieval Georgian Art
Gary Vikan, Director, The Walters Art Museum
-Defining Georgia Inside and Out
Ori Z. Soltes, Lecturer in Theology and Art History, Georgetown University
-Medieval Georgian Mural Paintings
Ani Kldiashvili, Professor of Art History, Tbilisi State Academy of Arts
-Medieval Georgian Relief Sculpture: Repoussé Icons and Architectural Decoration
Nino Gaganidze, Professor of Art History, Tbilisi State Academy of Arts
5:00 pm – 5:45 pm: Coffee Break
5:45 pm - 7:00 pm: Evening Session
-Monuments at Risk: Preservation and Conservation Initiatives in Georgia
Maka Dvalishvili, President, Georgian Arts and Culture Center
Fulbright Visiting Scholar, Harriman Institute, Columbia University
-The Village of Chazhashi: Case Study of Georgian Svannish Vernacular Architecture
Mary Kay Judy, Architectural Conservator
-Georgia at the Crossroads: The Moorish Style in Georgian Secular Architecture of the 18th-19th Centuries
Irina Koshoridze, Senior Curator, Georgian National Museum
Visiting Scholar, Department of Art History, New York University
-Modern Georgian Art in the Context of Western Culture
Mzia Chikhradze, Senior Research Fellow, G. Chubinashvili National Center for Georgian Art History Research and Heritage Protection
-Closing Remarks
Catharine Nepomnyashchy, Director, Harriman Institute, Columbia University
7:00 pm - 8:30 pm: Reception
The reception will feature Georgian hors d'oeuvres and wine and the screening of "Art of Georgia," a documentary film by Maureen Ahern and Irina Koshoridze.
Wine will be provided by Georgian Wine House: www.georgianwinehouse.com
The symposium has been organized by Maka Dvalishvili, Fulbright Scholar at Harriman Institute at Columbia University and Stephanie Lovett, Washington University in St. Louis
The symposium has been made possible by the generosity of
-The Harriman Institute at Columbia University
-Tbilisi State Academy of Arts
-Georgian Arts and Culture Center
-Fulbright Scholar Program
For more information, please contact Maka Dvalishvili at md2540@columbia.edu or Kate Pickering at kmp30@columbia.edu.
ADMISSION TO THIS EVENT IS FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC ON A SPACE AVAILABLE BASIS. NO TICKETS ARE REQURED FOR THIS EVENT.
RSVP is appreciated but not required to kmp30@columbia.edu
Thursday, April 26, 2007
6:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Short Retrospective Review of the Contemporary Georgian Arts
Anna Kldiashvili, Professor of Art History, Tbilisi State Academy of Arts
Gogi Chagelishvili
Solo Exhibition
Grant Gallery
7 Mercer Street (between Grand and Canal Streets)
New York City
www.grantgallery.com
Space is limited, RSVP by April 20th at 609 658 2179 or tatianagrant@grantgallery.com
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The 12th Annual World Convention of the Association for the Study of
Nationalities (ASN)
Thursday, 12 April 2007–Saturday, 14 April 2007
School of International and Public Affairs, Columbia University
100 PANELS, MORE THAN 300 PAPERS ON CENTRAL EUROPE, RUSSIA, UKRAINE, THE CAUCASUS, EURASIA, TURKEY, THE BALKANS, AND NATIONALISM STUDIES
The preliminary program of the ASN 2007 World Convention is now available at http://www.nationalities.org/ASN_2007_Prelim_Program.pdf.
A registration form can also be downloaded at http://www.nationalities.org/ASN_2007_prereg_form.pdf.
The Convention, sponsored by the Harriman Institute, will be held at Columbia University, New York, April 12-14, 2007.
Link to website
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Povest' vremennykh let: A Preconference in collaboration with the Mid-Atlantic Slavic Conference
Friday, 30 March 2007, 9:30am–5:30pm
1219 International Affairs Building
Program
Session 1: Friday, 2007-03-30, 9:30 a.m.–11:30 a.m.
-Chair: Alan Timberlake, Columbia University
-David J. Birnbaum, University of Pittsburgh, “The e-PVL: An Electronic Edition of the Rus' Primary Chronicle”
-Donald Ostrowski, Harvard University, “The Nachal'nyi Svod and the Povest' vremennykh let”
Session 2: Friday, 2007-03-30, 1:00 p.m.–3:00 p.m.
-Chair: David J. Birnbaum, University of Pittsburgh
-Francis Butler, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, “Western Parallels to the Legend of Ol'ga’s baptism in the Povest' vremennykh let”
-Renee Perelmutter, University of California, Berkeley, “Establishing Narrative Point of View in ‘The Blinding of Vasilko’”
-Susana Torres Prieto-Hay, Universidad Complutense de Madrid and St. Louis University, Madrid Campus, “Princely Heroes or Heroic Princes: Uses of Heroic Literature in the Povest' vremennykh let”
Session 3: Friday, 2007-03-30, 3:30 p.m.–5:30 p.m.
-Chair: Valentina Izmirlieva, Columbia University
-Ines Garcia de la Puente, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, “Ol'ga’s Revenges and Indo-European Types of Punishment”
-Boris Maslov, University of California, Berkeley, “Greek Semantic Loans in the Domain of ethos/nomos in the Povest' vremennykh let”
-Alan Timberlake, Columbia University, “Orality in the Povest' vremennykh let”
Roundtable: Saturday, 2007-03-31, 9:00 a.m.–10:20 a.m.
-David J. Birnbaum, University of Pittsburgh
-Francis Butler, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
-Ines Garcia de la Puente, Universidad Complutense de Madrid
-Boris Maslov, University of California, Berkeley
-Donald Ostrowski, Harvard University
-Renee Perelmutter, University of California, Berkeley
-Alan Timberlake, Columbia University
-Susana Torres Prieto-Hay, Universidad Complutense de Madrid and St. Louis University, Madrid Campus
This preconference will be continued with a roundtable discussion at the Mid-Atlantic Slavic Conference on Saturday, March 31, 9:00am-10:20am.
Conference organized by David J. Birnbaum (University of Pittsburgh) and Alan Timberlake (Columbia University), in collaboration with the Mid-Atlantic Slavic Conference.
Link to website
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A Leap from the Temple of Culture into the Abyss:
Decadence in Central and Eastern Europe
Thursday, 15 March 2007–Saturday, 17 March 2007
Graduate Student Lounge, Philosophy Hall
The last phase of Romanticism and the first phase of Modernism, in the West Decadence is linked with the names of Charles Baudelaire, Stéphane Mallarmé, Paul Verlaine, Joris-Karl Huysmans, and Oscar Wilde. It spread throughout Europe in the 1890s, intermingling with native elements in its new contexts. Serge Diaghilev described Decadence as a leap from the temple of culture into the abyss—that is, a dramatic fall from the heights of civilization into nothingness. Decadence thus creates a myth of culture at its peak in the final days before its sudden perdition. It is an aesthetic that worships art as the highest ideal—an aesthetic of erudition, allusion, artificiality, and literariness. Paradoxically, however, at the same time it also highlights the themes of culture in decline and the degeneration of humanity.
This conference seeks to foster a nuanced understanding of the manifestations of Decadence in central and eastern European literature, arts, and culture within a comparative context. Speakers at the conference will address questions such as how Decadence is to be understood in the region, how it differs from the Western movement, and how it is manifested in various arts, including literature, art, ballet, and music. The event will include papers on Russian, Czech, Polish, German, Austrian, and Ukrainian culture.
Thursday, March 15
6:00 PM
Victor Erofeyev, “Russian Decadence Is My Literary Motherland”
Julius Held Auditorium, Barnard Hall, Barnard College
Reception
Friday, March 16
Philosophy 301, Columbia University
9:00 - 10:00 AM
Breakfast
10:00 - 11:30 AM
Precursors of Decadence
Chair/Discussant: Jonathan Stone, University of California, Berkeley
- David Goldfarb, Barnard College, “Sacher-Masoch: Between the Romantic and the Decadent Sublime”
- Elizabeth Valkenier, Columbia University, “Russian Realist Painters on Decadence: The Xenophobic Factor”
- Michael Wachtel, Princeton University, “Vladimir Solovyov on Symbolism and Decadence”
11:45 AM - 1:15 PM
Decadent Music and Drama
Chair/Discussant: Christopher Harwood, Columbia University
- Steve Downes, University of Surrey, “On Polish Musical Decadence”
- Anastassiya Andrianova, CUNY Graduate Center, “The Dionysian Lyre in Lesya Ukrainka’s Orgiya”
- Julia Przybos, Hunter College, CUNY, “Leopold Staff's Igrzysko (Game) in the European Context.”
Lunch Break
2:15 - 4:15 PM
History and Modernity
Chair/Discussant: Bernice Rosenthal, Fordham University
- Kevin M. F. Platt, University of Pennsylvania, “Russian History and Decadent Temporality”
- John McCole, University of Oregon, “Georg Simmel and the Central European Culture of Decadence”
- Michael du Plessis, University of Southern California, “Decadent Commodities and Narrative Objects in Gustav Meyrink’s ‘Strange Tales’ (Sonderbare Geschichte)”
- Evgenii Bershtein, Reed College, “Why is Larion Shtrup an Englishman? Mikhail Kuzmin’s Wings and European Decadence”
4:30 - 6:30 PM
The Visual and Performing Arts
Chair/Discussant: Catharine T. Nepomnyashchy, The Harriman Institute and Barnard College
- J. Trygve Has-Ellison, University of Texas at Dallas, “Janus-faced Decadents: Nobles and the Fine Arts in Fin-de-Siècle Germany”
- Otto M. Urban, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, “In Morbid Colors (Part II): The Idea of Decadence and Art in the Bohemian Lands, 1880-1914”
- Lynn Garafola, Barnard College, “Decadence and the Iconography of the Male Body in Diaghilev’s Ballets Russes”
- Olga Matich, University of California, Berkeley, “Decadence and Dance: Synesthesia, Hysteria, Hybridity”
Saturday, March 17
Philosophy 301, Columbia University
9:00 - 10:00 AM
Breakfast
10:00 - 11:30 AM
The 1890s
Chair/Discussant: Kirsten Lodge, The Harriman Institute, Columbia University
- John Malmstad, Harvard University, “Breviary of Decadence: The Early Verse of Valery Briusov”
- Don La Coss, University of Wisconsin - La Crosse, "Przybyszewski’s Psychic Naturalism, Berlin/Kraków 1894-1901"
- Neil Stewart, University of Bonn, “The Czech Journal Moderní revue and the Aesthetics of Decadence: The Uses and Usefulness of a Controversial Concept”
11:45 AM - 1:15 PM
The Legacy of Decadence
Chair/Discussant: Carol Ueland, Drew University
- George Gasyna, University of Illinois, “When Decadence Met the Avant-Garde: Witkacy, the Dwudziestolicie, and the Atrocity Museum”
- Irene Masing-Delic, The Ohio State University, “Soviet Sophiology: Pil’niak’s ‘Trotskyite’ Struggle with Decadence”
- Polina Barskova, Hampshire College, “Against the Grain of Leningrad: Writing Decadent Petersburg of the 1930s”
This conference is sponsored by: The Harriman Institute of Columbia University, The Department of Slavic Languages of Columbia University, The Department of Slavic Languages of Barnard College, The Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures of the University of California, Berkeley, and The Institute of Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies at the University of California, Berkeley
For more information, please contact Kirsten Lodge at klb57@columbia.edu or Jonathan Stone at jcstone@berkeley.edu
RSVP is appreciated but not required
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The Occult in 20th Century Russia / Оккультизм в России: Metaphysical Roots of Soviet Civilization
Sunday, 11 March 2007–Tuesday, 13 March 2007
Berlin (European Academy)
Conference “Fachtagung Slavistik”, organized by the Deutsche Gesellschaft fuer Osteuropakunde (DGO)/ working group ‘Russian and East European Culture” (Prof. Birgit Menzel, University of Mainz/Germersheim), in cooperation with the Harriman Institute/Columbia University (Prof. Catharine Nepomnyashchy)
(languages: English and Russian)
Since the fall of communism, there has been a marked return of religion in post-Soviet Russia. This trend coincides with the revival of religious factors in international relations, especially after 9-11, when what Huntington has called “the clash of civilizations” has become a vital issue. The return of interest in religion can be seen in the sense of a reverence for the great established religions, but also in a wide range of quests for spiritual new orientations. This yearning has been manifested on all levels of society (in high culture as well as a yearning for the spiritual in popular culture and everyday life, expressed often in an interest in unconventional religious practices, in the humanities as well as in the natural and social sciences and politics). The search for some form of spirituality has become a vital issue for individuals as well as larger groups, both in private and public spheres. It reaches far beyond the institutionalized churches and established religions. One of the most fast-growing areas involved on all social levels, is an immersion in the ideas and practices of the occult and esoteric.
Soviet civilization, its claims to “scientific atheism” notwithstanding, was from the very beginning influenced by religion. It defined itself as a purely rational ideocratic society, a society based on work, on science, and an empirical knowledge, yet its cult of the rational was taken to such an extreme that one could talk in terms of a “rationalistic religion”.
Since the 1960 and 1970s, there has been a marked reaction against this “cult of the Rational” and countervailing concepts became popular both in artistic practice and in everyday life. Expressions of reaction against Soviet speak (such as the playful undermining of the official rituals of political self-representation by the Moscow conceptualists; neopagan underground circles; mystical sects and communes in the two capitals and in the ‘provinces’; a revival of eastern religious concepts and philosophy; experiments with drugs and transcendental practices that expand consciousness).
The main issue to be discussed at the conference is, if or how far today’s rejection of the rational and reference to irrational and antirational sources represents a radical break with the rational past of Soviet society or to what extent it represents a continuation of the anti-rational reaction to it, and thus a continuation or an ntensification of elements in Soviet civilization. Questions will include: In which areas and along which lines of conflict does a break occur? What are the effects of the specific Russian idiosyncratic expressions of reactions against the Soviet order and reality (to be found in such cults as an obsession with trash)? Should we view the current “cult of nihilism” that is becoming widespread as purely a negative reaction against the Soviet “cult of humanism”? Where can one pinpoint connections, and where breaks, between the “old (Soviet) cults and the various new ones”? How have the borders between established religions, such as orthodox Christianity, Buddhism/ Hinduism, Judaism and unconventional religious practices to be found in Shamanism and other esoteric beliefs, shifted in this recent turn to the religions?
The conference will bring together scholars from different countries (Germany, Russia, France, America) and different disciplines (anthropology, history, literary scholarship, medicine) to explore relational metaphysical aspects of Soviet and post-Soviet society, while also attempting to put its findings in a comparative context, by comparing trends in the West. The aim is to produce a book based on the conference material which will address this complex topic.
It is quite remarkable the extent to which little concretely is known about spiritual and occult practices and thought in Soviet and post-Soviet Russia. Hence at the conference itself a crucial aspect will be the sheer collection of information and exchange of ideas between scholars of different countries and disciplines in the aim of advancing this area of knowledge. There are four main topics which the conference will address:
- Material related to spiritual practices in late Soviet society (1960 - late 1980s);
- Influences of neopagan and esoteric concepts in literature and art and their function both within the works, themselves, and in society;
- The role and function of mystical, spiritual and occult ideas in the development of political ideologies;
- The impact of this thought on various sciences (astrophysics, cosmotechnology, eastern and oriental studies, medicine, (para-)psychology etc.).
Participants:
1. Mark Sedgwick (American University, Cairo; History of Religion)
Soviet Dissident Culture under Putin: Alexander Dugin
2. Bernice Rosenthal (Fordham University, New York, History)
Occultism in Fashion: A Historical Perspective (Keynote-Speech)
3. Mikhail Epstejn (Emory University, Atlanta)
Maternye korni sovetskogo materializma
4. Eliot Borenstein (New York University, New York, Literary & Cultural Studies)
The Porous Self: New Age Subjectivity in Post-Soviet Popular Culture
5. Marlene Laruelle (Institut National des Langues et Civilisations Orientales, Paris, History)
Occultism in the Russian Neo-Pagan Movements: In Search of a National and a Natural Spirituality
6. Arkady Rovner (Moscow)
The Gurdjieffian Circles in Moscow – a Participant’s Recollections and Analysis
7. Valentin Nikitin (Moscow)
Ezotericheskie kruzhki i sekty v okrainosti pravoslavnoi cerkvi)
8. Annett Jubara (University of Mainz/Germersheim, Philosophy)
Hermetism and spiritual exclusiveness as communicative structures of post-Stalinist Soviet Science/
Die sowjetische Wissensgesellschaft als religiöse Gemeinschaft? Zum Charakter der alternativen „wissenschaftlichen Weltanschauung“
9. Michael Hagemeister (University of Basel, History)
The Occult Sources of Soviet Space Travel
10. Renata von Maydell (Universität Bochum/Heidelberg, Lit.&Cultural Studies)
Anthroposophy in Early Soviet Russia
11. Matthias Schwartz (Freie Universität Berlin; Lit.&Cultural Studies)
Guests from Outer Space. Science Fiction in the Thaw and its Impact on the Post-Soviet Present
12. Tatyana Meira-Kochetkova (University of Nijmegen/Netherlands; Philosophy)
Parapsychology and Transpersonal Psychology in Russia and in the West
13. Oleg Shishkin (Moskau)
Nachalo okkul’tnogo i paranormal’nogo proekta sovetskikh spetssluzhb: dekabr’ 1924 – avgust 1925 goda
14. Natalja Zhukovskaia (RAN, Moscow; Anthropology and Ethnology)
Shamanizm v srede rossiiskoi intelligentsii (postsovetskoe vremia i prostranstvo)
15. Rebecca Jane Stanton (Columbia University, New York)
Magical Discourses in Soviet Literature to the Thaw
16. Michael Eskin. (Harriman-Institute, New York)
Soul and Spirit: The Case of Bakhtin
17. Markus Osterrieder (Munich)
From Synarchy to Shambala. Political Occultism and Social Messianism in the Dealings of Nicolai Roerikh
18. Catharine Nepomnyashchy (Harriman-Institute, New York)
Closing Statement /Discussant
bmenzel@uni-mainz.de
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THE LJUBLJANA LACANIAN SCHOOL presents FREUD AND THE POLITICAL
Thursday, 01 March 2007, 4:00pm–9:00pm
The Italian Academy at Columbia University
1161 Amsterdam Avenue (between 116th and 118th streets)
New York, NY
PROGRAM
SESSION I: 4.00 – 6.30 PM
Catharine Nepomnyashchy
Welcoming Remarks
Mladen Dolar
“From Hegel to Beckett.”
Alenka Zupančič
“Evil and Comedy.”
Slavoj Žižek
Moderating
RECEPTION: 6.30 - 7.30 PM
SESSION II: 7.30 – 9.00 PM
Slavoj Žižek
“Fear Thy Neighbor As Thyself!”
Joan Copjec
Response
ADMISSION TO THIS EVENT IS FREE AND OPEN TO THE GENERAL PUBLIC ON A FIRST COME FIRST SERVED BASIS. SEATING IS, HOWEVER, EXTREMELY LIMITED. THERE ARE NO TICKETS FOR THIS EVENT.
This conference is sponsored by the Consulate General of Slovenia, the Harriman Institute, the East Central European Center, and the Center for Comparative Literature and Society of Columbia University
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ONI UNESLI S SOBOI ROSSIU-THEY CARRIED RUSSIA WITH THEM INTO EXILE
Friday, 08 December 2006, 9:30am–9:00pm
Graduate Student Lounge, Philosophy Hall
Columbia University
Conference Dedicated to the 65th Anniversary of The New Review
Day 2
The New Review is the oldest Russian-language literary magazine of the Russian emigration that has been published quarterly since 1942 (founded by I. Bunin, M. Aldanov, M. Zetlin). The conference will be dedicated to the history of Russian emigration, to the history of Russian émigré literature/art/music, and to the contribution of Russian émigrés to the culture of Russia and various countries around the world.
Please see full program for details!
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ONI UNESLI S SOBOI ROSSIU-THEY CARRIED RUSSIA WITH THEM INTO EXILE
Thursday, 07 December 2006, 2:00pm–4:00pm
Harison Room (Faculty House, 2nd Floor)
Conference Dedicated to the 65th Anniversary of The New Review
Day 1
The New Review is the oldest Russian-language literary magazine of the Russian emigration that has been published quarterly since 1942 (founded by I. Bunin, M. Aldanov, M. Zetlin). The conference will be dedicated to the history of Russian emigration, to the history of Russian émigré literature/art/music, and to the contribution of Russian émigrés to the culture of Russia and various countries around the world.
Please see full program for details!
For Directions to Faculty House, please see: http://www.columbia.edu/cu/fachouse/directions.html
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Eurasian Pipelines – Road to Peace, Development and Interdependencies
Friday, 01 December 2006, 9:30am–5:30pm
Kellogg Center, 15th floor International Affairs Building
Second Colloquium:
Day 2 of a Two-Day Conference
Eurasian Pipelines and East Asia: A Path to Integration or A Marriage of Convenience?
The 2006/2007 series of colloquia titled “Eurasian Pipelines – Road to Peace, Development and Interdependencies“ hosted by Harriman Institute examines five transnational gas and oil pipeline systems in the Eurasian space.
The second colloquium entitled “Eurasian Pipelines and East Asia: A Path to Integration or A Marriage of Convenience?” on November 30 and December 1, 2006 will bring together American as well as international experts and public figures from a number of nations, including China, Japan, Central Asia and Russia. They will examine the Russian and Kazakh pipelines to the Far East, namely China, Japan, and Korea as well as their political, economic and social impact in the respective regions as well as in the world.
Concurrent to the conference a photo exhibition of pictures of the Lake Baikal region by William Brumfield will be shown.
The event is co-sponsored by the Weatherhead East Asian Institute as well as the Center of Energy and Marine Transportation and Public Policy, Columbia University.
This colloquium will be chaired by Professor Jenik Radon.
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- Jeremy Maxie - "The New Eurasian Energy Architecture: Will Russia Deliver?"
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- Keun-Wook Paik - "Sino-Russian Oil and Gas Pipelines - The Reality and Implications"
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- Lifan Li - "National Energy Securityand Sino-Russia-Kazakh-Japan Energy Interaction"
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- Tim Gould - " The Energy Charter Treaty - Can it Make a Contribution in East Asia and Eurasia?"
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- Juergen Braeuer - "When Pipelines Become Targets"
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- Gary Cook - "The Siberian Far East Asia Oil Pipeline - Connecting Russian Oil Fields with China and the Pacific"
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- Dimitry Lisitsyn - "Oil Extraction and Sustainable Development on Sakhalin: A Local NGO Perspective"
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- Richard Ericson - "Eurasian Pipelines - A Gordian Knot for Russia and Kazakhstan?"
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- Ailuna Utegenova - "Eurasian Pipelines - The Political and Economic Gordian Knot for Russia and Kazakhstan"
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- Sergei Shapkhaev - "Eurasian Pipelines: A Path to Integration or Degradation?
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Eurasian Pipelines – Road to Peace, Development and Interdependencies
Thursday, 30 November 2006, 2:00pm–Friday, 01 December 2006, 6:45pm
Kellogg Center, 15th floor International Affairs Building
Second Colloquium:
Day 1 of a Two-Day Conference
Eurasian Pipelines and East Asia: A Path to Integration or A Marriage of Convenience?
The 2006/2007 series of colloquia titled “Eurasian Pipelines – Road to Peace, Development and Interdependencies“ hosted by Harriman Institute examines five transnational gas and oil pipeline systems in the Eurasian space.
The second colloquium entitled “Eurasian Pipelines and East Asia: A Path to Integration or A Marriage of Convenience?” on November 30 and December 1, 2006 will bring together American as well as international experts and public figures from a number of nations, including China, Japan, Central Asia and Russia. They will examine the Russian and Kazakh pipelines to the Far East, namely China, Japan, and Korea as well as their political, economic and social impact in the respective regions as well as in the world.
Concurrent to the conference a photo exhibition of pictures of the Lake Baikal region by William Brumfield will be shown.
The event is co-sponsored by the Weatherhead East Asian Institute as well as the Center of Energy and Marine Transportation and Public Policy, Columbia University.
This colloquium will be chaired by Professor Jenik Radon.
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- Stephen Blank - "Can East Asia Dare to Tie Its Energy Security to Russia and Kazakhstan?"
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- Tatsuo Masuda - "Energy Security Ties Between East Asia and Central Asia - Power Games or Partnership?"
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- Nicolas Dutreix - "Cooperating with Nature - Going Beyond What is Done"
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The Examined Life: The Literature and Politics of Václav Havel
Saturday, 11 November 2006, 10:00am–6:00pm
Room 1501 International Affairs Building
A Symposium in Honor of the Columbia University Residency of Václav Havel
Morning Session on Literature: 10:00-12:30
Welcome and Opening Remarks by Catharine Nepomnyashchy (Director, Harriman Institute)
Moderator: Christopher Harwood (Department of Slavic Languages, Columbia University)
Marketa Goetz-Stankiewicz
(Professor at the University of British Columbia, author of The Silenced Theatre: Czech Playwrights Without a Stage, and co-editor of Critical Essays on Václav Havel)
"Václav Havel's Theater: Plays for Our Times"
Paul Wilson
(Freelance writer, editor and translator of, among others, Havel, Škvorecký, Hrabal, and Klíma)
"Reading Havel: Remarks on a Life in Translation"
Peter Steiner
(Professor in the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, University of Pennsylvania, Director of the Penn-in-Prague Program, and author, most recently, of The Deserts of Bohemia: Czech Fiction and its Social Context)
"The Power of the Image: Vaclav Havel's Visual Poetry"
Carol Rocamora
(Professor of Dramatic Writing at NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts and author of the new biography Acts of Courage: Václav Havel’s Life in the Theater)
"Havel's Drama on the English-Speaking Stage"
Afternoon Session on Politics: 2:00-4:30
Moderator: Bradley Abrams (Associate Professor, History Department, Columbia University)
Ambassador Martin Palouš
(Czech Ambassador to the United Nations, former Czech Ambassador to the United States and former spokesperson of Charter 77)
"What Antipolitical Politics Is and What It Is Not”
Jiří Pehe
(Director, NYU in Prague, former Director of the Political Department of Havel’s Presidential Office)
"Václav Havel: From a Political Dissident to a Dissident Politician"
Petr Pithart
(First Deputy Chairperson and former Chairperson of the Czech Senate, former Prime Minister of the Czech Republic, and leading dissident in communist Czechoslovakia)
"The Dissident and Intellectual in Politics: The Three Roles of Václav Havel"
Reception: 4:30-6:00
RSVP to havelsym@harrimaninstitute.org
For more information on the Havel residency, please see: http://www.havel.columbia.edu
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1956 and Its Impact on the Soviet Bloc
Thursday, 02 November 2006, 9:00am–Friday, 03 November 2006, 4:00pm
1501 International Affairs Building, 420 West 118th St., NYC
Sponsored by Columbia University’s East Central European Center, the Harriman Institute and the Institute for the Study of Europe
Welcome Remarks by Volker Berghahn and Donald Blinken
Keynote Lecture by Charles Gati (Johns Hopkins University)
Panel I: The Secret Speech and its Impact in Russia
Panel II: Events in Poland
Feature Film: Freedom’s Fury
Panel III: Events in Hungary
Concurrent exhibits: The Institute of National Remembrance, Warsaw
This conference was made possible by the generosity of the Semper Polonia Foundation (Warsaw), the Kosciuszko Foundation (New York), the Bito Fund of the East Central European Center, and the Harriman Institute.
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Commemoration of Nadiya Svitlychna, a heroine of the human rights movement
Tuesday, 10 October 2006, 9:00am–3:35pm
Room 1501, International Affairs Building (15th floor), Columbia University, 420 W. 118th St.
The Ukrainian Studies Program at Columbia University,
and the General Petro Grigorenko Foundation,
invite you to an event about past and present human rights:
“The 6th Annual Grigorenko Readings:
A Commemoration of the Life of Nadiya Svitlychna,
Heroine of the Soviet, Ukrainian and Russian Human Rights Movements"
SCHEDULE:
9:00-9:30am: Breakfast buffet (outside Room 1501)
9:30-9:40am: Introductory words by Prof. Mark von Hagen (Columbia University)
9:40-10:00am: Slideshow remembering Nadiya Svitlychna, by photographer Irenaeus Yurchuk
10:00am-12:00pm: Panel Discussion #1: “The Life and Work of Nadiya Svitlychna”
Speakers:
ANDREW GRIGORENKO (General Petro Grigorenko Foundation): "Nadiya Svitlychna and Her Time"
ANNA PROCYK (City University of New York): "Nadiya Svitlychna through the Prism of Amnesty International"
PAVEL LITVINOV (General Petro Grigorenko Foundation) "Nadiya and Ivan Svitlychny and Russian Dissidents"
Moderated by Dr. Yuri Shevchuk (Columbia University)
12:00pm-1:30pm: Lunch buffet (outside Room 1501)
1:30pm-3:30pm: Panel Discussion #2: “The Contemporary Human Rights Situation in Ukraine and the Post-Soviet Sphere”
Speakers:
NINA OGNIANOVA (Committee to Protect Journalists): "The State of Press Freedom in Ukraine and Ukraine's Position among Post-Soviet Democracies"
MYROSLAVA GONGADZE (Gongadze Foundation): "Using International Pressure to Improve Human Rights and Media Freedom in Ukraine"
STEVE SESTANOVICH (Columbia University): "U.S. Government Leverage to Encourage Compliance with Human Rights Expectations in the Post-Soviet Region"
Moderated by Mark von Hagen
3:30pm-3:35pm: Closing words by Mark von Hagen
WHEN: Tuesday, October 10, 2006
WHERE: Room 1501, International Affairs Building (15th floor), Columbia University, 420 W. 118th St., New York, NY, 10027
Free and open to the public. RSVP requested. For more information, please contact Diana Howansky at ukrainianstudies@columbia.edu or 212-854-4697.
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29th Arden House Conference
Friday, 21 April 2006–Sunday, 23 April 2006
Harvard University
Davis Center
Cambridge, MA
After a rather harmonious 1st term relationship between George Bush and Vladimir Putin, their 2nd terms show signs of tension. Russians are critical of the U.S. role in Iraq, U.S. troops in Central Asia, U.S. pressure on Iran and North Korea and what they see as unfair U.S. interference and criticism of Russian domestic policy. At the same time, President Bush and Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice have criticized the elimination of elections for Governor and curbs on freedom of the press. World business has also been shaken by the re-nationalization of Yukos and the cutoff of gas deliveries to Ukraine and Moldova. Some U.S. Congressmen want to keep Russia out of the G-7.
We will examine these and other issues on April 21-23, at our 29th annual Arden House Conference. Sponsored by both the Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies at Harvard and the Harriman Institute at Columbia, the sessions bring together practitioners and academic specialists from both Russia and the West in an atmosphere of informality, which facilitates the free exchange of ideas and differences of opinion.
In addition to specialists from Harvard University and Columbia, other confirmed specialists include two Russian legislators: Mikhail Margelov of United Russia and one of the founders of the Rodina Party, Sergei Glaziev. Thomas Graham—Condoleeza Rice’s special assistant for Russian policy—will deliver the keynote address. There will also be sessions on Russian energy policy and the prospects for Russian NGOs.
For the first time, the conference this year will be at Harvard University’s Davis Center in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The conference will begin Friday evening, April 21st and adjourn after lunch on Sunday. All meals (including the Friday night dinner at the Harvard Faculty Club) are included as part of the conference fee. For those needing hotel rooms we have arranged a special package with the nearby Sheraton Commander Hotel. We hope that you and your associates can join us for what promises to be one of the most interesting of the 29 such conferences.
For more information, contact Marshall I. Goldman at or telephone 617-495-4485, or Robert Price at rfprice@fas.harvard.edu or telephone 617-495-8900.
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Russian-Jewish New York
Tuesday, 04 April 2006–Thursday, 06 April 2006
By the beginning of the 20th century New York had become the city with the largest Jewish community in the world. One hundred years later it continues to retain its importance as the city with the largest Jewish community in the Diaspora. The majority of Jews residing in New York are either the descendants of immigrants from the Russian Empire or people who came from the Soviet Union and the territories of the former USSR. For many decades the Jewish and the Russian languages were their main venue of communication and self-expression.
The conference will focus on a diverse number of problems related to the phenomenon of Russian-Jewish New York, from the time of its coming into existence at the end of the 19th century, when tens of thousands of Jewish immigrants from the Russian Empire set off in search of a better life across the ocean, to the present day. Among the topics to be discussed during the conference are the problems of adaptation and everyday life of immigrants, the development of a new identity and culture, including periodicals in Russian and Yiddish, participation in political activities, etc.
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Orthodoxy and Identity in Post-Atheist Russia
Friday, 31 March 2006, 10:00am–5:00pm
Graduate Student Lounge, Philosophy Hall
In the decade and a half since the fall of the Soviet Union, religion has emerged as an undeniable force in Russia’s political, social and cultural life. The presence of religion, faith and spirituality can be traced in the most individual to the most public spheres in today’s Russia – from the sacralization of personal space and behavior, to religious discourse and controversy in the media and the arts, to ongoing debates about religious institutions’ role or responsibility in the country’s political, social and economic structures.
The flurry of religious enthusiasm in the immediate post-Soviet period has given way to a more nuanced and at times problematic role and function of religion in contemporary Russia. This is particularly true for Russian Orthodoxy, whose position as the majority religion affords it institutional and social influence as well as heightened responsibility and accountability. Against the backdrop of the political and social culture of the Putin presidency, Orthodoxy finds itself negotiating a variety of internal and external forces as it defines itself and its place in today’s Russia.
The aim of this conference is to bring together experts from various disciplines and perspectives – journalists, political scientists, scholars of literature, history and theology – to discuss the role of religion in Russia’s public and private spheres. In doing so, the conference will assess where the Orthodox Church, religion and spirituality fits in our understanding of Russia’s present and future.
Contact ne99@columbia.edu for further details and registration information
The event is sponsored in part by the Columbia University Graduate Student Advisory Council
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ASN 2006 World Convention
Thursday, 23 March 2006–Saturday, 25 March 2006
School of International and Public Affairs, Columbia University
100 PANELS, MORE THAN 300 PAPERS ON CENTRAL EUROPE, RUSSIA, UKRAINE, THE CAUCASUS, EURASIA, TURKEY, THE BALKANS, AND NATIONALISM STUDIES
The preliminary program of the ASN 2006 World Convention is now available at http://www.nationalities.org/ASN_2006_Prelim_Program.pdf. A registration form can also be downloaded at http://www.nationalities.org/ASN_2006_REGISTRATION_FORM.pdf. The Convention, sponsored by the Harriman Institute, will be held at Columbia University, New York, March 23-25, 2006.
The program features 100 panels, not yet including up to ten film screenings to be announced later. As usual, the Convention boasts the most international lineup of panelists of North American-based conventions, with more than half of the 307 scholars who will be delivering papers (54 percent, from 42 countries, the same numbers as last year) currently based outside of the United States. More than 600 panelists and participants are expected at the convention.
The Convention will be hosting six special panels featuring new major books by Rogers Brubaker (Ethnicity Without Groups, Harvard 2004), Yuri Slezkine (The Jewish Century, Princeton 2005), Jack Snyder (Electing to Fight: Why Emerging Democracies Go to War, MIT, 2005, co-written with Edward D. Mansfield), V. P. "Chip" Gagnon, Jr., (The Myth of Ethnic War, Cornell 2004), Francine Hirsch (Empire of Nations: Ethnographic Knowledge and the Making of the Soviet Union, Cornell 2005), and Yoshiko Herrera (Imagined Economies, Cambridge 2005).
The Brubaker book panel is part of the section "Theories of Nationalism," now in its third year at the ASN Convention, which offers a platform for the latest trends in nationalism studies worldwide. "Nationalism" features eleven panels, such as "The Causes of Violent Conflicts," "Nationalism and Self-Determination," "Asymmetric Federalism Unrivalled: The Institutional Design of Peace Settlements," and "Nationalism in the Middle East." Charles Tilly, Paul Brass, Michael Hechter, Roger Petersen, Andreas Wimmer and John McGarry will be among the panelists.
The Convention is also introducing a "Romania Day" (Saturday March 25), featuring four consecutive Romania-related panels, and the annual meeting of the Society for Romanian Studies, which will be held at ASN for the first time. These panels are part of a record number of seventeen panels for the Central Europe section, six of which involving historians, a growing constituency at ASN. The American Association of Ukrainian Studies will also hold its annual meeting at ASN, amidst the large offering of Ukraine-related panels (thirteen). A special roundtable on the March parliamentary elections in Ukraine, which will take place the day after the convention closes, will be of the numerous highlights of the Ukraine section.
As always, the Convention offers a strong lineup of panels in all regions of the former Communist world and Eurasia: Russia, the Caucasus, Central Asia/Turkey, the Balkans and, as mentioned above, Ukraine and Central Europe. Every year, the Program Committee has to be more selective in devising the lineup, due to the increasing number of proposals. Russia and the Caucasus will have a combined 13 panels, Eurasia and Turkey - a combined 15, the Balkans -a dozen. Thirteen panels appear in the "Thematic" section. Three panels on Oil Politics, a panel and a new documentary on Chechnya, two panels on the Kurds, panels on Kosovo and the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia, three panels on the Roma, three panels on the "Colored Revolutions," and a panel on "Nationalism and Islam" are among the highlights of the program.
The Convention will also feature a film lineup, which will be announced in late February.
Since 2005, the ASN Convention is acknowledging excellence in graduate studies research in offering Awards for Best Graduate Student Papers in five sections: Russia/Ukraine/Caucasus, Central Asia/Eurasia, Central Europe, Balkans, and Nationalism Studies. The winners at the 2005 Convention were Lisa Koriouchkina (Brown U, Anthropology, Russia/Ukraine/Caucasus), Evangelos Liaras (MIT, Political Science, Central Asia/Eurasia), Shannon Woodcock (U of Tirana, Anthropology, Central Europe), Jessica Greenberg (U of Chicago, Anthropology, Balkans), and Bijita Majumdar (Rutgers U, Sociology, Nationalism Studies). Several dozens doctoral students will be eligible for awards at the 2006 Convention.
We look forward to seeing you at the convention!
100For practical information regarding the convention, please contact Gordon Bardos (gnb12@columbia.edu, 212 854 8487). For information on panels, please contact Dominique Arel (darel@uottawa.ca) or Sherrill Stroschein (s.stroschein@ucl.ac.uk).
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Nepal Conference
Wednesday, 22 March 2006, 2:00pm–6:30pm
Kellogg Center 15th floor International Affairs Building
The Southern Asian Institute and The South Asian Graduate Students Association of Columbia University's School of International and Public Affairs present:
Nepal: The Himalayan Hotspot from Shangri-la to ... ?
This half-day conference will focus on the possibilities, as well as the problems and challenges, in the strategically located kingdom of Nepal today and look at the prospects for the future.
Nepalese and foreign experts and public figures from different professional fields will present their views and analyses of the political, economic, and social situation in this landlocked South Asian country embedded between China and India, discuss the issues, and hopefully conclude with recommendations for the way forward.
Mr. Sher Bahadur Deuba, Nepal’s Prime Minister from 1995-1997, 2001-2002, and from 2004-2005, who was released from prison last month by an order of Nepal’s Supreme Court after being sentenced to two years in prison in July 2005 under corruption charges, will make a key presentation.
This colloquium will be hosted by Professor Jenik Radon, Harriman Institute, SIPA, Columbia University, with the support of Khagendra Gharti-Chhetry, Esq., Chhetry & Associates, P.C. Professor Catherine Nepomnyashchy, Director of the Harriman Institute, Columbia University will open the conference.
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"From My Wondrous, Beautiful Far-Away": Modern Russian Literature in Retrospect - A Conference In Memory of Robert A. Maguire
Friday, 17 March 2006–Sunday, 19 March 2006
NEW LOCATION: Social Hall, Union Theological Seminary (3041 Broadway at 121st Street)
Rus! Rus! I see thee, from my wondrous, beautiful far-away, thee I see: all is poor, scattered and comfortless in thee; the gaze will be neither gladdened nor awe-struck by bold marvels of nature crowned by bold marvels of art…
--Gogol, Dead Souls (trans. Robert A. Maguire), Part I, Chapter 11
Panels:
Gogol and Self-Fashioning
Defamiliarizing Formalism
Joys of High Stalinism
Sickness, Rehabilitation, and Death
The Narrative of Space and Space of the Narrative
Neither Iron nor Ironic: Russian-Western Metabolism Reconsidered
Metaphysical and Ethical Legacies of Russian Realism
The Dionysian Element
Reconfiguring Narrative Perspectives
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Crossing Boundaries, Spanning Regions: Movements of People, Goods and Ideas
Friday, 10 March 2006, 10:00am–6:00pm
301 Philosophy Hall
Graduate Student Conference Presented by Center for International History
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Assessing Social Change in Central
Asia
Thursday, 09 March 2006, 9:00am–5:00pm
Kellogg Center 15th floor International Affairs Building
Panels:
1. Defining Some Parameters for Social Change in Central Asia
2. Women and Development in Central Asia
3. The State as the Agent of Social Change
For details, please see the full program.
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Uzbekistan and the Andijon Massacre One Year Later: The Politics of Tragedy
Monday, 06 March 2006, 1:00pm–5:00pm
Kellogg Center 15th floor (Room 1501) International Affairs Building
On May 13, 2005, a week that had begun with rows of relatives and friends of a group on trial in Andijon sitting in support had within a few days drawn crowds of several thousand onto the Babur Square and into the streets culminated in a sudden attack by troops of Uzbekistan’s army and special forces that fired into the crowd. The pretext was that there were armed Islamist militants among the crowd. The resulting deaths were estimated at close to a thousand by local residents, but placed at less than two hundred by the government. The call for an international investigation into the event by many human rights organizations and European countries continues to be rejected by the Uzbekistan government. This conference will explore the actions of many participants on that day with insights from survivors and the analysis of specialists on the region.
PROGRAM:
PRESENTERS:
Galima Bukharbaeva
(Press Freedom Group Andijon 2005 and Columbia School of Journalism)
“Andijon and the Evidence of Massacre”
Peter Sinnott
(Lecturer, Harriman and Middle East Institutes, School of International & Public Affairs, Columbia University)
“The Andijon Massacre: Karimov’s Uzbekistan and the Politics of Morality”
Alisher Ilkhomov
(Research Associate, SOAS, University of London)
“Are the “Akromia” an Extremist Movement or the Beginning of an Islamic Social Democracy?"
Lutfullo Shamsuddinov
(Chairman, Andijon branch of the Human Rights Organization of Uzbekistan)
“An Eyewitness Account of the May Events in Andijon”
Acacia Shields
(Senior Researcher on Central Asia, Human Rights Watch)
“The Government’s Crackdown Following the Andijon Massacre”
DISCUSSANT
Sergei Kalamytsau
(Central Asian Program Researcher, International League of Human Rights)
Program is subject to change.
Refreshments to follow.
FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC
CO-SPONSORED BY THE SCHOOL OF INTERNATIOANL AND PUBLIC AFFAIRS, COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY
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Identity and Social Change in Russia
Friday, 03 March 2006, 9:00am–6:00pm
Room 1512 International Affairs Building
420 West 118th Street, 15th Floor
New York, NY 10027
This conference is co-sponsored by the Harriman Institute and ISE (Information. Scholarship. Education.) Center (Russia)
Panels:
Imperial Legacies Affecting Identities
Identity and Social Change
Russian Identity and Globalization
Transforming Identities: A View through the Lens of Language
Papers available upon request. Please contact Kevin Laney at kel1@columbia.edu.
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Rationalist Approaches to Empire: Theoretical Contributions and Limits
Friday, 10 February 2006, 10:00am–4:00pm
Kellogg Center 15th floor International Affairs Building
This two-session conference - hosted by Columbia University's Harriman Institute – will bring a group of recognized scholars and critics from various social science disciplines to present their work on rationalism and the study of empire, imperialism and international hierarchy. In the morning session, Alexander Cooley (Barnard College and Harriman Institute member) will present the main argument from his new book Logics of Hierarchy (Cornell U. Press, 2005) that forms of hierarchical organization are more important for determining imperial and post-imperial political outcomes than prevailing ideologies and/or identities. In the afternoon session, Michael Hechter (Global Studies, Arizona State), David Lake (Political Science, UCSD) and Daniel Nexon (Government, Georgetown) will present their current theoretical work on topics. Joining the panelists at both sessions will be discussants Jane Burbank (History, NYU), Fred Cooper (History, NYU), and Alexander Motyl (Political Science, Rutgers). Among the issues that the participants will consider are: Can rationalist paradigms and incentive-based theories be fruitfully applied to empires that span different cultures, geographical settings and historical eras? What are the comparative strengths of rationalist versus identity-based understandings of imperial legacies and post-imperial institutions? And how far can concepts formulated in one discipline travel across other disciplines? Both panels will allow time for comments and questions from the audience. We hope you will join us at Columbia University on February 10th for what promises to be a stimulating set of presentations and interdisciplinary dialogues.
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- Conference Program
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- Daniel Nexon
"Empires and International Relations Theory"
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- David Lake
"Hierarchy in International Relations: Authority, Sovereignty, and the New Structure of World Politics"
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- Michael Hechter
"Alien Rule and Its Discontents"
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Caspian Conference
Wednesday, 26 October 2005, 10:00am–5:00pm
Kellogg Center 15th floor International Affairs Building
The Caspian Project of the Middle East & Harriman Institutes of
Columbia University’s School of International & Public Affairs
Thanks to a generous gift from Corsair Partners LLC presents a conference: Reassessing the Caspian: Development and its Impediments
10:00-11:30 Panel I The Changing Geopolitics of the Caspian
Peter Sinnott, School of International & Public Affairs, Columbia University
“The Caspian within its Central Asian and Caucasus context”
Anu Panil, School of International & Public Affairs, Columbia University
“India’s Quest for Energy Security in Central Asia”
Leila Alieva, President, Center for National and International Studies
“Azerbaijan in the Geopolitics of the Caspian”
11:30-1:00 Panel II Economic Development and Energy Systems
Najia Badykova-Shaimardan, George Washington University
“Gas in the economic strategies of Uzbekistan and Turkmenistan”
Leila Kulbaeva, AES, Almaty
“Overview of Power Sector of Central Asian Countries and RAO UES”
1:00-2:00 Lunch Break
2:15-2:45
Nikolas Gvosdev, The National Interest
“America’s Caspian Dilemmas”
2:45-4:00 Panel III Environmental and Legal Issues
Barbara Janusz, Freie Universitaet, Berlin
“New Prospects for the settement of the legal status of the Caspian Sea”
Shannon O’Lear, University of Kansas
“Resource wealth and human security in Azerbaijan”
4pm Keynote Address
Magzhan Auezov, Managing Director, Kazkommerts Bank
“The Development Challenge for the Caspian”
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