A reading of the new translation of Vasily Grossman’s “Everything Flows"
Thursday, 21 January 2010, 4:00pm–6:00pm
Room 1512 International Affairs Building
Please join the Harriman Institute, the Columbia and Barnard Slavic departments, and the Center for Literary Translation for a reading by Robert Chandler of his new translation of Vasily Grossman's last novel, "Everything Flows."
Introduction by Michael Scammell (School of the Arts, Columbia University).
This event is free and open to the public.
No Tickets or reservations required.
Seating is on a first come, first served basis.
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Presentation about the Global Health Research Center of Central Asia (GHRCCA) at Columbia University
Tuesday, 26 January 2010, 12:00pm
Room 1219 IAB
Please join the Harriman Institute in welcoming Anne E Brisson, Louisa Gilbert and Steven Schinke of GHRCCA for an overview of the Center and a discussion of health and social problems in Kazakhstan. The two topical presentations will focus on migration and the Silk Road NIH funded-study with migrant workers who work in the market place in Almaty, and on tobacco related diseases and on-going smoking prevention projects.
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Russification in the Western Borderlands of the Russian Empire
CANCELLED
Wednesday, 27 January 2010, 12:00pm
Room 1219 International Affairs Building
Please join the Harriman Institute for a talk by Darius Staliunas, Lithuanian Institute of History.
Chaired by Richard Wortman, Columbia University.
THIS TALK HAS BEEN CANCELLED
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The Rule of Law and Human Rights in Russia: A Look at the Khodorkovsky Case
Wednesday, 27 January 2010, 6:00pm
Room 1510 International Affairs Building
Karinna Moskalenko, Director of International Protection Center, will discuss the rule of law and human rights in Russia.
This event is free and open to the public.
No Tickets, no reservations required.
Seating is on a first come, first served basis
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A Conversation on Evolving U.S. Policy Toward Russia
Thursday, 28 January 2010
House of the Academy, Cambridge, MA
Please join the American Academy of Arts & Sciences for talk featuring Robert Legvold, Marshall D. Shulman Professor Emeritus, Department of Political Science at Columbia University, and Thomas Graham, former Senior Director for Russia, U.S. National Security Council.
To listen to a recording of this event, click here.
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Romania: Twenty Years after History Changed its Course
Thursday, 28 January 2010, 12:00pm–2:00pm
Room 1219 International Affairs Building
The Harriman Institute Ambassador’s Forum presents a talk by Ambassador Simona Mirela Miculescu, Permanent Representative of Romania to the United Nations.
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Environment, Natural Resources and Eco-Tourism: Tools for Peace Building, State Building and Sustainable Development:
The Balkans in Focus, with Comparative Perspectives
Friday, 29 January 2010
Room 1501 International Affairs Building
Please join the Center for International Conflict Resolution, in partnership with the Italian Ministry for the Environment, Land and Sea for this one-day international symposium.
Keynote address by Mr. Predrag Nenezic, Minister for Tourism, Republic of Montenegro.
Co-sponsored by the Harriman Institute.
Click here for more information and to register
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