The Afghanistan Lecture Series
The Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan in 1979, and occupied the country for the next ten years while fighting a major counterinsurgency war there. The Soviet presence had an enduring impact on Afghanistan's political climate, economic resources, and security situation. Given that history, as well as Afghanistan's territorial proximity and ethnic ties to several post-Soviet states (most notably Tajikistan and Uzbekistan), it seems appropriate for the Harriman Institute to examine the current political, economic, and security circumstances of the country, as well as likely future trajectories. This series brings in leading practitioner-scholars to share their insights about Afghanistan today.
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The Balkans Lecture Series
The Harriman Institute/East Central European (ECE) Center, together with the Slavic Department and other graduate departments at Columbia University, sponsor a large number of classes, lectures, and conferences dedicated to promoting scholarly knowledge and teaching about Southeastern Europe. Students interested in studying the region are encouraged to look at the Harriman Institute/ECE Course Listing to get a sense of the variety of courses available.
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The Children after Communism Lecture Series
All Events Are Held in the International Affairs Building (IAB) at Columbia University in the City of New York 420 West 118th Street, 12th Floor, New York, NY 10027— Between Amsterdam Avenue & Morningside DriveUnless—Otherwise Indicated.For more information please contact Professor Catharine Nepomnyashchy at (212) 854-6213.
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The Director's Seminar Lecture Series
The Director’s Seminars series was instituted in the fall of 2001. The aftermaths of the tragic events on September 11 the same year underscored the importance of regional studies and sparked a realization that the United States suffers from a strategically dangerous shortage of regional specialists. Still, long-term, enduring support from the government or from those in charge of finances in the academy has not been forthcoming.
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The Georgian "Rose Revolution" Lecture Series
This semester the Harriman Institute is sponsoring the Georgian “Rose Revolution” Colloquium, organized by Harriman faculty member, Jenik Radon. Georgia is now heralded as a model of peaceful popular sovereignty and as a democratic model for other former Soviet republics. The critical question that must now be answered can democracy deliver? Can it improve the lives of the Georgian people? The Colloquium will focus on those questions and accordingly look at the full range of challenges facing Georgia . It is a nation that, since the disintegration of the Soviet Union in 1991, has had more than its fair share of problems. It has had to confront a civil war, separatist movements, massive emigration, extensive corruption, a tanked economy and super-power involvement. Still, despite such hurdles, it is a nation of opportunity, especially as a gateway from the steppes of Russia and Central Asia to Turkey and onto to the developed economies of West. It is “the” critical land bridge for the shipment of critical oil and gas supplies from Azerbaijan and other landlocked nations to the industrialized lands.
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The Harriman Lecture Series
The W. Averell Harriman Lectures were inaugurated in 1989 to honor the memory of our principal benefactor by making a special intellectual contribution to the University community and to our field. We do this by inviting a preeminent scholar, political figure, or cultural luminary related in some way to our area of study to deliver a major address for the entire University community and many other guests.
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The Harriman at 60 Lecture Series
In 2006 we commemorate the sixtieth anniversary of the Harriman Institute, the oldest academic institution in the United States devoted to the study of the countries of the former Soviet Union, East Central Europe, and the Balkans. Throughout the 2006-2007 academic year we will celebrate the richness of our past and the promise and challenge of our future in a series of special events.
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The Networks, Institutions, and Economic Transformation in Postsocialism Lecture Series
Conveners: David Stark and Roger Schoenman
All seminars will be held in Room 1219 International Affairs Building, 4:10-6:00pm. For more information about this seminar series please contact Roger Schoenman, rschoenm@ucsc.edu.
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The Post-Soviet Comparativisms Lecture Series
This lecture series is co-sponsored by the Center for Comparative Literature and Society
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The Ukrainian Studies Lecture Series
With the start of the fall 2005 semester, the Ukrainian Studies Program at Columbia University is once again resuming its activities, and welcomes your participation.
We are pleased to announce that, over this past summer, a gift of two hundred fifty thousand dollars was given to the Department of Slavic Languages at Columbia University to establish the capital for a new endowed fund, the Volodymyr Korolyk Ukrainian Fund. This Fund honors Mr. Korolyk for his activity in Ukrainian cultural life. The income and profit of the Volodymyr Korolyk Fund will be used for the support of Ukrainian language instruction in the Department of Slavic Languages, and recognizes the intent to help expand scholarship on Ukraine and its history, language and culture
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The Vaclav Havel: Columbia University Residency Lecture Series
The Harriman Institute has organized a number of events in honor of the Columbia University Residency of Vaclav Havel.
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