NEW HARRIMAN EVENT COVERAGE
Tuesday, 02 February 2010
For coverage of last week's Harriman Institute Ambassador's Forum: "Romania: Twenty Years After History Changed its Course" and of Karinna Moskalenko's talk on the Rule of Law and Human Rights in Russia, please visit “Harriman events in brief” located in the events section of our website, or click on the link below.
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Reviews of Valentina Izmirlieva's "All the Names of the Lord: Lists, Mysticism, and Magic" (Studies of the Harriman Institute)
Thursday, 28 January 2010
Valentina Izmirlieva's (Slavic Languages) book "All the Names of the Lord" (University of Chicago Press, 2008)is called a "fascinating and quite original book" by the reviewer of "The Journal of Ecclesiastical History," who writes that it will redefine the field. The reviewer in "The Journal of Theological Studies" praises the "impressive amount of scholarship on primary sources in libraries around the world" and writes that it will be "greatly appreciated by students of medieval theology and magic."
Follow the link for texts of the two reviews.
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Pepsico Travel Recipients Announced
Wednesday, 27 January 2010
The Harriman Institute has awarded Pepsico travel funding for the winter of 2009/2010 to the following students:
Elvira Amantaeva, MARS: “Artek as the Legacy of the USSR”
Sasha Ganovska, MARS “The Teaching Practice and Political Role of Sufism in Dushanbe, Tajikistan”
Anatoly Pinsky, History: “The Conscience of a Communist: The Making of Fedor Abramov, 1953-1958”
Yumi Yi, SIPA, “Koryo-Saram: Displaced Koreans in Kazakhstan”
Congratulations!
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Anne Applebaum reviews Michael Scammell's "Koestler: The Literary and Political Odyssey of a 20th-Century Skeptic" in New York Review of Books
Thursday, 21 January 2010
Anne Applebaum ends her review of Michael Scammell's (School of the Arts) new biography of Arthur Koestler with these words: "This is more than a biography. It is an argument in defense of Koestler's literary oeuvre, if not entirely in defense of Koeslter himself. Scammell does not make excuses for his subject, and does not gloss over his many faults. But by recreating the historical setting in which Koestler lived and worked, by fitting him squarely in the middle of the great debates of the twentieth century, he makes his achievements much clearer to a contemporary reader."
See the New York Review of Books (February 11, 2010) for the complete review.
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Professor Lincoln Mitchell in Radio Free Europe Radio Liberty
Monday, 28 December 2009
Professor Lincoln Mitchell quoted on Russia and Georgia.
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Ludmilla Trigos' THE DECEMBRIST MYTH IN RUSSIAN CULTURE most recent addition to Studies of the Harriman Institute
Saturday, 19 December 2009
The Publications Committee of the Harriman Institute is pleased to announce the publication of a new title in the monograph series Studies of the Harriman Institute. The
Decembrist Myth in Russian Culture by Ludmilla Trigos, a Harriman Certificate holder and former Harriman postdoctoral fellow, has just been released by Palgrave Macmillan. Attached you will find a flyer that offers a 20% discount should you wish to purchase the book.
THE DECEMBRIST MYTH IN RUSSIAN CULTURE
This book is the first interdisciplinary treatment of the mythic image of the Decembrists, a group of Russian noble officers who attempted, but failed, to overthrow the tsarist government in 1825. By exploring Russian literature, history, film and opera this book shows how the Decembrist myth evolved over time depending on political agendas. Though originally it functioned as a myth of opposition to authority and espoused self-sacrifice, it later became a legitimating myth for the Soviet regime. Ludmilla Trigos reveals how the Decembrist myth inspired generations of Russian revolutionaries and writers and still retains its hold on the Russian cultural imagination.
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Michael Scammell's Biography of Arthur Koestler Is Reviewed in NEW YORKER
Thursday, 17 December 2009
Louis Menand reviews Michael Scammell's (School of the Arts) "compendious new biography" KOESTLER: THE LITERARY AND POLITICAL ODYSSEY OF A TWENTIETH-CENTURY SKEPTIC (Random House) in the current issue of the NEW YORKER (Dec. 21-28, 2009).
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Professor Alexander Cooley in Foreign Affairs
Tuesday, 15 December 2009
Barnard/Harriman Associate Professor Alexander Cooley discusses recent developments regarding the Shanghai Cooperation Organization in Foreign Affairs
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Professor Alexander Cooley Quoted in the New York Times
Monday, 14 December 2009
Alexander Cooley on the new gas pipeline from Central Asia to China
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Professor Lincoln Mitchell Quoted on Radio Free Europe Radio Liberty
Thursday, 10 December 2009
Lincoln Mitchell on Saakashvili's aspirations to join NATO
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Laurie Manchester Is Awarded Wayne S. Vucinich Prize
Wednesday, 02 December 2009
Laurie Manchester, Columbia University Ph.D. (‘95) in History and former Postdoctoral Fellow at the Harriman Institute, was awarded the 2009 Wayne S. Vucinich Book Prize for her book "Holy Fathers, Secular Sons: Clergy, Intelligentsia, and the Modern Self in Revolutionary Russia" ( Studies of the Harriman Institute, Northern Illinois University Press, 2008). The Vucinich Prize, sponsored by the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies (AAASS) and the Stanford University Center for Russian and East European Studies, is awarded annually for the most important contribution to Russian, Eurasian, and East European studies in any discipline of the humanities or social sciences published in English in the United States in the previous calendar year. Laurie is Associate Professor of History at Arizona State University.
From the citation read at the AAASS award ceremony: “Combining sociological and anthropological analysis, intellectual history, and insights drawn from reading personal texts, Manchester identifies and describes the group ethos of the "popovichi" (the sons of Orthodox clergymen), showing that their moral values, social loyalties, and ambivalent identities played a large role in Russia’s uneasy transition into the modern world after the Great Reforms of the 1860s. This carefully researched, beautifully written, and highly original book prompts us to rethink such issues as the formation of the intelligentsia, the secularization of educated society, and the rise of modern selfhood in post reform Russia.”
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Leopold Haimson Honored by AAASS for his Distinguished Contributions to Slavic Studies
Wednesday, 25 November 2009
Leopold Haimson, Professor Emeritus in the Department of History at Columbia, received the 2009 Distinguished Contributions to Slavic Studies Award by AAASS (American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies) in recognition of his work on the social and political history of Imperial Russia and the origins of the revolutions of 1917.The award honors senior scholars who have helped to build and develop the field of Slavic Studies through outstanding scholarship, teaching, and service to the profession.
For the full citation read at the AAASS Convention, please follow the link.
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Professor David Stark wins the 2009 W. Richard Scott (best paper) Award
Tuesday, 17 November 2009
David Stark's paper "Social Times of Network Spaces" won the 2009 W. Richard Scott (best paper) Award from the Organizations, Occupations, and Work Section of the American Sociological Association. The paper, co-authored with Balazs Vedres, was published in the American Journal of Sociology. Professor Stark previously received the Richard R. Nelson Prize for outstanding contribution to the study of organizations and technology, for "Tools of the Trade: Socio-Technologies of Arbitrage," co-authored with Daniel Beunza and published in Industrial and Corporate Change.
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Harriman Institute Undergraduate Fellows Announced
Monday, 16 November 2009
The Harriman Institute has awarded Undergraduate Fellowships to two students for the 2009/2010 winter break. Lien Hoang, a Columbia College senior, will be conducting research on the political implications of discrimination against Romas in Hungary. Rebekah Kim, a Barnard College senior, will be researching the relationship between automobile use and ecological discourse in Russia. Both students will present their findings at an undergraduate fellow panel in April 2010. Congratulations to Lien and Rebekah!
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Award-winning, Washington, DC-based Synetic Theater Company to perform acclaimed production at Columbia University's Miller Theater
Monday, 09 November 2009
Host and Guest, based on the epic poem by 19th-20th century Georgian writer Vazha Pshavela, centers around two Caucasian men, one Muslim and one Christian, who befriend one another in time of war despite the harsh resistance they face from their own respective communities. Vazha Pshavela’s story and Synetic’s production offer a moving reflection on ethnic difference and human nature which resonates deeply with our times. Contact Lauren Ninoshvili (LN2106@columbia.edu) for more information.
LN2106@columbia.edu
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Professor Stephen Sestanovich in The Guardian
Monday, 02 November 2009
Professor Stephen Sestanovich quoted in The Guardian on U.S. foreign policy. To read please click on the link below.
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Professor Mark Mazower interviewed in the Boston Globe
Sunday, 01 November 2009
Professor Mark Mazower discusses his latest book: No Enchanted Palace: The End of Empire and the Ideological Origins of the United Nations, in an interview with the Boston Globe
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Harriman Institute to host conference on "Brussels and the Western Balkans: Next Steps for the EU Integration Process."
Monday, 26 October 2009
On Monday, October 26th, the Harriman Institute/East Central European Center, together with the East European Program at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington, DC, will be holding an international conference entitled “Brussels and the Western Balkans: Next Steps for the EU Integration Process.”
To register for this event, please follow the link
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Anna Frajlich Delivers Keynote Lecture to AATSEEL Wisconsin Conference
Thursday, 15 October 2009
Anna Frajlich-Zajac, Senior Lecturer in Polish, will deliver the keynote lecture on October 16th at the AATSEEL-Wisconsin Conference at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. The topic of her lecture is "The Ghost of Shakespeare in Szymborska. She will also give a reading, sponsored by the Department of Slavic Languages and the Center for Russia, East Europe, and Central Asia, of her poetry at the University of Wisconsin.
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Shalamov Exhibit Reviewed
Thursday, 15 October 2009
Harriman Institute's "Fragments from the Past: A Photography Exhibition by Yuri Shalamov," reviewed in Russian paper "Forum," issue 259.
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Professor Lincoln Mitchell on Georgia
Tuesday, 13 October 2009
Professor Mitchell quoted in Time Magazine about Georgian President Mikheil Sakashvili.
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Alexander Cooley on Russia and Central Asia
Wednesday, 30 September 2009
Political science professor Alexander Cooley explores the limits of the Russian power resurgence in Central Asia.
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Lincoln Mitchell on Georgia
Wednesday, 30 September 2009
International politics professor Lincoln Mitchell offers an optimistic view of Georgia's future.
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Lynn Garafola moderates panel discussion on Diaghilev's Ballets Russes
Monday, 28 September 2009
Dance historian and professor Lynn Garafola moderates a panel discussion on the artistic collaboration on Sergei Diaghilev's Ballets Russes one hundred years after its inception.
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Boris Tadić, President of the Republic of Serbia, to speak at Columbia University World Leaders Forum
Tuesday, 22 September 2009
Keynote address by Boris Tadić, President of the Republic of Serbia
“Opportunity Amidst Crisis: Consolidating the European Future of the Western Balkans”
Please go to "Harriman Events in Brief" in the News Room section of our website for coverage of this event.
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Alexander Cooley Debates John Bolton
Friday, 18 September 2009
Professor Alexander Cooley debates John Bolton on Obama's decision to scrap the Bush-Era Missile Plan.
Please click on the link below to listen to the debate and read the full transcript.
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Lincoln Mitchell on Abkhazia and South Ossetia
Wednesday, 26 August 2009
International politics professor Lincoln Mitchell remarks on Abkhazia and South Ossetia's uncertain relationship with Russia a year after 'independence.'
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Kimberly Marten on Georgia and the Ukraine joining NATO
Monday, 10 August 2009
Political science professor Kimberly Marten suggests long road to NATO for Georgia and Ukraine.
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Lynn Garafola's "Diaghilev’s Theater of Marvels: The Ballets Russes and Its Aftermath"
Tuesday, 04 August 2009
Dance professor Lynn Garafola’s Ballet Russes exhibition opens at Lincoln Center’s Library of Performing Art, mentioned in The New York Observer.
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Kimberly Marten on Afghanistan
Sunday, 02 August 2009
Enlisting local militias poses security threats in Afghanistan, political science professor Kimberly Marten tells MSNBC
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