Elise Giuliano's CONSTRUCTING GRIEVANCE Wins Prestigious 2012 ENMISA Book Award
Wednesday, 16 May 2012
Elise Giuliano (Visiting Assistant Professor, Political Science, Barnard College) has been named a recipient of the 2012 ENMISA (Ethnicity, Nationalism, and Migration) Book Award of the International Studies Association, for her book CONSTRUCTING GRIEVANCE (Cornell University Press, 2011).
The ENMISA Book Award recognizes the best book published over the past two years in the study of the international politics of ethnicity, nationalism or migration. The criteria for the award include the originality of the argument presented, quality of the research, ability to draw on the insights of the multiple disciplines, innovative methods or methodological syntheses, readability of the text and the policy or practical implications of the scholarship.
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Poems by Anna Frajlich Published in Romanian Monthly
Thursday, 10 May 2012
The Romanian monthly "Timpul" published 16 poems by Anna Frajlich (Slavic Languages), translated from the Polish by Alina Savin.
See pages 17-18 of attached PDF.
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Sixth Annual Pipelines Conference
Tuesday, 03 April 2012
Join us on April 17 for our sixth annual conference on Eurasian Pipelines, "The Energy Silk Road: Tapi, BTC, Turkmen - China Pipelines."
Confirmed speakers include Karl Eikenberry, former US Ambassador to Afghanistan, Steve LeVine, author of the acclaimed book, The Oil and the Glory, and David Onoprishvili, former Finance Minister of Georgia. It will be an international event with experts and scholars from Afghanistan, China, Kazakhstan, Pakistan, and more.
For additional details, follow the link below.
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Harriman Institute Annual Report 2010-11
Thursday, 29 March 2012
The Harriman Institute has issued its annual report for academic year 2010-11. Fifty-six pages of information on our Faculty, Students, Programs, Events.
Follow the link for PDF of report.
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RANK AND STYLE, New Book by Professor Irina Reyfman (Slavic Dept, Columbia U)
Wednesday, 21 March 2012
Rank and Style: Russians in State Service, Life and Literature (Academic Studies Press)
Rank and Style is a collection of essays by Irina Reyfman, a leading scholar of Russian literature and culture. Ranging from the eighteenth to the twentieth century, the essays focus on the interaction of life and literature. In the first part, Reyfman examines how obligatory state service and the Table of Ranks shaped Russian writers' view of themselves as professionals, raising questions about whether the existence of the rank system prompted the development of specifically Russian types of literary discourse. The sections that follow bring together articles on Pushkin, writer and man, as seen by himself and others, essays on Leo Tolstoy, and other aspects of Russian literary and cultural history. In addition to examining little-studied writers and works, Rank and Style offers new approaches to well-studied literary personalities and texts.
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A Special Double Issue of InterMarium
Friday, 24 February 2012
Vol. 14 of InterMarium, the online journal of the Eastern European Studies Center, is available to view. Follow the link below and enjoy this special double issue on Solidarity, 1980-1981.
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HI Director Timothy Frye in The Record
Wednesday, 22 February 2012
Tanya Domi interviews Timothy Frye about Russia.
To read the interview, follow the link below.
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Valentina Izmirlieva Awarded Fellowship from NYPL's Cullman Center
Tuesday, 21 February 2012
Professor Valentina Izmirlieva, Slavic Languages, has been awarded a fellowship at the Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers at the New York Public Library for the academic year 2012-2013. She will work on her book project, "The Christian Hajjis: Mobility and Status in the Ottoman Empire."
The Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers is an international fellowship program open to people whose work will benefit directly from access to the collections at the Stephen A. Schwarzman Building – including academics, independent scholars, and creative writers (novelists, playwrights, poets). The Center appoints 15 Fellows a year for a nine-month term at the Library, from September through May. In addition to working on their own projects, the Fellows engage in an ongoing exchange of ideas within the Center and in public forums throughout the Library.
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Alexander Cooley Appointed to Advisory Board of Human Rights Watch
Monday, 20 February 2012
Alexander Cooley, Tow Professor of Political Science, Barnard College, was appointed to the Advisory Board of Human Rights Watch, Europe and Central Asia Division. Cooley will advise HRW on its ongoing and future post-Soviet area advocacy campaigns, especially in Central Asia, and its planned internationalization efforts to open new regional chapters.
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On the Upcoming Russian Election
Monday, 06 February 2012
HI Professors Timothy Frye, Lincoln Mitchell and Stephen Sestanovich on The Voice of Russia Radio regarding the upcoming presidential election in Russia.
To hear the clip follow the link below.
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Cathy Popkin Awarded Lenfest Distinguished Faculty Award
Tuesday, 24 January 2012
Cathy Popkin, Jesse and George Siegel Professor in the Humanities, has been awarded a Lenfest Distinguished Faculty Award.
The awards, established by University Trustee Gerry Lenfest (LAW’58, HON’09) in 2005, are given annually to faculty of unusual merit, across a range of activities—including scholarship, University citizenship and professional involvement—with a primary emphasis on the instruction and mentoring of undergraduate and graduate students.
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David Stark's "The Sense of Dissonance" Published in Japanese Translation
Monday, 23 January 2012
David Stark's "The Sense of Dissonance: Accounts of Worth in Economic Life" has just been published in Japanese translation. Stark is the Arthur Lehman Professor of Sociology and International Affairs.
Follow the link to view the dust jacket.
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HI Professor Lincoln Mitchell Interviewed in the World Politics Review
Friday, 16 December 2011
Professor Mitchell discusses the elections in South Ossetia.
To read the interview follow the link below.
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HI Professor Lincoln Mitchell Comments on Russia in The Faster Times
Thursday, 15 December 2011
Professor Mitchell analyses the significance of the fraudulent elections in Russia and the ensuing protests.
The Future of Elections in Russia
Something is Happening and You Don't Know What it is. Do You, Mr. Putin?
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HI Director Timothy Frye on Bloomberg Radio
Wednesday, 14 December 2011
Timothy Frye talks to Bloomberg's Kathleen Hays on "The Hays Advantage" on Bloomberg Radio about the political climate in Russia and its relationship with the United States.
Follow the link below to listen to the program.
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HI Directory Timothy Frye Quoted in the NY Daily News
Monday, 12 December 2011
Prof. Frye discusses Mikhail Prokhorov's announcement to challenge Vladimir Putin for Russia's presidential seat.
To read the article follow the link below.
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HI Professor Lincoln Mitchell Interviewed in the World Politics Review
Monday, 12 December 2011
Professor Mitchell discusses the elections in South Ossetia.
To read the interview follow the link below.
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HI Professor Mona Momescu Teaches Romanian to U Penn Students via Teleconference
Tuesday, 29 November 2011
The Daily Pennsylvanian reports on a pilot teleconferencing program between Columbia and the University of Pennsylvania, zeroing in on HI Professor Mona Momescu who is currently teaching elementary Romanian to a small group of Penn and Columbia students. "Momescu interacts with the Columbia students in person and the Penn students on camera through a teleconference program."
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Discovery Day at Carnegie Hall: Tchaikovsky in St. Petersburg
Saturday, 05 November 2011
On October 15th, the Harriman Institute, in cooperation with Carnegie Hall, presented a very successful afternoon of talks, panel discussions, and musical performance, featuring scholars from The Harriman Institute, exploring the cultural world of St. Petersburg in the 1890s and beyond.
Speakers included:
Tarik Amar
Katerina Clark
Laura Engelstein
Timothy M. Frye
Lynn Garafola
Boris Gasparov
John Malmstad
Simon Morrison
Catharine Nepomnyashschy
Maya Pritsker
Elizabeth Kridl Valkenier
Richard Wortman
Songs by Tchaikovsky and his contemporaries performed by Andrei Bondarenko, Baritone, and Gary Matthewman, Piano.
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Harriman Scholars to be Awarded Book Prizes at ASEEES
Saturday, 05 November 2011
Three Harriman Scholars will be awarded book prizes at the ASEEES Annual Convention this November. Lara J. Nettlefield, Harriman Alumna and Coordinator of the Harriman Core Project on Human Rights, will receive the Marshall Shulman Book Prize for her "Courting Democracy in Bosnia and Herzegovina: The Hague Tribunal's Impact in a Postwar State" (Cambridge UP); Ora John Reuter, Harriman Postdoctoral Fellow last year, will be awarded the Robert C. Tucker/Stephen F. Cohen Dissertation Prize for his "The Origins of Dominant Parties" (Emory University); and HI Director Timothy Frye will receive the Ed. A. Hewett Book Prize for his "Building States and Markets after Communism" (Cambridge UP).
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HI Professor Mark Mazower on NPR's "All Things Considered"
Friday, 04 November 2011
Nov 3, 2011 - Robert Siegel speaks to Mark Mazower, a professor of history at Columbia University and an expert on contemporary Greece, about the tensions between democracy and the need for decisive action in dealing with the euro crisis.
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Prof Lincoln Mitchell, "The New World of Democracy Promotion" (Current History, November 2011)
Thursday, 27 October 2011
Professor Lincoln Mitchell analyzes the evolution of American democracy promotion,and the changing face of democracy assistance since the 1990s. He urges U.S. policy makers to tailor their democracy promotion strategies to the specific political context of each nation, and sees the need for a general reframing of the issue of democracy promotion.
To read the article follow the link below.
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HI Professor Alexander Cooley Comments on Clinton's Meetings with Central Asian Leaders
Tuesday, 25 October 2011
Washington is walking a delicate line between its concerns over human rights abuses and its need for regional alliances as it winds down the war in Afghanistan. Alexander Cooley comments on the US tendency to strike bargains with authoritarian leaders in Heather Maher's article in Radio Free Europe Radio Liberty.
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Jenik Radon '67 Nation Builder--Profile from Columbia College Today
Wednesday, 05 October 2011
When Jenik Radon ’67 was studying philosophy in Professor Golding’s Contemporary Civilization class, he felt torn between his passion for the subject and his desire to find a more tangible meaning in his life. “I enjoyed the Core tremendously, especially the study of ethics,” Radon says. “But I felt that I had only one question, which philosophy could not answer: ‘Why am I here?’ ”
Radon majored in economics, eventually becoming involved in international corporate law. His practice, Radon & Ishizumi, is based in New York.
But the age-old question has driven him to help young nations around the world open their markets, build constitutions and gain independence. Radon, an adjunct professor at SIPA, is organizing a major conference on Chinese integration into the world, to be held within the next year in Estonia. He also is helping emerging nations such as Uganda and Malawi develop their extractive industry laws and is active in a nation-branding project in Mexico, where in October he sponsored the Mexican Bicentennial Independence Conference. “Image-building is a part of nation-building,” Radon says.
Follow the link to read the entire profile.
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Deborah Martinsen's SURPRISED BY SHAME published in Moscow
Thursday, 22 September 2011
The publishing house of the Russian State University for the Humanities (RGGU) has published NASTIGNUTYE STYDOM, the Russian translation of Deborah Martinsen's SURPRISED BY SHAME: DOSTOEVSKY'S LIARS AND NARRATIVE EXPOSURE. The book was originally published by The Ohio State University Press in 2003 in the series Studies of the Harriman Institute. Martinsen is Associate Dean of Alumni Education and Adjunct Associate Professor in the Department of Slavic Languages at Columbia. She is also the President of the International Dostoevsky Society. The book was translated by Tatyana Buzina, a Dostoevsky scholar on the faculty of RGGU.
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Irina Reyfman Elected to ASEEES Board of Directors
Wednesday, 21 September 2011
Professor Irina Reyfman (Department of Slavic Languages) has been elected Member at Large (2012-14) to the Board of Directors of the Association for Slavic, East European and Eurasian Studies (formerly AAASS).
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NEW EVENT COVERAGE
Tuesday, 20 September 2011
If you missed Denis Volkov's talk, "Elections in Russia: Polling Perspectives," read about it by following the link below.
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International Center for the Study of Institutions and Development
Monday, 19 September 2011
Thanks to a generous grant from the Higher School of Economics (HSE) and the Russian government, the International Center for the Study of Institutions and Development (CSID) brings together Russian and foreign experts in economics and political science to conduct cutting edge research on development. The CSID is part of the Higher School of Economics’ broader plans to create international research laboratories headed jointly by Russian and American scholars. Current projects for the period 2011-13 examine the career trajectories of regional bureaucrats in Russia, the impact of police reform in Moscow, and the influence of legality and violence on economic development.
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HI Director Timothy Frye Wins the APSA Best Book Prize for 2010
Monday, 12 September 2011
A warm congratulations to Director Timothy Frye for winning the Best Book Prize for 2010 from the Comparative Democratization Section of the American Political Science Association. His book, Building States and Markets After Communism: The Perils of Polarized Democracy (Cambridge University Press 2010), was published last summer.
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The Harriman Institute Tweets
Thursday, 08 September 2011
The Harriman Institute just started a Twitter account, follow us to keep up with our events and publications.
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NEW EVENT COVERAGE
Thursday, 08 September 2011
If you missed Georgian EU Ambassador Salome Samadashvili's talk yesterday, read about it by following the link below.
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Professor Alexander Cooley on US Cooperation With Repressive Regimes
Wednesday, 07 September 2011
Professor Cooley quoted in PRI's The World about US policy to support repressive regimes "in exchange for a military stronghold," particularly in the case of the Manas Transit Center in Kyrgyzstan.
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A Counterproductive Disdain
Wednesday, 31 August 2011
In an Op-Ed published in The New York Times, Harriman Institute Professors Alexander Cooley and Lincoln Mitchell argue that the West's hostile reaction toward the recent presidential elections in Abkazia is counterproductive."Condemning political processes in the breakaway territory damages Western credibility and influence in the South Caucasus in a number of ways," they write.
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