October 2001

Harriman Institute Calendar of Events
Legend IAB=International Affairs Building, 420 West 118th Street, off Amsterdam Avenue            Last Update:  22 Oct

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Sep 30 1 2 . Opening Reception for Harriman (HI,) the East Central European Center (ECEC) and Institute for the Study of Europe (ISE). Room 1219 IAB 5:30pm. 3 . Russian Film Series Presents: The Man With the Movie Camera (1928-9), Directed by Dziga Vertov.  Room 1219IAB, 5pm. 4 The Barnard Center for Research on Women presents “The Russian Ballerina: Modeling National Legitimacy” a lunchtime lecture with Catharine Nepomnyashchy, Professor of Slavic; Barnard College,  Women, 101 Barnard Hall.  For more information, please contact 212.854.2067. 5 6
7 8  Exploring the Boundaries of Area Studies presents Prof. Mark von Hagen, (History, CU,) “Teaching and Confronting the Postcolonial in Minsk.”  Respondent: Gayatri Spivak, (Avalon Foundation Professor in the Humanities,) one of the foremost theoreticians of post-colonial literary and cultural studies.  Dag Hammarskjold Lounge, 4pm, 6th Floor IAB, reception to follow.

 

9  Professor Wojciech Tomasik of Bydgoszcz Pedagogical University will speak on “The Motif of Male Friendship in Stalinist Mythology.”  Room 1219 IAB, 12:15-2pm. 10 . Russian Film Series Presents: The Cigarette Girl From Mosselprom (1924), Directed by Yuriy Zhelyabuzhky.  Room 1219IAB, 5pm 11 12  Southeastern Europe: Historical Legacies and Contemporary Dynamics Series presents Roger Peterson (Department of Political Science, MIT,) "Kosovo and the Meaning of Hatred." Room 1219 IAB, 12:15-2pm Cosponsored by the Center for Historical Social Science. . 13
14 15 Film Series: Images of War.  Rainer Maria Fassbinder's, Die Ehe von Maria Braun.  Room 403 IAB, 7-10pm 16 17 Russian Film Series Presents: Earth (1930), Directed by Alexander Dovzhenko.  Room 1219IAB, 5pm.

 

18 Laada Bilaniuk, (Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology, University of Washington & Shklar Fellow, Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute,) “The Social Life Of Surzhyk: Conflicts Over Mixed Ukrainian-Russian Language.”  Room 1219 IAB, 12:15-1:45pm. 19 20 Conference: Ukraine And Poland: Their Challenges in the 21st Century.  Ukrainian Institute, 2 East 79th Street, NY, NY 100.  11-5pm. For more information call the East Central European Center at 212-854-4008, or send an email to Kevin P. Hallinan.
21 22 . Film Series: Images of War.  Jan Kadar's The Shop on Main Street Room 403 IAB, 7-9pm. 23 Southeastern Europe: Historical Legacies and Contemporary Dynamics Series presents  Susan Woodward (CUNY Graduate Center), “Neither Civic Nor Ethnic: The New National Question in Bosnia, Macedonia and Serbia.” Room 1512IAB, 12-2pm. Cosponsored by the Center for Historical Social Science. 24 . Russian Film Series Presents: The Songs of Lenin (1934), Directed by Dziga Vertov.  Room 1219IAB, 5pm. 25 Faculty Research in Progress presents Christopher Harwood, (Dept. of Slavic Languages,) “Stumbling Towards Multiculturalism: National Myths and Stereotypes in Two Novels by Eda Kriseova.”  Room 1219 IAB, 12-2pm.  

Rev. Dr. Borys Gudziak, (Rector of the Lviv Greek-Catholic Theological Academy, Ukraine,) “The Many Ukraines of John-Paul II.”  Room 1219 IAB, 2-4pm.

26 Conference:  Orthodoxy and Democracy: Challenges After the Cold War.   Keynote Address for the conference will be given by Bishop Kallistos of Diocleia (Timothy Ware) of Pembroke College, University of Oxford, one of the leading scholars and theologians of the Orthodox Church in the English-speaking world.  Co-sponsors Union Theological Seminary and the J.M. Dawson Institute of Church-State Studies and Baylor University. Registration fee for the conference is $25. For more information please contact Gordon N. Bardos at 212-854-8487.. 27 Conference:  Orthodoxy and Democracy: Challenges After the Cold War.   Keynote Address for the conference will be given by Bishop Kallistos of Diocleia (Timothy Ware) of Pembroke College, University of Oxford, one of the leading scholars and theologians of the Orthodox Church in the English-speaking world.  Co-sponsors Union Theological Seminary and the J.M. Dawson Institute of Church-State Studies and Baylor University. Registration fee for the conference is $25. For more information please contact Gordon N. Bardos at 212-854-8487..
28 29 Douglas Northrop, (Assistant Professor, History Dept., University of Georgia,) “Nationalizing Backwardness: Gender, Empire, and Uzbek Identity.” Room 1219 IAB, 12-2pm. 30 31 Nov 1 2 3
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