October 2002
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Harriman
Institute Calendar of Events
Legend IAB=International Affairs
Building, 420 West 118th Street, off Amsterdam Avenue
Last Update: 7 Nov
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| Sep29 | 30 | 1 Andrew Baruch Wachtel (Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, Northwestern University. “The Novel as Photograph: Dostoyevsky's Idiot.” Room 1219 IAB, 12-1:30pm. | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 |
| 6 | 7 Dr. Vojin Dimitrijevic, (Director, Belgrade Center for Human Rights), “Serbia and its Neighbors: Facing the Recent Past.” Room 1219 IAB, 4-6pm. | 8 . Ambassador
Vladimir Petrovsky, (Geneva Position, The United Nations) “Multilateralism:
What Is To Be Done?” Lindsay Rogers Common Room, 7th
Floor IAB, 4-6pm. Sponsored
by the Institute of War and Peace Studies.
Last Day to Drop a Class for Barnard, General Studies, SIPA, GSAS, |
9 | 10 John
Tedstrom, Vice-president, (East West Institute), “Challenges in
US-Ukrainian Relations: Can the Crisis be Overcome?”
Room 1219 IAB, 12-1:30pm.
Book Presentation "Caucasus Chronicles: Nation-Building and Diplomacy in Armenia,
1993-1994." |
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| 13 | 14 Dr. Taras Kuzio, (Resident Fellow, Centre for Russian and East European Studies; Adjunct Faculty, Department of Political Science, University of Toronto) “Belarusianization or Europeanization? Ukraine Struggles to Define its Identity Between Two Elections.” Room 1219 12:10-1:30pm. | 15 | 16 The Harriman Institute at Columbia University in Cooperation with The International Affairs Program of The New School University Invite You To A Lecture Presented by: Yevgeny Primakov, (President, Chamber Of Commerce, Russian Federation Former Prime Minister, Russian Federation), “Russia In The World After 9.11.” Kellogg Center, 1501 IAB, 12-2pm. Free and open to the public. | 17 The Harriman Institute of Columbia University invites you to a discussion of: Spy Mania: Official Intimidation and Silencing of Russia's Journalists, Scientists, and Intellectuals. Featuring: Galina Morozova (wife of Grigoriy Pasko), Nadezhda Moiseeva (daughter of Valentin Moiseev), Vyacheslav Sutyagin (father of Igor Sutyagin), and Russian Human Rights lawyer Karina Moskalenko. Room 1219 IAB, 12-2pm. | 18 Publishers Forum—Participants: Patricia Kolb, M.E. Sharpe; Valerie Millholland, Duke University Press; and William Strachan, Columbia University Press. Room 1219 IAB, 12-2pm. | 19 |
| 20 | 21 Anatoly
Mikhailov, (Rector, European Humanities University, Minsk), “Belarus at the
Crossroads.” Room 1219 IAB, 12-1:30pm.
Roundtable Discussion “Political, Religious and Civil Repression in Turkmenistan.” Featuring: Akady Dubnov, Avdy Kuliev; Vyacheslav Mamedov; & Vitaly Ponomoryov; Peter Sinnott, Caspian Project, Moderator. Room 1134 IAB, 12-1:15pm. |
22 Etibar
Najafov, (Department of Social Sciences, Azerbaijan University &
Visiting Scholar, HI), “Azerbaijan in Transition: Achievements,
Problems and Prospects.” Room 1219 IAB, 12-1:30pm.
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23 Stephen J. Blank (MacArthur Professor of National Security Affairs, Strategic Studies Institute, U.S. Army War College), “The Transformation of TransCaspian Security.” Room 1219 IAB, 12-1:30pm. | 24 Jason James (Mellon Fellow in the Humanities, Department of Anthropology, Barnard College, Columbia U.) “Heritage Exoticism and Historical Redemption in Eastern Germany.” Room 1219 IAB, 12-1:30pm. | 25 Alumni Career Talk. William Spiegelberger, Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy, LLP, ((HI ‘87). Room 1219, 12:30pm. Lunch will be served. If you would like to attend, please RSVP to Alla Rachkov or 212-854-6213. | 26 |
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H.E. Jacques Paul Klein, Special Representative of the Secretary General
of the United Nations to Bosnia and Herzegovina, “United Nations
Peacekeeping in the Balkans: The Case of Bosnia and Herzegovina.”
Room 1219 IAB, 4-6-pm. |
29 Nadezhda Kizenko (Dept. of History, SUNY Albany), “Masepa Poltava
& Peter the Great: Imperial Depictions of Ukrainian Rebellion.”
Room 1219 IAB, 12-2-pm. |
30 Book Presentation:
"Natasha's Dance." Orlando Figes
(Author of A People's Tragedy and recipient of the Wolfson Prize for History among others). Room 1219, 6:15pm. |
31 Oksana Ostapchuk, (Assistant Professor, Lomonosov Moscow State University; Research Fellow, Center for Ukrainian Studies, Institute of Slavistics, Russian Academy of Science,), "Language and Society in Contemporary Ukraine." Room 1219 IAB, 12-1:30pm. | Nov1 | 2 |
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