October 2002

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,
Special Programs, and Columbia College except class of 2003.

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."
Ambassador Leonidas Chrysanthopoulos. Reception to follow.  Room 1219, 6pm. Cosponsoring by the Armenian Studies ProgramGrkAmb.JPG (115411 bytes)

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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.

Taras Kuzio center---Mark von Hagen left

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.

Yevgeny Primakov speaks about Russia after 9.11

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.

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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.

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20 21 Anatoly Mikhailov, (Rector, European Humanities University, Minsk), “Belarus at the Crossroads.”  Room 1219 IAB, 12-1:30pm.

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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.

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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.

Etibar Najafov, Department of Social Sciences, Azerbaijan University

 

 

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. 

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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. 

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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.

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27 28 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.  

Ambassador Klien (left)  Prof. Bogdan Denitch (middle) Gordon Bardos (right)

29  Nadezhda Kizenko (Dept. of History, SUNY Albany), “Masepa Poltava & Peter the Great: Imperial Depictions of Ukrainian Rebellion.” Room 1219 IAB, 12-2-pm.  

Mark von Hagen (left)  Nadezhda Kizenko (right)

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.

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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. 

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