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THE HARRIMAN REVIEW

The Institute's quarterly survey boasts an international roster of scholars writing on issues and new publications in the various fields represented by the Institute. Past contributors include Roman Szporluk, Barbara Heldt, Rajan Menon, Ellendea Proffer, Alexander J. Motyl, Elizabeth Pond, G. S. Smith, Oleg Rumyantsev, and Padma Desai. Topics range from a critical survey of Russian women's studies and a reappraisal of the current situation in Ukraine to an assessment of studies on the collapse of the Soviet empire and the legacy of the Soviet past.  You may download a subsctiption form.

STUDIES OF THE HARRIMAN INSTITUTE

The Studies of the Harriman Institute continues the work of the pioneering book series initiated by the Russian Institute in the 1950s. More than 100 titles authored by Institute faculty, visiting scholars, fellows, and alumni have appeared under the two imprints. Recent titles in the series include Exploring Gogol by Robert A. Maguire (Stanford University Press), Scenarios of Power: Myth and Ceremony in Russian Monarchy by Richard S. Wortman (Princeton University Press), Soldiers in the Proletarian Dictatorship. The Red Army and the Soviet Socialist State by Mark von Hagen (Cornell University Press), and Abram Tertz and the Poetics of Crime by Catherine Theimer Nepomnyashchy (Yale University Press). Authors must have some Institute affiliation, past or present, in order to submit their works for inclusion in the series. After approval by the Publications Committee, the books are placed with a wide array of university and scholarly presses. Please contact Ronald Meyer at (212) 854-6218 for details.

NEWSLETTER

The Institute publishes News from the Harriman Institute at the beginning of each semester. Information, news, and other items should be sent to Ronald Meyer, Editor, (212) 854-4623.

THE HARRIMAN LECTURES

Columbia University Press inaugurated its Harriman Lecture Series in 1997 with the publication of Andrei Sinyavsky's The Russian Intelligentsia, a collection of three lectures delivered the previous year at Columbia University. Katherine Verdery's The Political Lives of Dead Bodies: Animating Post-Socialist Politics will be published by Columbia University Press in 1999.

EAST CENTRAL EUROPEAN PUBLICATIONS

The proceedings of the 1996 and 1997 Graduate Student Conferences, on "State- and Nation-Building in East Central Europe" and "Perspectives on Political and Economic Transformations after Communism," respectively, were published in separate volumes by the East Central European Center.

INTERMARIUM

The East Central European Center and the Polish Academy of Sciences' Institute for Political Studies cosponsor the online journal Intermarium. It provides an electronic medium for scholarship and provocative thinking about the history of Central and Eastern Europe following World War II. The editors are Andrzej Paczkowski and John S. Micgiel,

SOURCES AND TRANSLATION SERIES

The Institute sponsors the Sources and Translations Series, the most recent title of which is a bilingual edition of Marina Tsvetaeva's After Russia (Ardis Publishers), edited and translated by Michael Naydan. Fertility and Other Stories by Vsevolod Ivanov, translated by Frank Miller and Valentina Brougher (Northwestern University Press, 1998).

 

AT THE HARRIMAN INSTITUTE (ATHI)

At the Harriman Institute presents printed summaries and/or audio from selected lectures. You will need Adobe Acrobat Reader to view.

  • December 06 , 2005. Central Asia Series presents: Tadeusz Swietochowski (Professor Emeritus of History, Monmouth University) “Is the glass half-full or half-empty? The Continuing Pattern of Electoral Disputes in Azerbaijan.” AUDIO.
  • November 10 , 2005. Faculty Research in Progress Series presents: Alexander Cooley (Political Science Dept., Barnard College) “ Base Politics: The United States and Uzbekistan in Comparative Perspective.” AUDIO.
  • October 28, 2005. Ruslan Khasbulatov (Plekhanov Institute of National Economy) “ Russian Capitalism and the War in North Caucasus.” 2pm in Lindsey Rogers Room (7 th Floor IAB) Co-sponsored by Chechnya Advocacy Network. AUDIO.
  • October 27, 2005. The Warlord Series at The Harriman Institute presents: Will Reno (Professor of Political Science, Northwestern University) “Protectors or Predators? The Micro-politics of Contemporary Rebel Wars.” AUDIO.
  • October 25, 2005. Joshua Tucker (Assistant Professor in the Politics Departme nt at Princeton University) “Regional Economic Voting: Russia, Poland, Hungary, Slovakia, and the Czech Republic, 1990-99.” AUDIO.
  • October 18, 2005. Children After Communism Series: Lynn Visson (Hippocrene Books) “Bringing up Vanya Smith: Children of Russian American Marriages.” AUDIO.
  • October 13. 2005. Joseph Ha (Special Assistant to CEO, NIKE) “The Nature of Nike’s Business and Global Challenge, with Reference to Russia.” AUDIO
  • October 12, 2005. Tamara Chagaeva (Chechen Journalist and Writer) “Journalism, Freedom of Speech and Media Development in Today's Chechnya - a Veteran Chechen Reporter's View.” AUDIO
  • September 20, 2005. Children After Communism Series: “Adoption in Russia Today.” Participants: Marina Adamovitch (Editor-in-Chief, The New Review) Nadezhda Azhgikhina (Union of Russian Journalists, Moscow) Dr. Robert Belenky (a representative of “Doctors without borders,” an author of the book “Our House” about to the Russian orphanages in Moscow and Saint Petersburg) Tatiana Bobrinskoy (the Orthodox Knights Hospitality of St. Joan of Jerusalem, a member of The New Review Corporation) Michael Sadovsky (Children’s Writer) Alexander Smukler (Russian-American Adoption Agency Vadim Yermolenets (Novoye Russkoye Slovo) AUDIO
  • April 20, 2005. Faculty Research in Progress Series: Mark Mazower (History Department, Columbia) 'Salonica, 1430-1950:Writing the history of a (Post)- Ottoman City.' Audio
  • March 29, 2005. Kyrgyzstan 's Yellow Revolution: Roots and Consequences Round Table Discussion. Discussants: Dr. Christopher Walker (Director of Studies, Freedom House) Mr. Talant Sultanov (SIPA student and former Staff Member of the World Bank Central Asia Office) Mr. Murad Omoev (Former Director of the USAID Project in Kyrgyzstan) Moderator: Dr. Rafis Abazov (Author of 'Historical Dictionary of Kyrgyzstan'and Adjunct Lecturer at the Harriman Institute) Room 1219 IAB @ 2pm. Audio
  • March 3, 2005. Mark Brown, Program Manager (International Organization for Migrations) “Your Future Neighbors: Refugees from the Former Soviet Union.” Room 1219 IAB @ Noon. Audio

  • February 22, 2005. Fron Nazi (East-West Management Institute) “Towards Final Status in 2005? Kosovo and the Regional Implications of Independence.” Room 1219 IAB @ Noon. Audio

  • October 25, 2004. The Harriman Institute Chechnya Series Presents: Tom de Waal (Institute for War & Peace Reporting) “A Loya Jirga for Chechnya?”

  • October 18th, 2004. Understanding Putin's State. A Roundtable featuring: Stephen Cohen (New York University) Nina Khrushcheva (The New School/ Harriman Institute) Stephen Kotkin (Princeton University) Stephen Sestanovich (Columbia University)

  • October 11th, 2004. Dimitri Trenin (Carnegie Endowment, Moscow) “Russia's War on Terror and Its Implications.”

  • October 8th, 2004. Ekaterina Sokirianskaia (Assistant Professor, University of Chechnya, Grozhny, Russia) “Terrorist Crisis In Russia: Roots And Consequences— Eyewitness Beslan.”

  • September 30th, 2004. The Harriman Institute’s Chechnya Series Presents: Thomas Faustini (Associate Protection Officer, UNHCR) “Situation of Chechen Asylum Seekers in Azerbaijan .” Room 1219 IAB @ 2pm .

  • September 8th, 2004. The Harriman Institute “Children After Communism” Series Presents a Panel Discussion on: “Children and Terror—A Response to the Beslan Tragedy.” Panelists Include: Catharine Nepomnyashchy (Harriman Institute, Columbia University); Nina Khrushcheva (New School University); Zeinap Badieva (Rutgers University); Bill Blakemore (ABC News) @ 4:30pm in Room 1219 IAB.

  • April 7th, 2004 Whither Russia Under Putin Ascendant? A Roundtable Discussion with Stephen F. Cohen (Professor of Russian Studies and History, New York University) and Robert Legvold (Professor of Political Science, Harriman Institute, Columbia University).
  • February 10th, 2004 Nikolas Gvosdev (Executive Editor, The National Interest Senior Fellow, The Nixon Center) and Fr. Leonid Kishkovsky (Ecumenical Officer Orthodox Church in America) “The Faith of a President: Exploring the Religious Profile of Vladimir Putin.”
  • February 2nd, 2004 “The Case of Forgotten Children in Today’s Russia.” Participants: Larissa Gortchakova (Assistant Director, Orphanage # 37, Moscow) Varvara Bocharova (Head of the Representative Office of Buckner International Adoption in Russia)
  • January 29th, 2004 The Politics and Security in the Post-Soviet Space featured Dr. Fiona Hill (Senior Fellow, Foreign Policy Studies, Brookings Institution) “The Siberian Curse.”  Moderated by Prof. Kimberly Marten (Associate Director, HI)
  • November 18th 2003 The Harriman Institute and the Graduate Program in International Affairs at New School University Presented a Panel Discussion on The United States, Russia and Central Asia: New Cooperation or the Old Divide? Featuring S. Frederick Starr (Professor and Chairman of the Central Asia-Caucasus Institute at John Hopkins' Nitze School of Advanced International Studies) Barnett R. Rubin (Professor and Director of Studies at Center on International Cooperation at New York University) Commentary by Stephen Kotkin (Professor, Director of Russian Studies at Princeton University) Moderated by Nina L. Khrushcheva (Professor, Graduate Program in International Affairs, New School University)

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