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Jeri Laber for the Harriman Institute's Oral History Project

Wednesday, August 14, 2019

"It wasn’t until Jimmy Carter became president in 1976 that human rights suddenly became almost a household term. Within the space of a couple of years I could go from having to explain to friends what my human rights work was all about, to being able to say to a taxi driver who asked what I did that 'I work in human rights,' and he would say, 'Oh good.'" Read the interview with Human Rights Watch co-Founder Jeri Laber.

Daniel Petrick (MARS '20): "On Belgrade-Kosovo Bus, Ethnic Tensions Take a Backseat"

Wednesday, August 14, 2019

Daniel Petrick (MARS '20) writes for Balkaninsight.com about how, despite ethnic tensions between Kosovo and Serbia, Kosovars and Serbians seem to relate to each other on an individual level.

Edward Kasinec for the Harriman Institute's Oral History Project

Wednesday, August 7, 2019

"One of the reasons why I’m doing this interview is that people today are so present 'in the moment,' especially the graduate students and the faculty, so obsessed with their own peculiar interest, that they forget what or who went before.” Read Edward Kasinec's interview.

Book Talk. Rock, Paper, Scissors and Other Stories by Maxim Osipov

Tuesday, September 24, 2019 - 6:30pm

Please join us for a book talk with author Maxim Osipov on his story collection Rock, Paper, Scissors and Other Stories (NYRB, April 2019).

Envisioning Ukrainian Literature 2019: Versions and Demarcations, Part II

Monday, October 7, 2019 - 4:00pm

Please join the Ukrainian Studies Program at the Harriman Institute for a panel moderated by Mark Andryczyk featuring Olena Jennings, Alexander J. Motyl, Dzvinia Orlowsky, and Irene Zabytko.

Book Talk. The Russian Understanding of War: Blurring the Lines between War and Peace by Oscar Jonsson

Thursday, October 10, 2019 - 1:00pm - 2:00pm

Please join us for a book talk with Oscar Jonsson, current Director of the Stockholm Free World Forum (Frivärld) and associated researcher at the Swedish Defense University, on The Russian Understanding of War: Blurring the Lines between War and Peace (Georgetown University Press, November 2019).

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