Student News

Daniel Petrick (MARS-REERS '20): "Return to Kosovo: The Serbs Who Re-Embraced Their Hometown"

Daniel Petrick (MARS '20) writes for Balkaninsight.com about Serbs who have returned to live in Prizren, Kosovo after fleeing at the end of the war in 1999.

Mariya Chukhnova (MARS-REERS ’20) Awarded Davis Fellowship

We are pleased to announce that our BA/MA candidate Mariya Chukhnova (MARS-REERS ’20) received a Davis Fellowship from Columbia’s Graduate School of Arts and Sciences.

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

Daniel Petrick (MARS '20) interviewed riders on the Belgrade-Dagrash bus from late May to mid-July. The result is an article 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.

2019 Columbia-Harvard Thesis Colloquium

On Friday, April 26, 2019, five M.A. students from Harvard’s Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies joined six Harriman M.A. students at Columbia for the third annual Columbia-Harvard Thesis Colloquium.

Colleen Wood (GSAS) Awarded the National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship

We are thrilled to announce that Colleen Wood (GSAS) received the National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship to study Central Asian return migration and diasporic identities. The award recognizes and supports outstanding graduate students to conduct research relevant to society-at-large and national security.

Daniel Petrick (MARS '20) Interviews Vladimir Kulić

Daniel Petrick (MARS '20) interviews Vladimir Kulić, co-curator of the MOMA exhibit "Concrete Utopia: Architecture in Yugoslavia, 1948-1980," for Balkaninsight.

Lincoln Mitchell and Tinatin Japaridze (MARS '19) Write Op-Ed on Specter of Russia and Georgian Presidential Runoff

Lincoln Mitchell (Adjunct Associate Research Scholar) and Tinatin Japaridze (MARS '19) co-authored an op-ed for the Moscow Times, titled "The Specter of Russia Hangs over Georgia's Presidential Runoff."

"The U.S. Midterms: What’s at Stake for the Kremlin?" by Lincoln Mitchell and Tinatin Japaridze

Lincoln Mitchell (Saltzman Institute of War and Peace Studies) and Tinatin Japaridze (MARS -REERS) published an op-ed in the Moscow Times on "The U.S. Midterms: What's at Stake for the Kremlin?" (Nov. 1, 2018).

Moscow Times Op-Ed on Cyber Security by Lincoln Mitchell and Tinatin Japaridze

Lincoln Mitchell (Adjunct Associate Research Scholar) and Tinatin Japaridze (Harriman MARS student) published an op-ed in the Moscow Times, titled "Trump Has Cleared the Way for Russian 'Hacktivities.'"

Moscow Times Op-Ed by Lincoln Mitchell and Tinatin Japaridze (MARS)

Lincoln Mitchell (Adjunct Associate Research Scholar) and Tinatin Japaridze (Harriman MARS student) published an op-ed in the Moscow Times, titled "When the Russian Dog Finally Caught up With the American Car" (Sept. 26, 2018).

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Announcements

Super-NOS Literary Prize Debate

Tuesday, February 4, 2020 - 7:00pm

Please join us for Super-NOS, an evening of exciting literary debate dedicated to the 10th anniversary of the Russian literary prize NOS (Новая словесность/New Prose). This event is part of the Super-NOS Russian Literary Festival, sponsored by the Harriman Institute, Barnard Slavic Department, Columbia Slavic Department, and the Mikhail Prokhorov Charitable Foundation. Registration is required.

A Reading by Lev Rubinstein

Wednesday, February 5, 2020 - 7:00pm

Please join us for a reading by Lev Rubinstein, postmodernist Russian poet, prose-writer, and performer. The event will be preceded by a reception at 6:00pm and a Q&A session after the reading. This event is part of the Super-NOS Russian Literary Festival, sponsored by the Harriman Institute, Barnard Slavic Department, Columbia Slavic Department, and the Mikhail Prokhorov Charitable Foundation. This a Russian-language event with no English translation. Registration is required.

Political Protest and Culture in Today's Russia

Wednesday, February 5, 2020 - 12:00pm

Please join us for a lecture by journalist, literary critic, curator, and political activist Anna Narinskaya. This event is part of the Super-NOS Russian Literary Festival, sponsored by the Harriman Institute, Barnard Slavic Department, Columbia Slavic Department, and the Mikhail Prokhorov Charitable Foundation. Registration is required.

What Literature Is Not Talking About: Present-day Russian Society, Social Life, and Cultural Memory

Tuesday, February 4, 2020 - 12:00pm

Please join us for a lecture by Irina Prokhorova, cultural historian, literary critic, editor and political activist. This event is part of the Super-NOS Russian Literary Festival, sponsored by the Harriman Institute, Barnard Slavic Department, Columbia Slavic Department, and the Mikhail Prokhorov Charitable Foundation. Registration is required.

A Reading by 2019 NOS Prize Winner Alexander Stessin

Thursday, February 20, 2020 - 7:00pm

Please join us for a reading by author Alexander Stessin, winner of the 2019 NOS Prize for his book The New York Rounds (Нью-йоркский обход).

Daniel Petrick (MARS-REERS '20): "Return to Kosovo: The Serbs Who Re-Embraced Their Hometown"

Thursday, January 16, 2020

Daniel Petrick (MARS '20) writes for Balkaninsight.com about Serbs who have returned to live in Prizren, Kosovo after fleeing at the end of the war in 1999.

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