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

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.

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).

Daniel Petrick (MARS-REERS '20) in BalkanInsight

Daniel Petrick (MARS-REERS '20) student, spent the summer in Prizren, Kosovo and published a piece with BalkanInsight about a small family boza business.

Tinatin Japaridze (MARS-REERS '19) Co-Authors Piece on U.S.-Russian Relations

Tinatin Japaridze (MARS-REERS '19) co-authored an opinion piece with former Harriman Research Scholar Lincoln Mitchell on U.S.-Russia relations since the 2016 U.S. presidential election. Read the piece on the Russian International Affairs Council website.

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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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