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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).

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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Book Talk. Giuseppe Mazzini’s Young Europe and the Birth of Modern Nationalism in the Slavic World by Anna Procyk

Thursday, February 6, 2020 - 12:00pm

Please join the Ukrainian Studies Program and the East Central European Center at the Harriman Institute for a presentation by Anna Procyk of her book Giuseppe Mazzini’s Young Europe and the Birth of Moder

Mark Lipovetsky Awarded Special Andrei Bely Prize for His Contributions to Russian Literature

Friday, December 6, 2019

Mark Lipovetsky, Professor of Slavic Languages, has been awarded the Andrei Bely Prize for his many contributions to the field of Russian literature.

Exhibit Opening. Vintage: Eastern Bloc 1964

Wednesday, January 29, 2020 - 6:30pm - 8:30pm

Please join us for the opening reception of the exhibit Vintage: Eastern Bloc 1964, a photo essay documenting the travels of two young Americans behind the Iron Curtain by photographer Hope Herman Wurmfeld.

A Tribute to Mark L. von Hagen (1954-2019)

Friday, January 31, 2020 - 3:00pm - 5:00pm

Please join us in celebrating the life and career of Mark L. von Hagen, Director of the Harriman Institute from 1995 to 2001.

Culture as a Cold War Weapon: A Student Conference

Tuesday, December 10, 2019 - 9:30am - 5:00pm

Please join the European Institute, the Department of History, and the Harriman Institute for a student conference organized as part of Professor Victoria Phillips's courses "Cold War Power" and "Women as Cold War Weapons." Registration is required.

The Ranking Game from a Hungarian Perspective

Monday, March 9, 2020 - 12:00pm

Please join us for a talk with Péter Érdi, author of Ranking: The Unwritten Rules of the Social Game We All Play (Oxford University Press, October 2019). Human beings are competitive. We like to see who is stronger, richer, better, more clever. Since humans (1) love lists, (2) are competitive, and (3) are jealous of other people, we like ranking. Ranking reflects the reality, illusion, and manipulation of objectivity.

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