Alexander A. Cooley

Alexander A. Cooley

Director, Harriman Institute; Claire Tow Professor of Political Science

Barnard College; Columbia University

Central Asian Studies

1214 IAB

212-854-6213

ac210@columbia.edu

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Twitter: @CooleyOnEurasia

International relations of Eurasia, Central Asian politics, sovereignty, governance

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Yuri Shevchuk Quoted in NY Times on the Correct Pronunciation of Kyiv

Wednesday, November 13, 2019

Yuri Shevchuk, Lecturer in Ukrainian, is quoted in the November 13, 2019, edition of the New York Times on the proper, Ukrainian, pronunciation of Ukraine's capital city, vs. the Russian pronunciation and spelling.

Film Screening & Discussion. Witchhammer

Monday, November 18, 2019 - 7:30pm

Please join the East Central European Center at the Harriman Institute for a 50th-anniversary screening of the classic Czech film Witchhammer (Kladivo na čarodějnice, 1969, directed by Otakar Vávra). Introduction and post-film discussion led by Christopher Harwood, Lecturer in Czech at Columbia University and Co-Director of the East Central European Center. Film run time: 103 minutes.

Global Imagination after Versailles: Alternative Histories of Science in Modern Eastern Europe

Thursday, November 21, 2019 - 6:15pm

Please join the East Central European Center at the Harriman Institute for a roundtable discussing Contemporary European History 28, a special issue on post-Versailles human and social sciences in Eastern Europe with historian Eugenia Lean, and the co-editors of the volume, Katherine Lebow, Małgorzata Mazurek, and Joanna Wawrzyniak.

Student Spotlight: Nigina Khaitova (SIPA ’20)

Wednesday, November 6, 2019

Nigina Khaitova (SIPA ’20) was a Harriman Institute’s 2019 Civil Society Fellow. She is President of SIPA Eurasia Group and focuses on human rights, the United Nations, and East Central Europe. Read the spotlight.

Film Screening & Discussion. Annychka

Wednesday, November 13, 2019 - 7:00pm

Please join the Ukrainian Film Club at Columbia University for a screening of the 1968 film Annychka, directed by Borys Ivchenko. Professor Yuri Shevchuk will introduce the film and lead the post-screening discussion. The film is in Ukrainian with English subtitles.

Mark Andryczyk Quoted in Foreign Policy

Friday, November 1, 2019

Why three letters—and a Beatles song—trigger grammatical controversy, historical trauma, and existential crisis in Kyiv. Mark Andryczyk, Associate Research Scholar in the Ukrainian Studies Program at the Harriman Institute comments for an article in Foreign Policy on the geopolitics of Ukraine’s "The."

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