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

Announcements

Columbia News on Super-NOS Russian Literary Festival

Thursday, February 20, 2020

Since he joined Columbia's faculty last fall, Mark Lipovetsky has organized a number of high-profile Russian cultural events on campus with the hope of creating a center for contemporary Russian culture at the Harriman Institute. A case in point is the Super-NOS Russian Literary Festival. Read the article.

Misremembering Ivan Petrovich Pavlov: How and Why His Story Is So Fallacious

Monday, March 30, 2020 - 12:00pm

Please join us for a talk by Darryl B. Hill, Professor at the College of Staten Island and The Graduate Center, City University of New York.

New Political Poetry in Russian: A Seminar

Tuesday, March 3, 2020 - 11:00am-7:30pm

Please join us for a seminar on contemporary political poetry in Russian with leading European, Russian, and US experts. Presentations will be in English and Russian.

Tynianov Today: A Discussion

Thursday, April 16, 2020 - 6:00pm

In 2019, Academic Studies Press published Permanent Evolution, the first English-language volume of theoretical works by Yuri Tynianov, one of the most dazzling representatives of Russian Formalism. This panel of translators and scholars will discuss the meaning of Tynianov’s ideas for the present-day humanities, and Russian studies in particular.

Book Talk. Vladimir Sorokin’s Discourses: A Companion by Dirk Uffelmann

Thursday, April 9, 2020 - 12:00pm

Please join us for a book talk with Dirk Uffelman (Justus Liebig University Giessen) about his book Vladimir Sorokin’s Discourses: A Companion (Academic Studies Press, April 2020).

The Two Faces of Soviet Technocracy: Engineer-Utopians and Apparatchik-Intellectuals, and What Happened With Their Ideas Later

Monday, March 9, 2020 - 6:15pm

Please join us for a talk with Ilya Kukulin (National Research University Higher School of Economics, Moscow).

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