Alla Smyslova

Senior Lecturer, Slavic Languages; Director, Russian Practicum

Columbia University

708 Hamilton

212-854-8155

as2157@columbia.edu

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In Memoriam. Stephen F. Cohen (1938-2020)

Sunday, September 20, 2020

Stephen F. Cohen, eminent historian, distinguished alumnus of the Russian Institute, and member of the Harriman Institute National Advisory Council, died at his home on Manhattan's Upper West Side, on September 18, 2020.

Thomas Kent Published New Book on Russian Disinformation

Tuesday, September 29, 2020

Thomas Kent publishes the book Striking Back: Overt and Covert Options to Combat Russian Disinformation (The Jamestown Foundation, September 29, 2020).

Maya Nadkarni Publishes "Remains of Socialism: Memory and the Futures of the Past in Postsocialist Hungary"

Tuesday, September 29, 2020

Maya Nadkarni (Harriman Postdoctoral Research Fellow, 09-10; Associate Professor of Anthropology, Swarthmore College) publishes Remains of Socialism: Memory and the Futures of the Past in Postsocialist Hungary (Cornell University Press, 2020).

VIRTUAL EVENT. Disability Inclusion in Contemporary Russia: Between "Social Projects" and a Project of Social Change

Monday, October 12, 2020 - 12:00pm EDT

This event will be held virtually as a Zoom webinar (register here) and streamed via YouTube Live. Please join us for a discussion with Svetlana Borodina, postdoctoral research scholar at the Harriman Institute. Moderated by Alexander Cooley, director of the Harriman Institute.

VIRTUAL EVENT. Book Talk. Avant-Garde Art in Ukraine, 1910-1930: Contested Memory by Myroslav Shkandrij

Thursday, October 29, 2020 - 12:00pm EDT

This event will be held virtually as a Zoom webinar (register here) and streamed via YouTube Live. Please join the Ukrainian Studies Program at the Harriman Institute for a presentation by Myroslav Shkandrij of his book Avant-Garde Art in Ukraine, 1910-1930: Contested Memory (Academic Studies Press, 2019). Moderated by Professor Mark Andryczyk (Harriman Institute).

VIRTUAL EVENT. New Russian TV

Tuesday, November 17, 2020 - 7:00pm

This event will be held virtually as a Zoom webinar (register here) and streamed via YouTube Live. Please join the Harriman Institute and the Russian Film Club at Columbia University for a discussion with Tatiana Mikhailova, Elena Prokhorova, and Alexander Prokhorov about the changing world of new Russian television.

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