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April 2025
2025 04 01 Central Asia1

Agency All the Way Down? Central Asian Geopolitics

Registration REQUIRED by 4pm on March 31, 2025 in order to attend this event. Please join the Harriman Institute for a lecture by Asel Doolotkeldieva. Moderated by Alexander Cooley. Three years after the full-scale invasion of Ukraine, on the surface, there seems to be a continuity of Russian influence in Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan, but this belies significant […]
01 Apr
12:00 pm - 1:30 pm
International Affairs Building (Columbia University)
420 West 118th Street
2025 04 01 Bilenky Sirhiy Laboratory of Modernity e1742911558169

Ukraine Between Empire and Nation, 1772-1917: Lessons for Today

Reserve Your Seat Register for Zoom Webinar Watch on YouTube Registration REQUIRED by 4pm on March 31, 2025 to attend this event. Please join the Ukrainian Studies Program at the Harriman Institute for a lecture by Serhiy Bilenky. Moderated by Mark Andryczyk. When the powers of Europe were at their prime, present-day Ukraine was divided between […]
01 Apr
4:00 pm - 5:30 pm
International Affairs Building (Columbia University)
420 West 118th Street
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Justice Across Borders: Migrants, Workers, and Human Rights

Over the last two decades, Justice in Motion (JiM) has developed an innovative model of international collaboration on employment, civil rights, and immigration cases. Their network of Mexican- and Central-American- based human rights defenders was also instrumental in reuniting families separated during Trump’s “zero tolerance” border policy. Join JiM defenders Mayela Blanco (San Luis Potosí, Mexico) and Waldemar […]
02 Apr
12:30 pm - 1:30 pm
International Affairs Building (Columbia University)
420 West 118th Street
2025 04 02 Ed Verona1 e1742913829686

Peace in the Russia’s War in Ukraine and the Energy Implications

Registration REQUIRED by 12pm on April 4, 2025 in order to attend this event. Please join the Harriman Institute for a lecture by Edward Verona. Moderated by Natasha Udensiva. The Russo-Ukraine War is into its fourth year with neither side close to achieving its aims on the battlefield. The Trump Administration announced the goal of ending […]
02 Apr
4:10 pm - 6:00 pm
International Affairs Building (Columbia University)
420 West 118th Street
2025 04 02 Chehonadskih Event1

Planetary Visions in Early Soviet Science and Fiction

Reserve Your Seat Registration REQUIRED by 4pm on April 1, 2025 to attend this event. Please join the Harriman Institute for a lecture by Maria Chehonadskih. Moderated by Adam Leeds. The legacies of October Revolution have predominantly been associated with the massive proletarianisation, industrialisation and collectivisation that occurred under Stalin, while the image of post-revolutionary society based […]
02 Apr
6:15 pm - 7:45 pm
International Affairs Building (Columbia University)
420 West 118th Street
2025 04 03 Russian History Workshop1

Wartime Runet and Prigozhin’s Mediated Mutiny: A Cautionary Tale

Registration REQUIRED by 4pm on April 2, 2025 in order to attend this event. Please join the Harriman Institute for a Russian History Workshop with Michael Gorham. Few political actors in Putin’s Russia illustrate the impact that digitally mediated communication has had on political rhetoric as dramatically as Evgeny Prigozhin. From his early days as […]
03 Apr
5:00 pm - 6:00 pm
International Affairs Building (Columbia University)
420 West 118th Street
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