Harriman Institute - news week

Sovereign Debt and the IMF: The Case of Russia 


Monday, 21 March 2011, 12:00pm 
1219 International Affairs Building 

Please join the Harriman Institute for a lecture by Martin Gilman.

Martin Gilman is Professor of Economics at the National Research University
- Higher School of Economics and the Director of its Centre for Advanced
Studies, in conjunction with the New Economic School, in Moscow. Previously
he was with the International Monetary Fund for 24 years where he was
assistant director in the IMF's policy department. In his last position
before taking early retirement in late 2005 to join HSE in Moscow, he was
responsible for sovereign debt issues and was the IMF's representative to
the Paris Club. His extensive experience with Russia began as the adviser
from the policy department on the negotiating missions from June 1993, and
then he moved to Russia in November 1996 as the director of the IMF's Moscow
Office. Along with his close involvement in the Russian economy and policy
issues for over 17 years, he is married to Russian journalist, Tatiana
Malkina. He is the author of the recent book, No Precedent, No Plan: Inside
Russia's 1998 Default, published by MIT Press. In addition to his Ph.D. from
the London School of Economics, Gilman attended the Wharton School of the
University of Pennsylvania, the Institut d'Etudes Politiques, Paris, and the
School of Advanced International Studies of the John Hopkins University.

 

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Soviet Communal Living: An Oral History of the Kommunalka 


Tuesday, 22 March 2011, 12:15pm 
1219 International Affairs Building 

Please join the Harriman Institute and the Slavic Department to mark the
publication of Paola Messana's new book Soviet Communal Living: An Oral
History of the Kommunalka (Palgrave Macmillan, 2011).

Soviet Communal Living: An Oral History of the Kommunalka brings together
fascinating testimonies from thirty inhabitants of the "Kommunalka," the
communal apartments that were a common feature of Russian cities during the
Soviet era. Beginning in 1920, multiple Russian families-purposefully
selected from different social classes-were relocated and crammed together
into single apartments. The intent was not simply to level out class
differences, but also to create spy networks within homes and extend the
government's surveillance and control over citizens. Possibly the most
important social experiment undertaken by the Soviet regime, the Kommunalka
arguably had as much as if not more of an effect on the experiences of
inhabitants than external political realities. Soviet Communal Living offers
a fascinating glimpse into the circumstances that defined daily life for
millions of citizens during the seven decades of communist rule-and, in some
cases, long after.

Paola Messana is the New York Bureau Chief of Agence France-Presse, and the
agency's former Moscow Bureau Chief. She holds degrees in Russian from the
Sorbonne and Political Science from the Paris Institute of Political
Studies.

 

 

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CONERENCE: Franz Liszt and the Birth of Modern Europe 


Thursday, 24 March 2011-Friday, 25 March 2011 

This conference is sponsored by Columbia University's East Central European
Center, the Harriman Institute, the European Institute and the Consulate
General of the Republic of Hungary.

Kindly RSVP to [email protected].

 

Conference Program: http://www.harrimaninstitute.org/MEDIA/01961.pdf

 

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Global Models, National Strategies: Higher Education Policy in Russia 


Thursday, 24 March 2011, 2:00pm-5:00pm 
136 Thompson, Teachers College, 525 West 120th St. 

Since 2005, the Russian government has pursued ambitious programs to
modernize its education system, with particular attention to higher
education and internationalization. Russia has introduced a universal state
exam, EGE, for college admission; established elite research and federal
universities by providing them with additional funding; allowed for private
business and research universities to grow, and actively joined the Bologna
Process, etc. Has Russia attained its goal? Have these reforms been
successful? How will these impact Russia, CEE/CIS, and Europe?

Panelists include:
Alexander Karp, Teachers College,Columbia University 

Ben Eklof, Indiana University

Harley Balzer, Georgetown University

Mark Johnson, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Iveta Silova, Lehigh University

This event is co-sponsored by the Harriman Institute and Teachers College. 

This event is FREE and open to the public.

 

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SAVE THE DATE:

 

CONFERENCE: The Politics and Pragmatics of Translation in the USSR: The
Daily Life of Language in a Multi-National Empire 

Thursday, 07 April 2011-Friday, 08 April 2011 
Room 1512, International Affairs Building. 

This conference will bring together scholars from various disciplines across
the humanities and social sciences to discuss the politics of language and
the pragmatics of language policy under state socialism in one of the most
linguistically diverse regions of the world. Invoking "translation" in the
broadest terms, the conference will address such topics as the art of
translation of formal literary works from minority languages into Russian
(i.e., Boris Pasternak's use of cribs to translate Georgian literature
without ever learning the Georgian language), practices of code-switching
between official and local languages in informal conversation as well as
formal literary contexts, and the mobilization of local language ideologies
as a form of resistance against the hegemony of the Russian language in
every aspect of daily experience. In an effort to understand the politics
and pragmatics of translation in the USSR in comparative perspective, the
conference program also features scholars whose work addresses similar
problems elsewhere in the world and in other socio-historical contexts. 

Keynote speakers: David Bellos, Princeton University and Nancy Condee,
University of Pittsburgh.

For more information, contact Lauren <mailto:%[email protected]>
Ninoshvili.

 

CONFERENCE PROGRAM: http://www.harrimaninstitute.org/MEDIA/01962.pdf

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