Soviet investigation and Shoah in Transnistria-Ukraine: The trial of the Volksdeutscher Selbstchutz from the hamlet of Neue Amerika 1965-1966
This presentation is based on an analysis of the investigation and trial of 11 Soviet citizens of German nationality who took part in the mass murders and genocide of Jews on the banks of the Bug river in 1941-1942.
Renowned journalist Mikhail Zygar will speak about his most recent book War and Punishment: Putin, Zelensky, and the Path to Russia's Invasion of Ukraine in conversation with Jordan Center director Joshua Tucker.
Election Debrief: What Will a Second Trump Term Mean for US-Russia relations?
Join us for a meeting of the New York-Russia Public Policy Series, co-hosted by the Harriman Institute at Columbia University and the New York University Jordan Center for the Advanced Study of Russia.
No Monument: Babyn Yar as Site of History, Memory, and Politics
This talk discusses how the resurfacing of Babyn Yar memory in Kyiv, Ukraine, in the late Soviet period transformed the site into an important battleground of the Cold War.
From Lamaism to Buddhism: History of Buddhist Modernism in Late Imperial Russia
Nikolay Tsyrempilov will demonstrate how the late 19th-century Mongol-speaking Buddhists of the Russian Empire began to develop modernist ideas in response to vigorous attacks from Orthodox Christian missionaries.
This conversation with Ukrainian poet Halyna Kruk will focus on new themes and narrative strategies in her recent poetry, on shifting ethical and aesthetic frameworks, and on the poetic text as a form of therapeutic writing.
