Conference

November 13-14, 2009

Cities in Revolt: The Dutch-American Atlantic circa 1650-1815

Deutsches Haus, 420 West 116th Street (between Amsterdam Ave and Morningside Dr)

Speakers include Evan Haefali, Jonathan Israel, and Herb Sloan

More details may be found here.

Events

November 6, 2009

Panel discussion: The Impact and Meaning of the EU Report on the Russia-Georgia War

Discussants: Alexander Cooley, Barnard College Political Science Department
Gocha Lordkipanidze, Columbia University School of International and Public Affairs
Lincoln A. Mitchell, Arnold A. Saltzman Institute of War and Peace Studies, Columbia University

12:00 pm, Room 1219, School of International and Public Affairs Building

November 6, 2009

Conversation with Olzhas Suleimenov on Contemporary Literature in Kazakhstan and Eurasia

6:30- 7:30 pm, Room 1512, School of International and Public Affairs Building

November 10, 2009

Talk: The Economic Crisis and Russian Museums: Some Recent Observations by Kristen Regina, chief art librarian at Hillwood Museum & Gardens.
12:00- 1:00 pm, Room 1219, School of International and Public Affairs Building

November 19, 2009
Lecture: From the (Opera) House of the Dead: Leos Janacek's Dostoevskian Farewell, with guest speaker David Shengold, journalist and independent
scholar
4:00- 5:00 pm, Garden Room 1, Faculty House

November 19- November 21, 2009
Play: Dissident Acts: three works by Samuel Beckett, a member of the WWII resistance, as well as by his political counterparts and dramatic
inheritors, the Polish and Czech playwrights Slawomir Mrozek and Václav Havel.
8:00- 10:00 pm, 118 Milbank Hall, Barnard College Minor Latham Playhouse

For reservations: http://tic.columbia.edu.

Around Campus

October 5 - November 9, 2009

Film Series: The Berlin Wall

October 5: One, Two, Three (English and German)
October 12: Das Leben der Anderen (German with English subtitles)
October 19: Sonnenallee (German, no subtitles)
October 26: Herr Lehmann (German with English subtitles)
November 9: Good bye, Lenin! (German with English subtitles)

Deutsches Haus, 420 West 116th Street

November 13, 2009

Dutch Cities, Radical Enlightenment, and the 'General Revolution'(1776-1790), with Jonathan Israel

4:00- 5:30 pm, Deutsches Haus, 420 West 116th Street

November 19, 2009

Discussion: What is Happening in History Now?

Discussants: Alan Brinkley, Victoria de Grazia, Eric Foner and Pamela Smith

6:15- 8:15 pm, Davis Auditorium, the Schapiro Center

Beyond Campus

October 30 - November 25, 2009

Film Series at Lincoln Center

Life Lessons: Italian Neorealism and the Birth of Modern Cinema
40 Films  

Full details may be found here.

November 12, 2009
Discussion: From Stalin to Putin: Are Soviet Structures Still Running Russia?

Participants: Maxim Trudolyubov-- Editorial Page Editor, Vedomosti
Nina Khrushcheva--Professor, The New School
Elizabeth McKeon--Representative for Russia, The Ford Foundation

6:00 pm, 20 Cooper Square (at 5th Street South of Astor Place), New York, NY 10003
Visit www.paulklebnikovfund.org for more details and to register online