Monday, April 4: BLOODLANDS - Timothy Snyder, Pawel Machcewicz, Istvan Deak, and Yaroslav Hrytsak at Columbia University

Sat Apr 2 03:56:26 UTC 2011

THE POLISH CULTURAL INSTITUTE IN NEW YORK

presents

BETWEEN STALIN AND HITLER:
MASS MURDER IN CENTRAL AND EASTERN EUROPE
an international symposium

with TIMOTHY SNYDER
bestselling author of
Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin

Columbia University
International Affairs Building 1501
118th St. & Amsterdam Ave
New York, NY

Monday, April 4, 2011, 6:00 PM
Free and open to the public

Path-breaking and often courageous, Timothy Snyder’s account of the
methods and motives of murderous regimes, both at home and  in foreign
war, will radically revise our appreciation of the implications of
mass extermination in the recent past.  Bloodlands – impeccably
researched and appropriately sensitive to its volatile material – is
the most important book to appear on this subject for decades and will
surely become the reference in its field.
--Tony Judt

The Polish Cultural Institute in New York and the East Central
European Center and Harriman Institute at Columbia University present
an international symposium with bestselling historian Prof. Timothy
Snyder (Yale University) and leading historians István Deák (Columbia
University), Pawel Machcewicz (University of Warsaw), and Yaroslav
Hrytsak (L’viv University) to discuss Snyder’s recent book,
Bloodlands:  Europe Between Hitler and Stalin (Basic Books 2010).
John Micgiel (Columbia University), director of the East Central
European Center, will moderate the discussion.

This is an important book. I have never seen a book like it.
- István Deák, The New Republic

Timothy Snyder’s Bloodlands  is a lucid, humane, and moving account of
the history of the region -  rather than of a single country -
between Hitler’s Germany and Stalin’s Soviet Union, written with new
information from formerly classified archives and rich with individual
accounts of the consequences of horror perpetrated in these lands from
both directions.  Snyder proceeds from individual stories of the
tragedies of the “Bloodlands” between Germany and the Soviet Union,
and then he multiplies those stories by the millions who were killed
due to policies of famine and mass starvation, death camps,
deportations, hard labor, gassings, and executions.

 Timothy Snyder is a Professor of  History at Yale University.  He
received his doctorate from the University of Oxford where he was a
British Marshall Scholar, and has held fellowships in Paris, Vienna,
Warsaw, and at Harvard.  His writing has appeared in The New York
Review of Books, The Boston Globe, The Christian Science Monitor, The
Chicago Tribune, The New Republic, The Nation, and The Times Literary
Supplement.  He has received the Oskar Halecki prize for his book,
Nationalism, Marxism, and Modern Central Europe: A Biography of
Kazimierz Kelles-Krauz (Harvard University Press, 1998), the George
Louis Beer Prize of the American Historical Association as well as
awards from the American Association for Ukrainian Studies, Przeglad
Wschodni, and Marie Curie-Sklodowska University for his book, The
Reconstruction of Nations: Poland, Ukraine, Lithuania, Belarus,
1569-1999 (Yale University Press, 2003), and the Pro Historia
Polonorum award for Sketches from a Secret War: A Polish Artist's
Mission to Liberate Soviet Ukraine (Yale University Press, 2005).  His
most recent books are The Red Prince:  The Secret Lives of a Habsburg
Archduke (Basic Books, 2008) and Bloodlands:  Europe Between Hitler
and Stalin (Basic Books, 2010).

István Deák is Seth Low Professor Emeritus at Columbia University
where he has taught in the Department of History since 1964, and was
the Director of the University's Institute on East Central Europe
between 1968 and 1979.  Professor Deak's award-winning publications,
which have been translated into various languages, include, Weimar
Germany's Left-wing Intellectuals: A Political History of the
"Weltbuhne" and Its Circle (The University of California Press, 1968);
The Lawful Revolution: Louis Kossuth and the Hungarians, 1848-1849
(Columbia, 1979), as well as Beyond Nationalism: A Social and
Political History of the Habsburg Officer Corps, 1848-1918
(Oxford,1990). His most recent publication is Essays on Hitler's
Europe (Nebraska, 2001), which appeared also in Hungarian. He edited
and partly wrote, together with Jan T. Gross and Tony Judt, The
Politics of Retribution in Europe: World War II and Its Aftermath
(Princeton, 2000).

Yaroslav Hrytsak is Director of The Petro Jacyk Program for the Study
of Modern Ukrainian History and Society, L'viv National Ivan Franko
University, with appointments at the Ukrainian Catholic University,
and University of Alberta (Edmonton, Canada) and Central European
University in Budapest. One of Ukraine's most prominent intellectuals,
Hrytsak frequently publishes in the prestigious Ukrainian liberal
journal, Krytyka. His books include 'The Spirit that Moves to
Battle...' An attempt of a political portrait of Ivan Franko
(1856-1916) (L'viv, 1990) and Essays in Ukrainian History: Making of
Modern Ukrainian Nation (Kyiv, 1996).

 Pawel Machcewicz is currently affiliated with the Institute of
Political Studies (Polish Academy of Sciences) in Warsaw and is a
Professor at the University of Warsaw. He was a Cold War International
History Project Scholar at the Woodrow Wilson Center in both 1994 and
2007. He was named the Polish Prime Minister's personal representative
for the creation of a new World War II Museum in Gdansk, and  serves
as the Museum's Director. He is the author of Rebellious Satellite:
Poland 1956 (Stanford, 2009), Wladyslaw Gomulka (Warsaw, 1995) among
other books, and co-edited the two-volume collection, Around Jedwabne
(Warsaw, 2002).

John Micgiel is a professor of international and public affairs at
Columbia University. He is an associate director of Harriman
Institute. He is also the director of the East Central European
Center. He has authored In the Shadow of the Second Republic; Polish
Foreign Policy Reconsidered: Challenges of Independence; and Frenzy
and Ferocity: The Stalinist Judicial System in Poland, 1944-1947, and
the Search for Redress (The Carl Beck Papers). He has been the editor
for Wilsonian East Central Europe, Perspectives on Political and
Economic Transitions After Communism, State and Nation Building in
East Central Europe: Contemporary Perspectives, and coeditor for Poles
and Jews: Myth and Reality in the Historical Context.

THE EAST CENTRAL EUROPEAN CENTER, established in 1954 as The Institute
on East Central Europe, is the oldest academic unit dealing
exclusively with East Central Europe in any major U.S. academic
institution. Its program covers Albania, Austria, Belarus, Bosnia,
Bulgaria, Croatia, the Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia,
Lithuania, Macedonia, Moldova, Montenegro, Poland, Romania, Serbia,
Slovakia, Slovenia, and Ukraine. For many years, together with the
Harriman Institute, it has been designated an East European, Russian,
and Eurasian National Resource Center by the U.S. Department of
Education. The Center actively cooperates with other units within the
University, particularly with the Institute for the Study of Europe
and the Harriman Institute, as well as other institutions in the
United States and in East Central Europe to provide the best possible
training opportunities. ece.columbia.edu

The POLISH CULTURAL INSTITUTE IN NEW YORK, established in 2000, is a
diplomatic mission dedicated to nurturing and promoting cultural ties
between the United States and Poland, both through American exposure
to Poland’s cultural achievements, and through exposure of Polish
artists and scholars to American trends, institutions, and
professional counterparts.

The Institute initiates, organizes, promotes, and produces a broad
range of cultural events in theater, music, film, literature, and the
fine arts. It has collaborated with such cultural institutions as
Lincoln Center Festival (Kalkwerk in 2009); BAM (Krum by TR Warszawa
in BAM’s 2007 Next Wave Festival, which received a Village Voice Obie
Award); Art at St. Ann’s (TR Warszawa’s Macbeth, 2008); Martin E.
Segal Theatre Center, CUNY Graduate Center; La MaMa E.T.C.; Film
Society of Lincoln Center (Kieslowski and Wajda retrospective, among
others); The Museum of Modern Art; Jewish Museum; PEN World Voices
Festival; Poetry Society of America; Yale University; and many more.
PCI co-produced the off-Broadway run of Irena’s Vow, with Tovah
Feldshuh, which ran on Broadway in 2009, as well as the widely
acclaimed New York Unsound Festival in 2010. www.PolishCulture-NYC.org

-- 
David A. Goldfarb
Literary Curator
Polish Cultural Institute
350 Fifth Avenue, Suite 4621
New York, NY 10118
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fax 212-239-7577
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