The Harriman Institute Presents

[Kevin Eric Laney]

Lectures begin at 12:00 noon and are held in Room 1219  International
Affairs Building (IAB), 420 West 118th Street between Amsterdam Avenue and
Morningside Drive, unless otherwise indicated.  If you wish to receive
up-to-date announcements of Institute events via e-mail, please send your
address to Kevin Eric Laney, kel1 at columbia.edu.


 October 16. Dr. Winfried
Garscha of the Austrian Resistance Archives in
Vienna, Austria (Vsterreichisches Widerstandsarchiv,) "The Second Austrian
Republic and the Sequels of the Nazi Dictatorship." Dr. Garscha is the
author of many works on the Nazi Dictatorship, Austrian Communism, and the
Anschluss of Austria to Germany in 1938.  Room 1219 IAB, 12:00-2:00pm.

October 21.  Governor Aleksander Vasil'evich Filipenko (Khanti-Mansi
Autonomous Okrug,) and Governor Yurii Neyelov, (Yamalo-Nenetsk Autonomous
Okrug,) "Federalism and Natural Resources Management in Russia: The View
from Western Siberia."  Lindsey Rogers Common Room 7th Floor IAB,
4:00-6:00pm.

October 23. Slobodaka Markovska David Sven-Lindholm, (Center for for the
Study of Human Rights,) "Religious Life in Macedonia in the Period of
Social and Political Transition."  Co- sponsored by the Center for the
Study of Human Rights.  Room 1219 IAB, 12:00-2:00pm

October 27.  Ewa Losinska (Gazeta Krakowska & Center for Study of Human
Rights,) "Role of the Media Poland's Transition to Democracy."
Co-sponsored by the Center for the Study of Human Rights.  Room 1219 IAB,
12:00-2:00pm

October 28.  Yaroslav Mogutin, (Writer/Journalist,) "The Language of the
New Russian Mass Media."  Co-sponsored by the Columbia Slavic Department.
Room 1219 IAB, 12:00- 2:00pm

October 29. The Director's Seminar is open to faculty, students and
general public.  The Seminar's goal is to inform the Harriman community of
its faculty's current work/research in progress.  Seminar's Speaker: Boris
Gasparov, "Language and Memory."  Room 1219 IAB, 12:00-2:00pm.

October 29.  Viktor Kuvaldin, (The Gorbachev Foundation,) "Gorbachev: The
Final Years.  What Will the Record Show?"   Room 1219 IAB, 2:00-4:00pm

November 11.  Michael Lyubimov, (Writer and Former KGB Officer,) "The
Russian Intelligentsia: Diagnosis and Prognosis."  Room 1219 IAB,
12:00-2:00pm.

November 12. The Director's Seminar is open to faculty, students and
general public.  The Seminar's goal is to inform the Harriman community of
its faculty's current work/research in progress.  Seminar's Speaker:
Kimberly M. Zisk, "Contact Lenses: U.S.-Russian Military Cooperation and
the Realist Neglect of Transparency."  Room 1219 IAB, 12:00-2:00pm.

November 13.  Prof. Yuri Shapoval, (Professor of History at the M.S.
Hrushevs'kyi Institute of Ukrainian Arkheography and Source-Study, Kiev
Ukraine,) "Archival Sources of the spetssluzhba [Soviet Secret Police] and
Current Efforts of the Ukrainian Security Service to Rehabilitate the
Victims of Stalinism," and  Major-General of Justice Volodymyr Prystaiko
(Deputy Director, Ukrainian Security Service and retired KGB,) "The
Bolshevik Political Police and the Ukrainian Intelligentsia,
1920's-1930's." Room 1219 IAB, 12:00-2:00pm.

November 13.  Dr. Bozena Szaynok, (University of Wroclaw,) "The Kielce
Pogrom, 1946."  Room 1219 IAB, 2:00-4:00pm

November 13.  Sherry Hour,  The Harriman Lounge, 12th Floor, 4:00-6:00pm.

November 17.   Rogers Brubaker, (Professor of Sociology, UCLA,) "Homeland
Nationalism in East and Central Europe: Past and Present."  Room 1219 IAB,
12:00-2:00pm

November 20.  M. Parchajeva, (Center for Study of Human Rights,) "Conflict
in Ingushetia and Ossetia."  Co-sponsored by the Center for the Study of
Human Rights.  Room 1219 IAB, 12:00-2:00pm

November 21.  The Institute will host its Annual Reception for Alumni,
Students, Faculty and Friends on Friday, November 21 at 8:45 pm at the
annual AAASS Conference. This is a great opportunity to meet up with old
friends and colleagues-we look forward to seeing you there.  For more
information, please contact Susan Holmes at (212)854-8487) or
sh42 at columbia.edu.

November 25.  V. Kyselov and I Dzhibladze (SIPA), "Russian Antiwar
Movement and Caucuses."  Room 1219 IAB, 12:00- 2:00pm

December 1. The Harriman Lectures.  Katherine Verdery, "Post-Socialist
Necrophilia, or the Political Lives of Dead Bodies:   Corpses on the
Move." Casa Italiana.  Time: 5:30-7:00pm.

December 2. The Harriman Lectures.  Katherine Verdery, "Post-Socialist
Necrophilia, or the Political Lives of Dead Bodies:  The Restless Bones of
Inochentie Micu." Casa Italiana.  Time: 5:30-7:00pm.

December 4.  M. Horinek and L. Pruybt, (Center for Study of Human Rights,)
"Romans in the Czech and Slovak Republics."  Co-sponsored by the Center
for the Study of Human Rights.  Room 1219 IAB, 12:00-2:00pm

December 4. The Harriman Lectures.  Katherine Verdery, "Post-Socialist
Necrophilia, or the Political Lives of Dead Bodies:  Re-Signifying the
Dust." Casa Italiana.  Time: 5:30-7:00pm.