Events

Current and Upcoming

L50: LAST FIFTY YEARS Seventh annual workshop Harriman Institute/Columbia University

September 3, 2026
12:00 PM - 6:30 PM
Event time is displayed in your time zone.
International Affairs Building, Rm 1219, 420 W 118th St, New York, NY 10027

Organizers: Mark Lipovetsky (Columbia) and Serguei Oushakine (Princeton)

THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 3

International Affairs Building, Rm 1219, 420 W 118th St, New York, NY 10027
 

12:00 -1:00 pm: Lunch

1:00 - 2:00: Hringur Ásgeir (Columbia University). “That Which Would Not Be Literature”: Shalamov’s Plutonic Prose and the Anti-Poetics of Ustranenie.

2:00 - 2:15: Coffee Break

2:15 - 3:15: Elizaveta Grishechkina (University of Pittsburgh). The Gospel of Maria: Feminist Anger and Christian Humility in Late-Soviet Samizdat.

3:15 - 3:30 Coffee Break

3:30  -4:30: Nathan Goldstone (Columbia University /Harriman Institute). New and Reluctant Language Identities in Post-2020 Russophone Belarusian Literature.

4:30 - 4:45: Coffee break

4:45 - 5:45: Jose Vergara (Bryn Mawr College). Russian Alaska: A Land Beyond Time and Space.

6:30 Dinner at FUMO (2791 Broadway, 10 min. walk)


Program
 

Questions? Problems?

Email Eileen P Huhn [email protected]

or call Mark Lipovetsky at 720-220-5389