Please, join the Harriman Institute at the annual Slavic Christmas party on
Thursday, December 11, 2014
1:00-3:00 pm
James Room (4th floor Barnard Hall)
This year, there will be musical entertainment.
Please join the East Central European Center and the Columbia University Central and Eastern European Club for a roundtable discussion on the transformation of public relations in Eastern Europe. The event titled Media, Business and Politics in Eastern Europe: Public Relations Development and its Power will take place on
Tuesday, November 18, 2014; 12-2 pm
1219 IAB (420 West 118th St.)
In the 1990s, Central and Eastern European countries witnessed a complete restructuring of business, media and politics. A free press emerged and public relations became a multimillion-dollar business. However, despite new methods of communication and legislative progress, journalists still experience threats to their independence from (self)censorship, local media oligarchs and powerful politicians.
Denisa Hejlova and Anastasiia Grynko are leading scholars focusing on Public Relations development and power in politics. They recently co-authored a book titled Eastern European Perspectives on the Development of Public Relations, the first reflection on the recent history of PR in the region. Milan Hejl is the cofounder and Director of AMI Communications, the biggest non-Russian PR agency in Central and Eastern Europe.
The discussion will be moderated by Filip Tucek, President of the Columbia University Central and Eastern European Club.
For further information regarding this event, please contact Filip Tucek by sending email to [email protected] or by calling (929) 421-8583.
Sunday, November 16, 2014 – 
5:00 pm
Flamboyán Theater, 107 Suffolk Street, New York, NY
Please join the Harriman Institute for a viewing of The Fall, a multimedia theater performance that examines the world’s relationship to the moment of the fall of the Berlin Wall, as we approach its 25th anniversary on November 9th, 2014.
The production is directed by Columbia University School of the Arts graduate Simón Adinia Hanukai and co-sponsored by the Harriman Institute.
Tickets are limited; RSVP to Tatiana Beloborodova at [email protected].
More information about the event can be found HERE.
The South Slavic Club at NYU will be hosting this event on
Saturday 11/15, 4-7 pm
Kimmel 406
At this academic event, New York-based Slovenian researchers from different fields of study will present their research, followed by Q&A and a networking reception.
Anyone who is interested should RSVP to [email protected] and include in their RSVP if they are 21 and over.
All of the presenters are listed below and there will be live jazz in between presentations:
– Dr. Arne Baruca, Professor of Marketing, Sacred Heart University
– Dr. Veronika Dolar, Professor of Economics, Long Island University
– Miha Habič, Researcher and PhD student in the field of Mathematics, City University of New York
– Dr. Ana Hočevar, Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the field of Theoretical Neuroscience, Rockefeller University
– Dr. Tatjana Trček, Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the field of Developmental Genetics, New York University
Looking forward to seeing you!
Tuesday, November 25, 2014
6:00pm – 9:00pm
707 IAB, 420 W 118th St
Please join the Harriman Institute, East Central European Center and Columbia University Central and Eastern European (CUCEE) Club for a film screening of the award-winning Polish war film, Once My Mother.
When Australian filmmaker Sophia Turkiewicz was seven years old, her Polish mother, Helen, abandoned her in an Adelaide orphanage. Sophia, never forgetting this maternal act of betrayal, examined her troubled relationship with Helen, discovering the story behind Helen’s miraculous wartime escape from a Siberian gulag and the truth about a historic betrayal involving Stalin and the Allies.
With Helen sliding into dementia, Sophia must confront her own demons. Did she ever truly know this woman who became her mother? Does she have it in her heart to forgive her? And is it too late?
The film will be presented by Columbia Senior Lecturer Anna Frajlich and the event will be moderated by filmmaker Sophia Turkiewicz and producer Rod Freedman.
The screening is free and open to the public.
To RSVP, contact Anna Nejedla at [email protected].
Tales of Transition is a foreign correspondent training focused on post-communist transition in the Visegrad countries. The course will take place in January 2015 in Prague. University course credits will be awarded to eligible students upon successful passage of the course.
To learn more about the course as well as the options available, visit www.toleducation.org.
Please join us for lunch Conversation with István Deák, who will share his unique experience with events that many have read about, but few lived. War, political transition, emigration – all have personal stories behind them. Mr. Deák’s is among the most incredible ones. We will discuss heroism and courage on the background of events that had shaped history of the second half of the 20th Century.
The event will take place on Monday, October 27th, 12:00-1:00 pm, in room 1201 IAB (International Affairs Building). Lunch will be served.
István Deák left Hungary in 1948, following the communist takeover. He then studied history at the Sorbonne in Paris and worked as a journalist in France and for Radio Free Europe in West Germany. In 1956 he settled in New York City where he studied modern European history at Columbia University under Fritz Stern. He obtained his doctorate in 1964 and spent the next 33 years teaching at Columbia. He was the Director of Columbia’s Institute on East Central Europe between 1968 and 1979. Mr. Deak has written extensively on eastern and central European history and politics.
The event is organized by Columbia University Central and Eastern European (CUCEE) Club, and sponsored by East Central European Center.
Join us during our traditional bi-weekly CzechoSlovak conversation of students, alumni, professors, and friends of Columbia University:
Wednesday, October 22 at 7:30-9:00 pm
Amsterdam Restaurant and Tapas Lounge
1207 Amsterdam Ave
(between 119th and 120th St)
Looking forward to your visit!
A special screening of two Slovak documentary films depicting events of 1988-1989 in Slovakia. US premiere. Moderated by Gabriel Levicky.
Monday, October 27 at 6:30pm
Bohemian National Hall, 3rd Floor
321 E 73 St
New York City
In Cooperation with Consulate General of the Slovak Republic in NY.
November +20, dir Tomas Vitek, 2009, 26 minutes
The film presents a documentary view of the pre-November, November, and post-November events in 1989, which impacted development of Slovakia’s society. It is a film for all who did not forget and who won´t forget, as well for those who have never had the chance to experience these events. With Ján Budaj, Ján Čarnogurský, Michal Hvorecký, Milan Kňažko, František Mikloško, Ladislav Snopko, Peter Šťastný, Magda Vášáryová.
Candle Demonstration alias Bratislava Good Friday (Svieckova Manifestacia alebo Bratislavsky Velky Piatok), dir Ondrej Krajnak, 2008, 26 minutes
A reconstruction of the Security Forces´ intervention against the peaceful gathering of believers at the Hviezdoslav Square in Bratislava. It includes recordings by the State Security´s secret camera. The agents of the Secret police are identified. Interviews with the protagonists of this historic demonstration recorded twenty years later confront the present with the past. The film includes interviews with Peter Bohunický, Ján Čarnogurský, Ľudmila Heribanová…
Films are in Slovak with English subtitles. Produced by Nation’s Memory Institute in Slovakia.
RSVP: [email protected]
Nation’s Memory Institute / Ústav pamäti národa (ÚPN) is a public organization founded in 2002 by the Slovak Parliament for the purpose of investigation, analysis and disclosure of documents regarding the activity of State Security Authorities from 1939 to 1989 in Slovakia.
www.upn.gov.sk/en/mission/
Professor James Mark
Join us during yet another sequel of CUCEE Club’s series titled “Conversation with…” – this time, you have the opportunity to have a pleasant discussion over a lunch with Professor James Mark, a renowned faculty member at the Univeristy of Exeter!
Thursday, 10/9 at 12-2 pm
1201 International Affairs Building
Prof. Mark’s academic study focuses on “social and cultural history of state socialism in central-eastern Europe, the politics of memory in the area during both socialism and post-socialism, or [connecting] the region to broader global histories and processes through transnational and comparative methods.”
This event is organized by the CUCEE Club, and sponsored by the Harriman Institute.
Lunch will be provided. Looking forward to seeing you!
