The Harriman Institute and the Russian American Cultural Center are proud to present an exhibition of the works of Yuri Shalamov, a photographer who worked for top Soviet magazines and newspapers for over thirty years.

Matthew and his sister Piper take into a magical adventure back in time, where they discover the Manhattan of the past held a very different Thanksgiving than the one we all know today.

Electric Pear kicks off its fourth season with the World Premiere of BALATON by Ashlin Halfnight. A Hungarian family must confront the post-communist, Americanized world that has drastically altered their lives...and their deaths.

Set in a darkening future, WHAT ONCE WE FELT follows a writer's journey through the political world of publishing, as her novel becomes the last print published novel ever.

Two twenty plus year veterans return home after their convoy is hit by an IED in Iraq. Torn between family and the call of duty, their war continues at home, opening old wounds of betrayal, fear, infidelity, and loneliness for them and their wives. In this touching, poetic, brutal and romantic commentary on current events, the veterans and their fractured families are forced into a surprising and bitter realism. And, only one thing is certain - the high cost paid by all.

This fall, Magis is investigating the work and life of the American poet Edna St. Vincent Millay with a new piece called Her Name is Vincent. The work began with our interest in "Vincent" Millay's complex relationship with her sisters: close by necessity as children, but pulled apart by fame, competition and addiction. In the course of our work we discovered Vincent's early play Aria da Capo, written in the wake of the first World War and at the dawn of the avant-garde. We found striking parallels in her meditation upon conflict and greed and the issues that plagued her relationships during her adult life. Paired together, The Millay Sisters and Aria da Capo make a compelling evening of theatre. Her Name is Vincent will be performed this October in the heart of New York City's Theatre District just seven blocks from where Aria da Capo opened on Broadway in 1925.

Electra is determined to avenge her father Agamemnon’s death. Unfortunately, she’s powerless - a teenager stuck at home with nothing but a Greek chorus that just won’t go away. She will need to band together with her long-lost brother Orestes, their dim-witted sister Chrysothemis, their trusted friend Pylades and a torrent of raging hormones to set her plot for revenge in motion. But will vengeance lead to happiness? And why does puberty have to be so tragic?

An uprooted lily goes on a quest to wed a human bride and destroy The God of Nostalgia. Genre squishing Taylor Mac and a company of 40+ unravel our national pastime of melancholy remembrances. The Lily's Revenge is a 5 part extravaganza featuring live music, wild costumes, vaudevillian theatrics, macabre entr'actes, a million sequins, and a few flowers.

For Jan, it's been quite an eventful day. After twenty years absence, he has returned home to Europe to be reunited with his mother and sister. But as he anxiously awaits to reveal his identity to them, notions of love and family take on chilling new meanings in the hideous circumstances of his last few hours.

The Met has assembled a cast of powerful voices to match Aida’s epic scale, which in this grand production uses every stage lift in the house.

Burn the Floor, the electrifying Latin and Ballroom dance spectacular that has thrilled audiences in over 30 countries, will make its Broadway debut in a limited 12-week engagement in one of Broadway's most intimate venues.

The Middle East Institute (MEI) and the Weatherhead Institute present a two day conference entitled, "The State and the Shari`a."

As many have now said, “A crisis is a terrible thing to waste.” The financial crisis and recession require us to take stock of the changing trends in foreign direct investment (FDI) and to discuss policy implications for contributing to a sustainable recovery and sustainable development. The Fourth Columbia International Investment Conference will address: :: how the crisis is affecting foreign direct investment (FDI), including the impact on flows, new players, changing patters of energy sector FDI; :: the changing business environment for FDI, including the effect of the crisis on social conditions, corporate social responsibility and resource nationalism; :: and public policy opportunities for a sustainable recovery, including public-private partnerships, a global bankruptcy law and a sustainable investment regime. Please register to attend the conference. If you are interested in co-sponsoring the Conference, please contact Lisa Sachs at LSachs1@law.columbia.edu.

Officers of the University from all locations are welcome to attend any of our targeted Benefits Open Enrollment Information Sessions.

This year, we will host four Benefits Expos, where benefits-eligible faculty & staff can meet and ask questions of the HR Benefits team and the insurance carriers. Faculty and staff are welcome to attend any Expo that is convenient.

The Weatherhead East Asian Institute (WEAI) presents a Brown Bag Lecture from the series "The Global Financial Crisis: Responses from East and Southeast Asia" entitled, "Global Crisis and Exchange Rates in East Asia," with Takatoshi Ito, Professor, the University of Tokyo; Visiting Professor at the Center on Japanese Economy and Business.

"City Words: An Experiment and a Thesaurus", a talk by Christian Topalov

The Institute of Latin American Studies (ILAS) invites you to attend a seminar by their recent 2009 Summer Travel Grant recipients, as they present their work with human rights organizations in Latin America, and to discuss the logistics of getting funding for internships.

Family Matters Juggling family life and your career Hosted by Women in Science at Columbia

The Middle East Institute (MEI) and the Institute for Religion, Culture, and Public Life present a Brown Bag Lecture entitled, "Jewish Opposition to Zionism in Comparative Perspective," with Yakov Rabkin.

The Harriman Institute and the Permanent Mission of the Republic of Azerbaijan to the United Nations cordially invite you to attend a conference in honor of the 90th Anniversary of the Establishment of the Diplomatic Service of the Republic of Azerbaijan.

The Institute of Latin American Studies (ILAS) welcomes Dr. Eduardo Torres-Cuevas, who will give a lecture on the history of ideas in Cuba.

Officers of the University from all locations are welcome to attend any of our targeted Benefits Open Enrollment Information Sessions.

Sandra Yuter, North Carolina State - "Characteristics of flooding and non-flooding storms over the U.S. west coast and implications for their prediction"

The Alliance Program presents a panel discussion on “Understanding Science for Public Choices” featuring: Martin Chalfie (Columbia University), Jean Salençon (Ecole Polytechnique), and Claude Henry (Sciences Po & Columbia University). Open to public.

Please join the Harriman Institute in welcoming Archibald Brown of St. Antony’s College, University of Oxford.

The European Institute and Columbia's Seminar on Modern Europe present the author of "The Narcissism of Minor Differences: How America and Europe Are Alike" (Oxford University Press, 2009), Peter Baldwin of UCLA, with comments by Victoria de Grazia, Columbia University and moderated by Nancy W. Collins, Columbia University

The Alliance Program (AP) presents a panel discussion on "Understanding Science for Public Choices," featuring: Martin Chalfie, Professor of Biological Sciences at Columbia University, 2008 Nobel Prize in Chemistry; Jean Salençon, Professor Emeritus at the Ecole Polytechnique, president of the French Academie des Sciences; and Claude Henry, Professor of Sustainable Development, Sciences Po and Columbia University.

Speakers: Ruth DeFries, Denning Family Professor of Sustainable Development; Columbia University; Klaus Lackner, Director, Lenfest Center for Sustainable Energy, The Earth Institute, Columbia University

“Three-Coordinate Iron Complexes: Synthesis, Electronic Structure, and Insights into Nitrogenase Pathways” Presented by Prof. Pat Holland, University of Rochester

The Saltzman Institute of War and Peace Studies and U.S. Military Veterans of Columbia University present, "Rethink Afghanistan," film screening and panel discussion with Prof. Austin Long and U.S. Military Veterans.

Please join the Harriman Institute's special pre-festival event, a gathering of intellectuals and artists on presenting the performing arts in the context of political change.

An exhibition with opening lecture by Kirstin Downey, author of "The Woman Behind the New Deal: The Life of Frances Perkins, FDR's Secretary of Labor and His Moral Conscience."

Carol Gilligan is Professor of Humanities and Applied Psychology at New York University. She is an internationally acclaimed psychologist and prolific writer. Nancy Chodorow is a feminist sociologist and psychoanalyst, and is widely considered today's leading psychoanalytic feminist theorist. Together, Professors Gilligan and Chodorow will speak on "Transforming Psychology."

Highlighting the work of scholars who have made extraordinary contributions to the field of women’s studies, this year’s McIntyre Lecture brings us the work of Saba Mahmood. Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of California Berkeley, Mahmood is the author of Politics of Piety: The Islamic Revival and the Feminist Subject, which has been declared “essential reading for anyone interested in issues at the nexus of ethics and politics, embodiment and gender.” Picking up where Politics of Piety leaves off, Mahmood will reflect on why ethical practice and forms of embodiment matter to feminist politics, and, conversely, why we must rethink secular conceptions of the self and the body in contemporary debates about religion.

Cinema: Cyrano de Bergerac

Come to the cabaret as hilariously brought to life by David Gordon in this grand interpretation of Bertolt Brecht’s anti-Nazi parable The Roundheads and the Pointheads, where leaders of the fictional town of Yahoo maintain control by instigating conflict between two groups of its own citizens.

Bringing together characters and storytelling from Sephardic Jewish folklore and history and weaving from Spain to Israel to Morocco and back again, Granada explores issues of identity, both religious and national, and the uncanny link among followers of a tradition separated by continents but united by a state of exile.

Claire, along with Tom, Dick, and Harry, are locked inside Claire’s greenhouse as she races to create a new botanical species, Breath of Life. Will Claire’s new creation be her salvation? Who will she destroy in the process?