NEW HARRIMAN EVENT COVERAGE
Tuesday, 02 February 2010
For coverage of last week's Harriman Institute Ambassador's Forum: "Romania: Twenty Years After History Changed its Course" and of Karinna Moskalenko's talk on the Rule of Law and Human Rights in Russia, please visit “Harriman events in brief” located in the events section of our website, or click on the link below.
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Reviews of Valentina Izmirlieva's "All the Names of the Lord: Lists, Mysticism, and Magic" (Studies of the Harriman Institute)
Thursday, 28 January 2010
Valentina Izmirlieva's (Slavic Languages) book "All the Names of the Lord" (University of Chicago Press, 2008)is called a "fascinating and quite original book" by the reviewer of "The Journal of Ecclesiastical History," who writes that it will redefine the field. The reviewer in "The Journal of Theological Studies" praises the "impressive amount of scholarship on primary sources in libraries around the world" and writes that it will be "greatly appreciated by students of medieval theology and magic."
Follow the link for texts of the two reviews.
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Pepsico Travel Recipients Announced
Wednesday, 27 January 2010
The Harriman Institute has awarded Pepsico travel funding for the winter of 2009/2010 to the following students:
Elvira Amantaeva, MARS: “Artek as the Legacy of the USSR”
Sasha Ganovska, MARS “The Teaching Practice and Political Role of Sufism in Dushanbe, Tajikistan”
Anatoly Pinsky, History: “The Conscience of a Communist: The Making of Fedor Abramov, 1953-1958”
Yumi Yi, SIPA, “Koryo-Saram: Displaced Koreans in Kazakhstan”
Congratulations!
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