The New School Graduate Program in International Affairs

Begins	7 Mar 2008 - 4:00pm
Ends	7 Mar 2008 - 6:00pm
Location	Wolff Conference Room, List Academic Center, 65 Fifth Ave., 2nd floor.

On the occasion of Professor Khrushcheva's new book, Imagining Nabokov: Russia Between Art and Politics (Yale University Press, 2007), the author and two eminent observers of world politics will discuss the intersecting passages of art and politics in contemporary Russia, from Nabokov's idiosyncratic relationship with his former homeland to the current Putin era.

• Ian Buruma writes regularly for The New Times Magazine and The New York Review of Books as well as for other publications. Professor of democracy, human rights and journalism at Bard College, he is the author of many books including, The Wages of Guilt, Occidentalism, and Murder in Amsterdam: The Death of Theo van Gogh and the Limits of Tolerance.

• Jack F. Matlock, who currently teaches International Relations at Columbia University, served as the last U.S. Ambassador to the Soviet Union from 1987 to1991. He is the author of Autopsy on an Empire: The American Ambassador's Account of the Collapse of the Soviet Union, and Reagan and Gorbachev: How the Cold War Ended.

• Nina Khrushcheva, associate professor in the Graduate Program of International Affairs at the New School and senior fellow of the World Policy Institute.

 

Introduction by Anthony Anemone, Chair and Associate Provost of Foreign Languages, The New School

Moderated by Jonathan Bach, Associate Director of the Graduate Program in International Affairs, The New School

Date: Friday March 7, 2008
Time: 4pm-6pm (conversation and reception)
Place: Wolff Conference Room, List Academic Center, 65 Fifth Ave., 2nd floor.

Read a review of Imagining Nabokov from The Economist here

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