Category: Events

May 24, 2019

Resurrecting a Great Golden Age Poet

It’s the final day of Russian Literature Week. We’ve celebrated all week by sharing events and excerpts from our Russian Library series. Today’s we are sharing an excerpt from a compilation of Konstantin Batyushklov’s work. The final Russian Literature Week...

May 22, 2019

Linor Goralik Conjures the Everyday Absurd

It’s Russian Literature Week! All this week we are sharing excerpts from our Russian Library series. Today we are sharing an excerpt from Linor Goralik’s collection Found Life: Poems, Stories, Comics, a Play, and an Interview, edited by Ainsley Morse, Maria...

May 21, 2019

Platonov’s Response to Stalin’s Assault on the Soviet Peasantry

To continue our Russian Literature Week celebration, today we are sharing an excerpt from Fourteen Little Red Huts and Other Play by Andrei Platonov. If you are in Washington, DC, don’t miss The Man Who Couldn’t Die author Olga Slavnikova...

May 20, 2019

Russian Literature Week 2019

It’s Russian Literature Week! All week (May 20-24) there will be events with acclaimed Russian authors, famed translators, and leading scholars and critics celebrating Russian literature. We’re bringing the #RussianLiteratureWeek celebration online by sharing excerpts throughout the week from our...

April 6, 2018

Fracking: Dirty Word or Harmless Technique?

“There are few words in Energy that inspire more polarized and extreme response than this one; fracking.” –Jason Bordoff, Columbia Energy Exchange This month, in honor of Earth Day, we’re featuring titles that are related to climate change, sustainability, and...

March 6, 2018

Confessions of a Reluctant Revolutionary

During the campus protests of 1968, writer Phillip Lopate ’64CC, today a professor in the School of the Arts, joined an alumni group supporting the student radicals. Now, almost fifty years later, he’s still trying to make sense of his...

February 15, 2018

The Personal and the Political in Goralik’s Poetry

“I watch the falling of empires in my brain/ with ridiculous calm” Goralik’s next stops for her book tour in the US: PennState in State College, PA on February 16th at 3:30 pm Hunter College in New York, NY on...

February 8, 2018

Introducing Linor Goralik’s Found Life

On Tuesday 02/13, Columbia University Press author Linor Goralik will appear at NYU’s Jordan Center to discuss Found Life, a collected volume in translation co-edited by Ainsley Morse, Maria Vassileva, and Maya Vinokour; this event marks the beginning of a...

February 6, 2018

Join author Kevin McGruder on Wednesday, Feb 7. The author of Race and Real Estate will be speaking at Revolutionary Books at 7 PM

In celebration of Black History Month, Kevin McGruder, author of Race and Real Estate: Conflict and Cooperation in Harlem 1890-1920, will be speaking at Revolution Books tomorrow at 7 pm.   Join Author Kevin McGruder When: Wednesday, February 7 Time: 7 PM Location: Revolution Books 437 Malcolm...

October 22, 2017

Safwan Masri on the success of Tunisian democracy after the Arab Spring

Watch four videos from Safwan M. Masri’s recent talk at George Washington University in support of his new book, TUNISIA: AN ARAB ANOMALY.

August 11, 2017

Columbia University Press at #ASA2017

Headed to the American Sociologist Association Annual Meeting in Montreal? You can find Columbia University Press at Hall 220C in the Palais des Congrès de Montréal in Booth #703. JOIN US IN BOOTH #703 ON: Saturday, August 12th from 4:30-6:00...

October 14, 2016

Media Roundup: Capital and the Common Good

Read a roundup of the great media attention that CAPITAL AND THE COMMON GOOD: HOW INNOVATIVE FINANCE IS TACKLING THE WORLD’S MOST URGENT PROBLEMS, by Georgia Levenson Keohane, has received recently.