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PIIRS: Can The World Be Governed?

The institutional and also the moral foundations of the international order are under severe strain. Peace is broken or threatened across the world, humanitarian catastrophes are mounting. Never in…

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PIIRS: Empire, Integration and Ukraine

The history of the European Union is not so much much postwar as postimperial. The project is not one founded by a logic of peace after the Second World War, but rather a logic of exhaustion after…

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PIIRS| Director's Book Forum: Inventing the Third World

Join editors Jeremy Adelman, the Henry Charles Lea Professor of History and Cotsen Faculty Fellow, and Gyan Prakash, the Dayton-Stockton Professor of History, as they discuss "Inventing The…

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Global Existential Challenges: Development and Precarity in Times of Global Crisis

Global Existential Challenges Development and Precarity in Times of Global Crisis Speakers: Miguel Centeno, Musgrave Professor of Sociology. Professor of Sociology and Princeton School of Public…

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Deliberative Climate Politics: from citizens’ assemblies to responsive democratic systems?

Are citizens’ assemblies a solution to solve two pressing crises: democratic dissatisfaction and climate emergency? The Citizens’ Convention for Climate, and the Great National Debate in…

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PIIRS: "Goliath’s Curse: A Brief History and Future of Societal Collapse"

“Goliath’s Curse: A Brief History and Future of Societal Collapse.” A Research Associate at the Centre for the Study of Existential Risk (CSER) at the University of Cambridge, Kemp…

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Rembrandt in Russia in the 19th Century: Prints and their Collectors

The lecture will be devoted to the phenomenon of 19th-century Rembrandt prints collecting in Russia, discussing three major figures – geographer, man of law and an amateur etcher, all of them -…

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A Tale of Two Collections: The Icons of Nikolai Likhachev and Ilya Ostroukhov

“We always imagine Russian culture in the form of a diptych, in which one wing is Petersburg and the other Moscow,” the critic Abram Efros wrote in 1921. “In the field of Russian…

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Boris Nemtsov’s Transformation of Russian Politics

A special event discussion with Zhanna Nemtsova, the co-Founder of the Boris Nemtsov Foundation for Freedom, and Mikhail Fishman, journalist and filmmaker.

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Power and Paint: The Patronage of Women Artists at the Court of Catherine II

Catherine the Great’s passion for the arts served a vital role in her efforts to position herself as a paragon of the Enlightenment. With avaricious focus she snaffled celebrated art…

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The Hermitage or a “museum” in 1770 according to Catherine the Great

Why did Catherine the Great build the entire complex of the Hermitage ? This question could constitute the main thread in our presentation. Behind the origins of the Hermitage was the initial idea of…

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The Future of Global Education – Princeton in dialogue with students from Sciences Po, Paris, France

The COVID pandemic has destabilized higher education globally, impeding research cooperation across countries, and limiting travel and study between countries. Amid weakened support for educational…

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The American Uprising and Revolution in Belarus – Princeton in dialogue with Belarusian students in exile at the European Humanities University, Vilnius, Lithuania

Is the current US uprising focused, for now, on equality, justice, and civil rights ––initiated largely by Black Lives Matter––related to the ongoing revolution in Belarus?…

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Challenges to Russian Authoritarianism: Is Putin Forever?

In 2020, Russia underwent constitutional changes, aimed at possible extension of Vladimir Putin’s term in office until 2036. Top state officials openly declares the goal of…

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India e-Summer Seminar Promo Video 2021

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From Rudolf II to Catherine II: Goltzius’ Without Bacchus and Ceres, Venus is Chilled and its Iconography

Hendrick Goltzius (1558–1617): Without Bacchus and Ceres, Venus is Chilled, c. 1604–6 This superb large drawing, executed in a manner that imitates the technique of engraving on copper,…

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