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"Dreaming of Duskobor'e: 1917 and Canada's Dukhobors" with David McDonald, University of Wisconsin - Madison
David McDonald presented his research on Canada's Dukhobors, a religious group with origins in the Russian Empire, in a roundtable discussion with other scholars. Yanni Kotsonis moderated.
The David Brooks I Miss; or, What Passes for Commentary about Russia
Again and again I found myself taking sides in our ongoing debate: is David Brooks thoroughly awful or only somewhat awful?
Do anti-corruption campaigns work? David Szakonyi presents evidence from Russia.
Research from Russia suggests that financial disclosure requirements may dissuade corrupt incumbents from seeking re-election.
A conversation with author Michael David-Fox on Soviet modernity
Michael David Fox speaks on his recent book, Crossing Borders: Modernity, Ideology, and Culture in Russia and the Soviet Union.
Lenin Lives: An Exhibition at the Van Every Gallery, Davidson College
Artists and politicians alike recognized the symbolic significance of Lenin’s public image.
The McCold War: Everything Old Is New Again
The 1990 opening of McDonald's in Moscow hardly heralded the "end of history," not did it usher in an era of peace and prosperity. But it did indicate that Soviet...
Open Letter on the Termination of Russian Studies Faculty at Ohio University
Like you, we are wholeheartedly invested in the survival and recovery of higher education in the United States amid the COVID-19 pandemic. That recovery depends on the will of universities...
Of Mice and Men: Why Animal Studies Matter
On Monday, May 6, the Jordan Center hosted the last event in this semester’s diasporas series. While our previous sessions have focused on human interaction in both politics, history, and...
Separatism and the Russian Solution: Baja California, here we come!
Everyone’s afraid of the separatists these days; they’re messing up countries all over the place.
Canada, Hockey, and the Cold War
What had begun as score-settling with upstart pretenders to Canada’s pre-eminence acquired its epic qualities because the victory came over the Soviet Union, the hegemon of the Communist bloc.
Experts debate The Global History of Sport in the Cold War - Day 1
On October 23, 2015, the NYU Jordan Center for the Advanced Study of Russia opened the New York session of “The Global History of Sport in the Cold War,” a...
Necrorealism: Turning Bare Life into Art (Part I)
The peculiar style of life, art, and action practiced by the necrorealists in their early appearances was part of a larger tradition in late Soviet culture that exhibited a mode...
Necrorealism: Turning Bare Life into Art (Part II)
Necrorealism's mediation does to life what photography does to the sign; like milk, it turns, but in it there is also a process of homogenization or a general equivalence that...
Sociology of Corruption: Patterns of Illegal Association in Hungary
Since 2010, Orbán’s government has induced a radical transformation of grand corruption patterns in Hungary: a shift from oligarchic or economic state capture toward political state capture, in which complex corrupt networks are professionally designed and managed by the very top of the political elite.
The Abuses of Enchantment (Russia's Alien Nations)
Tolkien has been accused of many things, but subtlety is not among them.
The Last Will and Testament of Sergei Esenin: Cultural History of a Mystification, Part III
In the end, he was released as partially insane, for it was noted that he considered himself an incarnation of the Buddha and believed that he desperately needed money to...
Upcoming Columbia Event
In Search of Empire: the 400th Anniversary of the House of Romanov February 14th-16th 2013 Co-sponsored by the Bakhmeteff Archive, the Harriman Institute, the Department of Slavic Languages at Columbia...
The Imponderabilia of Immigrant Life: An Immigrant Story
I think of immigration in my subsequent, adult life, not as a determinant but something akin to the zodiac sign if one believes in astrology.
HuffPost Interview: Is Media Distorting Russia & Ukraine?
Alyona Minkovski of HuffPost Live interviews guests David Speedie (Director of the Carnegie Council's program on U.S. Global Engagement), Yanni Kotsonis (Director of the NYU Jordan Center for the Advanced...
Diplomatic and Undiplomatic Language, or Just say "Ы"!
Lately, it has not only been the vowels that have been hard to stomach in Russia.