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Ilya Matveev reflects on the Russian economic crisis
On April 4, 2016, the NYU Jordan Center for the Advanced Study of Russia welcomed Ilya Matveev from the European University in St. Petersburg for a lecture titled “Austerity and...
Ilya Budraitskis on what the 1917 revolution means to contemporary Russia
The way we can discuss revolutions is a political choice.
Presnya: a Discussion with Ilya Budraitskis
The Tashkent Film Festival was a major venue for international exchange among the filmmakers, critics, as well as the politically engaged artists worldwide, and a unique screening space for World Cinema in the 1960s-1970s.
Day One of “Hegel to Russia and Back”: Master, Slave, Falling Stones and Russian Hegelians
April 12 marked the opening of the two-day conference “Hegel to Russia and Back,” sponsored by the Humanities Initiative, CUNY, and the Jordan Center. The very first panel, “Wrestling with...
Russia by the Numbers: symposium on the humanities + mathematics
The Jordan Center hosted a symposium on Friday March 7th, Russia by the Numbers, to discuss the relationship between mathematics and Russian-focused humanities, as well as the emergence of the...
Slavic literary scholar Michael Holquist negotiates the many “Bakhtins”
On May 2, 2016, the NYU Jordan Center for the Advanced Study of Russia welcomed Slavic literary scholar Michael Holquist for a lecture entitled “On a Footnote in Bakhtin.” Holquist,...
Formalism and the Future (Part II)
It is unlikely that the category of “art” will ever fully disappear even as the boundary between “art” and “life” grows increasingly muddled.
Tatiana Artemyeva speaks on concepts of Russian moral philosophy in the Enlightenment
On February 22, 2016, the NYU Jordan Center for the Advanced Study of Russia welcomed Tatiana Artemyeva, a professor in the Department of Theory and History of Culture at the...
3 Questions: Russian intellectual history as a practice and project (Historia Nova Interviews)
What kinds of intellectual projects would be most beneficial for our shared fields?
War and Pestilence: The Epidemiological Motif in L. N. Tolstoy's Historical Epic
In the motivic structure of "War and Peace," the “mythical” French "grippe" of Anna Petrovna Scherer occupies a unique position. It is a simultaneously socio-linguistic, satirical, historical, moral, and providential...
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...
Diana Greene introduces her project on 19th-century Russian women's novels
Why are there no canonical 19th-century Russian women novelists?
The Last Will and Testament of Sergei Esenin: Cultural History of a Mystification, Part I
In this article, I’d like to turn away from heated debates over Esenin’s alleged “killers,” or unprofessional falsifiers of literary history, toward an apparently calmer place. I will focus on...
Petre Petrov: Colloquium Recap
Assistant Professor of Russian Petre Petrov of Princeton University presented an overview of his upcoming book to guests at the Jordan Center on November 8th. Petrov’s book examines Modernism as...
Some Themes from Michael Holquist (1935-2016)
In the difficult, vacant days following Michael Holquist’s death, his thought serves as one source of consolation.
Announcing: Working Group on 19th-century Russian Culture and Literature
Dostoevsky + 11 time zones: it’s why Russian studies is never going away. Or at least that’s what I was taught in graduate school—and indeed the brilliant cultural production of...
Dostoevsky, Tolstoy and the Small of this World: Robin Feuer Miller discusses her upcoming book
Robin Feuer Miller, professor of Humanities and Russian Literature at Brandeis University, led a lively discussion at the Jordan Center on Friday of her new book Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, and the...
Transnational Cinematic Contact Zone: a discussion with Masha Salazkina
Masha Salazkina, Associate Professor of Film and Research Chair of Transnational Arts and Culture from Concordia University in Montreal, spoke to guests of the Jordan Center on Friday regarding her...
Alexei Yurchak explains the importance of Lenin's body, between form and bio-matter
On October 9, 2015, the NYU Jordan Center for the Advanced Study of Russia welcomed Professor Alexei Yurchak from University of California Berkeley for a session of its Fall 2015...
Sergey Sokolov traces the history of republicanism in Russia's political thought
On April 29, 2016, the NYU Jordan Center for the Advanced Study of Russia welcomed Sergey Sokolov for a lecture on “The Emergence of Republicanism in Russia (18th – early...