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The Art of Empathy: An Interview with Russian Graphic Artist Victoria Lomasko
What we need right now in Russia are some hybrid forms of journalism that can address the problems with actually existing journalism.
From Internationalism to Postcolonialism: Literature and Cinema between the Second and Third World
“Is the post- in postcolonial the post- in post-Soviet?” asked David C. Moore in 2001, prompting a reexamination of the dynamics between the Russian metropole and its Eurasian peripheries. But...
Dangerous Liaisons: Ukraine and Western Slavists
Writing in the middle of a crisis is always dangerous.
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.
Music expert Michael Danilin presents the Russian rock bands of the 1980s
On February 12, 2016, the NYU Jordan Center for the Advanced Study of Russia welcomed Michael (Misha) Danilin from the NYU Department of Russian and Slavic Studies to speak on...
Evgeny Dobrenko examines the “Cold War” through socialist realist ideology
On April 15, 2016, the NYU Jordan Center for the Advanced Study of Russia welcomed Evgeny Dobrenko for a lecture entitled “Soviet Cold War Imagination.” Dobrenko, head of the department...
Panel on Russian-Ukrainian conflict urges constructive dialogue and a global perspective
On May 4, 2016, the NYU Jordan Center for the Advanced Study of Russia and the NYU Russian Club held a panel discussion entitled “Beyond Political Games,” dedicated to the...
Sergei Guriev's data analysis looks at the post-Soviet transition
The “transition happiness gap” is finally closed after 25 years.
Artists and scholars discuss “Falling Lenins,” revolution, identity
Is the Ukrainian government fighting with ghosts?
Kevin Platt explores the meaning of Russian “Near Abroad” in the case of Latvia
Neither national nor diasporic, never displaced but out of place nevertheless, Russian culture occupies distinctive and complex positions in Latvia.
Elidor Mëhilli explores Albanian filmmaking across the 1960s Sino-Soviet split
Albeit brief, Albania was for a short while held up by China as a model for socialism.
The Many Names for Mother: Bearing Lyric Witness to the Holocaust in the East
In anticipation of the birth of her son in 2015, Dasbach became convinced that her poetic focus would shift into the future. But the opposite happened, as “motherhood entrenched [her]...
Digital Slavists, Unite?
Marijeta Bozovic is an Assistant Professor of Russian & Eurasian Studies at Colgate University. Dear colleagues and comrades, This blog-post grows from a group discussion that began over Facebook, and...
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...
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...
Robert Crews revisits Afghan history in a global context
On Wednesday, March 9, 2016, the NYU Jordan Center for the Advanced Study of Russia welcomed Robert Crews, Associate Professor of History and Director of the Abbasi Program in Islamic...
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...
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...
Evgeny Finkel applies Tocqueville to the 1861 and 1905 Russian reforms
On May 6, 2016, the NYU Jordan Center for the Advanced Study of Russia welcomed Evgeny Finkel, Assistant Professor of Political Science and International Affairs at George Washington University, for...
Diana Greene introduces her project on 19th-century Russian women's novels
Why are there no canonical 19th-century Russian women novelists?