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Assistant Secretary Rose discusses arms control in US-Russia relations
On April 29, 2015, the Jordan Center for the Advanced Study of Russia welcomed the Assistant Secretary of State for Arms Control, Verification and Compliance Frank A. Rose, for an...
Thomas Bremer discusses religious dimension of Russian World
On April 29, 2015, the NYU Jordan Center for the Advanced Study of Russia welcomed Thomas Bremer – a current Jordan Center Fellow and a Professor of Ecumenical Theology, Eastern...
Re-Mediating the Archive: Scholars discuss archival revolutions
On April 24th, 2015, the NYU Jordan Center for the Advanced Study of Russia, together with the university’s Department of Comparative Literature, the Center for European and Mediterranean Studies, the...
Russell Valentino unravels mystery behind Woman in the Window
On April 3, 2015, the NYU Jordan Center for the Advanced Study of Russia welcomed Russell Valentino – professor and chair of Slavic and East European Languages and Cultures at...
Jordan Center hosts North East Slavic, Eastern European and Eurasian Conference
On March 21, 2015, the Jordan Center for the Advanced Study of Russia hosted the 36th Annual Meeting of the North East Slavic, Eastern European and Eurasian Conference. Roughly fifty...
Irina Sandomirskaja discusses cultural significance of Russian icon in Soviet context
On March 13, 2015, the NYU Jordan Center for the Advanced Study of Russia welcomed Irina Sandomirskaja, Professor of Cultural Studies at Södertörn University, to present a paper entitled “Originating...
Day 2 - Two-day workshop starts new conversations on Russia`s Races
On February 27, 2015 the NYU Jordan Center for the Advanced Study of Russia hosted the second part of its two-day workshop Russia’s Races: Meanings and Practices of Race in...
Kristy Ironside discusses Soviet tax on bachelors, singles persons and small families
On March 6, 2015, the Jordan Center welcomed Kristy Ironside, a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Higher School of Economics in Moscow, to speak about the Soviet tax on bachelors, singles...
NYU Abu Dhabi Institute hosts lively debate on Russia-Ukraine relations
On February 25, 2015, a large crowd convened at NYU’s Abu Dhabi Institute for a panel on the current relations between Ukraine, Russia and the West. The panel, titled “Russia-Ukraine...
Dinissa Duvanova tackles social media and political behavior in Ukraine
On February 13, 2015, the Jordan Center’s Colloquium Series welcomed Dinissa Duvanova, an Assistant Professor at the Department of International Relations at Lehigh University, to speak about her recent research...
Russia in the Global Context: a panel on Russia's role in international politics
On December 1st, 2014, the Jordan Center and the Carnegie Council for Ethics and International Relationships organized a panel entitled “Russia in the Global Context.” The purpose of the event,...
Love, Peace, and Developed Socialism: A Talk by Juliane Fürst
The first wave of hippies was indeed a community largely made up of urban and privileged children of elites, who were better connected to the West and therefore had more...
Experts discuss Russian law and its trajectories
On October 16, 2014, the Jordan Center welcomed several scholars to participate in a panel, entitled Russia’s Legal Trajectories: Law in Action and Question, 1830 to 2014. In her introductory...
Oleg Kharkhordin speaks on rules of order in Russian society
On October 15, 2014, the Jordan Center welcomed Oleg Kharkhordin with a lecture entitled “A Point of Order! The Troubled Travels of Robert’s Rules of Order from America to Russia,...
Stephen Norris discusses Boris Efimov and Soviet cartoons
On October 10, 2014, the Jordan Center welcomed Stephen Norris, a professor of history at the Havighurst Center for Russian and Post-Soviet Studies at Miami University of Ohio, to speak...
Stephen Kotkin on Stalin: Geopolitics, Ideas, Power
Sept. 26, 2014, marked the first of the Distinguished Lecture series at the Jordan Center for the Advanced Study of Russia. As director Yanni Kotsonis pointed out, the lectures as...
Noncompetitive elections and dissent: Evidence from the USSR
Sept. 12 marked the opening of the Jordan Center’s Fall 2014 Colloquium Series with a presentation by Arturas Rozenas, Assistant Professor at the NYU Department of Politics, whose current research...