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Anindita Banerjee speaks on Aelita, Queen of Mars in Radiant Futures keynote speech
On April 8, 2016, the NYU Jordan Center for the Advanced Study of Russia hosted a conference entitled “Radiant Futures: Russian Fantasy and Science Fiction.” After the first panel, NYU...
Ada Dialla links Vereshchagin's art to the rise of humanitarianism in 19th-century Russia
Contributing to a “humanitarian narrative,” Vereshchagin’s work helped craft a bond between those who suffer and those who empathize with that suffering.
Vanishing Act: Evasive Storytelling in Platonov’s “The Lunar Bomb” (1926)
Andrei Platonov's fictional works are difficult to categorize squarely within one genre. While his later works adhere more closely to realism, his works from the 1920s range from science fiction...
Romanian Secret Police Archives and the Women of the Religious Underground
In the process of surveilling church leadership, clergy, and church elders, the Secret Police unwittingly uncovered the new roles that women took on in religious life during a time when...
Daniel Mellis and Eugene Ostashevsky recreate Vasily Kamensky’s Tango with Cows
On October 30, 2015, the NYU Jordan Center for the Advanced Study of Russia welcomed visual artist Daniel Mellis and Russian-American poet and translator Eugene Ostashevsky to speak on their...
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...
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.
Stalin's Dead Road: Ania Hyman discusses her expedition to the Siberian taiga
Ania Hyman recounted her incredible experiences on an expedition to the Siberian Taiga as part of a research project to document the last remaining, and largely untouched, Gulag camps.
Between Sustainability and Development in Romania
Romanians have become increasingly aware of their environmental difficulties. Today, news of deforestation represents a regular part of the Romanian news cycle and is a hobbyhorse in the House of...
Alessandro Stanziani explores the history of Russian economy in a global perspective
The NYU Jordan Center for the Advanced Study of Russia and the Department of History welcomed economic historian Alessandro Stanziani, Professor at École des hautes études en sciences sociales and...
‘I will be back in the autumn’ – a Romanian in the UK (An Immigrant Story)
I was back in the autumn. But it was fourteen years later.
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...
The 1990 Revolution on Granite as Ukraine’s New Beginning
The Revolution on Granite was significant for 2 reasons. First, it was a starting point for aspirations of Ukrainian independence. Second, it became a prototype for subsequent Ukrainian revolutions and a precursor to future events set on the Maidan.
Anticommunism, Neoliberalism, and the Rerunning of Socialist Era Films on Romanian Television
Anticommunist discourse has long since ceased to advance the democratization of society by means of depoliticization and “decommunization.” Instead, it has become a discourse that protects the privileges of the...
The Bashkir Vanishes?
How Bashkirs endure the intense Russian nationalism characteristic of the last decade remains to be seen.
Another Face of Soviet Nostalgia: Daniil Kharms
Taken to the limit, nostalgia for Kharms permits the union of seemingly incompatible elements — according to its logic, there is no contradiction in, say, enjoying the author's dark comedy...
A New Companion for Readers of Dostoevskii
Today, "All the Russias" features an interview with the editors of "A Dostoevskii Companion: Texts and Contexts," a new volume out this month from Academic Studies Press.
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...
The Joseph Brodsky Lab: Or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Digital Humanities
The most compelling potential uses of Digital Humanities involve estranging and destabilizing notions of canon and modes of reading.
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...