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Cecilia Banke and Flemming Hansen on the use of history in shaping identity
Researchers from the Danish Institute for International Studies explore Russian identity under Putin, and the role of politics of memory in European-Russian relations.
Talking with Geoff Cebula, Author of "Adjunct"
I knew from the beginning that I didn't want her to be a Slavist.
"Sucking Strelkov," or, The Erotics of Russian Invasion
History repeats itself, first as tragedy, then as violent, self-published gay erotica.
Russian-Speaking Patriotism in Ukraine: Under-Researched and Misunderstood, Part II
If Russian speakers represent approximately two thirds of Ukraine’s security forces fighting Russian and Russian proxy forces, and they represent the majority of casualties, any concept of Ukraine as divided...
Hacking, Heckling, and Conspiracy: Interview with Julia Ioffe
What you need is something we don’t have yet in the case of the election, and might never have, which is somebody from the inside saying, “Here’s how we did...
Taking Inventory of the New Regime
Anne O'Donnell discusses the challenges in taking inventory of property during the first years of Soviet socialism.
Talking with Scholarly Publishers (Historia Nova Prize Part II)
What advice would you give a young scholar when submitting a manuscript to your press?
Rethinking “The Archives” in the Aftermath of Russia’s War in Ukraine, Part I
Just as Europe must plan for an energy future without Russian fossil fuels, the field of history and related fields must plan for a future without access to Russian archives.
Looking for the Human in the Humanities: Vladimir Nabokov’s Theory of Literary Evolution
Nabokov first linked color description with literary history in a little-known 1927 lecture on Nikolai Gogol. inaugurating a lifetime of interest in the individual writer as an agent of evolutionary...
Talking with Yanni Kotsonis about "States of Obligation"
Most people would think taxes and Russia, and then think beatings, unfairness, repression, burden, squalor, and an overbearing state. That’s plain wrong.
Breaking Taboos by Injecting the Personal: Anna Starobinets and the Tradition of Solzhenitsyn
In Russian culture, the writer often acts as a missionary, charting new paths in public discourse by broaching previously unmentionable topics. In 2017, Russian fiction writer Anna Starobinets (pictured above)...
Rethinking “The Archives” in the Aftermath of Russia’s War in Ukraine, Part II
Instead of giving funding for travel to archives in Russia, funding should be determined by the project itself. Scholars should be able to propose travel to a variety of places...
Cooking the Raw Youth (Akunin WQ 11)
This is less “The Queen of Spades” and more “Scooby Doo Meets Batman.”
Russian-Speaking Patriotism in Ukraine: Under-Researched and Misunderstood, Part I
Five factors explain the failure of Putin’s “New Russia” project and clarify why Ukraine did not disintegrate in 2014 despite pressure from the Russian military and hybrid warfare.
Making the Contingent Visible: Vertov and Kino-Pravda
On Friday, May 3, the Jordan Center had the honor of hosting Professor John MacKay (Yale University) for a presentation on his forthcoming book Dziga Vertov: Life and Work. MacKay...
Breaking News: Size Matters
How are we to understand two hundred years of Canadian (passive) aggression?
Rethinking Putin: A Talk by Professor Stephen Cohen
In this brief talk, originally delivered on 2 December 2017 aboard "The Nation"'s annual cruise, Professor Cohen tries to revise popular perceptions of Vladimir Putin as a leader by putting...
Making an Anti-imperialist Empire: Revolutionary Russia and the Muslim World
On February 16, Jordan Center for Advanced Study of Russia hosted Professor Norihiro Naganawa, who spoke about his ongoing book project on early Soviet Russia’s engagement with Central Asia, Iran,...
All the King's Horses: Ukraine, Russia, and Gogol's Troika
What the rest of the world perceived as a quaint cultural mascot had additional layers of meaning for the Russian public that were overlooked in western media coverage of the...
Philippa Hetherington explores anti-trafficking rhetoric in a Soviet and global context
On April 22, 2016, the NYU Jordan Center for the Advanced Study of Russia welcomed Philippa Hetherington from the School of Slavonic and East European Studies, University College London for...