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A Poll Tax on Patience: Disenfranchising Romanian Citizens Abroad
r. Ponta and his government won a small victory by disenfranchising one of the people who would have voted against him.
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...
Reenactments of 1917 in Film: Conference Recap
In collaboration with NYU’s Department of Comparative Literature and the Department of Cinema Studies, the Jordan Center welcomed speakers and guests November 17-18 for “Reenactments of 1917 in Film.” As...
Christian Hajjis: Valentina Izmirlieva discusses her new book project
The Jordan Center welcomed historian Valentina Izmirlieva, Associate Professor at Columbia University, to lead the latest installment in our colloquium series on Friday April 11, 2014. Izmirlieva presented her paper,...
A Walk With(out) Svetlana
I write this homage to Svetlana Boym from afar. The news of Svetlana’s passing found me, as many of her friends, too abruptly and too far to pay our homage...
Interdisciplinarity and the Soviet Criminal
Ken Pinnow presented his ideas about criminal studies in the early Soviet period to the NYU Jordan Center Colloquium Series. He spoke about the unprecedented interdisciplinary work done in 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...
Robert Bird discusses female subjectivity in socialist realist film
On December 11, 2015, the NYU Jordan Center for the Advanced Study of Russia welcomed Robert Bird for a colloquium entitled, “Synchrony and Matriarchy: Documenting Female Subjectivity in Dziga Vertov...
Ambassadors of Social Progress or Obstacles to Integration?, Part I
It is precisely at the intersection of disability advocacy and its politicization in the face of the Cold War that we should trace the development of the international blind movement in the 1970s-1980s.
Ambassadors of Social Progress or Obstacles to Integration?, Part II
Socialism “focused on political responses to disability, but with a specific ideological twist.”
Russian scholars explore the use of the term 'biopolitics' in Jordan Center-UCL workshop series
What work is biopolitics doing as a heuristic in the Russian field?
Boris Groys on the Russian quest for biopolitical utopias
What would happen if biopower were to eliminate death entirely?
Maria Galmarini-Kabala on “defective children” and the state that treated them
Historian Maria Galmarini-Kabala puts her lens on a 1920s children’s sanatorium in search of “norms, discourses and historiographical frames” of the period’s pedagogy.