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Meet the Press: Insight into the publishing world from the University of Toronto Press
Richard Ratzlaff, acquisitions editor for the humanities from the University of Toronto Press, spoke to prospective authors on April 22nd about publishing, and sought to illuminate a process that might...
Strongmen, Regular Guys, and Killer Bunnies
If you can remember picking up a copy of the Washington Post on the morning of August 30th, 1979 you may recall the shock of reading a front-page headline announcing...
What counts as corruption?
It would be difficult to argue that the Russian political system is squeaky clean. However, the ways in which the media defines corruption are skewed to classify what may be...
Чаадаев и пустота (Chaadaev and Void)
What is modern Russia really like?
Cultures of War: Homefronts
Saturday’s panel “Homefronts”, part of this past weekend’s international symposium Cultures of War: From the French Revolution to the Russian Revolution, saw a lively discussion of the domestic experience of...
In Memory of Stephen Cohen
Earlier this year, our friend and colleague Stephen Cohen passed away. His contributions to the field of Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies will be felt for years to come....
Dostoevsky, Tolstoy and the Small of this World: Robin Feuer Miller discusses her upcoming book
Robin Feuer Miller, professor of Humanities and Russian Literature at Brandeis University, led a lively discussion at the Jordan Center on Friday of her new book Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, and the...
Colloquium Series: “Bashkiria’s Imperial World,” a discussion with Charles Steinwedel
Charles Steinwedel Associate Professor of History at Northeastern Illinois University-Chicago joined the Jordan Center to discuss his soon to be completed book, Threads of Empire: Making the Russian Empire in...
Islamic Engagement with the Russian Imperial State: A Conversation with Robert Crews
Robert Crews of Stanford University joined the Jordan Center on Thursday, October 17th for a discussion about his extensive research regarding Islamic engagement with the Russian Imperial state.
Governing Religion, Mobilizing Faith: Conference Recap
The Jordan Center's first all-day conference of the fall on Friday October 18th: "Governing Religion, Mobilizing Faith"
The Sochi Citrus Project: a discussion with Johanna Conterio
Friday afternoon February 7th at NYU’s Gallatin School of Individualized Studies, Harvard PhD candidate Johanna Conterio presented her paper at an event made possible by the History of Science Working...
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...
Petre Petrov: Colloquium Recap
Assistant Professor of Russian Petre Petrov of Princeton University presented an overview of his upcoming book to guests at the Jordan Center on November 8th. Petrov’s book examines Modernism as...
Change is coming to All The Russias
I am stepping away from most of my editorial duties for the blog
A Look Back: The Long Year 2012
The year 2012 saw an unprecedented explosion of dialogue between the public and the regime in Putin’s Russia, a place that, up until then, seemed like one ruled by stagnation...
Presnya: a Discussion with Ilya Budraitskis
The Tashkent Film Festival was a major venue for international exchange among the filmmakers, critics, as well as the politically engaged artists worldwide, and a unique screening space for World Cinema in the 1960s-1970s.
Transnational Cinematic Contact Zone: a discussion with Masha Salazkina
Masha Salazkina, Associate Professor of Film and Research Chair of Transnational Arts and Culture from Concordia University in Montreal, spoke to guests of the Jordan Center on Friday regarding her...
The Sources of Putin's Support: Panel Recap
On Friday, October 25th the Jordan Center welcomed three NYU-based experts on contemporary Russian politics to participate in a panel discussion regarding the current situation of President Vladimir Putin’s regime.
The Final Years of Autocracy: a discussion with Frank Wcislo
Thursday morning March 6th the Jordan Center welcomed Frank Wcislo, Professor of History and Dean of the Ingram Commons at Vanderbilt University. Director Yanni Kotsonis introduced Wcislo’s work in as...
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.