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Open Letter on the Termination of Russian Studies Faculty at Ohio University
Like you, we are wholeheartedly invested in the survival and recovery of higher education in the United States amid the COVID-19 pandemic. That recovery depends on the will of universities...
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...
Nazi Crime, Soviet Punishment: War Crimes Trials in the USSR After 1945
The world’s first Nazi war crimes trial was held in July 1943, in the Soviet city of Krasnodar. Just six months after the city was liberated from German occupation, eleven defendants—all Soviet citizens—stood before a military tribunal, accused of collaborating with the enemy.
Emotional Accessibility: Illustrations and Editorial Cartoons in Late Imperial Russia’s "Kopeck Press"
In the years before the First World War and the Bolshevik Revolution, Russia was home to a thriving penny press. Journalists, publishers, and ambitious entrepreneurs in towns and cities across...
Behind the @RodionTweets Curtain: the Nuts and Bolts of Twitterifying Dostoevsky
At one point, Sarah Hudspith said she had to fight the urge to write “Sh*t! Got blood on my iPhone! #murderproblems”
Alexander Etkind’s Russia’s “Oily Grip of Power” and the Hyper-Extractive State
On Wednesday, May 7th Alexander Etkind, Professor of History at European University Institute- Florence, joined the Jordan Center for a lecture and panel discussion of his new critical theory, which...
Minor Writers and the Major Leagues, Part I
Why bother reading the minor writers of nineteenth-century Russia? There seems to be such a surplus of major writers, why dig any deeper?
Minor Writers and the Major Leagues, Part II
Another reason to study minor writers is that they help us to understand historical eras. They are part of the thick description of a given time. For the major-centric among...
Tweets from Underground
How would Raskolnikov use Twitter?
Moldova, the Latvian Purges, and Khrushchev’s Generational Struggle, 1958-1962
Khrushchev’s quiet attempts at replacing the older generation of Party leaders played out differently in two Soviet republics on the USSR's western borderlands.
The Paralympic Games’ Cinderella Story: Ukraine
It is critical that the disability rights movement in Ukraine find ways to ride the Paralympic wave of success.
On Tweeting Part One of Crime and Punishment
“Where can I get an #axe at this time of day!”
Diary of a Tweeter: On Golyadkin, Raskolnikov, and the Search for Empathy
I broke one of the @RodionTweets rules.
Twitterature in the Dostoevsky Classroom
My adventure with Twitterature began three years ago, when I began to work with the North American Dostoevsky Society as their social media curator. I began a twitter account for...
Fighting HIV/AIDS in Russia: Challenges, Successes, and Working in a Pandemic
On January 13th, the Jordan Center and the Harriman Institute co-hosted a panel on the HIV/AIDS epidemic in Russia as part of the NYC-Russia Public Policy Series. Panelists included Ulla...
Expanding the ‘Mental Phone Book’: Unconscious Bias and Diversity in Conference Panels and Edited Volumes
An editor or panel organiser cannot involve every participant from their immediate, instinctive ‘mental phone book’ every time.
Teymur Ateşli: A Traitor-Hero for the Cold-War Era
For an ethnically Turkish man from the Soviet Union, fighting with the Nazis was no betrayal.
Announcing Upcoming Events Sponsored by 19v, a Working Group on Nineteenth-Century Russian Culture
Please join us on Zoom Wednesday, June 24, 12-2 pm EST, for an interdisciplinary roundtable on "What Is The 19th Century?" with panelists Alex Martin (University of Notre Dame), Rosalind...
19v So Far
As we approach the one-year mark of 19v’s inception, I’ve been polling some of our participants to learn which of our activities have proven valuable so far and what we...
Announcing: Working Group on 19th-century Russian Culture and Literature
We’re pleased to announce the organization of an informal working group devoted to the literature, art, and culture of Russia in the nineteenth century.