Race, Decolonization, and the Cold War: African Student Elites In Moscow
In this unique review of African-Soviet relations, Harold Weaver serves as both researcher and personal witness, guiding the reader through the nuanced terrain of students seeking models of effective, radical change.
Race, Decolonization, and the Cold War: African Student Elites In Moscow
In this unique review of African-Soviet relations, Harold Weaver serves as both researcher and personal witness, guiding the reader through the nuanced terrain of students seeking models of effective, radical change.
Please join the New York University Jordan Center for the Advanced Study of Russia and Harriman Institute at Columbia University for the concluding event in the New York-Russia Public Policy series, held in person at NYU.
Spectral Sovereignty: Incognito in Gogol and the Stranniki under Nicholas I
In this talk, based on several archival cases, Fedor will demonstrate that their vision of the hidden Antichrist developed under the influence of the Nicholaevan scenario of power.
The aim of the workshop is to reintroduce entropy into today’s environmental, ecocritical and new-materialist conversation: as a principle that is pervading the world, its energy flows, its biological and cultural systems.
Crucibles of Power: Smolensk under Stalinist and Nazi Rule
Michael David-Fox will discuss his new book Crucibles of Power: Smolensk under Stalinist and Nazi Rule
as a work that cross-fertilizes three fields—the study of Stalinism, Nazi German occupation during World War II, and the Holocaust.
The Laborious Road of Art: Work, Materiality, and Aesthetics in Platonov and Shklovsky
This lecture will examine the theories and practice of two modernist greats—Viktor Shklovsky and Andrei Platonov—as they touch on the materiality of labor, the physical environment, and of language.