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April 2025

17 April 2025 ·Mariana Irby

Living as a Central Asian in Urban Russia in the Aftermath of the Crocus City Hall Attacks

Living as a Central Asian in Urban Russia in the Aftermath of the Crocus City Hall Attacks

Dr. Mariana Irby draws from long-term ethnographic fieldwork among Tajik migrant communities in Russia to explore how the aftermath of these attacks have shaped her interlocutors' perception of their place in Russia as racial minorities.

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16 April 2025 ·Ismael Biyashev and Naomi Caffee

“Barbarians” at the “Golden Gate of the East?”: Nomadic Archaeology and the Search for Roots in Siberia

“Barbarians” at the “Golden Gate of the East?”: Nomadic Archaeology and the Search for Roots in Siberia

Join us for another 19v seminar!

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15 April 2025 ·Yvonne Howell

Soviet Yogis – Who were they? Yoga and Degrowth, then and now

Soviet Yogis – Who were they? Yoga and Degrowth, then and now

The history of yoga’s metamorphoses from marginalized spiritual-militaristic tradition in India to commercialized mega-business associated with neoliberal notions of personal wellness has received a lot of scholarly attention in the West.

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14 April 2025 ·Ainsley Morse

Yan Satunovsky and the Politics of Multilingualism

Yan Satunovsky and the Politics of Multilingualism

The poet Yan Satunovsky (1913-1982) was born to a Jewish family in Ekaterinoslav (now Dnipro in Ukraine), in the Russian Empire’s Pale of Settlement.

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10 April 2025 ·Dmitry Bosnak

Forms of Un-Ownness (Inauthenticity): Other in Bakhtin and Heidegger

Forms of Un-Ownness (Inauthenticity): Other in Bakhtin and Heidegger

A comparison with Bakhtin’s phenomenology of otherness helps introduce important amendments to Heidegger’s theory of self and other.

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9 April 2025 ·Kateryna Zarembo, Tetiana Savchynska, and Mark Andryczyk

Book Talk. “Ukrainian Sunrise: Stories of the Donetsk and Luhansk Regions from the Early 2000s”

Book Talk. “Ukrainian Sunrise: Stories of the Donetsk and Luhansk Regions from the Early 2000s”

Join the Harriman Institute & Jordan Center for a presentation of “Ukrainian Sunrise: Stories of the Donetsk and Luhansk Regions from the Early 2000s," ft. author Kateryna Zarembo & translator Tetiana Savchynska, in conversation w/ Mark Andryczyk.

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