Events archive

February 2026

26 February 2026 ·Yevgenia Albats and Victoria Nuland

How to Confront a Dictator: A Conversation with Ambassador Victoria Nuland

How to Confront a Dictator: A Conversation with Ambassador Victoria Nuland

Join us for another installment of the year-long series "Russia and Its Neighbors: In Search of a New Paradigm", hosted by Dr. Yevgenia Albats!

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25 February 2026 ·Tatiana Borisova

The “Black Box” of Conscience: Russia's 1864 Judicial Reform

The “Black Box” of Conscience: Russia's 1864 Judicial Reform

Join us for another 19v seminar!

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19 February 2026 ·Alisa Lozhkina

Art Work as Selfless Service: Life and Labor in the Ukrainian Art World

Art Work as Selfless Service: Life and Labor in the Ukrainian Art World

Ukrainian-born art historian and curator Alisa Lozhkina will examines how the post-Soviet art world's promise of freedom conceals enduring hierarchies and gendered inequities.

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17 February 2026 ·Anna Gomboeva

Failed From the Start: Soviet Physical Anthropology and Post-Soviet "Decolonial" Movements

Failed From the Start: Soviet Physical Anthropology and Post-Soviet "Decolonial" Movements

This talk suggests an intellectual and institutional lineage from the laboratory of the Soviet state to the crises of the present.

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12 February 2026 ·Michael Calvey and Yevgenia Albats

From Putin's Optimist to Regime Prisoner: Michael Calvey On Power and Money in Russia

From Putin's Optimist to Regime Prisoner: Michael Calvey On Power and Money in Russia

Join us for another installment of the year-long series "Russia and Its Neighbors: In Search of a New Paradigm", hosted by Dr. Yevgenia Albats!

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11 February 2026 ·Joan Neuberger

Marx, Engels, Eisenstein: The Dialectics of Nature and the Music of Landscape

Marx, Engels, Eisenstein: The Dialectics of Nature and the Music of Landscape

This talk explores how Marx and Engels’ ideas on nature shaped Eisenstein’s bold cinematic theories in Nonindifferent Nature.

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