Public Art in Authoritarian Contexts: Looking East
This roundtable examines public and street art under authoritarianism, exploring the artistic practice not merely as genres but as contested states of publicness where artistic visibility becomes a site of political negotiation.
Online Self-Moderation in Response to Regime Repression: Foreign Agent Labelling in Russia
This talk presents findings from a study using Russia’s “foreign agent” label timing to examine repression’s effect on (1) content by labelled political pariahs and (2) user engagement with such “suspect” content online.
Oral History Research and the Collectivization Generation in Uzbekistan
Marianne Kamp discusses her new book, "Collectivization Generation: Oral Histories of a Social Revolution in Uzbekistan" (Cornell 2024). Morgan Liu will serve as a discussant.
Symposium: Post-Soviet Indigeneity Between Research and Resistance
This symposium brings together scholars, community organizers, artists and activists to explore complex histories of empire, colonization, nationalities policy, climate change and contemporary political and social marginalization.