Events archive

January 2025

22 January 2025 ·Rodolphe Baudin and Catherine Phillips

Why “Frantsuzik”? Why “Bordeaux”? Gallophobia, Intersectionality and Colonial Anxiety in Griboedov’s Woe from Wit

Why “Frantsuzik”? Why “Bordeaux”? Gallophobia, Intersectionality and Colonial Anxiety in Griboedov’s Woe from Wit

Join us for the first 19v seminar this year! This talk offers a close-reading of the expression “Frantsuzik iz Bordo” (“The little Frenchman from Bordeaux”), a famous quote from Alexander Griboedov’s classic comedy Woe from Wit (Gore ot uma).

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December 2024

11 December 2024 ·Fiona Bell and Maria Taroutina

“White Slavery” and the Marriage Plot: Ivan Turgenev’s Fathers and Children in the Global Emancipation Era

“White Slavery” and the Marriage Plot: Ivan Turgenev’s Fathers and Children in the Global Emancipation Era

Join us for another 19v seminar!

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4 December 2024 ·Christy Monet (Brandly)

Imagined Kin, International Solidarities: Nekrasova's Kozha as Embodied Empathy

Imagined Kin, International Solidarities: Nekrasova's Kozha as Embodied Empathy

In 2021 – five years after the Russian state’s race-based meddling in the U.S. presidential election abroad, and one year after its negative portrayal of the BLM movement to audiences at home – Evgenia Nekrasova published her novel Kozha (Skin).

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November 2024

26 November 2024 ·Ada Wordsworth, Olga Nikolska, Anna Serdiuk, and Emma Mateo

Voices from Ukraine: How Civil Society Supports Ukraine's Wartime Resistance

Voices from Ukraine: How Civil Society Supports Ukraine's Wartime Resistance

Join us for a compelling panel discussion on the critical role that Ukrainian civil society has played in supporting the country’s wartime resistance.

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20 November 2024 ·Juliette Cadiot

Soviet investigation and Shoah in Transnistria-Ukraine: The trial of the Volksdeutscher Selbstchutz from the hamlet of Neue Amerika 1965-1966

Soviet investigation and Shoah in Transnistria-Ukraine: The trial of the Volksdeutscher Selbstchutz from the hamlet of Neue Amerika 1965-1966

This presentation is based on an analysis of the investigation and trial of 11 Soviet citizens of German nationality who took part in the mass murders and genocide of Jews on the banks of the Bug river in 1941-1942.

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19 November 2024 ·Mikhail Zygar

A Conversation with Mikhail Zygar

A Conversation with Mikhail Zygar

Renowned journalist Mikhail Zygar will speak about his most recent book War and Punishment: Putin, Zelensky, and the Path to Russia's Invasion of Ukraine in conversation with Jordan Center director Joshua Tucker.

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