Events archive

February 2025

24 February 2025 ·Nicole Grajewski, Dimitar Bechev, Joshua Tucker, and Alexander Cooley

Understanding Russia’s Influence in the Middle East after Assad’s Fall

Understanding Russia’s Influence in the Middle East after Assad’s Fall

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Join us for a meeting of the New York-Russia Public Policy Series, co-hosted by the Harriman Institute at Columbia University and the New York University Jordan Center for the Advanced Study of Russia.

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20 February 2025 ·Justine Buck Quijada

Scholars to Shamans: The Academic Roots of Buryat National Tradition in the late Soviet period

Scholars to Shamans: The Academic Roots of Buryat National Tradition in the late Soviet period

While the collapse of the Soviet Union may have been unthinkable until it actually happened, it is clear that there were significant shifts in Soviet popular culture in the 70’s and 80’s that shaped what came after the collapse.

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18 February 2025 ·Philip Tuxbury-Gleissner

The Lives of the Socialist Literary Journal: Embedded Modes of Independent Culture under State Socialism

The Lives of the Socialist Literary Journal: Embedded Modes of Independent Culture under State Socialism

In the Soviet Union and socialist Eastern Europe, literary journals enjoyed remarkable popularity. They not only provided access to sensational works of literature but figured as visually appealing objects and social events in everyday life.

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12 February 2025 ·Oleksandra Keudel

Societal Resilience and Polycentric Governance: Learning from Ukrainian Local Communities’ Response to the Full-Scale Russian Invasion

Societal Resilience and Polycentric Governance: Learning from Ukrainian Local Communities’ Response to the Full-Scale Russian Invasion

The Russian full-scale invasion since 24 February 2022 subjected Ukraine to overlapping war-related crises, such as physical insecurity, internal displacement, and damage to critical infrastructure.

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12 February 2025 ·Maria Chernysheva

The Feminization of History in 19th-Century Culture: Russian Art and the Polish Vector

The Feminization of History in 19th-Century Culture: Russian Art and the Polish Vector

Join us for another 19v seminar! In 19th-century Europe, writers, artists, and composers became increasingly fascinated by female characters from the national past.

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10 February 2025 ·Michele Rivkin-Fish

Unmaking Russia's Abortion Culture: Family Planning and the Struggle for a Liberal Biopolitics

Unmaking Russia's Abortion Culture: Family Planning and the Struggle for a Liberal Biopolitics

Abortion was the most common form of birth control in Soviet and post-Soviet Russia, a situation that reflected key paradoxes of state socialism: women held formal equality but lacked basic needs such as contraceptives.

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