Arrested Development: The Soviet Union in Ghana, Guinea, and Mali, 1955-1968 (with Alessandro Iandolo)

New York, NY

Arrested Development examines the USSR's involvement in West Africa during the 1950s and 1960s as aid donor, trade partner, and political inspiration for the first post-independence governments in Ghana, Guinea, and Mali.  Buoyed by solid economic performance in the 1950s, the USSR opened itself up to the world and launched a series of programs aimed at […]

Russia’s Rule in Occupied Ukraine

New York, NY

This event is online only. Register for the webinar. Watch on YouTube. 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. Since 2014, Russia has occupied almost one-fifth of the Ukrainian territory, but little is known about […]

Book Talk: Picturing Russian Empire

New York, NY

Join us for another 19v seminar! Picturing Russian Empire, edited by Valerie Kivelson, Sergei Kozlov, and Joan Neuberger (Oxford University Press, 2023), offers readers an extended visual tour of the peoples and places that constituted the Russian Empire in its various formations over more than a millennium of history: peoples who governed, confronted, defied, accommodated, […]

Putin’s Fifth Term: Regime Evolution and Future Challenges

New York, NY

This event is online only. 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. On March 17, Vladimir Putin is most likely to be reelected yet again. What will his fifth presidential term look like? Our panel […]

Jordan Center MA Research Symposium

New York, NY

The NYU Jordan Center for the Advanced Study of Russia is excited to announce the second annual master’s research symposium and undergraduate research symposium! The Master's Research Symposium will feature presentations on a broad array of topics on panels chaired by leading scholars in the field. See the program below. The symposium will be held […]

Jordan Center Undergraduate Research Symposium

New York, NY

The NYU Jordan Center for the Advanced Study of Russia is excited to announce the second annual master’s research symposium and undergraduate research symposium! The Undergraduate Research Symposium will feature presentations on a broad array of topics on panels chaired by leading scholars in the field. See the program below. The symposium will be held […]

The Soviet Red Cross in the International Red Cross movement during the Cold War (with Severyan Dyakonov)

New York, NY

Severyan Dyakonov will present his ongoing research project, focusing on the Soviet Red Cross's engagement within the International Red Cross movement from the 1950s to the 1980s. During this period, representatives of the Soviet Red Cross assumed key roles in the governing bodies of the International League of the Red Cross, strategically aiming to challenge prevailing Western […]

One Century Apart: Russian Avant-Garde and the Nineteenth-Century Colonial Expansion (with Anna Aydinyan)

New York, NY

Presenting her book Formalists against Imperialism: The Death of Vazir-Mukhtar and Russian Orientalism (2022), Anna Aydinyan will concentrate on the relationship between the Russian Avant-Garde of the 1920s and cultural tendencies of the 1820s. At the beginning of the twentieth century, Russian poets, writers and literary scholars critically reexamined nineteenth-century literature in its connection with […]

Lost Detectives: Early Russian Crime Fiction, Visual Adaptation, and the Art of Waiting (with Claire Whitehead & Carol Adlam)

New York, NY

According to Susan Sweeney, ‘in its formal elements, such as sequence, suspense, and closure, as well as in content, the detective story dramatizes the workings of narrative itself’. Although late nineteenth-century examples of Russophone crime fiction differ in some significant respects from the archetypal detective stories of Edgar Allan Poe and Arthur Conan Doyle envisaged […]

Countering Authoritarian Regime Propaganda: Evidence from Russia at War (with Grigore Pop-Eleches)

New York, NY

Dr. Pop-Eleches will discuss the most recent findings from the Russia Watcher project. The Russia Watcher is a survey project designed to collect high-frequency public opinion data in Russia. It was created in response to the full-scale invasion of Ukraine as a mechanism for understanding how public attitudes toward the conflict were developing and why […]