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.
The Far-Near War: How Russians Experience the War with Ukraine in Everyday Life, Across Social and Geographic Contexts
Since February 2022, the Public Sociology Laboratory has documented Russian everyday experiences of the war in Ukraine through 500+ in-depth interviews and 1,500 pages of ethnographic observations across Russia.
Russian Academics in Exile: Academic Freedom, Epistemic Justice, and War
In this talk, Dmitry Dubrovskiy examines how academic boycotts and sanctions, imposed in response to Russia’s war in Ukraine, affect Russian scholars forced into exile.