Jordan Center for the
Advanced Study of Russia

Join us for an exciting conversation with Joanna Stingray, hosted by Mikhail Danilin of NYU Russian and Slavic Studies! This event will be held virtually as a Zoom meeting. Released in September 2020, Joanna Stingray’s inspiring and poetic memoir Red Wave: An American in the Soviet Music Underground introduces Western audiences to the legendary musicians of Soviet rock through her improbable Cold War heroics as a young New Wave musician who, in 1985, produced Red Wave: 4 Underground Bands from the…

In 1882, the interior of one of the Moscow Kremlin’s oldest structures, the Faceted Palace, received a total makeover to mark the upcoming coronation of Alexander III. Described as a “restoration,” the project entailed the complete repainting of frescoes whitewashed over in the Petrine period and known only through a written description. Peasant painters from Palekh were commissioned to reconstruct the iconographic program in a style that combined traditional icon painting with current academic norms of spatial realism. Now considered…

Register here for the Zoom webinar, or tune in on YouTube Live. Join us for another virtual meeting of the New York-Russia Public Policy Seminar. This panel is co-hosted by Columbia University’s Harriman Institute and the New York University Jordan Center for the Advanced Study of Russia. Vladimir Putin’s announcement in August 2020 that Russia had become the first country to grant regulatory approval to a COVID-19 vaccine—Sputnik V—generated much fanfare domestically but was initially met with skepticism among expert global scientific communities. Now, with more published…

Join us for another installment of the 19v Seminar Series! The territorial expansion of the Russian Empire (1700-1917) brought about new forms of administration, a new official language, new foods, and even new ways of dress.  In recent years a number of scholars have helped us understand Russia’s imperial project by analyzing government documents, memoirs, travelogues, and other print media to give voice to the daily experiences of Russians and non-Russians as they negotiated their way in this imperial space. …

In this talk, José Alaniz (University of Washington) and Martha Kuhlman (Bryant University) and Biz Nijdam (University of British Columbia) will discuss the recently published edited collection Comics of the New Europe. This edited collection offers insights into the comics cultures of a number of post-socialist countries including the former East Germany, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Poland, the former Yugoslavia, Hungary, Romania, and Ukraine. A new generation of cartoonists is reexamining and reevaluating not only their respective comics traditions but…

Disasters have become repeatedly capitalized on by various criminals for their profit. Cybercriminals are not unique in this regard, and have activated their attacks at an unprecedented scale during the COVID-19 pandemic. Fraudsters take advantage of widely spread fear, public uncertainty, and the significant amount of time that individuals hover on the Internet. As with many other states, Russia has experienced a rise in cybercrime. This research discusses cybercrime statistics, new types of attacks, and targets. To understand the intensity…

Join us for another 19v seminar! Based on her forthcoming book, Marriage, Household and Home in Modern Russia: from Peter the Great to Putin (Bloomsbury Academic), Barbara Alpern Engel will explore the diffusion of sentimental ideas beyond the noble elites that comprised their initial audience.  From the reign of Catherine the Great through the first half of the nineteenth century if not later, she contends, those ideas rendered elite standing contingent on a person’s behavior, values, ideals and feelings, as…

Russian literary representations of the Caucasus didn’t begin with Pushkin. Gavrila Derzhavin’s “On the return of Count Zubov from Persia” (1797) and Vasilii Narezhnyi’s Black Year, or the Mountain Princes (1816-17) merit our attention as exemplary texts of the Russian Enlightenment. Offering the earliest Russian accounts of the natural and human diversity of the Caucasus, both texts also explore the nature and limits of political sovereignty in the context of eighteenth-century absolutism. My lecture will explore alpine landscape, alongside an…

This April, the Jordan Center will host 6 contemporary Russian poets for a series of readings and conversations. With a view to the recent anthology F-Letter: New Russian Feminist Poetry (isolarii, 2020), this series probes the recent history of women writing poetry in Russian. Whether explicitly feminist or otherwise, women have been prominent, if not dominant voices in Russian-language poetry for the past several decades. This series explores the power of language and its role in society, bringing together writing women of various generations and backgrounds to talk about their work, each other,…

For the second installment of "Women, Feminists, and Other Poets: A Series of Readings and Conversations," the Jordan Center will host Nastya Denisova, Kit Eginton, Anna Glazova, and Alex Niemi. With a view to the recent anthology F-Letter: New Russian Feminist Poetry (isolarii, 2020), this series of readings and conversations probes the recent history of women writing poetry in Russian. Whether explicitly feminist or otherwise, women have been prominent, if not dominant voices in Russian-language poetry for the past several decades. This series…