Occasional Series | Thursday, November 1st, 2018 | 5:00 PM – 6:30 PM
Continue reading...Beyond Putin: Report from A Masculinities Workshop
Katherine Dunleavy
A clear theme emerging from the papers and the following discussion was that of authenticity: what does it mean to be a “real” man in different cultural contexts?
Continue reading...Joshua Tucker introduces new book on how communism’s legacy shapes present attitudes
Nigar Hacizade
Jordan Center Director Joshua Tucker delivered the NESEEES keynote address on his new book, “Communism’s Shadow: Historical Legacies and Contemporary Political Attitudes” (co-authored with Grigore Pop-Eleches).
Continue reading...The Day of Family, Love and Fidelity: “Traditional Values” and Church-State Relations in Russia
Diana Dukhanova
Russian Women and the Myth of the “Right Man”
Anna Shadrina
As in the West, the Russian nuclear family includes two adults raising the children; the difference is that, in the Russian case, those adults are often a mother and a grandmother.
Continue reading...Six Questions for Jenny Kaminer about her new book, Women with a Thirst for Destruction: The Bad Mother in Russian Culture
Eliot Borenstein
““Bad,” of course is a highly relative, historically contingent, and variable term. I try to shed light on how changing political, social, and cultural contexts shape the varying models of maternity that circulate in a given time period. “
Continue reading...Slavic Studies’ Heart of Whiteness
Anne Lounsbery
Gay Propaganda: Coming Soon to a Book Store Near You
Ingrid Nordgaard
The publication of Gay Propaganda is set to February next year, making it a provocative response to the Winter Olympics in Sochi.
Continue reading...Sending Our Gay Students to Russia
Eliot Borenstein
What do we say to our LGBT students who are thinking about studying in the Russian Federation?
Continue reading...Cultures of War: Homefronts
Nicole Disser
Saturday’s panel “Homefronts”, part of this past weekend’s international symposium Cultures of War: From the French Revolution to the Russian Revolution, saw a lively discussion of the domestic experience of war, focusing on the social consequences of mobilization for warfare
Continue reading...Women Soldiers: Anna Krylova and Soviet Gender Categories
Elizabeth (Betty) Banks
Elizabeth Banks is a Graduate Student in NYU’s History Department.
“God blessed Vasilisa with the greatest courage of all”
Last Friday the Jordan Center joined with the NYU History Department’s History of Women and Gender group to welcome Anna Krylova to Washington Square. We enjoyed a lively discussion, stimulated by Krylova’s paper on how findings from her research into Soviet re-thinking of gender categories and the acceptance of the woman-soldier identity can be applicable to the field of gender history as a whole.
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