While men dressed as NKVD officers re-enacted moments from early Soviet history on one side of the screen, OMON troops beat and dragged protestors into police buses on another.
Continue reading...Reconstructing Moscow
Maksim HanukaiJames Andrews on how the Moscow metro tells the story of socialism
Natasha Bluth
Between Moscow, Geneva and Shanghai: the League of Nations and the Traffic in Women of Russian Origin
Ilaria Parogni
Tatiana Artemyeva speaks on concepts of Russian moral philosophy in the Enlightenment
Natasha Bluth
On February 22, 2016, the NYU Jordan Center for the Advanced Study of Russia welcomed Tatiana Artemyeva, a professor in the Department of Theory and History of Culture at the Herzen State Pedagogical University of Russia, for a lecture on “Concepts of Russian Moral Philosophy in the Enlightenment.” Artemyeva, who is also a leading researcher at the Institute of Philosophy at the Russian Academy of Sciences, was introduced by Ilya Kliger, Associate Professor of Russian and Slavic Studies at NYU.
Teaching Race in Russia: Some Conclusions
Jennifer Wilson
I was giving the students a brief biography of Lorde and as soon as I said the phrase “black lesbian Feminist,” their eyes opened really wide. I don’t know if their reaction was to Lorde’s identity or to the fact that I was discussing it openly.
Continue reading...Welcome to Ukrainian 101
Kathryn David
Even as our textbook rejects so-called “Russified” grammar structures and vocabulary, it does not offer the word “zhid” as a proper term for “Jew.” I think you would be hard pressed to find someone who uses the term “zhid” as their go-to example of Ukrainian linguistic oppression. Ukrainians who lament the Russification of their language still use the term “yevrei.”
Continue reading...The St. George’s Ribbon and National Insanity
Mikhail Iampolski
Today’s owner of a German car shares his identity with his grandfather, who fought the Nazis.
Continue reading...Why We Must Return to the US-Russian Parity Principle
Stephen F. Cohen
We are in a new Cold War with Russia today, and specifically over the Ukrainian confrontation, largely because Washington nullified the parity principle. Indeed, we know when, why, and how this happened.
Continue reading...By Misunderstanding Crimea, the West Is Pushing Russia Further Away
Ilaria Parogni
On the recent anniversary of the Russian annexation of Crimea, residents of the peninsula came out on the streets to celebrate waving flags, cheering and clapping. There was music and dancing. The Night Wolves, a biker gang known for having close ties to Russian President Vladimir Putin, joined all the way from Moscow.
Crimea escaped civil war, but for some it remains a battleground.
Continue reading...Igor Pilshchikov discusses the legacy of Russian Formalism
Ari Mitropoulos
On March 31, 2015, the NYU Jordan Center for the Advanced Study of Russia welcomed Igor Pilshchikov, lead researcher at the Institute for World Culture at Lomonosov Moscow State University and a senior researcher at Tallinn University, to present a paper entitled “The Legacy of Russian Formalism and Contemporary Humanities.” Pilshchikov discussed the lack of methodological unity and a singular paradigm in the Russian Formalist school, – a group of literary critics operating from the 1910s to the 1930s – due to the diversity of approaches and ideas formulated by its two circles. One circle was based in St. Petersburg and was known as the OPOYAZ. The second was the Moscow Linguistic Circle (MLC), which set a significant precedent for further 20th century scholarship in linguistics and literary theory, Pilshchikov said. Pilshchikov also noted that the MLC’s legacy is largely underestimated, mainly because unlike the OPOYAZ they hardly published any of their works. It wasn’t until recently that their works were published and closely scrutinized.
Professor Lounsbery is among the keynote speakers at University of Virginia
Ilaria Parogni
On March 26, Professor Anne Lounsbery, chair of the Department of Russian and Slavic Studies at New York University, will be addressing the audience of “Centrifugal Forces: Reading Russia’s Regional Identities and Initiatives,” a three-day conference held at the University of Virginia. Lounsbery will speak on the perceived “symbolic geography” of Russia’s provinces.
Teaching Race in Russia: Dispatches from “The Harlem Renaissance: From New York to Tashkent”
Jennifer Wilson
Why do American race relations reappear over and over again in discussions of the minority experience in the former Soviet Union?
Continue reading...Shaving Eisenstein in Manhattan
Natalie Ryabchikova
An old-fashioned shave, with a razor that in Russian they call “dangerous”; an uncannily private scene performed under an open sky, 800 feet over the sidewalks of the greatest city in the world.
Continue reading...Talking with Yanni Kotsonis about “States of Obligation”
Elizabeth Glenn
Most people would think taxes and Russia, and then think beatings, unfairness, repression, burden, squalor, and an overbearing state. That’s plain wrong.
Continue reading...Cyborgs, Weak Cosmists, and a Russian Planet
Anya Bernstein
The Eye of Sauron over Moscow, or, Revenge of the Orcs
Eliot Borenstein
The Ramp to Nowhere? Disability in Contemporary Russia
Frances Bernstein
Given the deeply entrenched obstacles—physical, social, cultural, material— to participation in public life by people with disabilities, whatever mention is made is still noteworthy.
Continue reading...Anna Arutunyan explains the Putin mystique
Ilaria Parogni
On Nov. 5 journalist and author Anna Arutunyan joined Russia expert and Clinical Professor of Global Affairs at the NYU’s Center for Global Affairs Mark Galeotti in conversation for an event at the School of Professional Studies. The event, hosted in collaboration with the Jordan Center, focused on the figure of president Vladimir Putin and was the second installment of Revisiting Russia, a three-part series of talks aimed at discussing Russia’s future and its place in the world.
Universal Pictures: Zvyagintsev, Dostoevsky and the Politics of the Particular
James Rann
Stephen Norris discusses Boris Efimov and Soviet cartoons
Anastassia KostrioukovaOn October 10, 2014, the Jordan Center welcomed Stephen Norris, a professor of history at the Havighurst Center for Russian and Post-Soviet Studies at Miami University of Ohio, to speak about his book project, entitled “Communist Cartoonist: Boris Efimov.” Norris’s talk was second in the Jordan Center’s Colloquium Series, which, as Director Yanni Kotsonis explained, encourages scholars to present their ongoing projects in order to receive feedback and comments from the audience.
