Ostap Kin presented and read from his book, “Babyn Yar: Ukrainian Poets Respond” on Thursday, April 4, 2024 at 4:00 pm in 206 Ingraham Hall, 1155 Observatory Drive.About the Lecture: On September 29 and 30, 1941, Nazis executed 33,771 Kyivan

Russian Independent Media Archive Project

2 days ago 49m 29s

Anna Nemzer and Ilia Venyavkin presented on their work with the Russian Independent Media Archive Project on Thursday, March 21, 2024 at 4:00 pm in 206 Ingraham Hall, 1155 Observatory Drive.About the Lecture: In this joint presentation, journ

Queer(ing) Art of the Russian Empire, Soviet Union, and Emigration, 1890s—1940s

2 days ago 1h 6m

Pavel Golubev gave a lecture on, “Queer(ing) Art of the Russian Empire, Soviet Union, and Emigration, 1890s—1940s” on Thursday, March 7, 2024 at 4:00 pm in 206 Ingraham Hall, 1155 Observatory Drive.About the Lecture:The Center for Russia, E

Do you suffer from urbanitis? Gender, cybernetics, and environmental concerns in 1970s Estonian SSR

2 days ago 50m 10s

Epp Annus gave a lecture on, “Do you suffer from urbanitis? Gender, cybernetics, and environmental concerns in the 1970s Estonian SSR” on Thursday, February 22, 2024 at 4:00 pm in 206 Ingraham Hall, 1155 Observatory Drive.About the Lecture: O

Cryptotheology, Psychobiography: Transgression in Polish 20th-Century Theatre

2 days ago 44m 2s

Tamara Trojanowska gave a lecture on “Cryptotheology, Psychobiography: Transgression in Polish 20th-Century Theatre” on Thursday, December 7, 2023 at 4:00 pm in 206 Ingraham Hall, 1155 Observatory Drive.About the Lecture: Tamara Trojanowska w

Between Horror and Hope

2 days ago 1h 7m

Natalia Kovyliaeva (Ph.D Candidate, University of Tartu) gave a lecture on "Between Horror and Hope: Feminist Anti-War Resistance and Opportunities for Mobilization in and Outside of Putin’s Russia" on Thursday, November 16, 2023 at 4:00 pm in

Soviet Samizdat: Imagining a New Society

2 days ago 43m 14s

Ann Komaromi (Professor in the Centre for Comparative Literature and Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, University of Toronto) presented on her book, “Soviet Samizdat: Imagining a New Society,” on Thursday, November 9, 2023 at 4:00

Defectors: How the Illicit Flight of Soviet Citizens Built the Borders of the Cold War World

2 days ago 45m 41s

Erik R. Scott (Associate Professor of History, University of Kansas) gave a lecture on "Defectors: How the Illicit Flight of Soviet Citizens Built the Borders of the Cold War World" on Thursday, November 2, 2023 at 4:00 pm in 206 Ingraham Hall,

Sonic Inscription, Soviet Writing, and Mikhail Romm’s Oral Stories with Matthew Kendall

Nov 14th, 2023 47m 7s

Matthew Kendall (Assistant Professor in the Department of Polish, Russian, and Lithuanian Studies, University of Illinois-Chicago) will give a lecture on “Revolutions per Minute: Sonic Inscription, Soviet Writing, and Mikhail Romm’s Oral Storie

After Violence: Russia’s Beslan School Massacre And The Peace That Followed

Oct 24th, 2023 45m 47s

Debra Javeline (Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Notre Dame) will present on her book, After Violence: Russia’s Beslan School Massacre and the Peace that Followed (Oxford University Press, 2023). F

Intermarriage And The Friendship Of Peoples

Oct 24th, 2023 52m 52s

Historian Adrienne Edgar (Professor in the Department of History at the University of California, Santa Barbara) will present on her recent book, Intermarriage and the Friendship of Peoples: Ethnic Mixing in Soviet Central Asia (Cornell Univers

The Story Of Memorial And The Country's Failed Transition To The Rule Of Law

Oct 18th, 2023 41m 37s

Lecture with Grigory Vaypan.Grigory traces the root causes of Russia’s war against Ukraine to the failure of the post-Soviet transitional justice project in the early 1990s. When the Soviet totalitarian regime collapsed, very little was done

Dungan Folktales & Legends: The Sino-Muslim Folkloric Narrative Tradition of Central Asia

Jul 25th, 2023 42m 30s

Lecture with Professor Kenneth J. Yin.First migrating from northwest China to Russian Central Asia after the suppression of the Dungan Revolt (1862–1877) under the Manchu-led Qing dynasty, the Dungan people boast a rich oral tradition, which

The Great Game and Migration of the 1950-60s from China to Kazakhstan with Dr. Ablet Kamalov

Jul 24th, 2023 1h 7m

This presentation will focus on the migration of Kazakhs, Uyghurs, Russians and some other ethnic groups from Xinjiang province of China to Soviet Kazakhstan in the 1950-60s. Discussion of the migration based on analysis of the Soviet archival

Resilience in Ukraine: What We Know and What Can Be Done with Tymofii Brik

May 11th, 2023 38m 59s

The talk focuses on the socio-economic consequences of the war and the factors contributing to the resilience of the Ukrainian people. Russia’s war against Ukraine has been ongoing for many years, and despite the challenges, the Ukrainian peopl

A Spiritual Revolution: Reform and Reaction in Orthodox Russia with Andrey Ivanov

Apr 14th, 2023 49m 22s

The ideas of the Protestant Reformation, followed by the European Enlightenment, had a profound and long-lasting impact on Russia’s church and society in the long eighteenth century. Though the Orthodox Church was often assumed to have been hos

Political Participation of Women in the USSR and Russia with Valeria Umanets

Apr 7th, 2023 48m 31s

What happens when women’s political quotas are implemented in non-democracies? Valeria Umanets focuses on understanding the political and social meaning and manipulation of gender in the Soviet Union, which held informal women’s political quota

Shifting Rationality: How Identity Decay Led Russia to Invade Ukraine with Mikhail Troitskiy

Mar 31st, 2023 40m 35s

The great puzzle of Russia-West relations throughout the three post-Cold War decades has been the apparent reluctance of the Kremlin to reap significant and evident benefits from collaboration with the United States and its allies. At many junc

War, Revolution, and the Expansion of Women's Political Citizenship in Finland with Aili Tripp

Mar 24th, 2023 40m 32s

Finland was the first country in Europe to allow for suffrage for both men and women and the first in the world where women were elected to national legislative office. Using turn of the 20th century Finland as an example, Professor Tripp will

A War Vocabulary: Traumatic Experience and the Search for a New Language in Ukrainian Literature

Mar 10th, 2023 59m 43s

The literature of the war against Ukraine testified to the profound changes that took place in the nature of Ukrainian artistic expression: from the loss of the very ability to speak, through the development of a new poetics of the voice and bo

Power And Powerlessness In Wartime Russia with Sam Greene

Mar 3rd, 2023 48m 8s

Russia's war against Ukraine has brought about a radical restructuring of the Russian political economy, placing transformative ideology and outright coercion firmly at the heart of power. Despite this, the war and its consequences have produce

Ukraine's Unnamed War - Jesse Driscoll (2.9.23)

Feb 20th, 2023 52m 44s

The Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2022 has its roots in the events of 2013–2014. Russia cynically termed the seditionist conflict in Crimea and Eastern Donbas a ‘civil war’ in order to claim non-involvement. This flies in the face of evidence,

The Russian Labor Market Story: Deciphering the Puzzles with Vladimir Gimpelson

Feb 17th, 2023 1h 2m

How can the Russian economy, moving from one crisis to another one, avoid significant hikes in unemployment? How does human capital evolve when workers’ wages peak so early and then decline so steeply? How does a country so rich in human capita

The Biggest War Since 1945: Why and How Russia's Invasion of Ukraine Matters for European Security

Feb 3rd, 2023 48m 22s

Russia's ongoing war against Ukraine reverberates beyond Ukraine in a major way. The international order and law are blatantly violated. Energy corridors have been affected and food supply chains have been disrupted around the world. The very n

Pastoralism in Kazakhstan as Cultural Heritage or Sustainable Culture? - Russell Zanca

Jan 27th, 2023 1h 18m

Humans have harnessed and selectively bred livestock in Kazakhstan for over 5,000 years. This lecture discusses the history and current practices of pastoralism in Kazakhstan, exploring the contemporary interaction shared among people, animals,