By Kirby Fleitz, Undergraduate student at HLS On March 12th at 12 pm the Russian Studies Workshop hosted the second panel in the ongoing series Critical Conversations in Russian Studies. Led by IU professor Michael De Groot, the panel was centered around a discussion of Soviet Foreign Relations and the Late Cold War. The panel… Read more »
Film Screening: Anat Zalmanson Kuznetsov’s “Operation Wedding”
By Iain Viraj Cunningham, Graduate Student, Department of Slavic and East European Languages and Cultures Recently, the Russian Studies Workshop screened the 2016 documentary film Operation Wedding, the story of a group of Jewish civilians attempting to leave their city of Riga to find a more accepting life and religious freedom outside of The Soviet… Read more »
Reflections on a talk by Dima Kortukov: “Political Change in Ordered Societies: Elections and the End of the USSR”
Nataliya Shpylova-Saeed: “Contested Narratives and Contested Identities in Today’s Ukraine: Cultural Memory as a Vehicle for Contestations”
By Becky Craft, Graduate Student, Russian & East European Institute and the Luddy School of Informatics, Computing, and Engineering On October 29, Nataliya Shpylova-Saeed, IU Ph.D student, gave a presentation on contestations in today’s Ukraine. Shpylova-Saeed spoke about the differing forms of contestations and how they are different from conflicts. We often hear about contested identities today,… Read more »
Americanization, Russification, and the Contradictory Promises of Modernity: A Sectarian Group’s Great Migration
By Stepan Serdiukov, PhD student in History This is the fourth in a special series on IU graduate students and their research, RSW Research Series. It is an opportunity for RSW colleagues and other readers to learn more about our students’ research projects. If you are interested in learning more about this research or connecting with… Read more »
Is there a place for Big Data in Area Studies?
By: Alisha Kirchoff, PhD Candidate & RSW Fellow This is the second in a special series on IU graduate students and their research, RSW Research Series. It is an opportunity for RSW colleagues and other readers to learn more about our students’ research projects. If you are interested in learning more about this research or connecting… Read more »
“Literary Representations in the Symposium on the Siege of Leningrad”
By Natasha Rubanova, PhD Student in Comparative Literature and Germanic Studies More than 70 years after the end of the catastrophe of the Second World War, the theme of the Leningrad blockade—an almost three-year long siege of the city whose citizens were subjected to a slow and torturous death from starvation—remains in the shade. The… Read more »
“Russian Odysseys: Stephen F. Cohen and Alexander Rabinowitch Reflect on Six (plus!) Decades of Scholarly and Personal Engagement with Russia”
By Bryce Hecht, Graduate student, Russian & East European Institute On September 25, the Russian studies community at Indiana University (IU) gathered to listen to Alexander Rabinowitch, Professor Emeritus of History at IU, and Stephen F. Cohen, Professor Emeritus of Russian Studies and Politics at Princeton University and New York University, reflect on their over… Read more »
Reflections on Sarah Bidgood’s Visit
By Clare Angeroth Franks, Russian and East European Institute alumna and Curriculum Coordinator Sarah Bidgood, Director of the Eurasia Nonproliferation Program at the James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies in Monterey, California, visited Indiana University on Friday, October 4, 2019. Bidgood shared her professional and academic experience during Friday’s Russian and East European Institute Networks… Read more »
“Campaign of Hate: Russia and Gay Propaganda”
By Megan Burnham, Graduate student, Russian & East European Institute How do LGTBIQ+ people survive in Putin’s Russia? The current regime is not exactly known for its protection of human rights. LGTBIQ+ people have become a convenient target for a regime looking for scapegoats to distract from domestic economic stagnation and democratic backsliding. The difficulties they… Read more »