This is the third in a series of five blog entries from the “Symposium on Human Rights in Russia: The Life and Legacy of Lyudmila Alexeyeva,” which took place on November 15-16, 2019 on the campus of Indiana University—Bloomington. The blog entries were written by graduate students who come from a variety of disciplines at… Read more »
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Blog series on Symposium on Human Rights in Russia: Panel 2, Freedom of Assembly
This is the second in a series of five blog entries from the “Symposium on Human Rights in Russia: The Life and Legacy of Lyudmila Alexeyeva,” which took place on November 15-16, 2019 on the campus of Indiana University—Bloomington. The blog entries were written by graduate students who come from a variety of disciplines at… Read more »
Blog series on Symposium on Human Rights in Russia: Panel 1, Memories of Lyudmila
This is the first in a series of five blog entries from the “Symposium on Human Rights in Russia: The Life and Legacy of Lyudmila Alexeyeva,” which took place on November 15-16, 2019 on the campus of Indiana University—Bloomington. The blog entries were written by graduate students who come from a variety of disciplines at… Read more »
Railroads, Tattooed Noblemen, and the Constitutive Other: A Reflection on Ivan Kurilla’s talk “Frenemies: U.S.-Russian Relations from a Historical Perspective”
Written by Stepan Serdiukov, PhD student in History What roles do U.S. and Russia play in each other’s public imaginations? This is what Ivan Kurilla, Professor of History and International Relations at European University in Saint Petersburg, focused on in his March 5 talk at Woodburn Hall 101. Dr. Kurilla started his career as an… Read more »
Reflections on Angelina Davydova’s talk on Environmental Policies and Challenges in Russia
Written by Clare Angeroth-Franks, MA student in the Russian & East European Institute An environmental journalist from St. Petersburg with broad expertise, including on Siberia, Angelina Davydova is based at UC Davis as a Humphrey Fellow this year. She has more than 10 years of professional experience of working with Russian and international media. Among other honors, she… Read more »
Reflections on Peter Kreko’s talk, “Russian Influence on the West: soft power, sharp power, or no power?”
Written by Jessica Storey-Nagy, PhD student in Central Eurasian Studies, Hungarian Studies Péter Krekó is the Executive Director of the Budapest-based think tank Political Capital. He also serves as Professor of psychology and political science at Etövös Loránd University of Sciences in Budapest and is a member of the presidential board of the Hungarian Political… Read more »
Reflections on Valery Nechay’s lecture: “Serving the Public and … Autocrats: How Free Media Promote the Survival of Authoritarian Regimes?”
Written by Dima Kortukov, PhD student in Political Science “Serving the Public and … Autocrats: How Free Media Promote the Survival of Authoritarian Regimes?”: Reflections on Valery Nechay’s lecture In the last quarter of the 20th century, dictatorial regimes collapsed in numerous states across diverse regions such as Latin America and Eastern Europe. But as… Read more »
Impressions from the conference, “Without barriers 2.0: New approaches to the study of disability”
Written by Sofiya Korzhuk, Assistant in the Department of General Sociology, Faculty of Economics, Novosibirsk National Research State University; Junior Researcher, Social Problems Department, Institute of Economics and Industrial Engineering of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences Автор: Софья Коржук, ассистент кафедры общей социологии, экономический факультет, Новосибирский национальный исследовательский государственный университет; младший научный… Read more »
Reflections on the conference “Without barriers 2.0. New approaches to the study of disability”
Written by Anna Nikonova, Assistant in the Department of History, Philosophy and Sociology at Kazan State Medical University Автор: Анна Никонова, ассистент кафедры истории, философии и социологии, Казанский государственный медицинский университет Перед тем, как рассказать о своих впечатлениях о конференции «Без барьеров 2.0. Новые подходы к исследованию инвалидности», хочу рассказать короткую историю, которая отражает… Read more »
Reflections on Edyta Bojanovska’s lecture, “The Colonial World Through Russian Eyes”
Written by Ani Abrahamyan, PhD student in Slavic & East European Languages and Cultures Each semester the graduate students of the Department of Slavic and East European Languages and Cultures get the opportunity to invite a scholar for a guest lecture. As each student has a distinct academic research interest, the process of choosing the… Read more »