This article was written by Olivia Hauser, senior in The Media School. The lecture & visit by Elena Volochine was a result of RSW’s collaboration with the Media School, the Center for Documentary Research & Practice, and the IU Cinema. Propaganda creates a hostile environment using fear as its most important emotion, a Moscow-based journalist… Read more »
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Reflections on “Hybrid Vigor: The Agency of Dogs in Space“
Written by Justin Monroe, undergraduate student at Indiana University. The first thing that made me interested in Russian history was when learning about the Soviet perspective of the “Space Race” while coming across a film centered around the dogs that the Soviets sent before sending up Yuri Gagarin and other cosmonauts. It was from this… Read more »
“I” and “Other”: the other I
Written by Nataliya Shpylova-Saeed, PhD student in Slavic and East European Languages & Cultures. «Я» и «Другой»: Другой Я (Краткий обзор лекции В. Морозова «Внутренний Другой в российском политическом дискурсе: рационализация инаковости или мифотворчество?» REEI, 6 ноября 2018) Культурологи и философы еще несколько десятилетий назад в своих исследованиях обращали внимание на то, как глобализационные процессы влияют… Read more »
Review of lecture by Oksana Zaporozhets, “The New Wave of Urbanization in Russia”
Written by Nataliya Shpylova-Saeed, PhD student in Slavic and East European Languages & Cultures О чём расскажет город? (Краткий обзор лекции О. Н. Запорожец «Новая волна урбанизации в России: высотное строительство, цифровые технологии и изменяющаяся социальность больших городов», семинар «О России по-русски», 29 октября 2018). Города строятся, развиваются, модернизируются, стареют, исчезают с географических карт, возникаю… Read more »
Screening of the film, “Happy People: A Year in the Taiga”
Written by Clare Angeroth Franks, REEI MA student. The 2010 documentary, “Happy People: A Year in the Taiga” appeared on Indiana University Bloomington’s campus on Wednesday, October 24. The documentary was introduced by visiting scholar Bathsheba Demuth, Assistant Professor of History and Environment & Society at Brown University and Assistant Director of the Climate History Network. The… Read more »
Reflections on the Graduate Methods Training Workshop, September 14-15 2018
Memo from the Russian Studies Workshop. Written by Sarah Fogleman, RSW Project Coordinator. On September 14-15, 2018, RSW organized the “Graduate Methods Training Workshop: Focus on Russia.” The GMTW brought together 20 emerging social-science scholars from across the United States to IU’s Social Science Research Commons (SSRC), a state-of-the-art facility designed for social scientists. There, they met with over a… Read more »
Update from the field: Life in a Siberian village
Written by Taylor Thomas, PhD student in the Department of Religious Studies with a minor in Slavic and East European Languages and Cultures. Black chai with fresh mint. Bliny with smetano and jam. A trip up the mountain alongside a procession of cows to gather berries for kompot or pierogi. Three shots of something very… Read more »
Report from the Summer Language Workshop
Written by Alyssa Rodriguez, PhD student in the Department of History at the University of Rochester in Rochester, New York. In my current studies, I seek to understand more of the Russian mentality during the Brezhnev era, and how mentality shifted through a study of the self. I have begun my study by looking through… Read more »
Report from Moscow: On the intersection of theatre, culture, and…soccer
Written by Greer Garni, Graduate Student in Theatre Hello from Moscow where the FIFA world cup is in full swing and the city is decked out to welcome sports fans from all over the world. No surface has been left untouched by the games; TVs have even been installed in metro cars to broadcast the… Read more »
“Creating the Image of Russia: Language, Ideology, and Political Propaganda in Eighteenth Century Europe” with Vladislav Rjeoutski
Written by Megan Burnham, graduate student in REEI. It’s an open secret that Russia is flooding the information space with propaganda to manipulate the image of itself and other nations. Close followers of RT, one of Russia’s international broadcasting arms, have noted the outlet’s attempts to stir provocations since its inaugural debut in 2005. RT’s scope has grown… Read more »