By Noah Amir Arjomand, Postdoctoral Scholar in Global Media, Development, and Democracy Russian artist and disability activist Jerry Mercury goes beyond paying tribute to Malcolm X in “Setting Off with Malcolm”–he personally embodies the civil rights icon’s martyrdom. The 22-minute film consists of Mercury reflecting on how Malcolm inspired him and reading excerpts from his hero’s… Read more »
Film screening
Film Screening: “VOY”
By Iain Cunningham, Graduate Student, Department of Slavic and East European Languages and Cultures It is not often that we are confronted by a genre of film that bears familiarity to us while maintaining its ability to instill contemplation, to appear to us as strange and novel. VOY is certainly such a film. Directed by… Read more »
Film Screening: “Budynok”
By Iain Cunningham, Graduate Student, Department of Slavic and East European Languages and Cultures Russian Studies Workshop screened a film entitled Budynok, or “Building,” in Ukrainian. The directors of the film, Tatjana Kononenko and Matilda Mester, were able to speak with us about the film and answer some of our questions. To call Budynok a… 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 “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 »
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 »