Written by Sam Fajerstain, RSW graduate affiliate. This past April, nearly thirty historians of Russia and the Soviet Union convened in Bloomington for the 2018 Midwestern Russian History Workshop. An annual staple of Midwestern Russian studies since the early 1990s, the MRHW serves as a collaborative nexus, allowing scholars to present their unpublished work for… Read more »
Spring 2018 Conference
Siberia from the outside and from within: international conference of field researchers / Сибирь извне и изнутри: международная конференция полевых исследователей
Written by Elena Korkina, member of the Center for Independent Research in the Social Sciences-Irkutsk / Написано Еленой Коркиной, сотрудник Центра независимых социальных исследований – Иркутск Конференций о Сибири, много. Конференций, в которых могут участвовать исследователи Сибири ещё больше. Почему иркутская – особая статья? В основе иркутской конференции три принципа: Исследования “человеческой”, повседневной и современной… Read more »
“Human Rights Justice in Hybrid Regimes: Enforced Disappearances and Torture in the Russian Federation”
Written by Madeline McCann, graduate student in REEI Several weeks ago, the Russian Studies Workshop and the Department of International Studies sponsored a seminar on Human Rights Justice in Hybrid Regimes. Although the seminar broadly addressed the challenges of domestic litigation where there is weak rule of law, the focus in particular was on enforced… Read more »