Written collaboratively by RSW’s Disability Studies Working Group In mid-May, 2021, members of RSW’s Disability Studies Working Group met via Zoom with Dickinson College Russian Department faculty Alyssa DeBlasio and Izolda Savenkova to workshop Unit 2 of DeBlasio and Savenkova’s in-process textbook for advanced Russian language learners, Pro-Dvizhenie: Advanced Russian through Film and Media. The… Read more »
Spring 2021
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 »
Reflections on the RSW event “Promoting Inclusion and Appreciating Diversity in Today’s Russia: Global Trends and Local Realities”
By Dafna Rachok, PhD student in Anthropology It is not a secret that concepts travel through time and places and often get vernacularized and reshaped. To find out how the idea of inclusion is understood and employed in contemporary Russia, on April 16th, a panel of experts gathered to tackle the question of diversity and… Read more »
Legal Memos & Social Journalism: IU student & faculty research team supports Russian human rights advocacy organization Moscow Helsinki Group
By Clare Angeroth Franks, REEI alumna Deaths which occur in state custody are a growing crisis in the Russian Federation. While there are no official statistics on deaths in custody in the country, more than one third of deaths associated with law enforcement agencies and the Federal Penitentiary Service (Федеральная служба исполнения наказаний or FSIN) are not adequately explained. Most often, the public only learns that… 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 »
Reflections on the RSW panel, “The State of Human Rights in Russia Today”
This post is the first in a two-part series on this panel. Part 1: The Fall of Human Rights By Clare Angeroth Franks, REEI alumna On Friday, February 5, 2021 four experts on human rights in Russia gathered to discuss the state of human rights in Russia today as part of the Russian Studies Workshop’s… Read more »