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Nataliya Shpylova-Saeed: “Contested Narratives and Contested Identities in Today’s Ukraine: Cultural Memory as a Vehicle for Contestations”
By Becky Craft, Graduate Student, Russian & East European Institute and the Luddy School of Informatics, Computing, and Engineering On October 29, Nataliya Shpylova-Saeed, IU Ph.D student, gave a presentation on contestations in today’s Ukraine. Shpylova-Saeed spoke about the differing forms of contestations and how they are different from conflicts. We often hear about contested identities today,… Read more »
“Literary Representations in the Symposium on the Siege of Leningrad”
By Natasha Rubanova, PhD Student in Comparative Literature and Germanic Studies More than 70 years after the end of the catastrophe of the Second World War, the theme of the Leningrad blockade—an almost three-year long siege of the city whose citizens were subjected to a slow and torturous death from starvation—remains in the shade. The… Read more »
“Russian Odysseys: Stephen F. Cohen and Alexander Rabinowitch Reflect on Six (plus!) Decades of Scholarly and Personal Engagement with Russia”
By Bryce Hecht, Graduate student, Russian & East European Institute On September 25, the Russian studies community at Indiana University (IU) gathered to listen to Alexander Rabinowitch, Professor Emeritus of History at IU, and Stephen F. Cohen, Professor Emeritus of Russian Studies and Politics at Princeton University and New York University, reflect on their over… Read more »
Reflections on Sarah Bidgood’s Visit
By Clare Angeroth Franks, Russian and East European Institute alumna and Curriculum Coordinator Sarah Bidgood, Director of the Eurasia Nonproliferation Program at the James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies in Monterey, California, visited Indiana University on Friday, October 4, 2019. Bidgood shared her professional and academic experience during Friday’s Russian and East European Institute Networks… Read more »
“Campaign of Hate: Russia and Gay Propaganda”
By Megan Burnham, Graduate student, Russian & East European Institute How do LGTBIQ+ people survive in Putin’s Russia? The current regime is not exactly known for its protection of human rights. LGTBIQ+ people have become a convenient target for a regime looking for scapegoats to distract from domestic economic stagnation and democratic backsliding. The difficulties they… Read more »
2018 Midwestern Russian History Workshop
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 »