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 »
Tag: Contemporary culture
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 »
Reflections on Nataliya Savelyeva’s Talk, “Parasite Organizations”
By Griffin Edwards, MA student, REEI Natalia Savelyeva’s recent lecture “Parasite Organizations: What the Evolution of Direct Sales Marketing in Russia can tell us about Contemporary Capitalism” discussed the reception of direct sales marketing organizations in post-Soviet Russia, from its original stigma to acceptance. Savelyeva’s research seeks to answer questions such as: what were the… Read more »
Blog series on Symposium on Human Rights in Russia: Panel 4, Developing a regional human rights network in Russia
This is the fourth in a series of five blog entries from the “Symposium on Human Rights in Russia: The Life and Legacy of Lyudmila Alexeyeva,” which took place on November 15-16, 2019 on the campus of Indiana University—Bloomington. The blog entries were written by graduate students who come from a variety of disciplines at… Read more »
Reflections on Angelina Davydova’s talk on Environmental Policies and Challenges in Russia
Written by Clare Angeroth-Franks, MA student in the Russian & East European Institute An environmental journalist from St. Petersburg with broad expertise, including on Siberia, Angelina Davydova is based at UC Davis as a Humphrey Fellow this year. She has more than 10 years of professional experience of working with Russian and international media. Among other honors, she… Read more »
Reflections on Valery Nechay’s lecture: “Serving the Public and … Autocrats: How Free Media Promote the Survival of Authoritarian Regimes?”
Written by Dima Kortukov, PhD student in Political Science “Serving the Public and … Autocrats: How Free Media Promote the Survival of Authoritarian Regimes?”: Reflections on Valery Nechay’s lecture In the last quarter of the 20th century, dictatorial regimes collapsed in numerous states across diverse regions such as Latin America and Eastern Europe. But as… Read more »
Impressions from the conference, “Without barriers 2.0: New approaches to the study of disability”
Written by Sofiya Korzhuk, Assistant in the Department of General Sociology, Faculty of Economics, Novosibirsk National Research State University; Junior Researcher, Social Problems Department, Institute of Economics and Industrial Engineering of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences Автор: Софья Коржук, ассистент кафедры общей социологии, экономический факультет, Новосибирский национальный исследовательский государственный университет; младший научный… Read more »
Reflections on the conference “Without barriers 2.0. New approaches to the study of disability”
Written by Anna Nikonova, Assistant in the Department of History, Philosophy and Sociology at Kazan State Medical University Автор: Анна Никонова, ассистент кафедры истории, философии и социологии, Казанский государственный медицинский университет Перед тем, как рассказать о своих впечатлениях о конференции «Без барьеров 2.0. Новые подходы к исследованию инвалидности», хочу рассказать короткую историю, которая отражает… 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 »