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 »
Tag: Field Research
Reflections on the Graduate Methods Training Workshop, September 14-15 2018
Memo from the Russian Studies Workshop. Written by Sarah Fogleman, RSW Project Coordinator. On September 14-15, 2018, RSW organized the “Graduate Methods Training Workshop: Focus on Russia.” The GMTW brought together 20 emerging social-science scholars from across the United States to IU’s Social Science Research Commons (SSRC), a state-of-the-art facility designed for social scientists. There, they met with over a… Read more »
Update from the field: Life in a Siberian village
Written by Taylor Thomas, PhD student in the Department of Religious Studies with a minor in Slavic and East European Languages and Cultures. Black chai with fresh mint. Bliny with smetano and jam. A trip up the mountain alongside a procession of cows to gather berries for kompot or pierogi. Three shots of something very… Read more »
“Coping with Uncertainty: Petty Traders in Post-Soviet Russia” with Kamil Wielecki
Written by Megan Burnham, graduate student in REEI. What’s the difference between a petty trader and a smuggler? Quite a lot, actually. The issue of criminality was but one of the many topics addressed by Kamil Wielecki, Fulbright recipient and Visiting Professor at Wagner College, at his lecture “Coping with Uncertainty: Petty Traders in Post-Soviet Russia.” The… Read more »
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 »