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 »
Tag: Social Sciences
Phillips participates in Utopian Kruzhok, “Body, Technology, Environment: Disability Studies”
On August 29, Sarah Phillips, IU professor of anthropology and director of the Russian and East European Institute, was a guest of the online interactive Russian-language seminar Utopian Kruzhok, “Body, Technology, Environment: Disability Studies.” Created and led by Alexandra Kurlenkova, PhD student in Media, Culture and Communication at NYU, the Disability Studies “kruzhok” (circle) introduces participants from various… Read more »
Tackling the Million-Ruble Question: The Lessons of Soviet Collapse
by Dima Kortukov, PhD student in Political Science This is the first in a special series on IU graduate students and their research, RSW Research Series. It is an opportunity for RSW colleagues and other readers to learn more about our students’ research projects. If you are interested in learning more about this research or connecting… Read more »
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 »
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 »