Events

Building on session 2, we will use web-based tools to extract spatial data from our trusty ice maps. 

Come see this controversial 2024 film adaptation of Mikhail Bulgakov’s classic satire of Stalinist-era Soviet dictatorship, followed by a conversation with the director. 

Nicole Eaton’s book reveals how Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union transformed a single city and the people who lived there.

In defiance of Russia’s anti-LGBTQ laws, a queer, 21-year-old artist risks her life performing in surreal costumes throughout Moscow. Jenna Marvin’s radical public performances blend artistry and activism in this SXSW documentary.

Take a journey into the dark forests and icy rivers of seventeenth-century Siberia.

Four former U.S. State Department officials discuss the evolution of U.S. policy during the Gorbachev era and in the first few years after the Soviet Union ended. 

“Akhmatova's Orphans. Disassembly” follows four Leningrad poets after the death of their inspiration, Anna Akhmatova. It is a story of memory, poetry, and the passage of time.

Information design is an art and a science. 

Join us for the fifth installment of our new speaker series to hear journalists Susan Glasser and Peter Baker discuss the new U.S. administration and foreign policy towards Russia.

Wrap-up session!

This webinar will take a look at how Armenian diplomacy evolved over the centuries and how the lessons learned from the past help Armenia navigate through modern geopolitical uncertainties.

In his talk, Stuart Goldberg will present a working definition of the sincere voice in poetry and a semiotic framework to elucidate how sincerity is inscribed and read.

Memories of the Second World War became politically important during the Brezhnev era in the USSR.  The speakers will address numerous aspects of public memory and official memories of the war.

This seminar brings together three scholars from Japan to analyze the impact of the war in Ukraine and its meaning outside Eastern Europe.

Join us for the sixth installment of our new speaker series to hear recently released Russian political prisoner Vladimir Kara-Murza speak about his experience of the modern-day gulag.

This seminar recounts the controversial status of displaced Soviet citizens after WWII and the divergent outcomes of resettlement in the early postwar period. 

Vladimir Gel’man will explore the origins of Russia's assault on Ukraine and provide an explanation for its failure to achieve its objectives.

Day-long workshop for educators interested in exploring the intersection of ecology and historical narratives in Ukraine.

Transpatial Modernity offers the first in-depth account of the triangular relationship among Chinese, Japanese, and Russian literature and culture in the modern era.

The talk will discuss the durable impacts of Russia's attempted recolonization of Ukraine on Eurasia's economic and supply chain integration.

 In this workshop, participants will consider new ways of teaching about Imperial, Soviet and Post-Soviet Eurasia through the use of maps, data, oral histories and more.  

Eugene Ostashevsky will offer a personal take on questions of translation, immigration, and language by discussing poems on the siege of Leningrad from his latest collection.

This workshop will focus on understanding the origin, purpose, content, and value of various textual and visual primary sources.