Events

Discover how theater in Russia and Eastern Europe has served as a powerful artistic and political voice over the past century—and how you can bring these compelling works into your classroom.

Join us for an in-depth conversation on how wars end—and what the war termination literature can tell us about possible pathways for ending Russia’s war against Ukraine. 

Join us to play a regionally themed trivia game!

Join us for "Literacy Strategies that Work," a workshop for K–14 educators offering practical, inclusive literacy strategies to support diverse learners in the social studies classroom.

Join us for a workshop that offers insights into state-crypto cooperation, including crypto mining as a form of state-facilitated extractivism in peripheral economies.

Join journalist Andrew Ryvkin, who spent years inside Russia’s propaganda machine, to uncover how the Kremlin markets Putin, the war in Ukraine, and the erosion of freedoms in the age of the attention economy.

Join us for a talk about NATO-Russia relations through the Soviet Era until the present day. 

Join us for a talk that explores the Yugoslav Wars through a microhistorical lens, drawing on oral histories, local archives, and court records to reveal how communities navigated violence and survival. By centering on everyday experiences, the discussion will challenge established nationalist narratives of victimhood and perpetration while offering a more nuanced understanding of the conflict.

This webinar explores research-based strategies to help students retain key social studies content and build background knowledge through inclusive, literacy-focused instruction.

Join violinist and historian Alexandra Birch for an illuminating talk on cultural exchange and everyday life in wartime Tashkent, exploring evacuation as a distinct form of survivorship and the lasting impact of secondhand Holocaust trauma. The talk also examines how wartime displacement shaped postwar experiences, including the rise of Stalinist antisemitism, offering a nuanced and deeply human historical perspective.

This talk discusses the 1920s and 1930s as a critical juncture in the Russian reception of Laurence Sterne, the author of Tristram Shandy and A Sentimental Journey.

Discover how art becomes a powerful tool of memory, identity, and resistance in times of conflict in this compelling session of The Arts of Eastern Europe and Eurasia webinar series.

Join the talk examining the (im)possibilities of reconstructing contemporary Irano-Armenian diasporic histories through the lens of doubly minoritized women’s activism and elusive archives.

This webinar offers practical, inclusive strategies to help all students access and comprehend complex social studies texts through vocabulary support, text structure instruction, graphic organizers, and multisensory techniques.

Join us for a talk to explore how Lithuanian archives influence the country today. 

Join us to hear Joseph Torigian tell the life story of Xi Zhongxun, a man who spent his entire life struggling to balance his own feelings with the Party's demands.

Russian language competition for high school students. 

This webinar explores scaffolding techniques and strategies from The Writing Revolution to help educators make social studies writing tasks more accessible and manageable for diverse learners.

A reassessment of the literary legacy of Julius Margolin, whose memoir "Journey into the Land of the Zeks" was of the earliest important contributions to the corpus of Gulag literature.