For Putin to order military force abroad, a confluence of certain factors is necessary, argues Dr. Simon Saradzhyan. He will discuss his findings and their practical implications — for example, can they be used to forecast Russian military interventions?
On April 14, 2021, the Moscow offices of the student-run journal DOXA were raided by the police. Anastasiya Osipova argues that during their year on trial, the DOXA editors attempted to counterpose both the institutional logic of police aesthetic (becoming the protagonists of a police file) and the celebrity logic (becoming media stars) with the aesthetic of a network––de-emphasizing the historical uniqueness of their roles as political prisoners to amplify the connection not only to their audience but also to the political militants of the past: creating a counter-network and a pedagogical counter-institution.
Please join us for an afternoon with acclaimed author and Boston College professor Maxim D. Shrayer as he reads from and discusses his new book, Immigrant Baggage.
Syllabus Design and Critical Pedagogies in the Classroom: How Do We Teach Differently? is the fifth panel of the Decolonization in Focus Series.The series will have six wide-ranging panels featuring speakers from various disciplines and institutions. Panelists and participants will be encouraged to consider why decolonizing Russian & Eurasian studies matters, how to implement concrete change in their classrooms, and how to conceive of the future of expertise within the field.
