The Master of Arts in Regional Studies—Russia, Eastern Europe, and Central Asia (REECA) is a two-year program that offers advanced training in the history, politics, culture, society, and languages of this region.
We are the only dedicated Georgia program at a U.S. university, advancing the study of Georgia, the South Caucasus, and the Black Sea region through research, teaching, scholarly and cultural exchanges, and outreach.
Join us for a conversation with Kazakhstan's Ambassador to the U.S., Yerzhan Ashikbayev to discuss the challenges and opportunities facing his country, as well as the future of the Kazakh-U.S. strategic partnership.
This talk examines musical life in the Warsaw Ghetto, using song texts, diaries, and even concert reviews in ghetto newspapers to reconstruct its musical environment.
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.