Scholars of Russia, Eastern Europe and Eurasia at CUNY
Gabriel Lataianu, Queensborough Community College, and Dr. Eugen Bruno Ștefan, Bureau for Social Research in Bucharest, join the CUNY REEES Kruzhok to share new research on: "Refugees from Ukraine and the perception of war in Romania: psycho-social studies and research" The presentation will discuss the results of the national survey "Refugees from Ukraine and the perception of […]
Leslie Waters joins the CUNY REEES Kruzhok to share new research on: Nationalization and Globalization in Competition: The 1992 Olympics and the New Europe The 1992 Olympics in Barcelona, Spain, were uniquely positioned to symbolically redefine the European continent. In the lead up to the games, the dissolution of the Soviet Union, wars of Yugoslav […]
In 2002, a subgenre of New Drama (Novaia Drama) known as docudrama emerged specifically to voice “direct utterance” from marginal contemporary social groups in Russia about social problems. Since then, this method has spread to Belarus, to the Belarus Free Theatre, and in 2015 to the Theatre of Displaced People in Ukraine. Scholarship by Mark […]
Join the CUNY REEES Workshop for a book talk with author Megan Buskey on Ukraine Is Not Dead Yet: A Family Story of Exile and Return. When Megan Buskey’s grandmother Anna dies in Cleveland in 2013, Megan is compelled in her grief to uncover and document her grandmother’s life in Ukraine. A Ukrainian American, Buskey returns […]
The CUNY REEES Workshop is pleased to host Kenneth Yin, LaGuardia Community College, CUNY, to present his research. Dungan Folktales and Legends is a unique anthology that acquaints English-speaking readers with the rich and captivating folk stories of the Dungans, Chinese-speaking Muslims who fled northwest China for Russian Central Asia after the failure of the […]
The CUNY REEES Workshop is pleased to host Jane Sugarman, Professor of Music, CUNY Graduate Center, to present new research for feedback. "Hello America" concert: Besart Halimi with Statues of Liberty Abstract: Following the Kosovar War of 1998-1999, Kosova became a UN protectorate and home to myriad intergovernmental and international non-governmental organizations as well as […]
The History PhD Program and the CUNY REEES and Gender and Transformation in CEEE Workshops are pleased to host Nicholas Boston, Associate Professor of Media Sociology, Lehman College, CUNY, to share new research for feedback. Professor Boston will present a chapter from his upcoming book, The Amorous Migrant: Race, Relationships and Resettlement is forthcoming from […]
Join the CUNY Russian, Eastern European and Eurasian Studies Kruzhok on Friday, March 22nd at 12:30 PM (ZOOM LINK), for this semester's first workshop. Historian Mátyás Mervay will introduce his paper, titled "Marrying Sun Yat-senism and Turanism. Leveraging Ancestral Nationalism in Interwar Sino-Hungarian Cultural Diplomacy.” The collapse of the Qing and Habsburg empires in the […]
Join the CUNY REEES Kruzhok at 12:30 PM on April 19, 2024 (on Zoom) with historian Christian Axboe Nielsen, who will speak about his new book, Mass Atrocities and the Police: A New History of Ethnic Cleansing in Bosnia and Herzegovina. Between April 1992 and December 1995, more than 100,000 people were killed in the […]
This paper by scholar Elena Vasyanina delves into the influence of Russian propaganda narratives on public perception. Vasyanina presents findings from a content analysis of 70 Russian anti-war songs and 70 pro-war songs (Z-songs), all penned in 2022 and 2023, reflecting on or reacting to Kremlin propaganda narratives related to the war against Ukraine. The […]
