Scholars of Russia, Eastern Europe and Eurasia at CUNY
CREATOR: gd-jpeg v1.0 (using IJG JPEG v62), quality = 90 Ukrainian leftist public discourse on the world war is studied on the basis of the newspapers Robytnicha Hazeta and Borotba. The first mentioned was the organ of the Ukrainian Social Democratic Labour Party, while the second was the newspaper of the Ukrainian Socialist Revolutionary Party. […]
Abstract: The paper concerns the life of Alexander Weissberg-Cybulski (1901-1964), an Austrian-Jewish physicist, writer, businessman, communist, then anti-communist and gambler. In his twenties, Weissberg was a member of an international brotherhood of physicists at the peak of that science and of a cosmopolitan leftist milieu of European intelligentsia. He is best known for the book […]
The Sokol movement is said to have experienced something of a ‘golden age’ in the interwar period, similar to that of the Czechoslovak Republic itself. The Czechoslovak Sokol Association, which became a mass movement in the interwar period, received and also gave fulsome support to the national institutions of the state, and its impressive organisation […]
Bénédicte Santoire, University of Ottawa, presents new research on the role of women in protracted conflicts in Moldova and Georgia for feedback and discussion. Bénédicte Santoire is a PhD Candidate and Lecturer in International Relations at the University of Ottawa, Canada. She researches and teaches in the areas of feminist international relations theories and feminist […]
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 […]
Columbia’s Art History and Archaeology is hosting an event to launch the publication of Detroit-Moscow-Detroit: An Architecture for Industrialization,1917–1945, edited by Claire Zimmerman, Christina Crawford and the late Jean Louis Cohen. The book Detroit–Moscow–Detroit: An Architecture for Industrialization explores spatial development, manufacturing, mass production, and organizational planning across geopolitical lines that ran from Detroit to Moscow and […]
Yana Prymachenko, PhD, Visiting Research Scholar at Princeton University, and Senior Researcher at the Institute of History of Ukraine, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, joins the CUNY REEES Kruzhok to discuss a comparative analysis of the "Great Victory" in Soviet and Russian memory culture. Since 1965, Victory Day became the main holiday in 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 […]
