Scholars of Russia, Eastern Europe and Eurasia at CUNY
Please join the Gender and Transformation in Central-Eastern Europe and Eurasia workshop for the first Fall 2022 session (in-person and Zoom): Olena Nikolayenko Professor, Political Science, Fordham University Gender and State Repression in Belarus Friday September 30 2pm to 3pm European Union Studies Center, CUNY Graduate Center 365 5th Avenue, New York Room 5203 In […]
Between Past and Future: Ukrainian Art in the Face of War A talk and discussion with Kateryna Iakovlenko, Senior Research Fellow at the School of Slavonic and East European Studies (SSEES) at University College London (UCL) Moderators: Professor Eric A. Ivison and Adjunct Assistant Professor Joseph Frusci Friday 30 September, @ 2:00 - 3:30 pm […]
This talk at the Haystack Book Festival in Norfolk, CT, features: Brigid O'Keeffe, author of The Multi-Ethnic Soviet Union and its Demise In conversation with Victoria Smolkin, author of A Sacred Space is Never Empty: A History of Soviet Atheism Click HERE to register to attend in person at the Norfolk Library Click HERE to […]
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 […]
Samuel D. Albert joins the CUNY REEES Kruzhok to share new research on: The Hungarian National Fine Arts Commission and Exhibitionary Politics: 1920-1940 In the interwar period, the Hungarian government aggressively pursued a policy of cultural diplomacy, of which one significant element was “representative” art exhibitions. These exhibitions were hosted in a variety of European […]
Please join us for our third Fall 2022 meeting of the Gender & Transformation in Central-Eastern Europe and Eurasia workshop Women and sexual health: The intersections of medical science and politics during state socialism in East-Central Europe Kateřina Lišková, Associate Professor, Masaryk University, Czechia With the advent of socialism, East-Central European (ECE) states emphasized women’s equality. Prof. […]
Irina Marin joins the CUNY REEES Kruzhok to share new research on: Vicious and Virtuous Circles in the Rural Economy of East European Borderlands at the End of the 19th, Beginning of the 20th Century This work-in-progress paper provides a cross-border comparison between rural communities in the borderlands of Austria-Hungary, Tsarist Russia and the Balkan […]
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 […]
https://youtu.be/nIrdoPjbzTE This panel brings together experts studying the impact of the war in Ukraine on agro-food systems. While policy-makers, industry specialists, and scholars have been tracking trends in global and regional markets, less is known about the rapidly-changing situation in Ukraine's agro-food economy that will have far-reaching effects on food security worldwide. The panelists will […]
Eva Hoffman Jedruch, author, will give a talk about her book via Zoom and in person in room 5203 at the Graduate Center, CUNY. This talk is co-sponsored by the Pilsudski Institute of America. At the turn of the twentieth century, Central and Eastern Europe was a configuration of nations dominated by three empires: Austrian, German and Russian, […]
The Departments of History and Political Science at Queens College/CUNY are holding a Zoom webinar panel discussion on the occasion of the anniversary of Russia's 2022 invasion of Ukraine, with Professors Elissa Bemporad, History, Julie George, Political Science, Igor Kuskovsky, Physics, and Thomas Ort, History. Moderated by Peter Liberman, Political Science. Click on the link […]
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. […]
