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Emerging Voices: WAR IN UKRAINE

For the Spring 2022 Semester the Series will focus on Emerging Voices in REEES

The REEES Emerging Voices Colloquium Series hosts webinar events with scholars at early stages whose work will shape the study of Russia, Eastern Europe, and Eurasia in the years to come.

Upcoming Speakers

 

 

 

Archive of Past Colloquia

Since 2020 

   

Daniil Leiderman

Texas A&M University

Bio

Enduring Utopia: Eastern Europe in Video Games

3:30 pm, December 3, 2020

Video

Ania Aizman

University of Michigan

Bio

Memoirists, Mystics, and Communards: Anarchist Literary Cultures in Post-revolutionary Russia

3:30 pm, February 4, 2021

Video

Ruth Wurl

Stanford University

Bio

The Unmaking of a Man: the Life of Alexander Alexandrov and the Afterlives of Nadezhda Durova

3:00 pm, February 25, 2021 

Video

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Maria Chehonadskih

St. Anthony’s College, Oxford University

Bio

The Convergence of People, Things and Ideas: Alexander Bogdanov and the Problem of Organisation in Early Soviet Theory and Art

1:30 pm, March 3, 2021

Video

Giuliana D’Oro

“Sapienza” University of Rome

Bio

 The Tatar-Russian Intercultural Dialog through the pages of Ismail Bey Gasprinskii’s ‘Perevodchik-Tercüman’

3:00 pm, March 4, 2021

Video

 Zukhra Kasimova

University of Illinois at Chicago

Bio

An Improbable Museum: Russian Avant-garde, Ancient Khorezmian artifacts, and Karakalpak indigenous crafts in Igor Savitsky’s Collection in Nukus, 1966-1984

3:00 pm, March 11, 2021

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Alex Moshkin

University of Michigan

Bio

Likhie 90-e in Israel: Contemporary Russophone Poets Revisit Their Migration to Israel

3:00 pm, April 01, 2021

Video

Natalia Klimova

Natalia Plagmann

Princeton University

Bio

The (Not So) Lonely Human Voice: Sound in Contemporary Russian Documentary Theater   

3:00 pm, April 05, 2021

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Emily Laskin

University of California, Berkeley

Bio

Geopoetics of the Steppe

1:30 pm, April 14, 2021

Video

Mollie Arbuthnot

Jesus College, University of Cambridge

Bio

Red East: Propaganda Posters for Interwar Soviet Uzbekistan

3:00 pm, November 4, 2021

Video

Christopher Fort

American University of Central Asia (Kyrgyz Republic)

Bio

Witnessing the Past: Abdulla Qahhor’s “Tales from the Past” and Soviet Subjectivity in 1930s-1960s Uzbekistan

12:00 pm, November 5, 2021

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Ellina Sattarova

Dalhousie University (Canada)

Bio

The Non-Final Cut: The Biopolitics of Necrorealist Cinema

3:00 pm, November 11, 2021

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Milica Popović

Central European University

Bio

Deconstructing Yugonostalgia – the case of the (post)Yugoslav political actors: the last pioneers

2:00 pm, December 1, 2021

Video

Iya Kiva 

Galina Rymbu

Danik Zadorozhny

Yale History PhD student Orel Beilinson will introduce and speak about his experiences working as a translator in real time during the ongoing crisis

Ukraine in Words: Poetry, Translation, and Cultural Preservation

3:00 pm ET, April 7, 2022

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co-sponsored with the Translation Initiative