The Russian Studies Workshop's panel discussion series brings together IU scholars with experts and practitioners across Russia and the United States to discuss pressing issues in Russia today.
Recordings are available for all of the following panel sessions, except for Russia's Geopolitical Humor.
RSW Critical Conversations Playlist
Critical Conversations discussion with Anastasia Patsey, Alena Levina, Anna Lyubimova, Michael Cannata, and Sarah Phillips about the ProfessionART project, which is a a multi-format educational program designed to improve professionalization opportunities for artists with disabilities.
ProfessionART: Art Without Borders
February 10, 2023, 12:00 PM EST
Critical Conversation Series with Vasily Gatov, Lev Gershenzon, Elaine Monaghan,and Ilya Utekhin focusing on the Russian media sphere.
March 1, 2023, 11:00 AM EST
Critical Conversation Series with Kathryn Graber, Justine Buck Quijada and Nikolai Tsyrempilov discussing the history of Buddhism in Russia, how that history matters to contemporary Russian Buddhists, and what scholars of Buddhism can learn from it.
Buddhism and the Uses of History in Russia
March 9, 2022, 10:00 AM EST
Critical Conversation Series with Stanislav Budnitsky, Precious Chatterje-Doody, Dmitry Chernobrov, and Julie Hemment will discuss the origins and logics of the Kremlin's newfound love of comedy
March 28, 2022, 11:00 AM EDT
Critical Conversation Series with Angelina Davydova, Pey-Yi Chu, Susan Crate, and Charlotte Wrigley.
April 20, 2022, 12:00 PM EDT
Panel discussion featuring human rights experts Dmitry Dubrovsky, Dmitry Makarov, Tatyana Margolin, and Emma Gilligan in a discussion about what can be done to improve human rights abuses in Russia today, the important role of the US and of NGOs, and the larger role of authoritarianism on human rights in the world.
The State of Human Rights in Russia Today
This panel of five expert scholars on the late Cold War period—Fritz Bartel of Texas A&M, Susan Colbourn of Johns Hopkins, Michael De Groot of Indiana University, Simon Miles of Duke University, and Christopher Miller of Tufts University—discusses the ways in which new archival evidence has revised scholars' understanding of how Moscow navigated an international order in transition during the 1970s and 1980s.
Soviet Foreign Relations and the Late Cold War
This panel engages experts in anthropology, disability studies, education, media and communication, the performing arts, and sociology in a discussion about how ideologies and practices around “inclusion” and “diversity” are being understood, implemented, and reshaped in contemporary Russia. Sarah Phillips will moderate the discussion between Svetlana Borodina, Elena Iarskaia-Smirnova, Sasha Kurlenkova, and Kira Shmyreva.
Promoting Inclusion and Appreciating Diversity in Today's Russia: Global Trends and Local Realities
Hamilton Lugar School of Global and International Studies