INTL-I 422 Contested Territories/Conflicted Identities: Comparative Colonialism, J Romero

INTL-I303, REEI-R330/500 Oil and Power in Global Affaris, M De Groot

International Conference -- Regions of Imperial Russia:  Identities, Representations, Meanings

One of our partner institutions, The International Laboratory “Russia’s Regions in Historical Perspective” at the National Research University “Higher School of Economics” (HSE), is hosting this international conference October 21-24, 2019 in Moscow.

Program (Russian)

Program (English)

RSW Research Affiliate, Vladislav Rjeoutski, received the 2019 Marc Raeff book prize for The French Language in Russia: A Social, Political, Cultural, and Literary History. Dr. Rejoutski, who is a Research Fellow at the German Historical Institute in Moscow, presented his book during his 2018 spring stay in Bloomington as a visiting research scholar. THe Marc Raeff book prize is awarded by the Eighteenth-Century Russian Studies Association (ECRSA).

Book Presentation: "Language Choice in Enlightenment Europe: Education, Sociability, and Governance"

REEI Series: О России по-русски! Vladislav Rjeoutski

RSW Public Lecture: "Creating the Image of Russia: Language, Ideology and Political Propaganda in Eighteenth Century Europe"

The Abandonment of the West: The History of an Idea in American Foreign Policy, a new book from Michael Kimmage, is now available from Basic Books.

Michael Kimmage is a professor of history at the Catholic University of America, specializing in the history of the United States, Europe, and Russia. He was a member of the secretary’s policy planning staff at the US Department of State from 2014 to 2016. In 2018, he participated on the RSW Public Panel Discussion: "Russian Presidential Election: Results Preordained, Future Uncertain" with Regina Smyth, Maria Lipman,  and Nikolai Petrov. He also presented "Making the Case for Policy Relevance in Funding Proposals across the Social Sciences and Humanities" at an REEI Networks! event.

An interview with Zhanna Chernova challenging the so-called "crisis of the traditional family" in Russia

Natalya Kostarnova, Zhanna Chernova: "You're a man? Try to say at work that you need to sit with your child," September 18, 2019