In 2024, the Russian government officially banned all U.S. cultural and educational exchange programs and labeled the organizations administering them as “undesirable.” In conjunction with the 15th annual conference of the Russian American Science Association (RASA), the Center is hosting … Read more

BODIES IN FOCUS: Power, Subjectivity, and Practice in East European and Eurasian Studies This six-part virtual event series will examine body matters within Eurasia through a variety of disciplines and themes. The body-as-method has emerged recently to provide novel insights … Read more

BODIES IN FOCUS: Power, Subjectivity, and Practice in East European and Eurasian Studies This six-part virtual event series will examine body matters within Eurasia through a variety of disciplines and themes. The body-as-method has emerged recently to provide novel insights … Read more

BODIES IN FOCUS: Power, Subjectivity, and Practice in East European and Eurasian Studies This six-part virtual event series will examine body matters within Eurasia through a variety of disciplines and themes. The body-as-method has emerged recently to provide novel insights … Read more

Don’t miss the opportunity to hear Bartłomiej Chromik, a prominent scholar from the University of Warsaw. This talk will explore the vital process of revitalizing the Ukrainian language and culture, a journey that reflects the resilience of a nation reclaiming … Read more

Andrei Kureichik is a writer and theater and cinema director from Belarus who is currently in exile. Andrey Kureichik is renowned for his artistic solidarity initiatives that have traversed over forty nations. Andrei received the Sakharov Prize for Freedom of … Read more

Michael Meeropol, an esteemed economist and son of Ethel and Julius Rosenberg, will present a thought-provoking lecture on the resurgence of fascist and authoritarian tendencies in the United States. Drawing parallels between the fears of fascism during the Red Scare … Read more

Uliana Movchan is an Associate Professor at the Department of Political Science at V.N. Karazin Kharkiv National University. She has conducted research at the Institute for European, Russian and Eurasian Studies (George Washington University); Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies (University … Read more

From Leonid Brezhnev’s pharmacological bids for corporeal immortality, to the continued display of Lenin’s (un)dead body in the Mausoleum, official culture in the late Soviet period was at pains to demonstrate its own permanence. Yet novels like the Strugatsky brothers’ … Read more

Adrienne Edgar is Professor of History at UC Santa Barbara. She specializes in the history of the Soviet Union, specifically the history of Central Asia in the Soviet period. Her research has focused on the making of nations in early … Read more