Other Projects

The Post-Soviet Public Sphere: Multimedia Sourcebook of the 1990s

Collaborative Digital Humanities Project (Co-Curator)
Project Director: Maya Vinokour.
Hosting Institution: New York University.

Project Description: Preparation of a digital collection of bilingual scholarly essays and an open access website with 500 Russian-language multimedia artifacts created just before and after the collapse of the Soviet Union, between 1986 and 2000. Recipient of a NEH Digital Humanities Grant (2019-2024).

THE POST-SOVIET PUBLIC SPHERE: MULTIMEDIA SOURCEBOOK OF THE 1990S

Post-Soviet Identities: Thirty Years After 1989

Lecture Series at Brown University.
Co-Sponsored by Slavic Studies and the C.V. Starr Foundation Lectureships.

09/30/2019. Lecture by Marijeta Bozovic (Yale), who presented material from her book project, Avant-Garde Post– : Radical Poetics After the Soviet Union, which "examines the poetic and theoretical output of a constellation of contemporary leftist Russian poets—linked by way of the journal [Translit], Kraft chapbook series, Free Marxist Press, and a number of poetry festivals and events in St. Petersburg and Moscow."

10/29/2019. Lecture by Eliot Borenstein (NYU). The talk focuses on the use of the idea of “brainwashing” in Russian public culture and media today all along the political spectrum. Sponsored by the Department of Slavic Studies and the C.V. Starr Foundation Lectureships. Brown University,

Stiob in US-Russian Communication. Lecture by Julie Hemment

02/26/2020. Lecture by Julie Hemment (UMass Amherst). The talk focused on the strange centrality of humor in post-2016 Russia-US political communication, examining some of the geopolitical performances of state actors like Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov

11/16/2016. A lecture by Ilya Budraitskis.

In 2012, Vladimir Putin was re-elected president of Russia for the third time. After his return, though, his policy did not merely replicate the "stability" of the 2000s. On the contrary, Putin’s third term has been marked by a decisive shift toward aggressive conservative rhetoric, growing control over civil society and cultural institutions, and geopolitical adventures. Today, after drastic changes in the highest spheres of the Russian government and the results of the last parliamentary election, we can see the results of Putin's new political course. What was the specificity of the policy of Putin's "third term," and what can this tell us about the future of Russian politics, especially following the next presidential election of 2018? Sponsored by the Department of Slavic Studies at Brown University.