
Dungan Folktales & Legends: The Sino-Muslim Folkloric Narrative Tradition of Central Asia
Dungan Folktales & Legends: The Sino-Muslim Folkloric Narrative Tradition of Central Asia
Lecture with Professor Kenneth J. Yin.First migrating from northwest China to Russian Central Asia after the suppression... Read more
25 Jul 2023
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42mins

The Great Game and Migration of the 1950-60s from China to Kazakhstan with Dr. Ablet Kamalov
The Great Game and Migration of the 1950-60s from China to Kazakhstan with Dr. Ablet Kamalov
This presentation will focus on the migration of Kazakhs, Uyghurs, Russians and some other ethnic groups from Xinjiang p... Read more
24 Jul 2023
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1hr 7mins

Resilience in Ukraine: What We Know and What Can Be Done with Tymofii Brik
Resilience in Ukraine: What We Know and What Can Be Done with Tymofii Brik
The talk focuses on the socio-economic consequences of the war and the factors contributing to the resilience of the Ukr... Read more
11 May 2023
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38mins

A Spiritual Revolution: Reform and Reaction in Orthodox Russia with Andrey Ivanov
A Spiritual Revolution: Reform and Reaction in Orthodox Russia with Andrey Ivanov
The ideas of the Protestant Reformation, followed by the European Enlightenment, had a profound and long-lasting impact ... Read more
14 Apr 2023
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49mins

Political Participation of Women in the USSR and Russia with Valeria Umanets
Political Participation of Women in the USSR and Russia with Valeria Umanets
What happens when women’s political quotas are implemented in non-democracies? Valeria Umanets focuses on understanding ... Read more
7 Apr 2023
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48mins

Shifting Rationality: How Identity Decay Led Russia to Invade Ukraine with Mikhail Troitskiy
Shifting Rationality: How Identity Decay Led Russia to Invade Ukraine with Mikhail Troitskiy
The great puzzle of Russia-West relations throughout the three post-Cold War decades has been the apparent reluctance of... Read more
31 Mar 2023
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40mins

War, Revolution, and the Expansion of Women's Political Citizenship in Finland with Aili Tripp
War, Revolution, and the Expansion of Women's Political Citizenship in Finland with Aili Tripp
Finland was the first country in Europe to allow for suffrage for both men and women and the first in the world where wo... Read more
24 Mar 2023
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40mins

A War Vocabulary: Traumatic Experience and the Search for a New Language in Ukrainian Literature
A War Vocabulary: Traumatic Experience and the Search for a New Language in Ukrainian Literature
The literature of the war against Ukraine testified to the profound changes that took place in the nature of Ukrainian a... Read more
10 Mar 2023
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59mins

Power And Powerlessness In Wartime Russia with Sam Greene
Power And Powerlessness In Wartime Russia with Sam Greene
Russia's war against Ukraine has brought about a radical restructuring of the Russian political economy, placing transfo... Read more
3 Mar 2023
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48mins

Ukraine's Unnamed War - Jesse Driscoll (2.9.23)
Ukraine's Unnamed War - Jesse Driscoll (2.9.23)
The Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2022 has its roots in the events of 2013–2014. Russia cynically termed the seditionis... Read more
20 Feb 2023
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52mins