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Full Historiographical Legitimacy to Ukraine

Submitted by thinium on Thu, 2022-04-07 16:19

In 1995 the late Mark von Hagen opened his thought-provoking essay “Does Ukraine Have a History?” with an observation that Ukrainian studies lack full historiographical legitimacy in major academic centers

Strangely Rosy: Reading Poetry in Wartime

Submitted by thinium on Thu, 2022-04-07 13:09

I spent most of my life not reading poetry. Right now it’s the only language that makes sense to me.

The Implications of Our 2021 Theme: Diversity, Intersectionality, and Interdisciplinarity

Submitted by thinium on Tue, 2022-02-01 11:23

“The point here is that diverse students (like our own past selves) will bring diverse interests to their educations, and those interests can usefully update and transform what we are doing.”

Teaching the 1648 Moscow Uprising in 2020

Submitted by NAI27 on Tue, 2021-09-14 12:42

In the summer of 2020, I faced two challenges as I prepared to teach my course on Russian history to Peter the Great in the fall semester: first, the need to transform a course normally taught in a classroom into a virtual format during Covid-19, and second, the need to respond to growing protests about racial injustice during summer 2020. Now, my memory of teaching pre-Petrine Russia in fall 2020 will always be associated with the Covid-19 pandemic, the Black Lives Matter protests, and the storming of the US Capitol.

SRAS: 25 Years of Innovation

Submitted by thinium on Mon, 2021-09-13 14:32

The impact of COVID on study abroad and on SRAS is far-reaching. There was the rush to bring students home and the need to transition quickly to online studies so that they could complete their semesters while attending classes across multiple time zones. Then we found ourselves unable to send students abroad for more than a year. However, I think we were not alone in deciding to use this “down time” to organize systems and plan for the next term and what seemed like perhaps a new era in study abroad.

US-Russian Relations, Nord Stream, Germany, and Ukraine

Submitted by thinium on Mon, 2021-09-13 11:39

Much has been written about the recent Geneva summit between Presidents Biden and Putin. What does it tell us about how relations with Russia have shifted since the change of administration in Washington? How does looking at that relationship from the broader perspective of US-European-Ukrainian relations help us gain a more nuanced understanding of the situation and the challenges moving forward?

New Lease on Life for Physiological Collectivism? Reading Bogdanov in the Time of COVID

Submitted by thinium on Thu, 2021-06-24 14:59

My entry into low theory juxtaposes convalescent plasma as a prophylaxis against COVID-19 with Aleksandr Bogdanov’s 1920s blood transfusion experiments.

Summing Up Poetry: A Case Against Packaging 

Submitted by thinium on Thu, 2021-06-24 13:22

During the pandemic year I worked on a couple of poetry-translation projects...Working on these books was extremely illuminating and rewarding, and they have been well received. F-Letter may have gotten more attention and press than any other translation project I have worked on. While I’m glad to have helped to bring this poetry to a global audience, I am ceaselessly bemused by a process that often involves marketing and politics as much as literature.

Revisiting the “Contours of Race, Racialization, and Race-Making” in Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies 

Submitted by thinium on Thu, 2021-06-24 12:50

For this article, three of the roundtable participants, who work in the Balkans, reflect on their own research, their positionalities, and the significance of the roundtable to their scholarship, the field, and ASEEES as an organization.

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