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MAG Offering Travel Grants to 2017 ASEEES Convention

Submitted by ANM185 on Mon, 2017-07-17 12:59

Travel Grant available to Ukranian and Belrusian scholars attending the ASEEES Chicago Convention. Application deadline is quickly approaching!

The Prague Spring Archive Project

Submitted by ANM185 on Mon, 2017-07-10 18:14

Information on the announcement of a new archive on the Prague Spring. 

Central Asian Islam Outside a Soviet Box

Submitted by ANM185 on Fri, 2017-06-30 13:21

A quarter century after the Soviet collapse, Central Asian studies continues to find more of a home with institutions in the ASEEES realm than with Middle East studies, Asian studies, or comparative Muslim societies. But a nagging question remains. What is being left out in Central Asian research when its scholars tend to be associated most with Slavic, East European, and Eurasian units, conferences, and publication venues?

Opening the Vaults: Art Folios & Resources of the Hoover Institution Library (Text)

Submitted by thinium on Fri, 2017-06-16 14:33

In preparation for the upcoming 100th anniversary of the Bolshevik revolution, the Hoover Library & Archives made a concerted effort to assess its holdings of visual materials produced in that era. This process included recent careful description of the library’s art vault, the core component of which is made up of what is called the Russian Art Collection.

Opening the Vaults: Art Folios & Resources of the Hoover Institution Library (Images)

Submitted by sdm68 on Thu, 2017-06-01 14:56

Larger versions of images from the June 2017 NewsNet article and additional images from the Hoover Institute are available here.

Celebrating Crime and Punishment at 150

Submitted by vrl7 on Thu, 2017-03-23 12:51

The year 2016 marked 150 years since the first publication of Crime and Punishment. To celebrate the novel’s anniversary Kate Holland and Katherine Bowers co-organized a global outreach program, “Crime and Punishment at 150”.

They Can Live in the Desert but Nowhere Else: A History of the Armenian Genocide: An Interview with Ronald Grigor Suny

Submitted by vrl7 on Wed, 2017-03-22 13:47

Norman B. Naimark interviews 2016 Wayne S. Vucinich Book Prize winner Ronald Grigor Suny about his prize winning book, "They Can Live in the Desert but Nowhere Else": A History of the Armenian Genocide.

Misbehaving Women and the Russian Revolutions of 1917

Submitted by vrl7 on Fri, 2017-03-17 16:13

Rochelle Goldberg Ruthchild discusses the question of the role of women and gender in the key Russian historic events of 1917.

CCNY and Harvard U Launch Russia Matters Website

Submitted by thinium on Thu, 2017-02-16 11:03

Carnegie Corporation of New York, in partnership with Harvard University’s Belfer Center, launches Russia Matters, a new website that seeks to inform the debate on Russia in the United States with data-driven analyses and facts.

Reading Mayakovsky in Sao Paulo: Boris Schnaiderman and the Legacy of Russian Studies in Brazil

Submitted by vrl7 on Wed, 2017-02-08 13:40

Cassio de Oliveira describes Boris Schnaiderman’s legacy as a translator and scholar of Russian literature in Brazil.

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