Russian Studies Workshop at IU

Join our partner .art.residency for a virtual walk through of [Un]included, an exhibition created by Valentina Andreeva .art and Lilia Bakanova .booka The artists filled the gallery with objects that one can explore in different ways: touch, smell, interact.

The virtual tour will take place as a live stream .art.residency tomorrow at 12:00 PM EDT / 18:00 CET / 19:00 Moscow time. We invite you to walk around the exhibition together with one of the artists Valentina Andreeva. We will talk about how the show came together, the importance of raising awareness about inclusion, and contemporary art as a tool to initiate a dialog.

Robert F. Byrnes Russian and East European Institute Музей нонконформистского искусства / Museum of nonconformist art

Join us on May 9 at 12 pm EST for a virtual screening of Jerry Mercury's film Zaveshaniye (The Will). To register for the screening please follow the link: https://iu.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZclfu6rrzwsHtNPbTJUhWPVmqnIkglN2o5V #/registration

Make sure you don't miss this virtual panel, coming up this Wednesday at 12 pm EST! To register, please see: https://iu.zoom.us/.../tZUvfuGprzMiE91nMsThS-2zJfQlXTqEHpnE

Inner Asian & Uralic National Resource Center Robert F. Byrnes Russian and East European Institute

Join us at 12 pm on Wednesday, April 12, for a fascinating panel on "Q***r Migrations from/in Central-Eastern Europe and Central Asia" moderated by our postdoctoral fellow Dr. Alexandra Novitskaya! To attend the Zoom panel, please register here: https://iu.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZUvfuGprzMiE91nMsThS-2zJfQlXTqEHpnE

This panel is co-sponsored by the Inner Asian & Uralic National Resource Center and the Robert F. Byrnes Russian and East European Institute

Join us at 12 pm on Wednesday, April 12, for a fascinating panel on "Q***r Migrations from/in Central-Eastern Europe and Central Asia" moderated by our postdoctoral fellow Dr. Alexandra Novitskaya! To attend the Zoom panel, please register here: https://iu.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZUvfuGprzMiE91nMsThS-2zJfQlXTqEHpnE

This panel is co-sponsored by the Inner Asian & Uralic National Resource Center and the Robert F. Byrnes Russian and East European Institute

Join us this Friday at 11:00 am EST for a virtual screening of Jerry Mercury's film "Saffron March" followed by a discussion with the filmmaker. Please note that this film is in Russian only, with Russian subtitles. There is no English translation or subtitles. If you'd like to take part, please register at the Zoom link here: https://iu.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZwpf-CpqDwrE9YWSHyBLJ_hHxu4FTqigzT1

This Wednesday, join us at 11 am for our next event in the Critical Conversations series "Where do Russians Get the News? The Media Sphere Today" moderated by Dr.Ilya Utekhin.

Register for this virtual event here: https://iu.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZMvf-uqrzguGtU45BgKvNZnHn59PxHm0DSd

We have a lot of exciting programming this week, beginning with our hybrid in-person/online screening of "I am the Body", a documentary film about our project. Join us this Tuesday at 11:00am EST in GA1118 if you're in Bloomington, the Samizdat Hall at the Музей нонконформистского искусства / Museum of nonconformist art if you're in St. Petersburg, or attend via Zoom by registering here:

https://iu.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZ0lfu2rrTopHNfzvS6jCYvTRXP-bbPiMgkp

February 24 marks one year since the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Make sure you come in person this Friday to Shreve Auditorium at 11:30 am or tune in on Facebook Live WFIU Public Radio to hear Dr. Sarah Phillips, and Ph.D. students Dafna Rachok and Irina Voloshyna discuss the year since the invasion.

Robert F. Byrnes Russian and East European Institute Hamilton Lugar School of Global and International Studies

Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine: 1-Year Anniversary Panel Discussion Join us for a live broadcast of WFIU’s Noon Edition on the one-year anniversary of the Russian invasion of Ukraine.

This screening of Ilya Utekhin's documentary 'Volunteers' is TOMORROW. Make sure you stop by Shreve Auditorium at 4:15 pm!

Join us for a screening of 'Volunteers' with director Ilya Utekhin on Feb 22 in Shreve Auditorium!

Scan the QR-code on the poster below for more details

Join us for a screening of 'Volunteers' with director Ilya Utekhin on Feb 22 in Shreve Auditorium!

Scan the QR-code on the poster below for more details

It is not too late to register for our Critical Conversation on the ProfessionART project , happening tomorrow at 12:00 pm EST/ 20:00 MSK. This event will have synchronous English-Russian interpretation. Register now at: https://iu.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZUtd-2qrzgjHNJ57LlYRo62PG4cxY7ffvck

Don't miss Dr. Elena Trubina's talk coming up this FRIDAY! Register now for this hybrid event at this link: https://iu.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZYldeutrDIvGdxcRBtefFShR2P5gAHIcJf2

Robert F. Byrnes Russian and East European Institute Hamilton Lugar School of Global and International Studies

On February 10, we will be hosting Dr. Elena Trubina from The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, who will give a talk about her recent co-edited volume Cold Waters: Tangible and Symbolic Seascapes of the North. Join us in GA4067 or register now to attend this hybrid meeting!

Noon Edition Live at the Hamilton Lugar School Join us for a live broadcast of WFIU’s Noon Edition on the one-year anniversary of the Russian invasion of Ukraine.

This talk by our very own Dr. Tatiana Saburova is coming up in just a few days! Join us in Hazelbaker Hall this Wednesday at 12 pm, or register for the Zoom option here: https://events.iu.edu/idah/event/811818-from-plants-to-glaciers-mapping-and-photographing

Continuing our exciting spring semester programming, we would like to invite you to a hybrid talk by Dr. Tatiana Saburova for the Institute for Digital Arts and Humanities (IDAH), Indiana University on February 8th. Register for the Zoom option via the QR-code now!

On February 10, we will be hosting Dr. Elena Trubina from The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, who will give a talk about her recent co-edited volume Cold Waters: Tangible and Symbolic Seascapes of the North. Join us in GA4067 or register now to attend this hybrid meeting!

Continuing our exciting spring semester programming, we would like to invite you to a hybrid talk by Dr. Tatiana Saburova for the Institute for Digital Arts and Humanities (IDAH), Indiana University on February 8th. Register for the Zoom option via the QR-code now!

We are looking forward to soon hosting this Critical Conversation entitled ProfessionART: Art Without Borders with our participants and ! Don't miss out - register for this Zoom meeting now! See our bio for the link 🖼

Today we opened our exhibit ProfessionART: Art Without Borders, which tells the story of the ProfessionART project, our collaboration with the Museum of Nonconformist Art in St. Petersburg, Russia . We were fortunate to have Larissa Danielle , one of our ProfessionART project participants, lend us her piece "Quality Time" to feature in our exhibit!

Please stop by the Scholars Commons at the Herman B. Wells Library to see our multi-media display 🖼

Our affiliate Dr. Stanislav Budnitsky has published a new article entitled "Global disengagement: public diplomacy humor in the Russian–Ukrainian War" in the journal Place Branding and Public Diplomacy. Congratulations Stn Bud!

Global disengagement: public diplomacy humor in the Russian–Ukrainian War - Place Branding and Public Diplomacy Meaningful relationship-building with target audiences, or engagement, is the idée fixe of twenty-first-century public diplomacy. This article unsettles the prevalent view of engagement as self-evidently beneficial. In dire geopolitical circumstances, does conflicting parties’ engagement with the...

This event is happening TOMORROW! Please don't forget to register for the Zoom meeting at the link below:

https://iu.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZAkcu2vqjwoHtVYQq5P42jBS2Kk_qSbrKpu

Please join us for our last ProfessionART event - the unveiling of our publication and a screening of our documentary film! This virtual event will take place on Zoom on December 14 at 12:00 EST / 20:00 MSK. If you'd like to attend, please fill in the registration form below:


https://iu.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZAkcu2vqjwoHtVYQq5P42jBS2Kk_qSbrKpu

Музей нонконформистского искусства / Museum of nonconformist art Арт-центр "Пушкинская-10" Robert F. Byrnes Russian and East European Institute

Please join us for our last ProfessionART event - the unveiling of our publication and a screening of our documentary film! This virtual event will take place on Zoom on December 14 at 12:00 EST / 20:00 MSK. If you'd like to attend, please fill in the registration form below:


https://iu.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZAkcu2vqjwoHtVYQq5P42jBS2Kk_qSbrKpu

Музей нонконформистского искусства / Museum of nonconformist art Арт-центр "Пушкинская-10" Robert F. Byrnes Russian and East European Institute

Hot off the press! Congratulations to our postdoctoral scholar Dr. Alexandra Novitskaya for her newly published chapter "The Politics of Gender and Sexuality", co-authored with Dr. Aleksandr Sasha Kondakov, featured in Russian Politics Today: Stability and Fragility (Cambridge University Press).

Our graduate affiliate Stepan Serdiukov has just published a new article in The Conversation entitled "White landowners in Hawaii imported Russian workers in the early 1900s, to dilute the labor power of Asians in the islands." Congratulations, Stepan!

White landowners in Hawaii imported Russian workers in the early 1900s, to dilute the labor power of Asians in the islands In a territory landowners wanted to become a state, white immigrants were less threatening to American nativists on the mainland.