Area Studies Showcase Lecture Series: Russia, Eastern Europe, and Central Asia

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This lecture series was a collaborative effort to showcase an area studies specialist from each center focusing on the Russian, East European, and Central Asian world region. The series was sponsored by the Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies at Harvard University; the Institute of Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies at the University of California, Berkeley; the Russian, East European & Eurasian Center at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; the Russian and East European Institute at Indiana University; the Center for Russian, East European, & Eurasian Studies at the University of Michigan; the Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies at The University of Texas at Austin; the Inner Asian and Uralic National Resource Center at Indiana University; the Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies at the University of Pittsburgh; the Center for Russia, East Europe, and Central Asia at the University of Wisconsin - Madison; the Center for East European and Russian/Eurasian Studies at The University of Chicago; and the Center for Slavic and East European Studies at The Ohio State University.

Imagining the Next Global Economy

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There is no going back to the beginning. The emerging global economy will not resemble the system that came before. That pre-pandemic system was already fragile. Now we have an opportunity to imagine a new global economy.

The Caucasus: From Geopolitics to Geopoetics

Anatomy of a Successful Forgery: The Czech Manuscripts

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American Literary and Cultural Diplomacy during the Cold War: Kurt Vonnegut in the USSR

Aging Nationally in Contemporary Poland: Memory, Kinship, and Personhood

Outsiders, Others, and Outcasts: Examining antiziganism and race-making in Albania

Jobs for Orphans, Taxes for Kulaks, and Love of Tractors: Collectivization Oral Histories from Uzbekistan

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Musical Evolution and The Other: State-Sponsored Musical Evolutionism in the USSR and the Conundrum of Post-Soviet Crimean Tatar Indigenous Music

Ukrainian Nationalism in the Age of Extremes

Soviet Judgment at Nuremberg: Revisiting the International Military Tribunal on its 75th Anniversary

Utopia’s Discontents: Russian Émigrés and the Quest for Freedom

The Cold War from the Margins: Socialist Bulgaria on the Global Cultural Scene

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