Radio Marneuli, a community media outlet serving one of Georgia’s most ethnically diverse regions. Reporting daily in Georgian, Azerbaijani, and Armenian, they bring an inside perspective on how these political shifts are affecting communities on the ground. Radio Marneuli’s work has become more difficult as the broader crackdown has placed new pressures on independent media, yet its journalists remain committed to serving their audience.
This lecture draws on ethnographic research with medical professionals, donors, surrogates, and intermediaries to examine how the war has reshaped Ukraine’s reproductive market.
The steppe has often been seen as a background against which (hi)stories of the land forming today’s Qazaqstan have been narrated. How does our understanding of these (hi)stories change when instead, the steppe comes to the fore?
In a compelling new perspective on the early Cold War, prizewinning historian Alexis Peri explores correspondence between American and Soviet women in the late 1940s and 1950s. Previously unexamined, the women’s letters movingly demonstrate the power of the personal, as the pen pals engaged in a “diplomacy of the heart” that led them to question why their countries were so divided.
Join us for a special conversation with Ambassador Sergiy Kyslytsya, Permanent Representative of Ukraine to the United Nations, as we explore the vital role of Ukraine within the United Nations framework. Moderated by Darya Tsymbalyuk, Assistant Professor in the Department of Slavic Languages & Literatures at the University of Chicago, the conversation will cover Ukraine’s involvement in key UN bodies, including the Security Council and General Assembly.
