History/Area Studies

A textbook designed by GWU professor Eric Schluessel for those learning to reading Chagatay, the premodern literary Turkic language of Central Asia, closely related to Uzbek and Uighur. This creative commons textbook includes grammar explanations, reading exercises, paleographic notes, and a useful Chagatay-English glossary. 

Access Here: An Introduction to Chaghatay: A Graded Textbook for Reading Central Asian Sources — Eric Schluessel

The catalog for the Polish Museum of America's exhibition, "Post No Bills: Contemporary Polish Posters," which was on display from April 16th, 2010 to May 16th, 2010. The Polish Museum described the exhibit thuslu, "A Colorful and intriguing poster exhibition by very talented and accomplished students and faculty from The Academy of Fine Arts in Krakow and Katowice, Poland. Polish poster art has long enjoyed world-wide prestige for its exceptional originality."

After the War: Life Post-Yugoslavia is a 150-minute compilation featuring 9 films by 5 film-makers from the former Yugoslavia, the Netherlands, Peru and the United States. These films represent a broad spectrum of contemporary documentary film-making. Rather than a polemical examination of the governmental and military situations that caused the civil war, these films represent the human costs by providing a ground-level view of life in a country ravaged by war, cultural divisions, and its difficult road to reconciliation.

This inspiring short film describes the obstacles and successes faced by feminist scholars and activists in establishing women’s studies and the women’s movement in the late Soviet Union and the early post-Soviet period. Based on interviews conducted with key figures in this history, the documentary captures the scholarly and activist exchanges that emerged in the early 1990s and their effect on developing women’s organizations and opening a public conversation about sexism and women’s issues in Russia. The documentary also looks critically at the role of foreign funding within the women’s movement during the 1990s and also at the new challenges faced by women in the Putin-Medvedev era.