Podcasts

2011-2012 Podcasts

REEI Lunchtime Workshop Series

• April 16, 2012 - Sandor Foldi, "Aspects of the Hungarian Protest Culture"
• April 9, 2012 - Dalibor Dolezal, "Politics and Organized Crime in Croatia"
• April 2, 2012 - Catherine Evtuhov, "Portrait of a Russian Province"
• March 26, 2012 - Shqipe Pantina, "Kosovo, a country with a footnote"
• March 22, 2012 - Elena Vedernikova, «Марийцы: прошлое и настоящее» "Maris: Past and Present" - in Russian
• March 5, 2012 - Maria Bucur, "Women Empowered? Reflections on Women’s Conception of Autonomy in Communist Romania"
• February 27, 2012 - Yulia Tihomirova, "'Those Evening Bells' or “The Dawn of Russian Poetry"— in Russian
• November 7, 2011 - Adrienne Harris, "Zoya Kosmodemyanskaya 1986-2011: The Resurrections of a Soviet Saint in Today’s Russia"
• November 01, 2011 - Oksana Blazhilina, «Край России, край земли: Владивосток – в ожидании перемен» (“Edge of Russia, Edge of the Earth: Vladivostok on the Threshold of Change”—in Russian)
• October 25, 2011 - László Borhi, "Dealing With a Communist Dictatorship: U.S. Policy and the Softening of Soviet-Style Rule"
• October 18, 2011 - Mark Urnov, «Современная Россия и возможные сценарии развития после 2012» ("Contemporary Russia and Possible Developmental Scenarios After 2012”—in Russian)
• September 20, 2011 - Vitaly Buldakov, «Российское образование: 25 лет реформ» "Russian Education: 25 Years of Reforms” - in Russian

Other Events

• April 10, 2012 - Keith Brown, Second Annual McCloskey Lecture "Reason, Riot, and Ridicule: The Democratic Spirit In and After Yugoslavia"
• April 6, 2012 - 2012 Roundtable on Lessons from Post-Communism: "Energy and Conservation"
• March 30, 2012 - Dennis Deletant "Ion Antonescu and the Holocaust in Romania"
• October 24, 2011 - Gábor Daróczi "Current Issues in Roma Education"

October 13-14, 2011: Revisiting the Fall of the Soviet Union Conference
• Katrina vanden Heuvel and Stephen Cohen Book Presentations
• 1991 in the Long Durée of Russian History
• Causes of the Fall
• Media and Politics in Contemporary Russia
• Revisiting Transitology

2010-2011 Podcasts

REEI Lunchtime Workshop Series

• April 11, 2011 - Vilius Ivanauskas, "Intellectuals and the Soviet System during Late Socialism: the Case of the Writers' Union in Lithuania"
• February 14, 2011 - Dov-Ber Kerler, "Some Episodes Pertaining to the Living Memory of 20th Century Ukrainian-Jewish Relations"
• January 31, 2011 - Ramajana Hidic Demirovic, " Performing Tradition in Modern Times: Laura Papo Bohoreta's Search for Sephardic Women's Identity in Interwar Bosnia"
• October 11, 2010 - Barbara Skinner, "Fault Lines of Faith: Rethinking Orthodox Identity in Russia’s Western Borderlands"
• November 11, 2010 - Heidi Bludau, “Nurse for Hire: International Healthcare Recruiters as Cultural Brokers in Central and Eastern Europe”
• September 28, 2010 - Regina Smyth, "Explaining Transitional Representation: The Rise and Fall of Women of Russia"

Other Events

• April 19, 2011 - Сегрей Викторович Ермасов - Sergey Ermasov, "Кризис инновационной активности в России" ("The crisis in Russian innovation activity" - in Russian)

• April 8, 2011 - 2011 Roundtable on Lessons from Postcommunism: "The Economic Recession: Opportunities and Challenges in Economies in Transition"
• April 6, 2011 - Alla Salnikova, "The Rediscovery of Childhood in Russia"

• April 5, 2011 - Anna Sharogradskaya, "Features of democracy in Russia and freedom of the mass media" - in Russian
• March 24, 2011 - Slavenka Drakulić, "Europe Twenty Years after the Fall of the Berlin Wall"
• March 24, 2011 - Sergei Kazakovtsev, "Response to the First World War on the Part of the Russian Population - the Case of the Viatsk Guberniia" - in Russian (video)
• March 24, 2011 - Sergei Kazakovtsev, "Response to the First World War on the Part of the Russian Population - the Case of the Viatsk Guberniia" - in Russian
• March 3, 2011 - Terrell Starr, "Black in Ukraine"
• February 27, 2011 - Paul Richardson, "Chekhov's Mongoose"
• February 17, 2011 - Tatiana Saburova, "Representations of Europe and the culture of travel in Russia of the 19th Century" - in Russian
• February 16, 2011 - Berlin 2 Cairo: Revolution Revisted
• January 11, 2011 - Elena Kraineva, "The Unknown Glinka" - in Russian (video)
• December 12, 2010 - WFIU, Profiles Interviews: "Russian Rock Critic Artemy Troitsky"
• November 30, 2010 - Mihaela Miroiu, "The Vicious Circle of Electoralism. Reflections on Democracy and Populism in Romania"
• November 10, 2010 - Ivan Kuftyrev, "Nizhnii Novgorod: Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow”— in Russian
• October 27, 2010 - Artemii Troitskii, "Back in the USSR—the Story of Rock in Russia"
• October 27, 2010 - Artemii Troitskii, "A Meeting with Artemii Troitskii" - in Russian (video)

2009-2010 Podcasts

REEI Lunchtime Workshop Series

• April 19, 2010 - Boshko Stankovski, "Kosovo Independence and International Law on Self-determination and Secession"
• April 5, 2010 - M. Benjamin Thorne, "History Let Us at least Die like Men instead of Dogs: Roma Survival and Resistance in Transnistria, 1942-1944"
• March 29, 2010 - Jolanta Mickute, "History Remaking the Jewish Woman: Zionist Discourse on the Jewish Woman’s Body and Sexuality in Interwar Poland"
• March 22, 2010 - Lynn Duggan, "A Feminist Comparative Economic Systems: New Contours"
• February 26, 2010 - Kristen Ghodsee, Headscarves as Politics: Gender, Islam and Shifting Discourses of Social Justice in the Balkans
• February 22, 2010 - Alexei Trochev, "Suing Putin: Patterns of Anti-Government Litigation in Russia, 2000-2008"
• February 8, 2010 - Vilius Ivanauskas, "Bureaucratic Containment and Mobilisation of National Identity: The Case of Soviet Lithuania
• December 7, 2009 - Daniel Beers, "Building Democratic Courts from the Inside Out: Judicial Autonomy and the Rule of Law in Postcommunist Eastern Europe"
• November 9, 2009 - Deanna Wooley, "Walls or Barricades? Violence and Radicalism in the 'Velvet Revolution'"
• October 26, 2009 - Bill Johnston, "Coming into the Word: Ethnography of an Evangelical"

Other Events

• April 23, 2010 - William Pridemore, "Three Views of the Russian Mortality Crisis: Hazardous Drinking, SES Differentials, and Homelessness"
• April 16, 2010 - 2010 Roundtable on Post-Communism: "Coping with Uncertainty: Individual Challenges and Institutional Change Twenty Years after the Introduction of Market Economies"
• November 17, 2009 - Olga Filippova, "Identity in an Unrecognized State: A Transnistrian Museum as a Public Space of History Representation and Identity Construction"
• November 2, 2009 - Valerie Bunce, "Transnational Networks, Diffusion Dynamics, and Democratizing Elections in Postcommunist Europe and Eurasia"

2008-2009 Podcasts

• February 26-28, 2009 - Area Studies in the Future of Higher Education Conference 2009
• February 19, 2009 - The Russian Orthodox Church Today
• December 8, 2008 - The Balkans: From the Beginnings to the End
• November 13, 2008 - Our Innocence, Foreign Perversions: Gender and Sexuality in Polish Nationalist Discourse
• September 23, 2008 - Russia-Georgia Conflict: Legal Implications and American Foreign Policy