Lecture Archive

Spring 2017

• Echoes of Empire: Literary Dissent in the Post-Soviet World

  April 27th, 2017 — Katherine E. Young— MP3

• What is the region? Making Sense of Russia, the Former Soviet Union, Eastern Europe, and Eurasia

  April 20th, 2017 — Anton Shirikov, Dmitri Kofanov, and Yoshiko Herrera — MP3

• The Demographic Echo of War and Social Mobility in Russia

  April 13th, 2017 — Gordey Yastrebov — MP3

• The Future of U.S.-Russian Relations

  March 30th, 2017 — Andrey Kozyrev — MP3

• Soviet Justice in the Local Courts: Civil Claims, Messy Divorces, and Social Rights in Early Soviet Russia

  March 16th, 2017 — Aaron Retish — MP3

• Between Self-Censorship and Propaganda: The Russian Media in the Putin Era

  March 9th, 2017 — Maria Stepanova — MP3

• Enhanced Interrogation: The Violent Subjects of Russian (Post-) Modernist Culture

  March 2nd, 2017 — Eliot Borenstein — MP3

• Historical Legacies, Current Realities, and Future Expectations in Transitional Central Asia: Ethnic Divides and Societal Optimism in Kyrgyzstan

  Feb 23, 2017 — Victor Agadjanian — MP3

• Literacies of (Post-)Socialist Childhood: Remapping National Borders, Territories, and Identities through Early Literacy Textbooks

  Feb 16, 2017 — Iveta Silova — MP3

• Understanding the New Land Rush: How Capital Inflows Transformed Rural Russia

  Feb 9, 2017 — Susanne Wengle — MP3

•  A Quiet Revolution: Tax Reform in Russia and the North Atlantic from the Eighteenth Century to the 1920’s

  Feb 2, 2017 — Yanni Kotsonis — MP3

• Elections, Protest, and Trust in Government: A Natural Experiment from Russia

  Jan 19, 2017 — Timothy Frye — MP3

Fall 2016

• Post-Soviet Lustration and Contemporary Hierarchical Relations with Russia

  Dec 8, 2016 — Yuval Weber — MP3

• Sport and the Cold War: Conflict without Weapons

  Nov 15, 2016 — David McDonald — MP3

• Discursive Geography of the Balkans

  Oct 27, 2016 — Dušan Bjelić — MP3

• A Story of Horror and Hope: Investigating the Ponar Extermination Camp and The Great Synagogue and Shulhoyf of Vilna, Lithuania

  Oct 20, 2016 — Harry Jol — MP3

• Peasants into Property Owners?: The Peasant Land Bank as Agent of Social Transformation

  Oct 13, 2016 — David Darrow — MP3

• Information Management in Porous Environments: Evidence from Authoritarian Central Asia

  Sep 29, 2016 — Edward Schatz — MP3

• The Nihilist Fashion: The Aesthetic Relations of Blue Spectacles to Reality

  Sep 15, 2016 — Victoria Thorstensson — MP3

• Faculty Roundtable

  Sep 8, 2016 — Ted Gerber, Scott Gehlbach, David McDonald, Irina Shevelenko — MP3

• From Wisconsin to Kazakhstan and Back!

  Jul 26, 2016 — Sarah Schlosser — MP3

• Understanding Women’s Experiences of Domestic Violence in Kyrgyzstan: A Grounded Theory Study

  Jul 12, 2016 — Saltanat Childress — MP3

Spring 2016

• Women with a Thirst for Destruction: The Bad Mother in Russian Culture

  Apr 28, 2016 — Jenny Kaminer — MP3

• Prozhektery: Administrative Entrepreneurs and Education in Russia from Peter I to Putin

  Apr 21, 2016 — Igor Fedyukin — MP3

• The Theater of Public Life in the New Europe: Muffled Voices, Cries for Help, and Other Challenges

  Apr 14, 2016 — Elzbieta Matynia — MP3

• Theater of Power: Hamlet and the Poetics of Autocracy in Early Modern Russia

  Apr 7, 2016 — Kirill Ospovat — MP3

• Youth, Transnational Imagination and 1968 in Poland

  Mar 31, 2016 — Malgorzata Fidelis — MP3

• Trafficking Justice: How Russian Police Enforce New Laws, from Crime to Courtroom

  Mar 17, 2016 — Lauren McCarthy — MP3

• Photographing Landscape and People: Political Exiles and Visual Representations of Siberia in Late Imperial Russia

  Mar 10, 2016 — Tatiana Saburova — MP3

• The Legacy of Political Violence across Generations

  Mar 3, 2016 — Noam Lupu — MP3

• What Do We Know about Central Asia’s Public Opinions?

  Feb 25, 2016 — Marlene Laruelle — MP3

• Collaborative, Bottom-Up Approaches to Health Ethnography and HIV Prevention Development: Results of the ‘Bridge’ project in Ukraine

  Feb 18, 2016 — Sarah Drue Phillips — MP3

• Václav Havel and the Problem of Political Theater

  Feb 4, 2016 — Kieran Williams — MP3

• Jazz and Race in Russia: An Interactive Performance-Presentation

  Feb 11, 2016 — Sharon Clark — MP3

Fall 2015

• Environment, Power, and the Soviet Arctic

  Dec 10, 2015 — Andy Bruno — MP3

• Shock-Resistant Authoritarianism: Schoolteachers, Infrastructural State Capacity, and Authoritarian Resilience in Putin’s Russia

  Dec 3, 2015 — Natalia Forrat — MP3

• Uneven Transformations: Examining Secondary Public Education in Urban Kazakhstan

  Nov 5, 2015 — Elise Ahn — MP3

• Circle, Square, Network, Movement: Dissident Formations in Late Soviet Socialism

  Oct 8, 2015 — Benjamin Nathans — MP3

• Public-Police Contacts in Russia: Revisiting the Predatory Model of Policing

  Oct 1, 2015 — Olga Semukhina — MP3

• The Zhivago Affair: Facts and Fables

  Sep 24, 2015 — Petra Couvee — MP3

• From Minneapolis to Moscow and Back: Chatwood Hall and the International Politics of Race

  Sep 17, 2015 — Athan Biss — MP3

Summer 2015

• Begging Bowls, Exuberant Feasts, & A Donkey’s Tomb: Sufi Appearance, Connection to Shrines, & Place in Folklore in 19th Century Asia

  Jul 7, 2015 — Timothy Rowe — MP3

• A Force of Unity, A Force of Disunity: Central Asians

  Jun 23, 2015 — Roberto Carmack — MP3

Spring 2015

• Classical Russian Literature and Digital Humanities (Russian Digital Libraries: New Developments)

  Apr 23, 2015 — Igor Pilshchikov — MP3

• Help-seeking and Barriers of Domestic Violence Survivors in Kyrgyzstan: A Grounded Theory Study

  Apr 16, 2015 — Saltanat Childress — MP3

• Stopfake.org Fighting the Truth Against Pro-Kremlin Disinformation

  Apr 9, 2015 — Tetiana Matychak, Olga Yurkova — MP3

• Schism and Solidarity: Reclaiming Politics in Putin’s Russia

  Mar 26, 2015 — Jessica Mason — MP3

• Madison Encounters in Bozkow – English Language Teaching and Learning Experiences in Lower Silesia during Summer 2014: Some Personal Perspectives on Polish Education Policy, Public/Private Partnering and Popular Aspirations

  Mar 12, 2015 — Gina Lewandowski, Eric Lewandowski — MP3

• How Foreign Media Affects Domestic Policies: Evidence from Ukraine

  Mar 5, 2015 — Arturas Rozenas — MP3

• Davids and Goliaths: Military Propaganda in Orthodox Russia, 1700-1856

  Feb 19, 2015 — Andrey Ivanovs — MP3

• Sex in the Bourgeois Family: The Turn to Prostitution and the Middle Class Home in Partitioned Poland

  Feb 12, 2015 — Keely Stauter-Halsted — MP3

• Communism’s Shadow

  Feb 12, 2015 — Joshua Tucker — MP3

• Language and Separatism in Eurasia

  Jan 29, 2015 — Kyle Marquardt — MP3

Fall 2014

• Conducting Research in Russia and Eurasia: What You Need to Know

  Oct 23, 2014 — — MP3

• Lands in Limbo

  Dec 4, 2014 — Narayan Mahon — MP3

• Criminal Law as an Instrument of Authoritarian Rule: The Case of Vladimir Putin

  Nov 13, 2014 — Peter Solomon — MP3

• Russia as a Recruited Development Donor

  Nov 6, 2014 — Patty A. Gray — MP3

• Between the Ethnos and the Soviet People: Mixed Marriages and Families in Soviet Central Asia

  Oct 30, 2014 — Adrienne Edgar — MP3

• Three Tales of a Faculty. East German Law Professors Under Socialism

  Oct 9, 2014 — Inga Markowicz — MP3

• Saving Beauty: Zoos in Wartime

  Oct 9, 2014 — Tracy McDonald — MP3

• Long Shadows of the Soviet Past

  Oct 2, 2014 — Ekaterina Mishina — MP3

• The Ascendance of Nationalism in Central Asia

  Sep 18, 2014 — Russell Zanca — MP3

• The Legacies of Socialist Housing in Contemporary Czech Society

  Sep 11, 2014 — Kimberly Zarecor — MP3

• Faculty Roundtable

  Sep 4, 2014 — Kathryn Hendley, David McDonald, Manon van de Water, Ted Gerber — MP3

Summer 2014

• What a liberal arts education means to you

  Jul 22, 2014 — Sherzad Omarov, Meiirzhan Baitas, Aiman Adelshiyeva, Visiting Undergraduate Students, Uli Schamiloglu — MP3

• Opportunities for Electronic Government to Reduce Corruption and Bureaucracy in Kazakhstan

  Jul 22, 2014 — Gulmira Sheryazdanova — MP3

• The Crimean Tatars: Past, Present, and Future

  Jul 1, 2014 — Uli Schamiloglu — MP3

Spring 2014

• Blending Bessarabia: Winemaking in Late-Tsarist Russia and the Ambivalence of Modernity

  May 1, 2014 — Stephen Bittner — MP3

• Strategic Litigation: Bringing the European Convention for Human Rights to Russia

  Apr 24, 2014 — Anton Burkov — MP3

• Human Rights in Russia: Challenges of 2014

  Apr 10, 2014 — Anna Sevortian — MP3

• Building Plant Bodies: People, Trees, and Grafting in Kyrgyzstan’s Walnut-Fruit Forest

  Apr 3, 2014 — Jake Fleming — MP3

• Diagramming the Nation: Socioeconomic Class Differences on Language in Two Secondary Schools

  Mar 27, 2014 — Elizabeth Peacock — MP3

• Evolution of U.S. Strategy in Afghanistan: Shaping Prospects for Afghanistan’s Future

  Mar 13, 2014 — Christopher D. Kolenda — MP3

• Democracy, Inequality and Foreign Investment in Eastern Europe: Does the EU Matter?

  Mar 6, 2014 — Nina Bandelj — MP3

• Petty Corruption and Bureaucratic Fragmentation in Post-Transitional Ukraine

  Feb 27, 2014 — Marina Zaloznaya — MP3

• Political Machines at Work: Voter Mobilization and Electoral Subversion in the Russian Workplace

  Feb 20, 2014 — Ora John Reuter — MP3

• Gender and Authorship in Medieval Byzantium

  Feb 13, 2014 — Leonora Neville, John W. Rowe, Jeanne M. Rowe — MP3

• Children of Rus’: Right-Bank Ukraine and the Invention of a Russian Nation

  Feb 6, 2014 — Faith Hillis — MP3

• The Oakhill Prison Humanities Project: Teaching World Literature Behind Bars

  Jan 30, 2014 — Sergey Karpukhin, Ron Kuka, Colleen Lucey, Janelle Pulczinski, Zachary Rewinski, Jose Vergara — MP3

Fall 2013

• Aesthetic and Political Transpositions: Music under Hitler and Stalin

  Dec 5, 2013 — Friedrich Geiger — MP3

• Dousing the Olympic Flame: Russia’s Anti-Gay Legislation and the 2014 Winter Olympics

  Dec 4, 2013 — Kathryn Hendley, Cecilia Leugers, Jessica Mason, Ryan Prinz, Irina Schevelenko — MP3

• Oliver Frljic’s Call of Duty: Political Theater on Post-Yugoslav Stages

  Nov 14, 2013 — Miranda Jakiša — MP3

• Trauma, Music-Making, and Musical Remembrance: What Survivor Testimonies Reveal about Making Music in Theresienstadt

  Nov 7, 2013 — Teryl Dobbs — MP3

• Uzbekistan and US Foreign Policy. What Comes Next?

  Oct 24, 2013 — Robert Schaefer — MP3

• Russian Citizenship: From Empire to Soviet Union

  Oct 17, 2013 — Eric Lohr — MP3

• Everyday Law in Russia

  Oct 10, 2013 — Kathryn Hendley — MP3

• Chaos, Violence, Dynasty and Central Asian Society: The Untold Story

  Oct 3, 2013 — Eric M. McGlinchey — MP3

Summer 2013

• The University of Wisconsin and Nazarbayev University Project: Building Higher Education Institutional Capacity Abroad

  Jul 30, 2013 — Yoshiko Herrera — MP3

• Medieval Riverlogues: Crossing & Contestations along the Oxus Borderland

  Jul 16, 2013 — Manu Sobti — MP3

• The Columbian Exchange in Central Asia

  Jul 2, 2013 — Uli Schamiloglu — MP3

• Recovering and Preserving the Richness of Central Asian Nomadic Life: The Challenges for Public Memory

  Jun 15, 2013 — Saule Satayeva — MP3

• The Black Death (and its Antecedent!) in Central Eurasian History: An Interdisciplinary Approach

  Jun 18, 2013 — Uli Schamiloglu — MP3

Spring 2013

• Memory of the Holocaust in Post-Communist Europe

  May 2, 2013 — Joanna Michlic — MP3

• The Poetics of Impudence and Intimacy in the Age of Pushkin

  Apr 25, 2013 — Joe Peschio — MP3

• Electoral Politics in Russia

  Apr 11, 2013 — Robert Moser — MP3

• The Dream of Craftsmanship: Change and Continuity in the Engineering Profession in Post-Soviet Azerbaijan

  Apr 4, 2013 — Leyla Sayfutdinova — MP3

• Poor, Poorer, Bulgarian: Public Perceptions of Poverty in Post-communist Bulgaria

  Mar 7, 2013 — Boriana Nikolova — MP3

• My Grandparents’ Kaunas: Searching for the 1920’s in the 21st Century

  Feb 28, 2013 — Nancy Heingarter — MP3

• Multidisciplinary Organizations in a Disciplinary World

  Feb 21, 2013 — Judith Deutsch Kornblatt, Manon van de Water, Yoshiko Herrera — MP3

• Obstacles and Pathways to Conducting Research for Health in Eastern Europe

  Feb 14, 2013 — David L. Nordstrom — MP3

Fall 2012

• Tocqueville in Moscow: From Servitude to Liberty?

  Dec 6, 2012 — Anna Paretskaya — MP3

• Does Reform Prevent Rebellion? Evidence from Russia’s Emancipation of the Serfs

  Nov 29, 2012 — Scott Gehlbach — MP3

• Soviet Poetry and the Greek Left: Giannes Ritsos as Translator and Reader of Blok, Mayakovsky, Ehrenburg, and Esenin

  Nov 8, 2012 — Christopher Livanos — MP3

• City of Concrete and Felt: Negotiating Cultural Hybridity in Mongolia’s Capital of Ulaanbaatar

  Nov 1, 2012 — Alexander Diener — MP3

• Russian Politics: The Paradox of a Weak State

  Oct 11, 2012 — Marie Mendras — MP3

• Russia’s Urban Industrial Land: A Story of Gradual Reform

  Sep 27, 2012 — William Pyle — MP3

• Divided Historical Memory among Youth in Estonia: Ethnic, Socioeconomic, Linguistic, and Political Sources of Ideational Cleavage

  Sep 20, 2012 — Ted Gerber — MP3

• Make Your Voice Heard: Communism in the High School Curriculum, 1958-1968

  Sep 13, 2012 — Campbell Scribner — MP3

Summer 2012

• Uyghur Neighborhoods and Nationalisms in Kazakhstan

  Aug 7, 2012 — Sean Roberts — MP3

• Ibrahim Altynsarin and His Influence on Late 19th Century Kazakh Education

  Jul 3, 2012 — Omar Mohamad — MP3

• Islam in Kazakhstan

  Jul 3, 2012 — Uli Schamiloglu — MP3

Spring 2012

• Building Welfare States for the Young Generation in Postcommunist Europe: The Politics of Family Policy in Hungary, Poland, and Romania

  Apr 19, 2012 — Tomasz Inglot — MP3

• Translating Polish Literature into English: a History

  Apr 12, 2012 — Michael Mikos — MP3

• The Wawel Incident of 1937: Church, State, and Nation in Interwar Poland

  Mar 29, 2012 — Neal Pease — MP3

• Multidrug-Resistant Tuberculosis in Tajikistan

  Mar 22, 2012 — Erin Peck, Jillian Landeck — MP3

• Political Participation in Russia and Indonesia

  Mar 15, 2012 — Danielle Lussier — MP3

• Russian Presidential Elections

  Mar 8, 2012 — Yoshiko Herrera, Alexander Dolinin, David M. McDonald, Robert Kaiser — MP3

• A Minute for Reflection: Soviet Television Game Shows, 1960s-1980s

  Mar 1, 2012 — Christine Evans — MP3

• Uncommon Blood: Vampire and Nation in the Modern Age

  Feb 23, 2012 — Tomislav Longinovic — MP3

• The Ethics of Witnessing the Holocaust: Polish Writers’ Diaries, 1939-1945

  Feb 16, 2012 — Rachel F. Brenner — MP3

• Land Use Change and Biodiversity after the Collapse of the Soviet Union

  Feb 9, 2012 — Volker Radeloff — MP3

• Rereading Vaclav Havel’s ‘Power of the Powerless’

  Feb 2, 2012 — David S. Danaher — MP3

Fall 2011

• Flying in Translation: Interpreting Olga Mukhina’s Play for Performance in Austin, TX

  Jan 10, 2011 — Graham Schmidt — MP3

• Black in Ukraine

  Nov 3, 2011 — Terrell Starr — MP3

• Baron Ungern’s Mongolian Pogrom: The Genealogy of Massacre

  Oct 21, 2011 — William Sunderland — MP3

• A Three Week Slog in the 21st Century Ferghana Valley

  Sep 29, 2011 — Timothy Jack Rowe — MP3

Spring 2011

• Theatre as Therapy in the Northern Caucasus

  May 5, 2011 — Manon van de Water — MP3

• The Wisdom of Crowds: Some reflections on the Velvet Revolution in the Light of the Arab Awakening

  Apr 21, 2011 — Paul Wilson — MP3

• Between Home and Homeland: Minority Rights and National Dilemmas across the Greek-Bulgarian Border

  Apr 7, 2011 — Theodora Dragostinova — MP3

• How Czech Fascists, Prague Bureaucrats and the Local Police Helped the Nazis to Isolate the Jews of Bohemia and Moravia

  Mar 24, 2011 — Benjamin Frommer — MP3

• Of Macho and Men: Russian and Latino Heroes in Contemporary Film

  Mar 10, 2011 — Thomas Garza — MP3

• The Uses of Poetry: Elegy and Courtship in Nineteenth-Century Russia

  Mar 3, 2011 — Daria Khitrova — MP3

• The Politics of Memory in a Divided Society: A Comparison of Post-Franco Spain and Post-Soviet Ukraine

  Feb 17, 2011 — Oxana Shevel — MP3

• Decentralized Governance and Logging: An Econometric Analysis in European Russia

  Feb 3, 2011 — Kelly Wendland — MP3

• Being Harold Pinter: A Dramatic Reading

  Jan 27, 2011 — Andy Wiginton — MP3

• Inspiring Official Rhetoric and Rampant Abuses in Russia

  Jan 20, 2011 — Tanya Lokshina — MP3

Fall 2010

• The Politics of Smallest Things: How the ‘Lazy, Cowardly, and Selfish’ Changed the Soviet Union

  Dec 2, 2010 — Anna Paretskaya — MP3

• Stalinist Landscapes: Politics, Identity and Nature in Socialist-Realist Art

  Nov 15, 2010 — Mark Bassin — MP3

• A Non-Participation Pact: State and Society in Russia

  Nov 11, 2010 — Maria Lipman — MP3

• Grand Plans and Petty Corruption: Adapting to Market Reform in Central Asia

  Sep 16, 2010 — Kelly McMann — MP3

• The Case of Colonel Abel: What the Prosecution of a Master Soviet Spy Teaches about American and Russian Criminal Justice

  Oct 14, 2010 — Jeffrey Kahn — MP3

• Nationalism, Myth, and Politics: Russians and Serbs in the Dissolution of the Soviet Union

  Sep 16, 2010 — Veljko Vujacic — MP3

Summer 2010

• ‘We Were Hippies Too’: Youth Protest and Lithuanian Nationalism in Kaunas, 1972

  Sep 3, 2010 — Amanda Swain — MP3

• Archaic Felt and Its Tradition in Lithuania

  Jul 20, 2010 — Vilte Kazlauskaite — MP3

• Writing on the Threshold between Cultures

  Jul 13, 2010 — Agate Nesaule — MP3

• Caught in Between: Citizenship, Identity, and Young Ethnic Russians in Estonia

  Jul 6, 2010 — Ted Gerber — MP3

• Contesting Nature and Nation in Latvia

  Jun 15, 2010 — Katrina Schwartz — MP3

Spring 2010

• Samizdat: Material Texts and Imagined Communities

  May 5, 2010 — Ann Komaromi — MP3

• Kaleidoscopic Odessa: History and Place in Contemporary Ukraine

  Apr 29, 2010 — Tanya Richardson — MP3

• Islamic court in documentation and traditions: Excursus to Medieval Central Asia

  Apr 15, 2010 — Elyor Karimov — MP3

• Eurasian Security Dilemmas: Russia’s Energy Statecraft and the Contours of the Great Game Redux

  Apr 14, 2010 — Adam Stulberg — MP3

• Bride Abduction in Post-Soviet Central Asia: Marking a Shift Towards Patriarchy through Local Discourses of Shame and Tradition

  Mar 25, 2010 — Cynthia Werner — MP3

• Patriarchy, Oligarchy, and Sobornost in the Contemporary Russian Orthodox Church

  Mar 18, 2010 — Paul Valliere — MP3

• Anton Chekhov: The Ups and Downs of a Playwright’s Reputation

  Mar 11, 2010 — Laurence Senelick — MP3

• The Ecclesia Militans and the Catholic Nation in Modern Poland

  Mar 4, 2010 — Brian Porter-Szűcs — MP3

• The Life of Andrew the Fool: Poetics as the Path to Knowledge in Byzantino-Russian Tradition

  Mar 3, 2010 — Priscilla Hunt — MP3

• Developments in Russian Children’s Literature after 1991: Genres, Imports, and New Russian Plots

  Feb 25, 2010 — Andrea Lanoux — MP3

• Apocalypse, Eschatology, and Belief: The Trajectory of Religious Motifs in Gorbanevskaia’s Poetry

  Feb 18, 2010 — Allan Reid — MP3

• Post-Accession Hooliganism: Bulgaria and Romania in the EU

  Feb 11, 2010 — Venelin Ganev — MP3

• Soviet Legacies and the Transformation of the Research University in Russia Today

  Jan 21, 2010 — Mark Johnson — MP3

Fall 2009

• Estonia’s Bronze Night: Reconstructing the Event

  Dec 10, 2009 — Robert Kaiser — MP3

• A Portrait of a Soviet Woman as the Citizen Soldier: Theoretical and Interpretive Challenges from the Eastern Front

  Dec 3, 2009 — Anna Krylova — MP3

• Russia’s Resource Curse

  Nov 19, 2009 — Konstantin Sonin — MP3

• Prejudice and Human Rights in Russia

  Oct 29, 2009 — Nicole Butkovich — MP3

• How Capitalism was Built: The Transformation of Eastern Europe, Russia and Central Asia

  Oct 29, 2009 — Anders Åslund — MP3

• Contemporary Russian Writers: Between the Market and the Last Judgment

  Oct 26, 2009 — Mikhail Shishkin — MP3

• The Dutch Connection: ‘Doctor Zhivago’ in The Netherlands

  Oct 22, 2009 — Petra Couvée — MP3

• Between Dawn and the Wind: A Poetry Reading by Anna Frajlich

  Oct 15, 2009 — Anna Frajlich — MP3

• One Homeland or Two: The Nationalization and Transnationalization of Mongolia’s Kazakhs

  Oct 8, 2009 — Alexander Diener — MP3

• Banned Films: Soviet Cinema under Stalin and the Failure of Power

  Oct 1, 2009 — Maria Belodubrovskaya — MP3

• The Rise of Gazprom: Profits and Politics

  Sep 24, 2009 — Rawi Abdelal — MP3

• Music of the Hungarian-Speaking Roma

  Sep 17, 2009 — Parno Graszt — MP3

• No Man’s Land: Youth Negotiating Democratization in Post-conflict Bosnia and Herzegovina

  Sep 3, 2009 — Azra Hromadzic — MP3

Spring 2009

• Right-Wing Federation Schemes in East-Central Europe during WWII

  May 7, 2009 — Holly Case — MP3

• Freedom of Conscience in Russian Philosophical Liberalism: The Controversy over Vladimir Solov’ev

  Apr 30, 2009 — Randall Poole — MP3

• The Legal Case for Russia’s Intervention in Georgia

  Apr 23, 2009 — Nicolai N. Petro — MP3

• Fica, Trabi and Dyana: Little Cars that Make Us Laugh and Cry

  Apr 16, 2009 — Marko Zivkovic — MP3

• Being ‘Black’ in Soviet and Post-Soviet Russia: Identity, Adaptation, and Racism

  Apr 9, 2009 — Jeff Sahadeo — MP3

• Imagining a Soviet Nation? The ‘History of the USSR’ as a National Discourse, 1930s-1950s

  Mar 26, 2009 — Peter Blitstein — MP3

• Growing Up in Yeltsin’s Russia: The Attitudes of Pro-Kremlin Youth Toward the 1990s

  Mar 12, 2009 — Katia Levintova — MP3

• Political Competition and Judicial Disempowerment in Ukraine

  Mar 5, 2009 — Alexei Trochev — MP3

• The Russian State in the Time of Putin

  Feb 12, 2009 — Gerald Easter — MP3

• Putting Your Major to Work: Fostering International Dialogue through Exchange Programs

  Feb 5, 2009 — Michael Kuban — MP3

• America’s Russian Problem: A Russia Policy for the Obama Administration

  Jan 22, 2009 — Melvin A. Goodman — MP3

Fall 2008

• Explaining the Russian Mortality Paradox

  Dec 4, 2008 — Michel Guillot — MP3

• Within Two Tyrannies: Soviet Academic Refugees in World War II

  Nov 13, 2008 — Marina Sorokina — MP3

• Accidental Dissidents: Yugoslav Avant-Gardes and Socialist Realism

  Nov 6, 2008 — Tatjana Aleksic — MP3

• Russian Drama and Theatre Today: A Time of New Transitions

  Oct 30, 2008 — John Freedman — MP3

• The Problems of Formation of Cultural Identity in Modern Kazakhstan

  Oct 23, 2008 — Gulnara Dadabaeva — MP3

• One Minute to Midnight

  Oct 16, 2008 — Michael Dobbs — MP3

• Boris Yeltsin and the Puzzle of the Hero in History

  Oct 9, 2008 — Timothy Colton — MP3

• Lay Participation in Judicial Proceedings in East Europe

  Oct 2, 2008 — Sanja Kutnjak Ivkovic — MP3

• Customary Organizations and the Foundations of State Building in Afghanistan: The Role of ‘Maliks,’ ‘Mullahs,’ and ‘Jirgas’ in Local Governance

  Sep 25, 2008 — Jennifer Brick — MP3

• Failures of Independence in Central Asia

  Sep 11, 2008 — Russell Zanca — MP3

• Conflict in the Caucasus: A Panel Discussion about Georgia

  Sep 9, 2008 — David McDonald, Uli Schamiloglu, Robert Kaiser — MP3

• Our Japanese Brothers’: Anti-colonialism and Asian-ism among the Muslims of the Russian Empire

  Sep 4, 2008 — Danielle Ross — MP3

Spring 2008

• The Mongol Empire and Alcohol

  Apr 24, 2008 — Thomas Allsen — MP3

• Cross Cultural Communication: Examples from Kazakh, Russian, and American English

  Apr 17, 2008 — Maral Nurtazina — MP3

• Increasing Vulnerability: The Homeless, Alcohol, and Mortality in Russia

  Apr 3, 2008 — William Pridemore — MP3

• From Bedros Tourian to Paul Celan: L’Oeuvre au Noir

  Mar 14, 2008 — James Russell — MP3

• The Treasures of Sarmation Nobility

  Mar 13, 2008 — Anatoly Symonenko — MP3

• Dmitry Shostakovich and Azerbaijani Music

  Mar 6, 2008 — Aida Huseynova — MP3

• Legal Connections: Litigation, Supervision, and Sovereignty in Late Imperial Russia

  Feb 28, 2008 — Jane Burbank — MP3

• Kazakh Chinggisids and Their Lands under Russian Rule in the 19th Century

  Feb 21, 2008 — Birginia Martin — MP3

• The Decline to Very Low Fertility in Ukraine and Russia

  Jan 24, 2008 — Brianna Perelli-Harris — MP3

Fall 2007

• Transforming Bureaucracy: Conditional Norms and the International Standardization of Statistics in Russia

  Nov 29, 2007 — Yoshiko Herrera — MP3

• Justice Sector Reform in a Post-Conflict Environment: A Case Study from Kosovo

  Nov 15, 2007 — Suren Avanesyan — MP3

• The Last Soviet Dreamer: Encounters with Leonid Potemkin

  Nov 1, 2007 — Jochen Hellbeck — MP3

• Balkanology and Eurology: Recent Developments and Future Changes

  Oct 25, 2007 — Victor Friedman — MP3

• Housing Divides: The Causes and Consequences of Housing Inequality in Russia

  Oct 4, 2007 — Jane Zavisca — MP3

• Russia’s Sputnik Generation: Interviewing Soviet Baby Boomers

  Sep 27, 2007 — Donald J. Raleigh — MP3

• Traditional Romani (Gypsy) Musicians and Oral Epic in the Balkans: A Comparison of Performers and Performance

  Sep 14, 2007 — Margaret Beissinger — MP3

• Identity and Diversity in Romani (Gypsy) Musical Culture

  Sep 13, 2007 — Margaret Beissinger — MP3

• Nikita Khrushchev: The Man and His Era

  Sep 6, 2007 — William Taubman — MP3

Spring 2007

• Turizm: Soviet Travel, Leisure, and Nation-Building in the Khrushchev Thaw

  May 10, 2007 — Anne Gorsuch — MP3

• The Russian Far East: Economic and Security Challenges and Perspectives

  May 3, 2007 — Sergey Sevastiyanov — MP3

• Islamic Resurgence in Central Asia and the Caucasus

  Apr 26, 2007 — Kathleen Collins — MP3

• Belarus: Europe’s Last Dictatorship or Populist State?

  Apr 26, 2007 — David Marples — MP3

• Anti-Semitism in Poland After Auschwitz

  Apr 19, 2007 — Jan Gross — MP3

• Cabaret in a World War II Jewish Ghetto: Spiritual Resistance?

  Mar 22, 2007 — Lisa Peschel — MP3

• Rules of the Game for Russian Entrepreneurs: How Informal Institutions Mediate Application of Dysfunctional Law

  Mar 15, 2007 — Ella Paneyakh — MP3

• Alternatve Visions: Telling the Truth After the End of Yugoslavia

  Mar 8, 2007 — Toma Longinovic — MP3

• Dostum ‘the Taliban Killer’: Living With a Northern Alliance Warlord

  Mar 1, 2007 — Brian Williams — MP3

• How to See the World (On Someone Else’s Budget)

  Feb 27, 2007 — Stephanie Griest — MP3

• The Groundfloor of Peacebuilding: Grassroots Influence in the Balkans

  Feb 22, 2007 — Paula Pickering — MP3

• Property Rights and Property Wrongs in Russia

  Feb 15, 2007 — Timothy Frye — MP3

• Bugs in Twentieth-Century Russian Literature

  Feb 8, 2007 — Shannon Donnally Spasova — MP3

• ‘It’s Hard to Convey’: Memory, the Gulag, and Issues in Oral History

  Feb 1, 2007 — Jehanne Gheith — MP3

• Chekov at the Moscow Art Theater

  Jan 30, 2007 — Anatoly Smeliansky — MP3

Fall 2006

• Cauldron of Terrorism or Bowl of Kasha? New Survey Data from North Caucaus

  Sep 7, 2006 — Ted Gerber — MP3

• We Have Never Been German or ‘What Kaliningrad Can Teach Us About Social Memory’

  Sep 14, 2006 — Olga Sezneva — MP3

• Turkey’s EU Path: How Long is the Journey

  Sep 20, 2006 — Soner Cagaptay — MP3

• EU Accession and the Politics of Rescaling in the Estonian – Russian Borderlands

  Sep 21, 2006 — Robert J. Kaiser — MP3

• Hungarian Roma Self-Governance: Help or Hindrance?

  Sep 28, 2006 — Robert Koulish — MP3

• Why do Postcommunist Parties in New Democracies Hurt Themselves? A Model of Strategic Preemption

  Oct 5, 2006 — Monika Nalepa — MP3

• Crime and Punishment: The Remarkable Theatre of Kama Ginkas

  Oct 12, 2006 — Manon van de Water — MP3

• Ferdinand Vanek is Misunderstood: Vaclav Havel’s Political and Philosophical Ideas

  Oct 16, 2006 — James Pontuso — MP3

• People and Procedures: Toward the History of the Investigations of the Nazi War Crimes in the USSR

  Oct 26, 2006 — Marina Sorokina — MP3

• Representation Through Taxation: Taxability and the Political Economy of Postcommunism

  Nov 9, 2006 — Scott Gehlbach — MP3

• Engineering Victory: Predicting the Effects of Institutional Change on United Russia’s Electoral Success in 2007

  Dec 7, 2006 — Regina Smyth — MP3

Spring 2006

• National Cleansing: Retrobution against Nazi Collaborators in post-war Czechoslovakia

  Mar 3, 2006 — Benjamin Frommer — MP3

• The Politics of a Name in the Northern Caucasus: The Alan Controversy

  Feb 24, 2006 — Victor Shnirelman — MP3

• Researching Marginal Peoples on the Margins of Putin’s Empire: An Ethnographic Reflection on Post-Soviet Life in Chukotka

  Feb 21, 2006 — Patty Gray — MP3

• Turkey’s Relations with Italy in the Interwar Period

  Feb 15, 2006 — Dilek Barlas — MP3

Fall 2005

• Learning to Market Fruits and Vegetables in Kyrgyzstan: A Look at Private Contracting Practices

  Dec 15, 2005 — Kelly Cormier — MP3

• Architecture, Social History, and State Policy: The Abu Nasr Parsa Tomb at Balkh and the Gur-i Amir in Samarqand

  Dec 7, 2005 — Robert McChesney — MP3

• Training Political Reporters in Kazakhstan: a View from the Field

  Dec 5, 2005 — Jerry Huffman — MP3

• Dilemmas of Russian Capitalism under Czarist Rule

  Jan 21, 2005 — Thomas C. Owen — MP3

• Judicial Politics in Putin’s Russia: An Informal Dimension

  Oct 20, 2005 — Alexei Trochev — MP3

• Sex Trafficking in Russia: a Preliminary Investigation

  Oct 18, 2005 — Lauren McCarthy — MP3

• Law, Public Policy, and Black Holes in Russia

  Oct 5, 2005 — William B. Simons — MP3

• Poetry Reading

  Oct 3, 2005 — Sergey Gandlevsky, Philip Metres — MP3

• Ideology or Protest: Voting Behavior in Post-communist Eastern Europe

  Sep 28, 2005 — Grigore Pop-Eleches — MP3

• Safrut and the Zionist Engagement with Russian Culture, 1916-1918

  Sep 20, 2005 — Brian Horowitz — MP3

• Balkan Connections Through Music

  Sep 15, 2005 — Michael Kuharski — MP3

Spring 2005

• A Briefing on Kyrgyzstan

  Apr 5, 2005 — Amy Foster Rothbart, Uli Schamiloglu — MP3

• Minorities in the Wars of Yugoslav Succession: A Modest Silver Lining?

  Mar 8, 2005 — Gale Stokes — MP3

• Ukrainian Presidential Elections

  Feb 9, 2005 — Gustav Weber — MP3