The Program on Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies of the Yale MacMillan Center hosts a Symposium on Yale Ph.D. Research in Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies. Generously sponsored by the Carnegie Corporation. For more information: https://bit.ly/YREEES-symposium
A Yale Ph.D. student symposium of the recipients from the last few years of the Russian Studies Dissertation and Pre-Dissertation Grants. This symposium fulfills an important intention of the Carnegie Corporation grant—encouraging graduate research and REEES community-building—and would have the added benefit of bringing graduate students together at a time when they are navigating the double crises of the pandemic and war in Ukraine, with the unprecedented negative impacts of both on their research and professional networks.
Schedule of Presentations:
2:30 — Introductory Remarks by Professor Molly Brunson
2:35 — Hana Stankova (Slavic Languages and Literatures)
“ ‘Benefiting the Scientific World Above All:’ Russian and French Scientific Explorations in Central Asia”
3:05 — Orel Beilinson (History)
“Youth as Emigres in 1917: Building Personal Futures Awaiting Collective Restoration”
3:35 — Liliya Dashevski (Slavic Languages and Literatures)
“Toying with Peasants: Maria Mamontova’s Children’s Education Shop”
4:05 — Kayhan Nejad (History)
“Provincial Revolution and Regional Anti-Colonialism: The Soviets in Iran, 1920-1921.”
4:35 — Alex Strzelecki (Comparative Literature)
“Stateless cities from the Russian revolution until the Ukraine invasion”
5:05 — Elena Adasheva (Anthropology)
“Night Walks: Perceiving Light and Dark in the Far North”
5:30 — Concluding Remarks