The University of Pittsburgh's Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies, in collaboration with numerous sponsors, is glad to announce the Spring 2021 sessions in our series "Race in Focus: From Critical Pedagogies to Research Practice and Public Engagement in Slavic, East European and Russian Studies." This series is designed to elevate conversations about teaching on race and continued disparities in our field while also bringing scholars from underrepresented minorities and/or research on communities of color to the center stage.
REGISTER IN ADVANCE for our new sessions or watch recordings of the Fall 2020 events via https://www.ucis.pitt.edu/crees/race-in-focus.
February 5
2-3:30 pm (ET) | 1-2:30 pm (CT) | 12-1:30 pm (MT) | 11 am-12:30 pm (PT)
New Directions in Research: Russian Literature in the 19th and 20th Centuries
MODERATOR:
Bella Grigoryan, University of Pittsburgh
PRESENTATIONS:
"On How to Choose One's Ancestors: James Joyce in Russian Literature"
José Vergara, Swarthmore College
"Russian Symbolism and the Racial Origins of 'Tolstoy v. Dostoevsky'"
Lindsay Ceballos, Lafayette College
February 12
2-3:30 pm (ET) | 1-2:30 pm (CT) | 12-1:30 pm (MT) | 11 am-12:30 pm (PT)
New Directions in Research: Race, Gender, and Indigeneity in the American Arctic and Siberia
MODERATOR:
Manduhai Buyandelger, MIT
PRESENTATIONS:
"Big Noses, Angry Babushki, Mixed Messages: Racialized Expectations of Linguistic and Cultural Performance in Asian Russia"
Kathryn Graber, Indiana University, Bloomington
"Gender Articulations from Decolonial Indigenous Perspectives in the Russian and American Arctic"
Olga Ulturgasheva, University of Manchester
February 19
2-3:30 pm (ET) | 1-2:30 pm (CT) | 12-1:30 pm (MT) | 11 am-12:30 pm (PT)
Talking About Whiteness: Racial and Ethnic Minorities in Eastern Europe, Russia, and Central Asia
MODERATOR:
Roman Utkin, Wesleyan University
SPEAKERS:
Marius Turda, Oxford Brookes University
Lauren Woodard, Yale University
Sean Roberts, George Washington University
Monika Bobako, Adam Mickiewicz University
February 26
2-3:30pm (ET) | 1-2:30 pm (CT) | 12-1:30 pm (MT) | 11 am-12:30 pm (PT)
#BLM: Reception in Eastern Europe, Russia, and Central Asia
MODERATOR:
Sibelan Forrester, Swarthmore College
SPEAKERS:
Angéla Kóczé, Central European University
Diana Kudaibergenova, University of Cambridge
Maxim Matusevich, Seton Hall University
Jakobi Williams, Indiana University, Bloomington
We thank all sponsors for making this possible.
Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies
Center for East European and Russian/Eurasian Studies, University of Chicago
Center for Russia, East Europe, and Central Asia, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies, University of Michigan
Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies, University of Texas at Austin
Center for Slavic and East European Studies, Ohio State University
Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies, Harvard University
Inner Asian and Uralic National Resource Center, Indiana University, Bloomington
Institute of Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies, University of California, Berkeley
Russian, East European, and Eurasian Center, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Russian and East European Institute, Indiana University, Bloomington
Zsuzsánna Magdó
Associate Director
Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies
University of Pittsburgh