Best Media Resource Department Podcasts (2024)

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Babyn Yar: Ukrainian Poets Respond 46:28

29m ago46:28

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Ostap Kin presented and read from his book, “Babyn Yar: Ukrainian Poets Respond” on Thursday, April 4, 2024 at 4:00 pm in 206 Ingraham Hall, 1155 Observatory Drive.About the Lecture: On September 29 and 30, 1941, Nazis executed 33,771 Kyivan Jews in Babyn Yar. By the time the Soviet army recaptured Kyiv, the total number of people exterminated at t…

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Russian Independent Media Archive Project 49:29

34m ago49:29

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Anna Nemzer and Ilia Venyavkin presented on their work with the Russian Independent Media Archive Project on Thursday, March 21, 2024 at 4:00 pm in 206 Ingraham Hall, 1155 Observatory Drive.About the Lecture: In this joint presentation, journalist Anna Nemzer and historian Ilia Venyavkin will discuss the work of the Russian Independent Media Archiv…

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Queer(ing) Art of the Russian Empire, Soviet Union, and Emigration, 1890s—1940s 1:06:34

38m ago1:06:34

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Pavel Golubev gave a lecture on, “Queer(ing) Art of the Russian Empire, Soviet Union, and Emigration, 1890s—1940s” on Thursday, March 7, 2024 at 4:00 pm in 206 Ingraham Hall, 1155 Observatory Drive.About the Lecture:The Center for Russia, East Europe, and Central Asia invites you to a lecture about the queer imagery in the art of Russia, and its co…

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Do you suffer from urbanitis? Gender, cybernetics, and environmental concerns in 1970s Estonian SSR 50:10

1h ago50:10

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Epp Annus gave a lecture on, “Do you suffer from urbanitis? Gender, cybernetics, and environmental concerns in the 1970s Estonian SSR” on Thursday, February 22, 2024 at 4:00 pm in 206 Ingraham Hall, 1155 Observatory Drive.About the Lecture: On the cover of Aimée Beekman’s novel Valikuvõimalus (The Possibility of Choice, 1978) stands the figure of a…

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Cryptotheology, Psychobiography: Transgression in Polish 20th-Century Theatre 44:02

1h ago44:02

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Tamara Trojanowska gave a lecture on “Cryptotheology, Psychobiography: Transgression in Polish 20th-Century Theatre” on Thursday, December 7, 2023 at 4:00 pm in 206 Ingraham Hall, 1155 Observatory Drive.About the Lecture: Tamara Trojanowska will present on her current research, which focuses on the intersections of 20th and 21st-century drama and t…

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Between Horror and Hope 1:07:35

1h ago1:07:35

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Natalia Kovyliaeva (Ph.D Candidate, University of Tartu) gave a lecture on "Between Horror and Hope: Feminist Anti-War Resistance and Opportunities for Mobilization in and Outside of Putin’s Russia" on Thursday, November 16, 2023 at 4:00 pm in 206 Ingraham Hall, 1155 Observatory Drive.About the lecture: Since the start of the Russian full-scale inv…

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Soviet Samizdat: Imagining a New Society 43:14

2h ago43:14

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Ann Komaromi (Professor in the Centre for Comparative Literature and Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, University of Toronto) presented on her book, “Soviet Samizdat: Imagining a New Society,” on Thursday, November 9, 2023 at 4:00 pm in 206 Ingraham Hall, 1155 Observatory Drive.About the lecture: Komaromi will talk about the research …

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Defectors: How the Illicit Flight of Soviet Citizens Built the Borders of the Cold War World 45:41

2h ago45:41

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Erik R. Scott (Associate Professor of History, University of Kansas) gave a lecture on "Defectors: How the Illicit Flight of Soviet Citizens Built the Borders of the Cold War World" on Thursday, November 2, 2023 at 4:00 pm in 206 Ingraham Hall, 1155 Observatory Drive.About the lecture: Defectors fleeing the Soviet Union seized the world’s attention…

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PCSD...What's the Word? Episode 9 Living & Working On Mt. Lemmon 45:15

1h ago45:15

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NEW PODCAST EPISODE: PCSD...What's the Word? Hosts Kevin Adger & Angelica Carrillo take the show on the road up to Mt. Lemmon to talk to Deputy Sloan. She talks about living & patrolling up there, what goes into closing the road & what you need to know before heading up to beat the heat.By Pima PCSD

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"The Class" PCSD... What's The Word? Episode 8: Catching Up With "The Class" 1:02:18

2M ago1:02:18

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THIS IS THE CLASS: Three years ago, we introduced you to Deputy Recruit Class 21-2 in our video series, “The Class.” This Friday, we meet up with some of the deputies who went from “The Class” to the streets. Watch all of the episodes of "The Class' here: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLg2MKS3jboOUrbqGeZarqePLOZ-lX92av…

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PCSD... What’s the Word? Episode 7: STATE OF THE PIMA COUNTY ADULT DETENTION COMPLEX 51:54

3M ago51:54

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NEW PODCAST EPISODE: PCSD...What's the Word? Hosts Kevin Adger & Angelica Carrillo talk to the Pima CountySheriff’s Department Corrections Bureau Chief, Scott Lowing, about the current conditions at the jail and he addresses concerns over deaths & drugs.Listen now.By Pima PCSD

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PCSD... PCSD What’s The Word? Episode 6: K-9 Partners & Their Bond (Remembering Kenzo) 47:46

3M ago47:46

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PCSD...What's the Word? Hosts Kevin Adger & Angelica Carrillo talk to Deputy Chris Rodriguez about the recent loss of his K-9 partner Kenzo, the support from the community & the bond handlers form with their partners.By Pima PCSD

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PCSD... What’s The Word? Episode 5: Holiday Theft 41:13

4M ago41:13

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NEW PODCAST EPISODE:Hosts Kevin Adger & Angelica Carrillo talkto Pima County Sheriff’s Department Financial Crimes Detective Michael Wilson and Arson & Auto Theft Detective Kristopher Joyce about holiday theft. Hear about what makes some people more vulnerable & what you can do to protect yourselves.…

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Sonic Inscription, Soviet Writing, and Mikhail Romm’s Oral Stories with Matthew Kendall 47:07

5M ago47:07

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Matthew Kendall (Assistant Professor in the Department of Polish, Russian, and Lithuanian Studies, University of Illinois-Chicago) will give a lecture on “Revolutions per Minute: Sonic Inscription, Soviet Writing, and Mikhail Romm’s Oral Stories” on Thursday, October 26, 2023 at 4:00 pm in 206 Ingraham Hall, 1155 Observatory Drive.About the lecture…

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PCSD…What’s the Word? Episode 4: Solving Crime One Tip at A Time 39:29

6M ago39:29

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Hosts Kevin Adger & Angelica Carrillo talk to 88-CRIME Executive Director, Babette McDonald, and Pima County Sheriff’s Department Detective, Lisa Johnson, about tips that help investigators solve crimes.By Pima PCSD

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After Violence: Russia’s Beslan School Massacre And The Peace That Followed 45:47

6M ago45:47

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Debra Javeline (Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Notre Dame) will present on her book, After Violence: Russia’s Beslan School Massacre and the Peace that Followed (Oxford University Press, 2023). Free and open to the public.About the lecture: Starting on September 1, 2004, and ending 53 hours later, Ru…

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Intermarriage And The Friendship Of Peoples 52:52

6M ago52:52

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Historian Adrienne Edgar (Professor in the Department of History at the University of California, Santa Barbara) will present on her recent book, Intermarriage and the Friendship of Peoples: Ethnic Mixing in Soviet Central Asia (Cornell University Press, 2022). Free and open to the public.About the lecture: In marked contrast to its Cold War rivals…

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The Story Of Memorial And The Country's Failed Transition To The Rule Of Law 41:37

6M ago41:37

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Lecture with Grigory Vaypan.Grigory traces the root causes of Russia’s war against Ukraine to the failure of the post-Soviet transitional justice project in the early 1990s. When the Soviet totalitarian regime collapsed, very little was done to confront its past crimes. Impunity for Soviet-era atrocities set the ground for persecution and abuse of …

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PCSD... What’s The Word? Episode 3: Recruitment 28:28

7M ago28:28

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PCSD...What's the Word? Hosts Kevin Adger & Angelica Carrillo chat with the department's Recruiting Team about the work they do and the Deputy Process.By Pima PCSD

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PCSD...What’s The Word? Episode 2: Street Racing 33:21

8M ago33:21

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Host Angelica Carrillo and Kevin Adger, talk to deputies involved in cracking down on street racing & street takeovers in Pima County.By Pima PCSD

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PCSD What’s The Word? (Episode 1 School Resource Officers) 37:03

8M ago37:03

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The Pima County Sheriff’s Department is announcing the launch of its first podcast titled “PCSD… What’s the Word?” This podcast will explore different topics and areas within the department and throughout the community. The podcast will be hosted by our Media Specialists, Kevin Adger and, Angelica Carrillo, both former Tucson news personalities. Ea…

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Dungan Folktales & Legends: The Sino-Muslim Folkloric Narrative Tradition of Central Asia 42:30

9M ago42:30

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Lecture with Professor Kenneth J. Yin.First migrating from northwest China to Russian Central Asia after the suppression of the Dungan Revolt (1862–1877) under the Manchu-led Qing dynasty, the Dungan people boast a rich oral tradition, which served as an important breeding ground for the development of Dungan written literature in the Soviet period…

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The Great Game and Migration of the 1950-60s from China to Kazakhstan with Dr. Ablet Kamalov 1:07:43

9M ago1:07:43

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This presentation will focus on the migration of Kazakhs, Uyghurs, Russians and some other ethnic groups from Xinjiang province of China to Soviet Kazakhstan in the 1950-60s. Discussion of the migration based on analysis of the Soviet archival materials as well as oral histories of migrants will be put into the context of the Great Game paradigm, t…

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The Art of ‘Doing More with Less’ with Martin Day, Principal Consultant at Silicon Reef #S3E5 35:10

10M ago35:10

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In the world of modern work efficiency is the name of the game, but this can leave employee wellbeing by the wayside. Enter: The ethos of ‘Do More With Less’. Microsoft’s consolidation of multifaceted tools into a single source is confusing for some, but for those who understand the potential, it’s the key to spending time wisely. Martin Day return…

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Connect Your Team to Vision and Values with Owner of The Big Picture People, Craig Smith #S3E4 39:38

11M ago39:38

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A brand’s vision and values are integral to the decisions made day to day, but are they imparted onto a business, or rather uncovered to already lie within their DNA? Being over 14 years into a journey of helping businesses share the big picture, Craig Smith - Founder of The Big Picture People - joins us on this week’s episode of Work Happy. He tak…

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Curating Asahi’s New Relationship Between Change Management & Internal Comms with Asahi Europe & International’s Sally Tidman & Soraya Abdelmageed #S3E3 43:13

11M ago43:13

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There’s an ever-growing link between internal communications and change management across the board, which is clear to see from observing Asahi’s two functions working so closely together. Asahi’s Head of Change Management, Soraya Abdelmageed, works closely with Sally Tidman, Internal Comms and Engagement Specialist, to combine the strengths of bot…

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Resilience in Ukraine: What We Know and What Can Be Done with Tymofii Brik 38:59

12M ago38:59

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The talk focuses on the socio-economic consequences of the war and the factors contributing to the resilience of the Ukrainian people. Russia’s war against Ukraine has been ongoing for many years, and despite the challenges, the Ukrainian people have shown remarkable resilience in the face of adversity. The talk will highlight the factors that have…

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Why You Should Care About Microsoft Viva with Martin Day, Principal Consultant at Silicon Reef #S3E2 37:04

12M ago37:04

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Microsoft Viva is an incredibly useful suite, but to many it presents a dizzying array of tools without the clearest idea on how to extract the most value from them all. That’s where Silicon Reef’s very own Martin Day comes in, joining Alex Graves this week on the Work Happy podcast to simplify Viva and why it truly matters to your business. We’ll …

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How Fortnum & Mason Brings a Brand Story to Life with Employer Brand Content Producer, Sam Bleazard #S3E1 48:19

1y ago48:19

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Welcome back to a brand new series of the Work Happy podcast, kicking off with Sam Bleazard from Fortnum & Mason, inventors of the Scotch egg… Sam is an Employer Brand Content Producer, and while that Scotch egg fact may seem trivial, it’s part of the all-important brand story and human experience that should underpin any successful business. Join …

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A Spiritual Revolution: Reform and Reaction in Orthodox Russia with Andrey Ivanov 49:22

1y ago49:22

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The ideas of the Protestant Reformation, followed by the European Enlightenment, had a profound and long-lasting impact on Russia’s church and society in the long eighteenth century. Though the Orthodox Church was often assumed to have been hostile toward outside influence, Ivanov’s recent book argues that the institution in fact embraced many West…

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Political Participation of Women in the USSR and Russia with Valeria Umanets 48:31

1y ago48:31

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What happens when women’s political quotas are implemented in non-democracies? Valeria Umanets focuses on understanding the political and social meaning and manipulation of gender in the Soviet Union, which held informal women’s political quotas for almost 75 years. Specifically, this talk focuses on the political engagement of women in the Soviet …

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Shifting Rationality: How Identity Decay Led Russia to Invade Ukraine with Mikhail Troitskiy 40:35

1y ago40:35

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The great puzzle of Russia-West relations throughout the three post-Cold War decades has been the apparent reluctance of the Kremlin to reap significant and evident benefits from collaboration with the United States and its allies. At many junctures, Moscow consistently chose confrontation over reassurance of its western counterparts and other key …

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War, Revolution, and the Expansion of Women's Political Citizenship in Finland with Aili Tripp 40:32

1y ago40:32

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Finland was the first country in Europe to allow for suffrage for both men and women and the first in the world where women were elected to national legislative office. Using turn of the 20th century Finland as an example, Professor Tripp will demonstrate how war and the end of empire are linked to the expansion of women's citizenship. (The lecture…

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A War Vocabulary: Traumatic Experience and the Search for a New Language in Ukrainian Literature 59:43

1y ago59:43

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The literature of the war against Ukraine testified to the profound changes that took place in the nature of Ukrainian artistic expression: from the loss of the very ability to speak, through the development of a new poetics of the voice and body, through literalism as the restoration of the connection between the word and reality and the rejection…

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Power And Powerlessness In Wartime Russia with Sam Greene 48:08

1y ago48:08

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Russia's war against Ukraine has brought about a radical restructuring of the Russian political economy, placing transformative ideology and outright coercion firmly at the heart of power. Despite this, the war and its consequences have produced remarkably little resistance. This discussion delves beyond the dynamics of coercion and ideology, to in…

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Ukraine's Unnamed War - Jesse Driscoll (2.9.23) 52:44

1y ago52:44

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The Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2022 has its roots in the events of 2013–2014. Russia cynically termed the seditionist conflict in Crimea and Eastern Donbas a ‘civil war’ in order to claim non-involvement. This flies in the face of evidence, but the authors argue that the social science literature on civil wars can be used help understand why no…

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The Russian Labor Market Story: Deciphering the Puzzles with Vladimir Gimpelson 1:02:22

1y ago1:02:22

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How can the Russian economy, moving from one crisis to another one, avoid significant hikes in unemployment? How does human capital evolve when workers’ wages peak so early and then decline so steeply? How does a country so rich in human capital exhibit such low productivity? Vladimir Gimpelson suggests some explanations and proposes how examining …

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The Biggest War Since 1945: Why and How Russia's Invasion of Ukraine Matters for European Security 48:22

1y ago48:22

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Russia's ongoing war against Ukraine reverberates beyond Ukraine in a major way. The international order and law are blatantly violated. Energy corridors have been affected and food supply chains have been disrupted around the world. The very notion of the international community and its ability to react to aggression is being tested. Volodymyr Dub…

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Pastoralism in Kazakhstan as Cultural Heritage or Sustainable Culture? - Russell Zanca 1:18:45

1y ago1:18:45

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Humans have harnessed and selectively bred livestock in Kazakhstan for over 5,000 years. This lecture discusses the history and current practices of pastoralism in Kazakhstan, exploring the contemporary interaction shared among people, animals, and ecosystems and the advantages of incorporating ancient lifeways among those who herd livestock in Kaz…

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Ukraine Now and Tomorrow - Yoshiko Herrera, Sara Karpukhin, and Oksana Stoychuk 59:50

1+ y ago59:50

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Emerged from several courses taught by UW-Madison faculty this semester focusing on Ukraine, the panel addresses questions submitted by the students in these courses relating to the histories and cultures in the region, and the Russian invasion of Ukraine. - SPEAKERS: Oksana Stoychuk (German, Nordic, and Slavic+), Sara Karpukhin (German, Nordic, an…

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How Russia Joined the Council of Europe: The Role of Values, Politics, and Law - Jeff Kahn 43:45

1+ y ago43:45

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The story of Russia’s membership in the Council of Europe now has a beginning, a middle, and an end. What can we learn about the values of this international organization from Russia’s participation in it? Was Russia’s membership “worth it”? Any attempted answer must produce more questions: from which perspective – Russia’s, the Council’s, other Me…

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Re-colonization? Kyrgyzstani Labor Migrant Experiences in Russia and Geopolitical Remittances 56:17

1+ y ago56:17

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with Ted Gerber (UW-Madison Professor of Sociology) - After Russia recovered from the economic woes of the 1990s, its government sought to maintain and expand its influence over former Soviet republics of Central Asia by opening the doors to large numbers of labor migrants from them. However, many accounts of the experiences of Central Asian labor …

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Law and Visual Culture in Three Vignettes - Agata Fijalkowski 53:00

1+ y ago53:00

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Dr. Fijalkowski explores the relationship between law and visual culture by looking at photographs of individuals (a dissident, a judge, and a prosecutor who were involved in high-profile trials during the Stalinist period. An image can hide and expose questions of legitimation and authority pertaining to Stalinist rule and how we view defendants, …

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Making a Difference: Helping Ukrainian Refugees on the Ukraine-Poland Border 51:52

1+ y ago51:52

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NOTE: This is a partial recording of a complete panel. The beginning of the panel was not recorded. - Panelists share their experiences volunteering to help Ukrainian refugees in border regions of Poland and Ukraine. This panel features Kari Anderson (University of Wisconsin-Madison alumna, Head of Operations for Operation SafeDrop of the Make a Di…

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The Russian 1990s and Soviet Writers: Market, Marginalization, and Decay in Peredelkino 49:49

1+ y ago49:49

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Russians today often remember the “Wild 1990s” as a time of chaos, impoverishment and disorientation. Through the lens of the privileged Writers’ Town, which had been built under Stalin and once been home to Isaac Babel, Boris Pasternak and Kornei Chukovskii among others, we can see how marketization and the collapse of socialist support systems le…

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Sovereign Fiction: The Poetics and Politics of Russian Realism 53:04

1+ y ago53:04

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Dr. Ilya Kliger outlines an approach to the study of “sociotopes” in narrative fiction and beyond. Defining sociotopes as specific configurations of sociality, presupposing and projecting diverse scenarios and normative principles of affiliation and detachment, Professor Kliger takes as his case study the emblematic and consequential moment in the …

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Art in Doubt: Tolstoy, Nabokov, and the Problem of Other Minds - Tatyana Gershkovich 44:00

1+ y ago44:00

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Dr. Tatyana Gershkovich contests the familiar opposition of Tolstoy the moralist and Nabokov the aesthete. She argues that their divergent stylistic and philosophical trajectories were in fact parallel flights from the same fear: that one’s experience of the world might be entirely one’s own, private, and impossible to share through art. Yet unlike…

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Crossroads of Empire: Culture and Statehood at the Eastern Frontiers of Europe - Cristina Florea 58:16

1+ y ago58:16

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Bukovina, a former borderland of the Habsburg empire now divided between Ukraine and Romania, was a place of mutual observation, competition, and conflict between the different states and governments that laid claim to the territory. Over the course of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, the province experienced repeated regime changes – many o…

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Thrifty Businesswoman or Exploiter Extraordinaire? The Madam in Nineteenth-Century Russia 47:12

1+ y ago47:12

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Dr. Lucey considers how Russia’s writers and artists popularized images of madams and procuresses as manipulative and greedy figures who tricked and abused the women in their charge. Portrayed as far more heinous than the men who frequented brothels, the madam looms in literature and fine art as a trafficker in human flesh who goes against God and …

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Ukrainians in Poland in Peace and War - Iryna Januszek (9.15.22) 57:15

1+ y ago57:15

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Iryna Januszek is one of the many Ukrainians who found a life in Poland in the post-Soviet era, but Ukraine has never been far from her thoughts. Members of family remained there and participated in the movements to build a new society. She also shares those aspirations which brought Ukrainians to fight for freedom and association with Europe. Now …

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