by Ben Hooyman | Dec 5, 2025 | Contemporary Culture, Faculty, Humanities, News, Read, Russia
On November 18th, 2024, a number of scholars and poets convened in the Harriman Institute to discuss Maria Stepanova’s poem, “Holy Winter,” a reflection on the poet’s experience during the 2020/2021 COVID-19 lockdowns. Now, the intellectual...
by Ben Hooyman | Nov 18, 2025 | Awards, Caucasus, News, Read
Vladimir Hamed-Troyansky’s (Harriman Postdoctoral Research Fellow, 2018-19) Empire of Refugees: North Caucasian Muslims and the Late Ottoman State (Stanford University Press) has been awarded the W. Bruce Lincoln Book Prize and the Barbara Jelavich Book Prize by the...
by Ben Hooyman | Nov 13, 2025 | Faculty, News, Read, Russia, War in Ukraine
Thomas Kent (Adjunct Associate Professor of International Affairs) recently published an article in The National Interest that questions the gravity of ‘Vladimir Putin’s nuclear saber-rattling.’ Kent discusses how Western leaders appear to be...
by Ben Hooyman | Nov 7, 2025 | ECEC, Faculty, Humanities, Listen, News
On the latest episode of the NIAS (Netherlands Institute for Advanced Studies) podcast, Aleksandar Bošković discusses insights from his latest book, Nothing (:) Made in Yugoslavia. In the interview, Aleksandar Bošković explores the relationship between negation...
by Ben Hooyman | Nov 6, 2025 | Faculty, Humanities, News, Read, Russia
In the most recent release of the Slavic Review, Chloё Kitzinger puts three new books about the Russian literary canon in conversation with one another – Rolf Hellebust’s How Russian Literature Became Great, Gary Saul Morson’s Wonder Confronts Certainty, and...
