by Ronald Meyer | Jan 7, 2025 | Alumni, Faculty, News, Read, Russia, War in Ukraine
Elaine Wilson (Slavic Ph.D.’23; Term Assistant Professor at Stony Brook University and Barnard College) published an essay on the fusion of the sacred and secular in Russian wartime propaganda and political worldview (Public Orthodoxy, Dec. 30, 2024). One...
by Ronald Meyer | Jan 2, 2025 | News, Read
Konstantin Mitroshenkov (Ph.D. Candidate, Slavic) is the translator into Russian of “The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity” by David Graeber and David Wengrow (Moscow, Ad Marginem). The enormously popular book, which “aims to synthesize...
by Ronald Meyer | Dec 10, 2024 | Faculty, News, Read
Thomas Kent writes that Western media outlets need to expand and enhance their outreach to the Global South in order to combat Russia’s disinformation campaign (The National Interest, Dec. 9, 2024). For years, Russia’s main tactic to compete with Western news...
by Ronald Meyer | Dec 5, 2024 | Contemporary Culture, News, PhD, Read, Russia, Writers in Residence
Venya Gushchin (Ph.D. Candidate, Slavic) reviewed Maria Stepanova’s Holy Winter 20/21, translated by Sasha Dugdale (New Directions, 2024) for Fullstop. Stepanova’s book was the subject of a symposium, convened at the Harriman Institute, in November 2024....
by Ronald Meyer | Nov 19, 2024 | Faculty, News, Read
Our beloved colleague, mentor, teacher, and friend, Elizabeth Kridl Valkenier, passed away peacefully at the Cape Cod home of her daughter, Lisa Valkenier, on November 13, 2024. It was her 98th birthday. Elizabeth Kridl, daughter of Manfred Kridl, renowned scholar and...
by Ronald Meyer | Nov 8, 2024 | Awards, Balkans, ECEC, Faculty, News, Read
The 2023 NASSS Book Prize has been awarded to Aleksandar Bošković and Steven Teref for their co-edited volume Zenithism (1921–1927): A Yugoslav Avant-Garde Anthology (Academic Studies Press, 2023). The NASSS Book Prize is awarded annually to distinguished authors of...
by Ronald Meyer | Oct 31, 2024 | Faculty, Listen, News, Podcasts, Russia
Thomas Kent was the featured guest on Glen Howard’s podcast “New Trends in Russian Disinformation” (October 30, 2024). Kent explored the world of “Russian information operations, which have taken a surprising turn in recent months beyond what...
by Ronald Meyer | Oct 30, 2024 | Awards, ECEC, News, Read, Writers in Residence
Renowned Hungarian writer László Krasznahorkai has been announced as the recipient of the prestigious Spanish Formentor international literary award 2024. The five-member jury praised the Hungarian writer’s “maintenance of a narrative force that envelops, reveals,...
by Ronald Meyer | Oct 28, 2024 | Awards, Balkans, ECEC, News, Read, Writers in Residence
Georgi Gospodinov was awarded the Chevalier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres (Order of Arts and Letters) of the French Culture Ministry. The award ceremony took place at the residence of the French Embassy in Sofia on October 23, 2024. Attending the event,...
by Ronald Meyer | Oct 25, 2024 | ECEC, Faculty, News, Read
Thomas Kent writes about how Moldova approved a constitutional referendum on EU membership on October 20 by a razor-thin margin which raised concern about its pro-Western trajectory (CEPA, Oct. 24, 2024). The so-so news was that the pro-Western bid to have European...
