Latest Past Events

Falling Lenins: Decommunization in Ukraine Through the Lens of Art

Jordan Center for the Advanced Study of Russia 19 University Place, 2nd Floor, New York City

On December 9th, 2016, please join the Russian and Slavic Department at NYU and the Jordan Center for a panel discussion entitled, “Falling Lenins: Decommunization in Ukraine through the Lens of Art,” with multimedia artists Anna Jermolaewa and Vova Vorotniov, art historian, activist and journalist, Asia Bazdryieva, and historian Kateryna Ruban. The panel will be moderated by Natasha Bluth, MA…

“100 Year Anniversary of the 1917 Revolution” – What’s in a Year? Doubts about the Great Event

Jordan Center for the Advanced Study of Russia 19 University Place, 2nd Floor, New York City

Please join us on September 20th, 2017 for “What’s in a Year? Doubts about the Great Event”, a talk by Yanni Kotsonis, Professor of History, Russian & Slavic Studies at NYU and Emeritus Director of the Jordan Center. This is the first event in the lecture series entitled “100 Year Anniversary of the 1917 Revolution” hosted by the NYU Jordan Center and co-sponsored by…

Love and Revolution: Alexander Pushkin’s “Gabrieliad” and the Erotic Utopia of an American Socialist

Join us for another installment of the 19v Seminar Series! This event will be held virtually as a Zoom meeting: https://nyu.zoom.us/j/99102207490.  In this talk, Professor Ilya Vinitsky, with discussant Maxim Hanukai, will focus on aesthetic and ideological implications of the first translation of the “Gabrieliad” (Гавриилиада, 1821) into English (and, for that matter, into any foreign language) by Max Eastman…