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Diffusion of Gender Norms: Evidence from Stalin’s Ethnic Deportations (with Ekaterina Zhuravskaya, Paris School of Economics)

In this talk, Professor Zhuravskaya will discuss her forthcoming paper “Diffusion of Gender Norms: Evidence from Stalin’s Ethnic Deportations”, co-authored with Antonela Miho and Alexandra Jarotschkin. In this paper the scholars study horizontal between-group cultural transmission using a unique historical setting, which combines exogenous group exposure with no control over how and whether the representatives of different groups interact. Stalin’s…

Human-Non-Human Entanglements of Prediction in Permafrost-Bound Land

The intensification of ecological fragility and rapidity of environmental change in the Siberian Arctic questions adaptability and human capacity to predict and avert ecological disasters while pointing at potential limitations of available models for forecasting and mitigating environmental calamities. Given the bounded human capacity for predicting unpredictable, the challenge is to craft a tentative strategy that takes into detailed and…

The Damned Gift of Living: Vasilii Shukshin and the Dying Peasant

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

Join on Friday, February 28 for a colloquium with Joy Neumeyer, PhD Candidate in History at the University of California, Berkeley. This event is a workshop with a pre-circulated paper. Please contact Joy Neumeyer (joy.neumeyer@berkeley.edu) or Anne Lounsbery (al108@nyu.edu) for a copy. Vasilii Shukshin rose from a Siberian village to become one of the late Soviet Union’s most celebrated talents.…