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Posts tagged as “Russia”

How Pro-Government “Trolls” Influence Online Conversations in Russia

This event will be held virtually as a Zoom meeting: https://nyu.zoom.us/j/96312687337.  In this talk, Dr. Anton Sobolev will unpack the technology of the Russian government propaganda and manipulation of online discussions, and establishes the causal effect of government interventions on the online behavior of social media users. Using a novel database on the activity of the state-sponsored online propagandists masquerading…

Navalny and the Kremlin: Politics and Protest in Russia

Join us for another virtual meeting of the New York-Russia Public Policy Seminar. This panel is co-hosted by Columbia University’s Harriman Institute and the New York University Jordan Center for the Advanced Study of Russia. Register for the Zoom webinar: http://bit.ly/3cm5Qsh. The event will also be live-streamed on YouTube: https://bit.ly/3prucEK.  The arrest of opposition politician Alexei Navalny has generated a political crisis in Russia. Upon…

Poor Liza and Russia’s Sentimental Marketplace (with Kirill Ospovat)

The talk will investigate links between narrative modes and visions of economy that defined Russian sentimentalism. While in English-language Russianist scholarship social aspects of sentimental fiction have been largely ignored, they occupy a central place both in Soviet-era studies and in contemporary interpretations of English and French sentimentalism. Through a close reading of Karamzin’s classic Poor Liza I will illuminate…

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…