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The Impact of War and Decolonization on Russian Studies in the United States

Date & Time

Monday
Nov. 6, 2023
2:00pm – 3:00pm ET

Location

5th Floor, Woodrow Wilson Center

Overview

Russia’s full-scale war on Ukraine and the associated surge of calls to decolonize research and teaching on Russia within American universities have posed significant challenges to the existing paradigms of Russian studies. Professor Ted Gerber will examine the impact on the field because of the war and push for decolonization, as well as COVID-19, based on an assessment by Gerber and Michael Zaslavsky conducted on behalf of the Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies in 2022 with funding from Carnegie Corporation of New York. The project is the result of interviews, focus groups, and two surveys of researchers in various disciplines who have worked on Russia during the last five years from within the United States.

Speaker

Ted Gerber

Theodore P. Gerber

Conway-Bascom Professor of Sociology; Director, Wisconsin Russia Project, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Hosted By

Kennan Institute

The Kennan Institute is the premier US center for advanced research on Eurasia and the oldest and largest regional program at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. The Kennan Institute is committed to improving American understanding of Russia, Ukraine, Central Asia, the South Caucasus, and the surrounding region though research and exchange.  Read more

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