Welcome to the Program in Russian and Eurasian Studies
The Program in Russian and Eurasian Studies draws on a core faculty in the humanities, history, and social sciences to support and maintain a diverse undergraduate curriculum, a program for study abroad in Russia, an outstanding library collection in Slavic and other languages, as well as a range of on-campus and off-campus activities. It is an affiliate of the Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies. Navigate this Web site with the buttons to the left to learn more about the program and the requirements for an undergraduate Certificate of Proficiency.
NEWS>>
Profile of RES Director Michael Gordin in PIIRS NEWS
UPCOMING EVENTS AND DEADLINES
FALL 2009
Russian and Eurasian Studies Lecture Series*
The Caucasus: Zones of Contestation
Tuesday, September 22, 2009*
Can the Caucasus Have a History?
Charles King, Georgetown University
4:30 p.m., 219 Aaron Burr Hall
Tuesday, October 27, 2009*
What's in a Name? Pedigree, Prestige, and Power in the Folklore ofthe Caucasus
John Colarusso, McMaster University
4:30 p.m., 219 Aaron Burr Hall
Tuesday, November 17, 2009*
A Golden Age in the Combat Zone? Building Churches in Early Medieval Armenia
Christina Maranci, Tufts University
4:30 p.m. 219 Aaron Burr Hall
Tuesday, December 1, 2009* CANCELLED
Urban Culture and Threshold Modernity: Aesthetic Modernism in the “Peripheral” City: Tbilisi 1915–1930
Harsha Ram, University of California at Berkeley
4:30 p.m., 219 Aaron Burr Hall
Nonseries Events and Lectures:
Thursday, October 1, 2009
The Nexus of Population, Health, and Environmental Issues in Russia
Murray Feshbach, Woodrow Wilson Centre
4:30 p.m., Bowl 1, Robertson Hall
Monday, October 5, 2009
Did the U.S.-Russian Cold War Really End?
Stephen F. Cohen, New York University and professor of politics, Princeton University, emeritus
4:30 p.m.; Bowl 2, Roberston Hall
Thursday through Saturday, October 22-24, 2009
A Princeton University Conference on the 20th Anniversary of the Events of 1989
Conference sponsored by PIIRS, the Department of History, University Center for Human Values (sponsorship provided by a give in honor of James A. Moffett '29), Program in Law and Public Affairs, and Shelby Cullom Davis Center for Historial Studies
Oct. 22 1-8:00 p.m., Frist Campus Center Multipurpose Room B; Oct. 23 8:30 a.m.-10 p.m., 219 Aaron Burr Hall; Oct. 24 8:30 a.m.-5 p.m.; 4:30 p.m., 219 Aaron Burr Hal
Monday, October 26, 2009
A Translation Workshop: Russian to English
Lynn Visson, U.N. Interpreter
4:30 p.m., 245 East Pyne
Tuesday, November 10, 2009
Uncivil Society: 1989 and the Implosion of the Communist Establishment
Public lecture and book signing
Stephen Kotkin, Princeton University
4:30 p.m., Dodds Auditorium, Roberston Hall
Read press release
Monday, November 16, 2009
Theatre of the Eighth Day's Encounter with the Princeton University Community
Polish Theater Group
4:30 p.m., East Pyne Hall
Wednesday, November 18, 2009
Red Cloud at Dawn: Truman, Stalin, and the End of the Atomic Monopoly
A Reading by Michael Gordin
5:30 p.m., Labyrinth Books, 122 Nassau Street, Princeton
Tuesday, December 8, 2009
June 21, 1941
Stephen Kotkin, Princeton University
4:30 p.m., 211 Dickinson
STUDY ABROAD
Summer 2010 Global Seminar in Istanbul
more information>>
Summer 2009 Global Seminar in St. Petersburg
more information>>
Summer 2009 Global Seminar in Istanbul
more information>>
Office of International Programs
more information on study abroad and internship abroad>>
photo credits: istockphoto.com
