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.
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COMING SOON... Information on the 2012 Program in Russian and Eurasian Studies and Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures Photo Contest
Bolsheviks without Borders Lecture Series to feature Yuri Tsivian and Daria Khitrova Feb. 16
Bolsheviks without Borders Lecture Series to feature Jonathan Flatley speaking on Black Leninism Feb. 28
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UPCOMING EVENTS
SPRING 2012
Film Series
Spring 2012 schedule TBA
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Bolsheviks without Borders: Exporting the Revolution*
This interdisciplinary lecture series invites leading scholars from around the globe to speak on the Russian revolutionary epoch, emphasizing its reception abroad and contemporary perspectives on that era.
This series will continue in the spring 2012 semester>>
Spring 2012
Bolshevics without Borders
Speaker Series*
February 16
Russian Endings, Soviet Endings: How to Wake up the Sleeping Beauty
Yuri Tsiv’ian, University of Chicago
Daria Khitrova, University of California, Los Angeles
4:30 p.m.
010 East Pyne
February 28
Black Leninism: Newspapers and Revolutionary Attunement from Lenin to the League of Revolutionary Black Workers
Jonathan Flatley, Wayne State University
4:30 p.m.
010 East Pyne
March 27
The Noise of Ideology: Andrei Platonov and His 19th-Century Precursor, Fedor Mikhailovich Reshetnikov
Boris Gasparov, Columbia University
4:30 p.m.
219 Aaron Burr Hall
April 10
Chto delat: Art against Spectacle and History as Missed Opportunity
Sven Spieker, University of California, Santa Barbara
4:30 p.m.
219 Aaron Burr Hall
April 24
Radical Tourists in Soviet Photographic Utopia
Maria Gough, Harvard University
4:30 p.m.
219 Aaron Burr Hall
*This series is cosponsored with the University Center for Human Values, the Council of the Humanities, the Shelby Cullom Davis Center for Historical Studies, the Department of Art and Archeology, the Department of German, the Department of History, the Department of Politics,the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures and the Program in Media and Modernity.
May 4-6
Conference
Objects of Affection: Toward a Materiology of Emotions
Details TBA
This conference is cosponsored with the Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies and the University Center for Human Values.
STUDY ABROAD
Summer 2012 Global Seminar in Istanbul
more information>>
Office of International Programs
more information on study abroad and internship abroad>>
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